Adding target="_blank" to User-Generated HTML Anchors in Go

It was the second week of August 2024. We realized that the television in our family space had suddenly stopped working. It would start, flash blue for a moment, and restart. If we left it running for a while, the boot logo would appear with parts of the panel garbled. This was no cheap, no-name, no-brand “smart” TV—at least that is what the...

So here is a simple JavaScript task I had to tackle for Toph: When a user clicks the Print button, open a new tab/window and activate the print dialog. Close the window when the user confirms the print or cancels the dialog. Attempt 1: Call window.close() Immediately After window.print() I used the onclick attribute on the Print button to open...

I seem to come across the strangest of bugs. Bug Remmina SPICE over an SSH tunnel fails to handle keyboard-mouse interactions. I have set up several virtual machines with desktop operating systems using Libvirt on my primary computer. I can access these virtual machines over the network using Libvirt on my laptop. However, I wanted to use Remmina...

And one hundred. I have posted 100 blog posts in the last 365 days. Why? Because I took on this #100DaysToOffload Internet challenge. My brain, trained on decades of video games, is tuned to enjoy challenges, no questions asked. But this challenge is very different from those social media challenges that die as fast as they become popular. How?...

I have been writing software professionally for over a decade. I have been writing software for even longer than that. This week was the first time I wrote an Android program. Some journey it was. But that is a story for another day. Today, in this blog post, I want to share a strange issue I encountered with Android Emulator and a fix. If you...