Why didn't rental Segways become as ubiquitous as rental eBikes in cities?
Here's a minimum viable WebP. Useful if you need to hardcode a blank image. header( "Content-type: image/webp" ); echo base64_decode( "UklGRhYAAABXRUJQVlA4TAoAAAAvAAAAAEX/I/of" );
Hey, #WordPress friends. What's the purpose of <!-- .children --> and <!-- #comment-## --> being injected after every ul/ol comment? Are they necessary? Can they be removed? As seen in:
GitHub
WordPress/wp-includes/class-walker-comment.php at 69ced2eb1fc85ec5e106384b48c8015c77468402 Β· WordPress/WordPress
WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit pull reques...
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GitHub
WordPress/wp-includes/class-walker-comment.php at 69ced2eb1fc85ec5e106384b48c8015c77468402 Β· WordPress/WordPress
WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit pull reques...
Programmers - which of these commenting conventions do you personally prefer? 1. Above ``` // Describe the function function foo() { … } ``` 2. Inside ``` function foo() { // Describe the function … } ```
Android will *not* be getting most of the Unicode 17 updates. Some of its fonts are over a decade out of date - and Google refuses to re-use its own Noto font stack. I've raised the issue at:
Google Issue Tracker
 If you're a Googler please ask someone to prioritise this issue. Can everyone else please hit the +1 button. #Google #Android #AOSP #Unicode
πŸ†• blog! β€œSome thoughts on personal git hosting” As part of my ongoing (and somewhat futile) efforts to ReDeCentralise, I'm looking at moving my personal projects away from GitHub. I already have accounts with GitLab and CodeBerg - but both of those sites are run by someone else. While they're lovely now, there's nothing stopping them becoming as slow or… πŸ‘€ Read more:
Some thoughts on personal git hosting – Terence Eden’s Blog
 βΈ» #developers #git #ReDeCentralize
"Why do all these migrants have expensive mobile phones?!?!?" A blog post from a decade ago which is, tragically, still relevant today.
Migrants and Mobiles – Terence Eden’s Blog
What would it take for our home to be Solar Self-Sufficient? Work in progress, but I think I have the answer. 🏠 I live in an ordinary house in suburban London. β˜€οΈ Our solar panels generate 3,800kWh per year. πŸ”Œ We use the same amount of electricity per year. After crunching the numbers: πŸ”‹ Capturing all our solar excess needs a 1 MegaWatt-hour battery. #Solar #SolarPunk image
Seems like pretty reasonable pricing to me! image
You may not like it, but this is what peak open source projects look like. image