Want to let users sign in to your iOS app using Google, Facebook, Github, or any other third-party service? Better put the new Apple login button first on the list, or you’re fucked.

Did I hear something recently about antitrust investigations in Silicon Valley? Will I hear more soon?

Infinite-scrolling web sites are garbage. The increasingly common model where new content is loaded as you scroll down is actively user-hostile, because content is never unloaded, guaranteeing that eventually your browser will decide it’s had enough and force-reload the page. From the top.

Adding insult to injury, however, is the trick where it also inserts artificial navigation commands into your browser history, changing the URL to reflect your offset into the infinite scroll. As much as I like the content over at Mad Genius Club, I hate the fact that I have to hit the back button multiple times to leave. Just now, without having scrolled down very far at all, I had to hit the back button four times, because each time it decided I was still far enough into the scroll to need my history re-fucked-with.

Well, this won’t end well…

I’ve been reading Good Omens every year or so for quite a few years now, so I had my fingers crossed that the Amazon/BBC mini-series wouldn’t screw it up.

They did not, in fact, screw it up. Pity they didn’t manage to get the two Doctors into the same scene, but Morrissey’s role was quite small and not really connected to Tennant’s.

Only one spoiler comment:

Why I Hate Syntax Highlighting: Mac Pascal.

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Had to use this in a programming class back in the Eighties, and if the windows in the lab had been openable, I’d have defenestrated about three Macs a day.

related

…from Panasony:

NSFW

Wow, VMware wasn’t kidding about Photon being a small, clean Linux distro, although it would have been nice if they’d also left out colorized ls output. Shame about systemd, but tdnf looks like a nice cleanup of yum, even if my brain reads the name as to-die-in-fire.

I barely even remember the ads for this, but I was in college at the time, and wouldn’t have spent my money on 15 pounds of laser-tag gear anyway. I did like the Peter David novelizations, though, which were better than you had any right to expect.

Update

Nearly one-eighth of the packages in the Photon repo are Perl modules. That sounds about right. No, wait that was the Alpine Linux window that I had open at the same time; Photon’s package list is only about 2.5% Perl. Which is actually better, since mixing packaged modules with CPAN downloads has always been a mess, and you can never get everything you need from just the packaged stuff. You should avoid the vendor-supplied scripting languages anyway, and use perlbrew/rbenv/pyenv/etc to build clean ones.

Also, to my surprise, I found four of the six “David Peters” Photon novels on my shelves without much effort. They’re apparently rare as hen’s teeth now, with dealers listing them for ridiculous prices that make hundred-page books on Japanese pickles look affordable.

…is Google+.

Probably because no one goes there any more.