If you're tired of reaching for your smartphone authenticator or key fob to type in a TOTP, or Time-Based One-Time Password, then why not use Emacs to generate them for you instead? Combine it with auth sources and GPG, and you can securely encrypt the master keys at the same time.
Source: Securely Generating TOTP tokens with Emacs, an article by Mickey Petersen.
In CSS, we’ve been encoding colors with
rgb()or hex (mostly for historical reasons). However, the new CSS Color 4 specification adds many better ways of declaring colors in CSS. Of these,oklch()is the most interesting one—this article explains why.
Source: OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL, an article by Andrey Sitnik.
When I first started going to Postgres conferences and listening to talks by Postgres core developers I suddenly found myself at sea. What were these strange words and phrases they were using?
It turns out that a lot of them are taken from the Postgres code base, which in turn naturally uses them because they are part of Codd's relational model, the theoretical information architecture that underpins all relational databases.
Source: Postgres Insider Terminology, an article by Paul Ramsey.
Tyler Rake, a fearless black market mercenary, embarks on the most deadly extraction of his career when he's enlisted to rescue the kidnapped son of an imprisoned international crime lord.
In the evening Alice, Esme, and I watched Extraction. For the first halve I liked the movie a lot but it soon became very repetetive. Still, I give it a 7 out of 10.