@b0rk Forms design is *hard*. Way more that most UX folks I know realize.

Ditto testing: the best approach is exhaustion (which is easier than it sounds, mind you)

@cks @andrewnez @mhoye

Also, in the SunOS 4.1.1 era, Drew and I found that Sun, BSD, HP-UX and the like all used the same mechanism. There was a tar file with the components andf three scripts. A setup script, a copy-in script and a finish script that tried not to hammer preexisting configs […]

@cks @andrewnez @mhoye

Partially. It was before SunOS 3.5.1 in 1988. I don't know how much before.

They did a complete rewrite in the Solaris 10 timeframe, after 2005.

Is this what ChatGPT was experimenting with?

@cks If it's still supported, they arguably will. No thoughts on relative priority, though.
(They also need a Corresponding Secretary)

@b0rk This is an *indirect* answer to your question.

Many moons ago, I did fixed-price ports of SunOs to Solaris. I eventually did an open-source variant of the tools, "port - a program to strength-reduce the task of porting from defusing live bombs to something much more like fixing […]

@dangillmor
What do you want to see from Mozilla in the future?

I want you to stop publishing "push polls", ones aimed at getting or requiring a particular outcome.

@b0rk I have a brand-new framework, which installed painlessly.
I fear Lenovo is degrading into another Dell: no two machines with the same model number are the same. For that, you need to have the same *lot number*. The net result is that new machines are a rapidly-moving target. Eventually […]

[AI/LLM web crawlers]

@cks Hmmn, that sounds like a mechanism like DNS, but where you hand the site a key and it asks the server "is IEFBR14 a human?"

@charlieangus.substack.com When he says "Resistance", I think "the French Resistance"