With the release of Firefox 65 earlier this year, every modern (as in "Non-Internet Explorer") browser now supports WEBP, so I'm thinking that it might be time to start incorporating this image format into production work.  I remember following  the development of the JPEG 2000  format with anticipation, followed by forgetfulness.  But now it appears as if we do indeed have a new and shiny format to play with.

While I'm a big fan of the numerous references that allow you to see which parts of HTML5, CSS, JS that you can use, I also frequently use similar resources that describe various technologies' support of accessibility-related standards:

Earlier this year I noticed that Bash released version 5 . Now Linux turns 5 as well. While Linus did say  "that '5.0' doesn't mean anything more than that the 4.x numbers started getting big enough that I ran out of fingers and toes," it's still a round number and makes me think back about the various version numbers of the kernel that I've used over the years. 

While I do like and use the GUI DiskUsageAnalyzer and the ncurses-based Ncdu to examine disk usage on Linux systems, there is something that feels good about getting back to basics and using command line tools like the du (disk usage) command once and a while.

Does  Git's terrible, difficult, sucky CLI makes many people hate on it.  If you resemble this remark, you might want to check out some fixes to the git interface that make it

Earlier this month, Bash released version 5 of the now near-ubiquitous shell. As always, you can RTFM to learn more.

Google announced 5 major security updates for Chrome extensions.  One of the updates mentioned that "the company will also start closely monitoring extensions with a remotely hosted code to spot malicious changes quickly."  You mean extensions are currently allowed to insert remotely hosted code?  And remotely hosted code that apparently isn't monitored too closely? Man, that is kind of frightening.   

Anyone who tends to open a large number of browser tabs surely understands the pain expressed here.

50913 - Option to disable tab close buttons - chromium

You should never hire trust a programmer who doesn't admit to being profoundly lazy.

Lately I've been exploring a few Linux distros for kiosks. We have a couple staff members interested in doing more work with Linux and giving a go of switching over some of our kiosks to linux seems like a good place to start.   

Two specific distros that appear to be promising are:

• Porteus Kiosk
• Lintop Internet Kiosk