i've decided that every time someone posts an article bemoaning the death of RSS i'm going to comment that i, in fact, found out about it through the HN RSS feed
The worst web browser I have access to is the "experimental" one on a Kindle 4. Most web pages that one might want to visit will not load in this web browser—because it does not support modern versions of TLS.
For the reasons mentioned in this article—it's probably a good idea to keep plain HTTP access available on your websites.
> you also can buy a great XLR microphone for $100, but then you’ll need an external sound card with phantom power supply.
this is only true if you buy a condenser microphone. a dynamic microphone will work reasonably fine with your onboard soundcard if you have an xlr-->1/8" trs cable.
noscript makes many news sites more bearable—of course, there are some which whitewall you—which can sometimes be bypassed with reader view—but sometimes not :(
Most sans-serif fonts poorly distinguish between "I" and "l", I've found. (This led to my dad thinking that artificial intelligence was called "Al", as in "Albert".)