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Mac Themes Garden

Introducing Mac Themes Garden! | damien’s zone

It is a website showcasing more than 3,000 (and counting) Kaleidoscope from the Classic Mac era, ready to be seen, downloaded and explored! Check it out!

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The Law of Enterprise Software

On Laws of Nature, Excel and Word - Nitor

Every piece of enterprise software eventually evolves into either reading or writing Excel files.

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Showing the American Flag Respect

How to Respect the American Flag - National Flag Foundation

The American Flag is a representation of our country, our people, and our devotion to our nation. Respecting the American Flag and the principles that it symbolizes requires us to treat it with a high level of care at all times. The United States Flag Code sets forth key guidelines for properly handling the American Flag.

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Let Your Yes Be "Hell Yeah!" and Your No, No

Hell Yeah or No | Derek Sivers

If you feel anything less than “hell yeah!” about something, say no.

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Still More WordPress Drama

Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos

“We were unaware that Matt redirected sign-up emails until current Automattic employees contacted our support team,” a spokesperson for Blind told me, adding that they’d “never seen a CEO or executive try to limit their employees from signing up for Blind by redirecting emails.”

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Unsung Heros of the Deep Sea

The deep-sea ‘emergency service’ that keeps the internet running

Ninety-nine percent of the world’s digital communications rely on subsea cables. When they break, it could spell disaster for a whole country’s internet. How do you fix a fault at the bottom of the ocean?

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Text-Only & Minimalist News Sites

A List Of Text-Only & Minimalist News Sites - GreyCoder

Text-only websites are quite useful, especially today, because web pages are increasingly filled with ads, videos, and bandwidth-heavy content.

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Even More WordPress Drama

WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin - The Verge

It’s not clear what security problem Mullenweg is referring to in the post. He writes that he’s “invoking point 18 of the plugin directory guidelines,” in which the WordPress team reserves several rights, including removing a plugin, or changing it “without developer consent.” Mullenweg explains that the move has to do with WP Engine’s recently-filed lawsuit against him and Automattic.

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A Useful BBEdit AppleScript

Soft-Wrap Text in BBEdit - Uncorrected

An oldie but goodie from John Gruber that I just discovered while looking for ways to soft-wrap text in BBEdit:

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Apple Ditching USB-A on the New Mac mini?

Apple’s rumored Mac mini redesign may ditch the USB-A port - The Verge

Is it time to say goodbye to USB-A? Maybe. Probably. But no matter how you feel about that, it’s absolutely time something new happened with the Mac Mini, the longest-in-the-tooth Apple computer design.

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Evil is as Evil Does

Google to delete search data of millions who used ‘incognito’ mode : NPR

For years, Google simply informed users of Chrome’s internet browser that “you’ve gone Incognito” and “now you can browse privately,” when the supposedly untraceable browsing option was turned on — without saying what bits of data the company has been harvesting.

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