I had never been a fan of Javascript, granted my history with it during the HTML4 days - between browser incompatibilities and quirky behaviours, it had never seemed worthwhile as a language to use despite the promise of a true ‘write-once, run-everywhere’ experience.

It took me some amount of searching on the Web to work out why pasting images into WhatsApp Web is causing static-like lines instead of the actual image.

The text suggestion upon pressing the enter key in VS Code has been a really annoying feature; too many times have I pressed it at the end of a line in which it replaces the word that I wanted, with something that it indexed instead.

Another blog post about changes to the blog. Read on if you are interested in how I moved on from Blogger to CloudFlare Pages.

As mentioned previously in “Bad things that OSX is doing”, I had purchased a laptop a few months ago, with the intention of setting up Linux and harden it for my personal use.

What The Fuck, Apple?

As I gather from other people’s field reports, it looks like from MacOS Catalina (10.15), Apple is performing fingerprinting on all unsigned applications in the OS, and sending the signatures to api.apple-cloudkit.com.

Looking at the previous date stamp, you’d have noticed that it has been ages since I’ve written anything on this blog.

Figured out that otool -L has the equivalent side-effect as ldd.