Is there any good reason to restrict the availability of the Friends page by the most recent two weeks?

Does this restriction really help LJ to scale?

I'd like to review a couple of Firefox add-ons I am using every day: our own WebPredict, and TooManyTabs. Both are intended for people who browse a lot.

WebPredict allows user to rate some Web pages, and based on those ratings predicts the quality of other Web pages. We made a beta-release of this add-on recently, and this beta-release prompted ( Read more... )

Last spring I have posted an Emacs trick allowing to edit Russian texts and to include Russian substrings into the command line.

It turns out that there is a much simpler way to accomplish these tasks. ( Read more... )

I finally learned how to edit Russian texts in Emacs (Linux, UTF-8). Since I was not able to find this technique on the net, I'd like to share it here. This, in particular, allows to include Russian substrings into the command line using M-x shell command, for example:

echo "Привет"

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Impressive pictures

(Open source software, all platforms)