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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • I only have one example and it’s not really a good one: 3-4 years ago I had one specific spreadsheet (that I got from the internet) which I used to help plan some stuff in a videogame I was playing. It had a table with a few hundred items with formulas that would iterate over those items many times.

    Excel on the local machine could handle changes to that sheet instantly. Anything else I tried (including excel web) would take several seconds to change any value, sometimes even minutes.

    It was probably some problem with the spreadsheet itself, but there was no other similar spreadsheet I could use so at the end of the day I had to use excel if I wanted to plan anything with that tool (but I ended up quitting the game within a few days)




  • The company I work for “had to” enforce usage of an agent tool that monitors if the computer is fully up to date on everything it is running - in order to get some sort of security clearance that sales team can then brag about to potential customers.

    Said tool focused mainly on the most common OSs and is slower to update its data about others, like Fedora which I was using. So the company forbid me from using Fedora for work. I had to setup a machine with Mint, which doesn’t update nearly as often as Fedora does.

    Then turned out the agent tool also had a bug that causes a GUI tool to launch itself once every minute just to let me know that it will run updates if there’s any. To stop that I had to disable the update manager from running on its own. Which I later found out caused the system to never update anything ever again.

    The tool also never detected anything being outdated, even while I was running a 5-month-old browser version.

    So in short: completely giving up on security in exchange for looking secure.





  • Its tab and session management tools are my favorite across all browsers.

    I use vertical tabs with multiple layers of folders to basically keep everything I need to access frequently organized directly on the tab list instead of having to open it again whenever I need (also saves me from having to remember if I already opened something). For example I have a folder for each project I’m working on and I add to it everything related to that project. Project definition links, Github Pull Requests and so on. The PR links stay there while I wait for them to be reviewed or merged so I can quickly access them to see if they need any action. Once the task is done I remove them from the folder again.

    There’s a new feature named Live Folders which automatically opens a tab for every item of an RSS or Github feed. I use it to auto open PRs that are waiting for my review. The feature is still quite limited but already pretty useful.

    One of the projects I’m working on is a voice chat web app and the browser helps me by allowing me to open two different sessions of the web app side by side as a single app. Makes it so much easier to test things when I don’t have to be handling two different active windows like I used to have to with other browsers.

    One other feature that I don’t use so much anymore is the ability to have completely separate tab lists for different contexts. It’s useful to separate work and personal stuff for example, but I already use separate devices for that.