This looks promising. I've been looking for a new Pinboard iOS client, since Pushpin started flaking out on me recently. (I have over 17,000 bookmarks, so maybe I'm an edge case, but Pushpin has been timing out on me a lot. Maybe I should just clean up my bookmarks...)

For what it's worth, I haven't been able to get it to download my bookmarks, using either my username/password or API key. And I tried it on both my iPhone and iPad.

Interesting. I just started reading this (the original version) last week. Since I'm already a pretty experienced programmer, I'm not getting that much out of it, but it's been fun to read.

I'm not sure if I should abandon it now, and wait for the new version, or just keep reading the old version and enjoying all the dated references to 56k modems and all that stuff.

I used to buy both print and ebook format books from O'Reilly from time to time. I now have a Safari subscription (via my ACM membership), so I've stopped buying computer books almost entirely. Safari isn't perfect, but it's got a lot of books, covering most of the computing-related subjects that I'm interested in. I'd rather have DRM-free PDFs, but Safari is good enough for now.

I use DDG everywhere except at work, where (for some reason) it's blocked.

The one silly thing I miss about not having DDG at work: in DDG, I can type "new guid" and it gives me a new random guid. If there's a way to do that in Google, I haven't figured it out. (And yes I know there are a million other ways to get random guids. It's just convenient for me to get them this way.)

Hey Andy,

Do you know what firewall system your work uses? We were blocked in a few of them but found that reaching out to those companies got it fixed.

Would be happy to help investigate!

Disclaimer: DDG staff.

Recently needed random whole numbers from varying ranges. First looked up "random number generator" and got onto some sophisticated webpage where you could define your own set of items to be choosing at random from and have it list out ten thousand random results and so on. Really, everything you could wish for, but it was clunky as hell for varying ranges.

Then I decided to just look up "random 1 5", so that maybe a webpage which could deal well with intervals would show up. And there it was, DuckDuckGo understood immediately what I wanted and just generated one as an Instant Answer. Changing the interval was a matter of changing those two numbers in the query and getting the next random number worked with F5. Could not have wished for a better tool for the job.

Also if you search "library genesis" it will include library genesis in the results.

Have you tried using something like "uuidgen | pbcopy" from your command line?

You just made me wanna try it. And it worked

I love f.lux, but it disappeared from my work computer recently, and the f.lux site is blocked on our network now. I'm not sure why we would have flagged the program and/or site as bad. It seems like a pretty harmless utility to me, and I don't recall there ever being any issues with it. Oh well. At least I can still use it on my home PCs.

>There's a reason why MS Excel has keyboard shortcuts that make no sense - they match to menu entries from old versions, and they've kept them in so people who have been using it for decades don't have a reason to switch.

Yep. I've been typing "/edr" to delete a row in a spreadsheet for 25 years, and I'm not going to stop now. :-)

That doesn't seem to work in Excel 12.29 for MacOS. Is it a Windows only keystroke?

I drink Mount Hagen too, whenever the coffee machine at work is broken. It's not bad.

I canceled my WSJ sub years ago, because I could see it going downhill after Murdoch took over.

> The Journal’s opinion pages have been a showcase for the intra-right divide over Trump, featuring Trump-sympathetic writers like Bill McGurn alongside anti-Trump columnists such as Bret Stephens. Lasswell appears to be a casualty of that divide, and his dismissal a victory for the pro-Trump faction on the editorial staff.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/conflic...

I've heard of Epsilon, but never used it.

Back in the days when I actually paid for text editors, my favorite was Multi-Edit (http://multieditsoftware.com/). I remember UltraEdit (http://www.ultraedit.com/) being pretty popular too.

Nowadays, whatever work I'm not doing in Visual Studio is being done in Notepad++.

Speaking of bygone editors, I still have (very) fond memories of using QEdit (later TSE (The Semware Editor)) in my DOS-centric early '90s larval hacking days.

Looks like they still sell it for $45 a pop, I don't think the website (http://www.semware.com) has changed much in the intervening 20 years though. :)

UltraEdit, the TextMate of the 90s!

MultiEdit DOS version was a great tool indeed. looking at the activity of their forum, things are not very lively.

I migrated my personal blog from Blogger to WordPress a couple of years ago. I'm pretty happy with it.

I had originally wanted to migrate it to Drupal, but I couldn't find a good solution for Blogger-to-Drupal import that worked for me. (At the time, I was doing a fair amount of Drupal work at my day job, so it seemed like a good idea, but in retrospect, I'm glad it didn't work out.)

I know there's a lot of stuff out there that's "cooler" than WordPress, but I like it. The ecosystem for plugins and themes is huge. You can find most anything you want, usually for free.

I'm hosting my blog on a plain vanilla shared Linux host, rather than on WordPress.com or another managed host. I like the flexibility of doing it that way. It's a little bit of work to keep up with plugin updates, but not much.