Besides Bruce Momjian, Tom Lane is also a defining, fundamental character behind PostgreSQL. His unforgivingly insightful posts on the pgsql-hackers mailing list makes reading it a very entertaining and educative experience.

(By the way, I can't recommend enough reading that mailing list. It's an ongoing masterclass in "this is how grown-ups write software".)

It's also one of the nicer open source communities, on the whole.

I remember inquiring about a bug and getting a response from Tom Lane sometime in the early 20s.

To have a lead developer of a complex project such as PostgreSQL responding to your trivial issue was like 'WOW!'

This people have all my respect, they are doing a great job and I am really happy to see postgresql being used more and more.

One thing I really like about postgresql is the stability of their releases.

I wish other projects had the same kind of care when releasing a major version of their software (yes, I am looking at you Cassandra)

Funny how conservative EVERYONE is when it comes to their data.

Wow...I'm generally not bothered by ads, but when they cover up the text of the article and don't give you a way to click out of it, they give me no choice but to not read it.

I didn't even get an ad, the page just covered itself in black stripes with a little white lozenge in the middle.

Chrome + F12, inspect element, delete.

I do this too often. We screwed the web.

I wonder if--in the same way most browsers use a heuristic to block pop-ups if they weren't triggered by a user action--we could come up with an effective heuristic to do the same for pop-overs.

I'd think the simplest thing would be blocking "position: fixed; width: 100%; height: 100%;" curtain elements, along with anything that stacks "above" them. They only have two valid uses that I can think of: displaying lightbox-like image galleries, and embedding modal confirmation dialogs in single-page apps. It'd probably be easier to figure out a heuristic to whitelist these two uses, and deny everything else.

I'm a pretty big fan of Evernote Clearly; easier than poking around in the inspector, especially if the element in question is flash.

I have found the Click to Remove Element extension useful in Chrome.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/click-to-remove-el...

Wow. It's Colorbox, and they fucked it up.

AdBlock + NoScript

I never even knew there was supposed to be an annoying ad covering things up.

If you wait long enough it goes away, but yeah I agree I didn't bother reading due to the ad.

Install Readability [0] as a bookmarklet. As long as the article is on the page (aka not Forbes), it will process it correctly.

[0] https://www.readability.com/bookmarklets

Hitting Escape made it go away for me.