There is a blog created to collect similar stories: https://500mile.email/

This blog has also been discussed in a few other threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23908171

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29215383

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35708339

Hey thanks for linking my site! I was wondering where the extra traffic was coming from :)

If anyone has any stories that I should add, please send them my way!

Also, I have been slacking a little with the newsletter because of life events. Since there have been several sign ups since this post, I'll be more active in getting the weekly newsletter out.

Thanks for looking!

> If anyone has any stories that I should add, please send them my way!

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem...

Worthy, but no where near as circulated!

That's terrific. I was worried that it was going to end at the terse OP, but the follow-up post has just the kind of play-by-play details that I can't get enough of in debugging stories.

Oh wow. That’s a good one! Will add that one.

Hey I'm enjoying your site! It would be cool if there was a way to just get the stories. For example, Twitter is no longer capable of loading tweet replies on my machine for whatever hilarious reason, and so I could only read the teaser for the Twitter link.

Anyway, I understand that's probably not the kind of site you had in mind. Thanks for the cool site!

Thanks for the suggestion! Maybe I should add archive links from The Internet Archive for stories in case links die. In the case of tweets, I’d probably need to screenshot them or something.

In case you've missed it, someone else linked to https://www.managementpro.com/my-car-wont-start-after-i-buy-...

This is a great story. Thanks for sharing!

See also: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/169713/whats-the-toughes...

I've tried it on a few of the wtfjs examples, and it explains the snippets surprisingly well, sometimes even better than the original explanations!

https://whatdoesthiscodedo.com/g/cfa4c2c

https://github.com/denysdovhan/wtfjs

Checkout the new CSS property `accent-color`, which allows you to customize checkbox colors

- https://web.dev/accent-color/ - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/accent-colo...

Does anyone know any similar online course or article series?

Here is a pretty good outline on jQuery from Marakana.com http://marakana.com/bookshelf/jquery_tutorial/index.html

I don't know of one that covers as much as this course, but for node beginners this is pretty good: http://www.nodebeginner.org/

Is there anything like xmonad for Windows?

Edit: found [some options on wikipedia][1], but maybe you have any other sugestions.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager#3rd_party...

I've had good success with an open source tiling window manager for Windows called HashTWM [1]. I use it inside my Windows XP virtual machine to manage a bunch of hairy situations with multiple windows. I like that it actually does reposition new windows to fit inside the grid, and that I can easily adjust the middle "split" line so that my main window can become thinner or thicker.

Where it falls down is when you deal with modal dialogue windows, like the "Save File As..." window of Firefox, or the "Find and Replace" window of Excel. I haven't found a good way to overcome the issue of those modal windows being hidden, even with the "-i ConsoleWindowClass -i #32770" ignore options. It seems like Firefox, Excel, and Photoshop implement some non-standard ways of opening smaller windows. In these situations, I quit HashTWM, deal with the modal window, and then start HashTWM again (using quick keyboard shortcuts).

[1] https://github.com/ZaneA/HashTWM

Bug.n is the closest thing I've ever found. However it still leaves much to be desired. http://www.autohotkey.net/~joten/

I wrote a program for use with AutoHotKey that helps create tiled layouts. I haven't used xmonad, so I don't know how it compares, but I've found it useful.

https://github.com/tom-seddon/align_window2

If you like align_window2, you might also like dispswitch:

https://github.com/tom-seddon/dispswitch

(dispswitch and align_window2 will coexist.)

On the "move window / switch focus to workspace N" front, there's VirtuaWin (http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/). You need to set up the Alt-1, Shift-Alt-1, etc. keybindings, but it works quite well.

You should add some tagging, to identify an entry as a swearing (nsfw), slang, proverb. Most expressions currently on the website are swearings.

It could be hard to guess how "coé" should be pronounced, so you should add the phonetic representation for the words, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_Portuguese_an...

Great idea! There are already tables in the database for tags, comments, rating and other features. I will include this feature in the next days. And you are right about the pronunciation too, it might be really hard to guess how to pronounce certain words. I will have a look at dictionary.com and merriam webster, I know they include a small audio file with the correct pronunciation of each word. That could work for speak like a brazilian.

It seems the DNS server has gone crazy, and the site is being redirected back to namecheap :-(

Thanks!

Arch is not easy, but is my choice (Dell Vostro). Check the you hardware compatibility on the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Category:Laptops

You could use unicode for the controls. I modified the local code to use "‖" (and, due to a bug I guess, the chrome address bar became monospaced). If you need, check some reference on http://copypastecharacter.com/all-characters and http://graphemica.com/

I settled with the standard character sets as I wasn't sure if the fancy unicode character would be available cross platform or not. I'll look for this possibility again. Thanks.

We have a class on compilers at my university, but it's on the 4rd year. Creating a compiler/interpreter when you are just starting programming would be a big challenge.

@dovyski: it's nice to see this coming from a brazilian university -- I'm from UFABC, São Paulo

It's a big challenge indeed. About the compiler course, it's the same at UFFS: 4th year.

Thanks and nice to see a brazilian fellow around here :)

Brazilian post codes map to [segments of] streets, with the format XXXXX-XXX. The API response for a brazilian post code is just "404", invalid if the application was expecting JSON.