One aggravating thing in the open source software world is that, unlike closed source software, when you encounter strange behavior, you can actually research and find out why that behavior was chosen. The aggravating part happens when you find out that the decisions are made arbitrarily.
Technology
I build software, both professionally and as a hobby, and I love reading about technology and science. These articles include what I’ve been learning, as well as my opinions on various tech topics.
Icecast is a simple music server that can be run from the Linux command line. I use it for a quick and simple streaming of my music library. Unfortunately, the artist and song titles are sometimes displayed with garbage characters inside them, and are truncated. Curious about what was causing this, and to try and fix it, I investigated.
A summary of testing performed by AV-Comparatives of popular anti-virus software.
I recently read a paper called Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient. It’s a perfect analysis of why word processors are terrible at facilitating content creation, but it made me consider: Are we, as web developers, doing the same thing?
A Google spokesperson hinted that the search engine may begin penalizing slow websites as early as 2010.