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Looking back on SaaS product strategy
Looking back on how we chose what to build over the years.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,908 posts.
18932
Lasers deflected using air
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY A Research Centre of the Helmholtz Association
18933
Exploratory data analysis for humanities data
The course was very much an experiment, an attempt to combine literary study with computing. The 17 surviving students were largely sophomores. About two thirds of them were hard-core humanities majors; the rest were potential or actual CS majors or other STEM concentrators. The class met once a week for three hours…
18934
Java 21 VirtualThreads vs. Clojure Lazy Seqs
Welcome to the Clojure Deref! This is a weekly link/news roundup for the Clojure ecosystem (feed: RSS ). Thanks to Anton Fonarev for link aggregation.
18935
What is in that .git directory?
Well, I think most of you reading this blog use git more or less on a daily basis, but have you ever looked into what is in the .git folder that git creates? Let's explore it together and understand what is going on in there.
18936
Making Hard Things Easy
New talk: Making Hard Things Easy
18937
Thread-per-core
I want to address a controversy that has gripped the Rust community for the past year or so: the choice by the prominent async “runtimes” to default to multi-threaded executors that perform work-stealing to balance work dynamically among their many tasks. Some Rust users are unhappy with this decision, so unhappy that…
18938
Thirty Years Ago: MS-DOS 6.00
A retrospective on MS-DOS 6.00 and my small contributions to the product.
18939
How we manage 200 open-source repos
7 lessons we've learned while managing 200+ open-source repositories - automation with a human touch.
18940
When does an old iPhone become unsafe to use?
When Apple stops issuing security updates for older iPhones, they become unsafe to use. But exactly how long can you safely keep using an old iPhone, and when should you upgrade?
18941
CCC Invites to the 37th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg
After a three-year break, the Chaos Computer Club will host its 37th Chaos Communication Congress (37C3) from 27 December to 30 December 2023. We invite you to the CCH in Hamburg for Germany's most...
18942
Reversing 'France Identité': The New French Digital ID
-------------- Update from 06/10/2023 : following my publication, I’ve been in contact with France Identité CISO and they could provide mo...
18943
How to add documentation to your product life cycle
An evaluation of different processes used to create documentation, and their advantages and disadvantages for the organization, the customer, and the writer.
18944
Ollama is now available as an official Docker image
Ollama can now run with Docker Desktop on the Mac, and run inside Docker containers with GPU acceleration on Linux.
18945
The White Gold of Turda, Romania
Though today we take salt for granted, it was once as valuable as gold, and the Salina Turda Salt Mine in Romania was an important source for eastern Europe
18946
Summary of “The Procrastination Equation”
The Procrastination Equation by Dr.
18947
What we learned making a plastic injection mold with a Chinese mold maker
What AirGradient learned while making a plastic injection mold in China, from DFM and tooling quotes to samples, revisions, and production risk.
18948
NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty
Announcing a $12,288 bounty (tripled to charity) for cracking the five seeds selected by the NSA in the '90s for the NIST elliptic curve standard.
18949
ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment
Between the Material You design and move to break apart the Chrome browser from ChromeOS, now more than ever, ChromeOS is Linux with Google's desktop environment.
18950
Gaia-1 a 9B parameter generative world model for autonomous driving
Scaling GAIA-1: a 9-billion parameter generative world model for autonomous driving
18951
I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot
Before I joined Replit, I had never written a line of code. A few weeks ago, I built a Slack Bot that uses Google LLMs to provide daily channel summaries. You can fork the template or get started with 100 Days of Code. None of this was possible without Replit. Let me explain why: Getting started with no setup
18952
Rerun 0.9 – a framework for visualizing streams of multimodal data
We're releasing Rerun 0.9.0 with a completely revamped API that gives more control over the underlying data model, a hierarchical and time aware Entity Component System (ECS).
18953
Vivaldi on iOS
Announcing the launch of Vivaldi on iOS – a new browsing experience available now on the App Store.
18954
Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)
I’d read a few times that bringing the temperature of a failing drive down will increase its reliability long enough to salvage important files. When the drive in my trusty Powerbook decided one day last week to stop booting and make horrible clicking sounds, I decided to test the theory.
18955
Where does my computer get the time from?
This week I was in Rotterdam for a RIPE meeting . On Friday morning I gave a lightning talk called where does my computer get the time from? The RIPE meeting website has a copy of my slides and a video of the talk; this is a blogified low-res version of the slides with a rough and inexact transcript.
18956
Database Performance at Scale – A free book
Discover new ways to optimize database performance and avoid common mistakes that impact latency and throughput.
18957
HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly
Guest Post: What problems HTTP/3 solves, how it performs, why it’s seen such swift adoption, and what limitations it is still working to overcome.
18958
The Workflow Pattern
How to implement event sourced workflows?
18959
An alternative front end for Haskell?
λm.me - An alternative frontend for Haskell?
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How I stay motivated as a solo creator
Working solo has its difficulties. For one, my income is somewhat tied to my productivity, and my productivity highly correlates to my state of mind. This is...