I used to love leaving that site open on public PCs and watching the reactions that resulted :)

They remind me of Social Security numbers in a way, where an identifier created for one narrow use (internal Social Security use only) ended up becoming a de facto standard (national identification number) due to the absense of a suitable alternative.

If you'd like to go further down the ZIP code rabbit hole, a few interesting codes to research are `00501`, `48222`, and `12345`. :)

I have the freedom to scream "FIRE" in a crowded building when there really isn't a fire, does this mean I should be excused from the consequences? DHH has the freedom to post racist and intentionally divisive BS on his own site, and we have the freedom to let people who care about being anti-racist know to stay away from him and his work.

I’ve been thinking about creating a CSS tool somewhere about halfway between new.css and Pico CSS for very basic page layout tools (containers, callouts, menu bars, etc) that still focuses on being extremely small and performant.

I feel that a tool like that would be helpful for laying out a simple but functional site (sourcehut’s site [1] comes to mind) where you need a few basic layout tools but don’t need all of Bootstrap.

[1]: https://sourcehut.org/

Does anyone have any recommendations for a CDN service that may be interested in sponsoring this type of project? I suppose it's possible to just use Cloudflare's free tier, but I'd like to avoid contributing to internet monopolies as much as possible.

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[1]: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

The official Minecraft server software is exceptionally unoptimized, but a number of independent open source forks exist, some of which can substantially improve performance. Unless you're talking about maintaining the community aspect, which is definitely not so easy... :)

For anyone getting into Minecraft for the first time, be sure to check out the mod Optifine [1]. A substantial portion of the Minecraft community uses it for its UI and performance improvements to the base game. It also allows the use of custom shaders [2], which totally change the feel of the game by adding realistic effects like long shadows, wavy water, and swaying plants. I personally stick with the base game's appearance, but shaders can be really fun for exploring caves and other places with unique lighting.

[1]: https://optifine.net/home [2]: https://www.pcgamer.com/best-minecraft-shaders/

> When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

- Maya Angelou

Source: https://www.python.org/community/logos/

- You could give every ant on Earth ~920 unique IDs without any collisions

- You could give unique IDs for every brain neuron for all ~215 million people in Brazil

- The ocean contains about 20 × (2^64) gallons of water (3.5267 × 10^20 gallons total)

- There are between 100-400 billion stars in the Milky Way, so you could assign each star between 46,000,000–184,000,000 unique IDs each

- You could assign ~2.5 unique IDs to each grain of sand on Earth

- If every cell of your body contained a city with 500,000 people each, every "citizen" of your body could have a unique ID without any collisions

Calculating these figures is actually a lot of fun!

[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/useplaintext.email

[2]: https://sourcehut.org

Do you happen to know how Google, or any other places, do this? I assume a custom DNS resolver being forced on clients through a network could do this, or maybe hosts files for each machine.

You can combine the exclusion `-` syntax with this as well. If you want to find different sites on the TLD `.test` but only URLs on `home.test` are being shown, you can use this search:

site:test -site:home.test