TIL
- that placebo, or the “make-believe medicine,” got its name from Latin placēbō, which means “I shall please,” and has nothing to do with places or time
- that Iced Earth’s album Something Wicked This Way Comes got its name from “something wicked this way comes,” part of a line from Shakespeare’s Macbeth
- that the name Iced Earth was suggested to Jon Schaffer (guitarist) by his childhood best friend Bill Blackmon, who would later die in a motorbike accident, which then went on to inspire the song Watching Over Me
TIL
- that Chrome is introducing a so-called scroll anchoring, which prevents those sudden jumps back to the top of the page
- that the original version of a song from my childhood is France Gall’s Poupée de cire, poupée de son, and that there’s a music genre/style called yé-yé
TIL
- a “naked” or “root” domain, i.e. one without the www prefix, is also called an apex domain
- about Git’s
worktree feature
- that CloudFlare’s Page Rules can be utilized to force an SSL-redirection, which comes in handy since GitHub Pages doesn’t support such a feature for custom domains
TIL
- about the Fisher-Yates shuffle algorithm and that Lodash uses it for its
_.shuffle method
- that “volunteer” and “will” share the same Latin root velle (to wish, will)