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I’ve encountered this last year when I took over a project with a dev staff solely using Chrome on macOS.

The thing was: We catered for gamers which means Chrome or Firefox on Windows was the norm. We got a lot of bug reports like “hideous scrollbars in shop item description” or “hideous scrollbars in menu” where the devs were puzzled about the bug reports.

crizzlenizzleon A Linux driver to connect PATA/IDE directly to GPIO

An interesting project I found on twitter. Interfacing PATA/IDE directly to Raspberry Pi’s GPIO is pretty trivial and manages to transfer 500 KiB/s. Enough to play CDs. The driver code is around 500 LOC.

crizzlenizzleon Belgian man has been receiving pizzas he never ordered for years

I’m wondering how this works actually. Are they actually delivering pizzas or are those pizzas with expired ingredients or just fake boxes? I guess the latter doesn’t make sense since you’d notice more registered sales than what your raw materials are able to yield.

crizzlenizzleon Show HN: XP.css – Windows XP CSS file and framework for building GUIs

I love it. I’m sure we can also get a Vista theme using things like https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/backdrop-fi... some time.