Oom Sveta
@oom.technology
❤️🔥 Computer standards, word games, Belgium, linguistics, anime, bit twiddling, code golf, China, Minecraft, food, typography, regex, spicy noodles, whisky
• i18n expert for some OSS behemoth ꙮ
• Retired maintainer of the French BombParty dictionary
• i18n expert for some OSS behemoth ꙮ
• Retired maintainer of the French BombParty dictionary
I've often heard that Netscape 3 couldn't handle self-closing tags when the closing slash directly followed the tag name, that's why people started adding a space before the slash (e.g., <br />). But I've never found any official source—documentation or a bug report
September 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I've often heard that Netscape 3 couldn't handle self-closing tags when the closing slash directly followed the tag name, that's why people started adding a space before the slash (e.g., <br />). But I've never found any official source—documentation or a bug report
I never paid attention to this before, but now it's going to haunt me for the rest of my life.
Web addresses are kind of backwards.
Postal addresses follow a logical structure from most to least mutable:
Laurie Wired, 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico
URLs have protocols (https), TLDs (.com), and subdomains mixed in a wild order. Here's why:
Postal addresses follow a logical structure from most to least mutable:
Laurie Wired, 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico
URLs have protocols (https), TLDs (.com), and subdomains mixed in a wild order. Here's why:
August 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I never paid attention to this before, but now it's going to haunt me for the rest of my life.
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July 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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the javascript Date class is so advanced
July 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
the javascript Date class is so advanced
Last week, I was experimenting with void elements, and...what the heck is happening there?
July 14, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Last week, I was experimenting with void elements, and...what the heck is happening there?
This is insanity
July 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This is insanity
Determining if a given HTML tag is a void element:
July 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Determining if a given HTML tag is a void element:
Even though C23 enforces two's complement, it still leaves the bitwise right shift of a negative number implementation-defined 🤔
May 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Even though C23 enforces two's complement, it still leaves the bitwise right shift of a negative number implementation-defined 🤔
Look at these nice ass German suited cards
May 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Look at these nice ass German suited cards
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DNS started as a text file on Jon’s computer. To register a new domain you would email Jon.
May 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
DNS started as a text file on Jon’s computer. To register a new domain you would email Jon.
Funnily enough, on my GNOME Debian, the ㎬ character is rendered as "GPA" (with a capital A), while I'm pretty sure it should be GPa. Could this be a small mistake of the Cantarell font?
April 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Funnily enough, on my GNOME Debian, the ㎬ character is rendered as "GPA" (with a capital A), while I'm pretty sure it should be GPa. Could this be a small mistake of the Cantarell font?
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every day i join zoom calls and talk about regexes
April 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
every day i join zoom calls and talk about regexes
Lately I've been digging into JS normalization issues, and I was wondering about the options we have to do case folding in JavaScript. For full case folding, it seems like str.toLowerCase().toUpperCase().toLowerCase() does the job? Can it really be that simple?
April 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Lately I've been digging into JS normalization issues, and I was wondering about the options we have to do case folding in JavaScript. For full case folding, it seems like str.toLowerCase().toUpperCase().toLowerCase() does the job? Can it really be that simple?
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We’re rapidly reaching peak birdsong, as breeding season is in full swing and resident birds are being joined by migrants, so maybe now’s a good time to be reminded of the existence of the Swedish word ‘gökotta’ – getting up early to listen to birdsong.
April 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
We’re rapidly reaching peak birdsong, as breeding season is in full swing and resident birds are being joined by migrants, so maybe now’s a good time to be reminded of the existence of the Swedish word ‘gökotta’ – getting up early to listen to birdsong.
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🔔 New changes in default UA styles for in
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Default styles for h1 elements are changing | MDN Blog
Browsers are starting to roll out changes in default UA styles for nested section headings. This post describes the incoming changes, how to identify if it's an issue on your websites, and hints for conformant and better-structured pages.
developer.mozilla.org
April 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🔔 New changes in default UA styles for in
in
#TIL that they call Stephaton the guy who gave Jesus a sponge soaked in vinegar at the Crucifixon. And also that the toilet brush of the Romans is called Xylospongium
April 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
#TIL that they call Stephaton the guy who gave Jesus a sponge soaked in vinegar at the Crucifixon. And also that the toilet brush of the Romans is called Xylospongium
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Le saviez-vous ? En 2003, une particule cosmique a faussé les élections législatives de Schaerbeek 🧐.
#LeSaviezVous #DidYouKnow
#LeSaviezVous #DidYouKnow
April 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Le saviez-vous ? En 2003, une particule cosmique a faussé les élections législatives de Schaerbeek 🧐.
#LeSaviezVous #DidYouKnow
#LeSaviezVous #DidYouKnow
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If you're interested in progressive enhancement web design at all, you may have encountered situations where you only want to render something when JS is enabled. Maybe a button to control a menu, or a theme switcher icon.
Well I wrote about how I solved that problem today.
0xda.de/blog/2025/04...
Well I wrote about how I solved that problem today.
0xda.de/blog/2025/04...
Hiding elements that require JavaScript without JavaScript
I’ve tried my best to make sure that this site works great (or at least reasonably well) even without JavaScript, but when JavaScript isn’t available, it can be a little clunky to hide things that do ...
0xda.de
April 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
If you're interested in progressive enhancement web design at all, you may have encountered situations where you only want to render something when JS is enabled. Maybe a button to control a menu, or a theme switcher icon.
Well I wrote about how I solved that problem today.
0xda.de/blog/2025/04...
Well I wrote about how I solved that problem today.
0xda.de/blog/2025/04...
What the heck Dutch speakers
April 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
What the heck Dutch speakers
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Dans les archives du premier avril, on a un certain Oliver Bickar qui en 1974 qui a mis le feu à des milliers de pneus qu'il amenait depuis 4 ans dans le cratère du mont Edgecumbe en Alaska pour faire croire aux habitants de la ville de Sitka que le volcan etait en éruption
April 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Dans les archives du premier avril, on a un certain Oliver Bickar qui en 1974 qui a mis le feu à des milliers de pneus qu'il amenait depuis 4 ans dans le cratère du mont Edgecumbe en Alaska pour faire croire aux habitants de la ville de Sitka que le volcan etait en éruption
I totally agree. Or at least I used to. Recent facts I came across while re-reading parts of @rcs.bsky.social's "Effective C" - the book that reminds you that the "C" in "C Programming Language" stands for "Cthulhu" - made me revise my mental model a little bit
March 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I totally agree. Or at least I used to. Recent facts I came across while re-reading parts of @rcs.bsky.social's "Effective C" - the book that reminds you that the "C" in "C Programming Language" stands for "Cthulhu" - made me revise my mental model a little bit
#TIL l'expression « et des ratons laveurs », ajoutée ironiquement à la fin d'une énumération dont le contenu hétéroclite semble improbable. L'expression est issue du poème « Inventaire » de Jacques Prévert, écrit en 1957
Tiens il y a même une entrée dans le wikitionnaire fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/et_des_...
et des ratons laveurs — Wiktionnaire, le dictionnaire libre
fr.m.wiktionary.org
March 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
#TIL l'expression « et des ratons laveurs », ajoutée ironiquement à la fin d'une énumération dont le contenu hétéroclite semble improbable. L'expression est issue du poème « Inventaire » de Jacques Prévert, écrit en 1957
This will come in handy! Did you know that Danish traditionally uses a period instead of a colon in its time notation?
March 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
This will come in handy! Did you know that Danish traditionally uses a period instead of a colon in its time notation?
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This is real
There was a recent scandal in the Pokemon hobby where vintage cards that were supposed to be from the '90s, worth thousands of dollars, were found to have Tracking Dots that revealed they were printed in 2024
Even had the printer's serial number
www.elitefourum.com/t/many-of-th...
There was a recent scandal in the Pokemon hobby where vintage cards that were supposed to be from the '90s, worth thousands of dollars, were found to have Tracking Dots that revealed they were printed in 2024
Even had the printer's serial number
www.elitefourum.com/t/many-of-th...
March 24, 2025 at 10:53 AM
This is real
There was a recent scandal in the Pokemon hobby where vintage cards that were supposed to be from the '90s, worth thousands of dollars, were found to have Tracking Dots that revealed they were printed in 2024
Even had the printer's serial number
www.elitefourum.com/t/many-of-th...
There was a recent scandal in the Pokemon hobby where vintage cards that were supposed to be from the '90s, worth thousands of dollars, were found to have Tracking Dots that revealed they were printed in 2024
Even had the printer's serial number
www.elitefourum.com/t/many-of-th...
Wikipedia's list of "inaptonyms" (i.e., personal names that are particularly unfit for their owner) is wild
March 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Wikipedia's list of "inaptonyms" (i.e., personal names that are particularly unfit for their owner) is wild