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April Fools Day always proves to be a favorite of some tech outfits.  Google is usually one that likes to play along .  (See Gmail Blue )  Stack Exchange has done a good one this year though, with its flashback to the nineties theme for Stack Overflow . The company has pulled out all the stops by resurrecting a raft of tired old gimmicks. Gaudy scrolling banners Obnoxious repeating backgrounds Mixed typefaces (Comic Sans and Times) Click counter Under construction Flashing icons (or animated in general) Cursor animation Guestbook There's a lot going on here, to be sure.  As such, this list is not exhaustive. Load a Stack Exchange page and click on any post to be teleported. Stack Overflow ( https://stackoverflow.com/ ) Server Fault ( https://serverfault.com/ ) Super User ( https://superuser.com/ ) Ask Ubuntu ( https://askubuntu.com/ ) Economics ( https://economics.stackexchange.com/ )   Welcome to the 90s. Wonderful trails behind the mou

There has been a long-standing hope that Atlassian Sourcetree will one day make it to the Linux platform.  The company has flatly refused to create a version for Linux , but that doesn't mean the interest isn't there. A search for the term "sourcetree" in the Atlassian Community renders a results set with an entry titled " SourceTree for Linux ."  Its view count is higher than any other entry in the results listing at more than a quarter of a million views.  That's more than any other entry, and it isn't even close. The listing https://community.atlassian.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?q=sourcetree Similarly, the Sourcetree Community products page ranks the same entry at the top of that listing with the next most popular entry, " How to update HTTP(S) credentials in sourcetree ," at well under 200,000 views. The listing https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Sourcetree/ct-p/sourcetree Of course, one can't blame the co