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If my feed was showing me what ’engaged’ me why did I get fed up and leave? There are several parts to the answer, but an important piece is the problem that Facebook’s algorithm is largely an uncontrolled ‘positive feedback loop’.

In my opinion, Windows is deceptively clear and smooth, but when once one really shines a light on it, one finds significant imperfections. Linux may feel a little less polished, but is more what you see is what you get (or better) — there are imperfections for a power user / developer like me, but those idiosyncrasies are minor compared to the more problematic ones found in Windows.

… was an interesting exercise as the original report was written in DocBook, but an older version (3.x; the SGML variant) than is readily available nowadays.

Plainfuse was a fork of Fuse.js (fuzzy search) by Kiro Risk due to concerns I had with difficulties auditing the minified Javascript (which at the time was the only output version available), combined with a desire for ES5 / IE11 support, which was not present at the time.

This is from about 2009, but apparently there are still occasionally people trying to find it.