In this scenario I prefer to do an interactive rebase (with -i flag) and drop all of the commits that were on branch A.

This is basically exactly the same as checking out a fresh branch from main and cherry picking the commits from branch B.

I prefer to update my branch with rebase, and merge it with a squashed merge.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day

Why are there zero examples of 88x31 buttons in this article?

Here are a few samples https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/

Oh my goodness, thank you! I have been searching for a source of the small icons as an example to show the computing classes I lecture, and I finally found my rotating favorite one! https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/msntbciis.gif

Thank you so much - on the flip side, my students may dislike you because they're going to get a lecture on how the web used to be!

My favorite one I think is the Internet Explorer/Google Chrome "Same shit different - " one, because it's obviously recent and somehow iconic of the sort of person who reminisces about the old web, and clearly narrowcasting to such people.

"a few"

*saturates my Gigabit pipe*

At first I read this as a typo for the 88c31 micro-controller that is used in buttons.

My stock answer was, "Good point, the 88c31 seems overkill for a button. But... AI isn't great for detecting button pushes."

Then, I realized the page was just a rant about web buttons and didn't actually show example web buttons.

Or even an explanation of what the term means

Yeah, I knew what they were but I'd never heard them described as "88x31 buttons," even back in the early 00s, so I had no idea what this article was going on about at first.

The first sentence contains a footnote (1) with links to a bunch of examples.

the worst kind of correct

I would guess that the author simply tacitly assumed that any reader would have the general look of 88x31 buttons etched in their visual memory.

This vagueness and assumed context seems so common nowadays… you’re supposed to be in the know already and it’s gauche to ask…

The first paragraph of the article links to the buttons.

> Some examples of sites sharing some thematic elements spanning over 25 years:

> (…)

> They all feature 88x31 buttons in some capacity and those buttons reflect the website and it's designer in some way.

I disagree, they all feature _multiple_ elements and it's only obvious what the 88x31 button is if you already know.

88 x 31 pixels? I had a hard time grasping, what the author is talking about. Especially since he shows large banners, not smaller buttons.

lol, that's what I was thinking.

That and how buttons from 30 years ago work with 4k monitors.

Ha, opened the comments to say exactly this. Truly infuriating.

I actually did click through the links to find those, and I was annoyed that I had to do that instead of having at least one rendered inline in the article.

It even has some examples of other size images inline, but none of the titular 88x31 buttons. I found it odd.

I clicked through a couple of those pages, didn't see any obvious buttons and even if I did, kind of ambiguous which ones are the right size without checking.

Article really could have used an example or two.

Is there support for Rekordbox?

It would be awesome so that you can use Apple Music alongside normal USB sticks / Rekordbox libraries on the Pioneer XDJ line of equipment.

Yes:

“”“ The popular DJing app djay by Algoriddim already offered Apple Music integration since last year, and additional platforms that are now supported include AlphaTheta, Serato, and inMusic's Engine DJ, Denon DJ, Numark, and RANE DJ. For example, you can now access the entire Apple Music catalog in AlphaTheta's rekordbox app for iPhone and iPad.

"Apple Music support has finally arrived," says the release notes for today's rekordbox update.”””

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/25/dj-with-apple-music/

That would be cool but I don't think this is going to help a ton until I can throw my own mix or something I got off soundcloud into my apple music library and actually have it work.

See https://rekordbox.com/en/2025/03/apple-music-support/

There is a compatability chart with their various gear.

Would be an absolute bumper feature for bedroom DJs. Good excuse to dust off the decks :)

> The feature is integrated with DJ software and hardware platforms AlphaTheta

They called out AlphaTheta, so here's hoping that it is. That would make my decision to move off of Spotify for personal streaming even easier

Toyota 86 and Subaru BRZ are basically the same car. The car was designed by Toyota while Subaru supplied the engine. Just one example.

I think Toyota also owns a significant amount of Subaru, probably other mfgs. as well, Toyota is the 600lb gorilla of the car industry.

Surely it’s a balance but I feel like relentless drive and focus might even be a little more important than raw intellectual ability.

Were you on a VPN?

Some vendors are just weird... I'm always getting blocked by Etsy with Firefox after the first navigation on their site. It shows me a puzzle to solve and then, after solving the puzzle correctly (read "Success"), redirects me to "You have been blocked". It works with Chrome-based browsers though, but that doesn't make me want to use the website at all.

No VPN, just good privacy settings in my case.

While looking at a flight price on sas.dk I had to disable Firefox's built-in enhanced tracking protection.

It seems excessive to not allow at least a single query in this situation.

I had the same with a newspaper which I subscribe to. They shouldn't be tracking me, and don't show adverts to subscribers. In this case I wrote to their support person, who told me not to block the tracking.

Do you have the "resist fingerprinting" setting enabled in Firefox? (You can check in about:config)

"privacy.resistFingerprinting" is "true", yes, and it'll stay that way. Why let me solve a puzzle just to block me afterwards anyway?

To let you know who wears the pants in the relationship :)

Businesses that scrape websites for a living hire people in third-world countries to solve captchas 24/7 to keep the scraping bots running.

So when I successfully solve a captcha, that doesn't make me 100% trusted not-a-scraping-bot. Instead it's an input into a statistical model, along with all the other identifying information they can hoover up, and that statistical model may still say no.

I use multiple profiles with Firefox to sandbox cookies etc. My profiles are based on activity. HN, Facebook, and infrequently used sites…sometimes I use Linkedin but I dont want it following me around the web.

I would prefer the web was different, but it is not.

Maybe the performance of the puzzle also has some undeclared side channels.

> just good privacy settings in my case.

You are blocking the trackers and damaging the revenue model.

Nope, no VPN, making it all the stranger.

Yeah, good timing. Just about a year before the release of ChatGPT.

I think a confounding variable is that SF also significantly reduced jail sentencing and prosecution of other types of crime during the pandemic.