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Firefox 77
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,567 posts.
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Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone photos
I noted here, I believe, that recently my dSLR, my Nikon d750, basically crapped itself, most likely from a faulty mirror mechanism. This wasn’t entirely a surprise to me — it had devel…
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Building binary deb packages: a practical guide
How to ship your apps on Debian and derivatives.
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Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it
This article is part of a series: This article How I moved my setup from a Mac to a Linux laptop Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop. The grass is not greener on the other side The M1 Macbook Air, one year
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Guide to Python Debugging
<p> Even if you write clear and readable code, even if you cover your code with tests, even if you are very experienced developer, weird bugs will inevitab...
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Modern Portfolio Theory: A Case Study on Turnips
And how having friends makes the stalk market a lot more profitable.
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I was emailed after abandoning a registration form. I did not click Submit
We had a baby recently and my wife and I were online shopping for breast pumps. Our health insurance...
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Web Vitals | Articles
Essential metrics for a healthy site
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Google Is Not God of the Web
Almost exactly two years ago, I warned that Google was on track to replace God of us all. Last month, The Verge's Dieter Bohn reported ...
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Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack”
The situation in Minneapolis at the moment (and many other places in the US) following George Floyd's death [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_George_Floyd] is, I think it's fair to say, extremely volatile. I wouldn't even know where to begin commentary on that, but
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Times New Roman alternatives: You can do better (2013)
Butterick’s Practical Typography
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Reconstructing a lost NES game from 30-year-old source code disks
Resurrecting Days of Thunder from dying floppy disks took tenacity...and a little bit of luck.
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Overview of Python dependency management tools
I briefly describe each tool (pip, venv, pip-tools, pyenv, conda, pipenv, poetry and Docker), why it’s created and the problems it’s tackling. You can find a table summarizing all the information and the usual setups people use.
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As Qualified Immunity Takes Center Stage, More Delay from SCOTUS
I fear I may have become trapped in a time loop, in which every week I am doomed to write the same blog post about how the Supreme Court has delayed consideration of its qualified immunity docket. Back in April , I noted that the Court had scheduled thirteen different qualified immunity cases for its May 15th…
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Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive
Ask Court to Enjoin and Deter Willful Infringement Today, member companies of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Internet Archive (“IA”) in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The suit asks the Court to enjoin IA’s mass…
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We ditched Google Analytics
We asked ourselves if it was time to switch to a less invasive analytics app than Google Analytics; one...
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A Nix terminology primer by a newcomer
Maybe I just haven't been paying attention before, but in the last year or so, there seems to have been an increase in discussion around the Nix package manager. This is also what got me to finally try it, and I'm very happy with the results, even if the road is a little bumpy.
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Embedded Rules of Thumb (2018)
26 April 2018 by Phillip Johnston • Last updated 10 June 2021You may call them guidelines, heuristics, or rules of thumb. No matter, the purpose is the same: to provide a reasonable approximation of the truth. These rules of thumb can help guide your understanding of the systems you work on, focus you toward the ……
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Twitter, Reddit support challenge of visa applicant social media requirement
WASHINGTON – Twitter, Reddit, and Internet Association filed an amicus brief late yesterday in support of a lawsuit filed last year by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, the Brennan Center for Justice, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP on behalf of plaintiffs Doc Society and International…
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Do I need to go to university?
Instead of asking “Is university good?”, ask “Do I have something more compelling to do?”. Instead of “Should I do a PhD?”, ask “Where can I find the best environment to grow as a researcher?”.
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A simple way to get more value from tracing
A lot of people seem to think that distributed tracing isn't useful, or at least not without extreme effort that isn't worth it for companies smaller than FB. For example, here are a couple of public conversations that sound like a number of private conversations I've had. Sure, there's value somewhere, but it costs…
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Pinebook Pro, First Impressions
After seeing it in action at FOSDEM (from afar, as the crowd was too large), I decided to buy a Pinebook Pro for personal use. From the beginning, the intention was to use it for pkgsrc development, with NetBSD as the main OS. It was finally delivered on Thursday, one day earlier than promised, so I thought I would…
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Simplifying Board Games
A few years ago I wrote about how I'd been playing a simplified version of Carcassonne with Lily. We stopped for a while, but recently we've played simplified versions of Ticket to Ride, Race for the Galaxy, Guillotine, and Settlers of Catan. My general approach here is to find a core piece of the game that will be…
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Autism severity can change substantially during early childhood, study suggests
Kids with autism may have a change in their symptom severity during childhood. Around 30% of them have less symptoms by age 6.