how could they not title this article GIT FORK ZORK

IMO anything with unnecessary digital interfaces is already down the path.

I have a Vornado fan that I would love to automate with a simple wifi-enabled plug, but due to the digital on/off/speed button, when you cut-off and restore power to the device, it stays off. If it had a dumb analog dial or switch, it would both be fine for normal use, and could be easily, cheaply made "smart."

They do sell wifi-enabled fans; none of them are in a form factor that would fit in my window.

I'm not even alone in this gripe, lots of other maniacs have done the hard work of conversions. Unfortunately I'm not confident enough in my soldering skills to try :\ https://www.reddit.com/r/electrical/comments/vaiskf/bypass_p...

I use a similar app called Name That Color — https://chir.ag/projects/name-that-color/#6195ED

I like sharing descriptive names with designers instead of naming everything "light blue" "dark blue" "not quite as light but still not dark blue" etc.

This new thing is tons of fun but seems a bit less practically useful.

speaking of classic databases: can anyone explain to me, a dummy, why any syntax like this or even GraphQL is preferable to "select a.name, a.age from friends a where a.city = 'New York' order by a.age asc"?

I spent about half an hour trying to figure out why some JSON in my browser was rendering è incorrectly, despite the output code and downloaded files being seemingly perfect. I came to the conclusion that the browsers (Safari and Chrome) don't use UTF-8 as the default renderer for everything and moved on.

This should be fixed, though.