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1 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The feature I most want from Twitter is "view this user's tweets without showing their retweets"
Note that this isn't the same thing as turning off someone's retweets - I want to go to the profile of someone I don't even follow and see what they actually say, not just a stream of stuff they have retweeted
This trick works!
Though to be fair I think that's pretty much the same content as the "Tweets and replies" tab so I should probably just use that

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SQLite 3.35.0 is a significant release: has a bunch of really valuable new features in it
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These days I'm so keen on having every commit link to an underlying issue thread that I'll sometimes write some code, then file an issue and close it with a commit a few seconds later
The real value here is having somewhere to continue the discussion around a change. I'll frequently add screenshots and links-to-documentation to an already closed issue. Also great to link to from release notes.
It almost becomes an out-of-band documentation and commentary thread - somewhere you can really dig into the reason for a change without fear of clogging up the code with comments that will inevitably become out-of-date in the future
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Built tableau-to-sqlite github.com/simonw/tableau…
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Here's version 0.2
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10 Mar
Apple has gone to extraordinary lengths to make scroll bars invisible, and I hate it

Anyone seen a reliable pattern for having them appear in Safari / MobileSafari / Firefox / Chrome on macOS and iOS?

The ones on StackOverflow from a few years ago don't seem to work any more
To clarify: I want to have them visible for users of my web applications, so fixing this in macOS system preferences, while good for me, isn't the solution I'm after
I think I'm going to do the visual indication that there's more content offscreen thing - maybe with a shadow
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9 Mar
TIL that witches are traditionally associated with pointy hats, cauldrons and cats because that's what women who sold beer they brewed wore to the market - cauldrons to carry the beer, pointy hats for visibility and cats to keep the mice away from the grain
Here's a refutation (thanks, @AdamChainz) from a medieval historian and President and Founder of the Ladies Craft Beer Society of Ireland
It's long, well researched, neatly illustrated and brings copious citation footnotes. Here's the TLDR:

"TL;DR: Medieval or 16th century alewives were not the cause of the modern witch stereotype, which seems to have solidified in children’s chapbooks from the 18th century."
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