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In fact it was “the Java way” for many years and “useless getters” was always a big complaint about Java.

Hey it's better in Go. In Java it's getFoo(). In Go it's just Foo(). Saves three bytes, and three keystrokes if you program by hand and don't autocomplete!

I do agree to a certain degree, but with getters/setters you could properly hide/set to read-only fields.

Barbara O’Neill promotes baking soda injections as a cancer cure and encourages people not to use antibiotics because she thinks they cause cancer. She’s a dimwit.

This has recently been updated:

> Due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, both affected regions have experienced physical impacts to infrastructure as a result of drone strikes.

So they're confirming actual aggression


I vibe-coded a simple neovim lua plugin very recently. It worked well!

https://joeblu.com/blog/2026_01_introducing-nvim-beads-manag...


Yes - you can hang multiple hooks per line. You can use more lines.

I was at the Rijksmuseum recently and they use a wire system like this for all manner of configurations


please delete - dead link


meta: why are we rewriting such anodyne titles? “was” -> “might be” undermines the author's point


I’ve been getting this message on international flights for the last two months already - no using power banks at any time on the plane.

At some point lithium ion battery packs are going to be completely excluded from luggage and it’ll be chaos


> so the comments are wasted bytes

Is there any modern compiler where the output code has anything to do with the comments in the source?


> Atlassian, tho, has nothing for the regular every-day consumer, they make SaaS for business. So what's the deal?

sometimes you just find a big enterprise sucker who's desperate to stay relevant.


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