When some people do their numbered list starting by zero, I can assume that they know their way around computers very well.

Remarks from boss/adults to me throughout the different decades: "Wow! You asked ____ for help with your code?" 2000s: Google 2010s: Stack Overflow 2025: GitHub Co-pilot (Claude)

Not a meme. I went through a phrase on installing #ubuntu #linux on every of my PCs.

Evidence of my #firefox usage in 2009. I was trying to explain Canadian winter weather to some Europeans.

Belated Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節) greetings! 🥮 Mooncake's #unicode code point is U+1F96E. https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17024-mooncake-emoji.pdf

If you see a website not working on #firefox but working fine on other browsers, please report the website to Webcompat! 🐛 https://webcompat.com/

#reddit AMA with #firefox leadership will be on Monday, October 6! 🦊 https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1ntui9x/upcoming_ama_with_firefox_leadership/

Non vendor-specific tech conference suggestions *outside* of the US, please. I enjoyed Confoo from Montreal and some talks from GitNation. Here are some events that I may enjoy: PyCon, EuroPython, FOSDEM, Craft Conference, Better Software Conference, /dev/mtl. It'd be great if the city is within […]

Who gets #spam on #github? I have gotten spam comments, spam issues and spam approves on my repositories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBcY3W5WgNU

https://github.com/gitcoinco-mail-notification is a spammer that abuses issue notification system to send a false GitHub official-looking email. Go block it now.

Not a super secret setup on my work laptop. You can contribute to open source software, too! https://clarmso.ca/blog/2025/09/software-work-laptop/

What I did in summer 2025: I went to the Raspberry Pi store. It is a real thing. A few folks thought I was kidding. Here is my proof. 100% guaranteed not AI generated. https://www.raspberrypi.com/raspberry-pi-store/

You can be in tech and be crafty. Here's a simple #firefox logo cross stitch pattern. 🪡 Pattern created using FlossCross (https://flosscross.com/).

In the late 2010s, I got timed take-home tests for job openings. The tests tested the people's ability to recall the API of a language framework, say Java binding of Selenium. I withdrew my application from all of them: I wasn't interested to be a walking encyclopedia. AI probably could pass […]

Post vacation #firefox wallpaper mood 😃

Irony on making the website's information accessible by all: The translate button says "Translate". I have seen a few websites doing so, therefore I am not pointing out a specific one. Any icons here is better than the word "translate". https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/translation

Yay custom wallpapers on Firefox desktop new tab screen! (Photo credit: Pixel 7 and me) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-your-wallpapers

I vibe coded a Jekyll theme with lots of help from ChatGPT and Github Co-pilot! 🎉 https://github.com/clarmso/clean-vibe-theme

I just learned, via a mutual, that cron, the job-scheduling command-line utility, is celebrating 50 years this month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron (In case anyone cares for this sort of thing on here.) #cron #anniversary

My request to AI: Please add the ability to transpose a score. Renaissance music may be performed in a different key. The composers are dead for hundreds of years so the work is in public domain. Transposing a score is rudimentary music theory. The task is highly algorithmic suited for automation. 😉

When I say that I can't recommend third-party forks of either Firefox or Chrome for real world use, this kind of thing is why. *This* is the bar for what the security team for a browser needs to be able to do. A fork where the entire technical team is ten people that can't even keep up with […]

The answer for "Where do you live?": French: "I live in France." Brazilian: "I live in Brazil." Indian: "I live in India." Australian: "I live in Australia." etc etc American: "I live in California!" Why do the Americans assume others to know about the states? The French do not assume others to […]

When #Slack is down, people want to tell others that "Slack is down" using Slack. 🤷‍♀️

🇨🇦"I AM CANADIAN" rant never gets old! 🇨🇦 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMxGVfk09lU

🇨🇦 I could hit the buzzer in under 1 second for ALL questions! 🍁 #canada #FlagDay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAdDUD6L1nc

Pet peeve on zoom meetings: Some people assume that others have ultra wide monitors all the time. The screen share look extremely small on the laptop screens. Larger monitors are affordable these days, but some folks do take meetings from the booths in the office.

Social network life cycle: 1. A specific group of friends is in. It's a cool and friendly place. 2. Company wanted to increase revenue. Your parents and grandparents signed up. 3. Company wanted even more revenue. Platform started to do weird things. 4. People migrate to other platforms. A way […]

Today I learned: Blue screen of death can be austere, plain, or beautiful. https://www.reddit.com/r/PBSOD/

Best quote I have read on software for a long time 🤣: "I feel like Kowloon (Walled City) is a decent metaphor for software design at most typical large SaaS companies: small changes accreted over time that lead to an impenetrable, wandering structure that only the residents (developers) truly […]

Substack's weekly reccommendations includes "Advice for Young Men" along with some engineering newsletters. Unconsciously, engineering has been associated with *young* and *male* in 2024. 🤷‍♀️

Today I learned: The "J" at the end of some emails was actually a smiley 🙂. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060523-10/?p=31103

Friendly Slack tips and etiquette reminder: * Reply to a message using a thread. * Enable "Also send to [channel]" in a thread only for a conclusion from a discussion that everyone should know. * Use emoji for simple polls: React 👍 for yes, 👎 for no. * Use ctrl+enter for line breaks and new […]

What do you use to cross post between Mastodon and BlueSky?

I have been using Stackoverflow less during the past 5 years. Stackoverflow was once a saviour to navigate from the basics to the tips & tricks in coding. With languages and frameworks documented better than before, I could search the documentation. Nowadays, I can ask AI to ingest the […]

What are the other Code of Conduct for conferences out there? https://github.com/confcodeofconduct/confcodeofconduct.com

From Canada 🇨🇦: Kitchener-Waterloo Elvis has left the building. Ron, who was a life-long Elvis fan and developmentally disabled, brought a lot of joy to people he didn't know. He was known to roam in Kitchener regularly wearing head-to-toe Elvis costume and wig. Kudos to the group home staff […]

When I listened to podcast in my car, some spoken words from the podcast triggered the voice commands from Android Auto. I usually said, "no thanks" and then the podcast picked up from where it left off. I have not narrowed down to a particular podcast or host that triggered Android Auto. Has […]

When I saw this password policy from a government site, I thought, "Great, I can have non alphanumeric characters in my password. Let my password manager to generate one randomly." "Password must be at least 10 characters and contain: upper and lower case, numbers and at least one character […]

Dear LinkedIn, I don't want to volunteer my data for ads or gen AI.

Spoiler about Dìdi (弟弟) the movie: The protagonist used Mozilla Firefox on Windows XP. Not shown in the trailer. Only shown minimized on the bottom. https://youtu.be/fHQnGVqOY1w?feature=shared

90s kids remember Netscape. https://www.reddit.com/r/Satisfyingasfuck/comments/qf14ix/90s_loading_icon_for_netscape_navigator_browser/

On sticker sizes: 1 inch (or less): Too small that it may not be seen among other stickers. 2 inches: Good for being one of the many stickers on laptop cases or water bottles. Easy to transport. 3 inches: The main sticker on water bottles. Occupy large […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

So disappointed to hear another scam tech conference. Eventbrite has disabled the event's page including the ability to sell more (super expensive) tickets. Vercel has also disabled the deployment of the event's website. by returning "451 […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

🦊 😘 "Firefox may be the underdog, but it’s got that open-source charm. Chrome's just a resource hog!" https://www.whatbeatsrock.com/

I have a soft spot for older Firefox ads. 🦊

These neighbours probably didn't expect that what they said on a seemingly quiet street would be played on national television. Here's a reminder how home surveillance tech's video and audio is good enough to identify the individuals. Well, blurred faces may not stop others to narrow down the […]

I have encountered a few folks in tech who despised people who did not get a STEM education and dismissed other people's corrections always. The following snippet from OP put the nail in the coffin on the no-hire decision even if he did not say it out loud: "[S]ince I actually went to school […]

At university, a group of Computer Science students went to the dean's office to complain the 3rd year programming language course material was irrelevant to the real world. The students wanted the course to be taught in .Net, C#, Java, but the course […]