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> Please stop using windows. Please stop using proprietary document formats.

stuartdon Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO

The latter two potentially yes, as they can sell a product. Chrome - not so much: sell the browser, embed ads… nothing palatable.

stuartdon The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)

> But nowhere close to the emotional impact

It may be trite but “Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can, too.” gets me every single time

stuartdon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

Photos Wallpaper - recreates the functionality from older Mac OS versions to rotate photos from your library as wallpaper, changing on a schedule.

Written by Codex with me driving product direction, reviewing, testing, occasionally scolding, and handling the release process.

Accepted onto the Mac App Store last week.

stuartdon Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake

http://archive.today/fgcHn

stuartdon The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE

> The HN entry is still there, but I can't read the original post now.

The post on IA - https://web.archive.org/web/20160304013342/https://eng.uber....

stuartdon Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony

Thank you for that link. I recommend reading to the very last line.

stuartdon Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

much as I love and revere woz that is a terrible idea

stuartdon iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day

Is that not 18.7.5 as released yesterday or am I missing something?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/126347

stuartdon Even the Happiest Place on Earth Has Measles

http://archive.today/v4LtY

stuartdon Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet

Hanlon’s razor applies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

stuartdon GitHub no longer uses Toasts

https://archive.ph/2025.12.08-211115/https://primer.style/ac...

stuartdon Nook Browser

I loved Camino. I think I still have the binary on my MBA just to look at the icon and sigh

stuartdon Reinventing how .NET builds and ships (again)

It is, shall we say, more curated

stuartdon .NET 10

Wix was open sourced in 2004 - https://www.computerworld.com/article/1580079/microsoft-goes...

stuartdon Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)

https://altruistsun.com/

I have vitiligo and basically no skin pigment above my neck line - this product is excellent, reasonably priced, and ethical

stuartdon Windows 11 is a minefield of micro-aggressions in the shipping lane of progress

I’m using Windows 11 at my new job and wow, it really is horrible (always been a server OS user at work, Mac at home)

This whole thing about it opening links in Edge despite your preferences is just.. bizarre! It’s like they had a bet on “hey what’s the most user hostile thing we can get away with?!”

stuartdon Max, a Real Programmer

I remembered this story the other day but couldn’t remember the name - and then coincidentally came across this link to it! https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html

stuartdon They don't make 'em like that any more: Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder

I used to have a DTC-690 - brilliant for parties. Sold it for £1 in the end to a happy customer.

stuartdon Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved feature (2022)

The post links to a GitHub page, which contains this:

> I just blogged about the new git-notes functionality over at the [Pro Git blog](dead link)

The link is archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20100828155504/http://progit.org...

stuartdon AI sceptic Emily Bender: 'The emperor has no clothes'

> how can she say that it's both no good at most things and simultaneous dangerous because of the job losses it will cause?

worse is cheaper

stuartdon AI sceptic Emily Bender: 'The emperor has no clothes'

http://archive.today/5STIE

stuartdon Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indians'?

cowboys

stuartdon 3 Years of Remote Work

The actual title is better:

> 3 Years of Extremely Remote Work

stuartdon The Machine Stops (1909)

There was a decent BBC Radio 4 adaptation of this in 2016 - no longer available on iPlayer but it’s on YouTube -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdMXfoOOrP8

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b048jcvg

stuartdon Ups to cut 20,000 jobs as it prepares to halve Amazon shipments

http://archive.today/tLivl

stuartdon Tech Workers are just like the rest of us: miserable at work

http://archive.today/4bztW

stuartdon IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol

I remote desktop from my Mac into Windows for work. I used to then remote from that Windows into another Windows server, at which point figuring out what the keyboard mappings were became extremely difficult!