This is a good behavior, since it means less bytes to transfer per connection. Worst case scenario, the browser doesn't have/can't get the intermediate certs required and the connection fails.

This doesn't really guarantee fewer bytes per connection. In the worse case, the preloaded intermediate set is still insufficient and the client has to resort to AIA chasing instead (which is both slower and leaks the client to the issuing CA).

I understand this behavior from a "make the spurious user bug reports go away" perspective, but it's still pretty gnarly :-)

I agree with the author that the non-deterministic portion of it is mildly insane.

Imagine a junior admin who installs a new certificate (without the intermediate). Tests on their Chrome which happens to have cached the intermediate, validate LGTM and moves on.

Meanwhile it gets deployed and some portion of the site's users don't have the intermediate certificate cached = dungeon collapse.

Works on every major compiler. I don't see how that's non-portable.

Portable means works on every compiler, existing or future, which implements the C language as defined by the C standard. This #pragma trick is clever, but outside the C language.

Hell yeah man!

If there is no right to life then there are no rights whatsoever. Last I checked most countries uphold a right to life for their citizens.

If you make a new room, you can share the url and have people join. Players in a room can vote for new posts and to start the race.

This is facts. Appending reddit to any google search gives much better results.

I bought a year of Medium subscription but I don't think I'll renew it because their suggestion algorithms are bad. If you click on one programming-related article you will be forcefed exclusively the most boring programming crap ever until the end of time. There's like a million articles on there about "programming habits" and "genius daily routines" and "productivity hacks" and "programming career advice" ... all very boring content.

A major issue I see with online blogging is the glut of tech and computing content drowning out everything else. The barrier to entry for self-hosted content also means most self-hosted content is tech oriented.

FWIW using Medium is actually driving readers away because of how invasive their practices are. They pop things up, interrupt reading and in general they seem to have added so much bloat/tracking to their blog that it loads terribly.

If I must read a Medium article I do so in Firefox's reader mode, but usually the friction/irritation just drives me to click close on the tab and move on to something less offensive.

Agree I don’t click on medium links, but same for Facebook and tiktok

I'm 19 and I agree with you. For most things, text content is the best way to learn.

I think a big factor with color themes is actually the monitor settings. I have my monitor tuned for dark mode everywhere. If I put a light theme on, the contrast doesn't look right and I go back to dark themes. Maybe it's a result of my fine-tuning, but the default "Visual Studio Dark" theme in VS Code is my favorite. It's a great minimalist theme. And I've even tried a lot of the minimalist themes suggested in this thread.

This solves my biggest problem with Wikipedia, which is the index being placed in a box at the top of the page. You moved the index to the side. Nice work!