Whatʼs that straight, single-stroke font that seems to be everywhere once you start looking? Marcin Wichary set out to answer that question in The hardest working font in Manhattan , and there is more to that than you might believe. Hat tip to Raymond Chen for the 2026 mid-year link clearance …
The commonly used Linux shell bash provides a built-in wait to wait for a process (specified by its process ID or per-shell job ID) to exit. However, it only allows doing so if the process to be waited on was launched from within the same shell, even if both processes …
File another under should be obvious but is not and obvious once you realise what the trick is . On Android (including Android-based alternatives like GrapheneOS, LineageOS, etc.), there seems to be no easy way to add a home screen launcher for an arbitrary URL without relying on separate software. It …
Grubdog has a great primer on how accessible personal websites are easier than you think at the Good Internet magazine, with practical suggestions that donʼt require a lot of time to do something with. Nico Dekens of Dutch OSINT Guy shows The Amsterdam Street That Never Existed (using a clearly …
Back in 2016, phil posted about detecting the use of "curl | bash" server side (Internet Archive link because the web site appears to be defunct). In a world where installation instructions far too often suggest some variation of curl | bash , sometimes even as root, this is just as worth keeping …