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TypeScript is terrible for library developers
We spend a disproportionate amount of time on types
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Let’s Not Have a Beer
For the first time, I won a major raffle at a recent conference. However, I had to give the prize back since it was a beer dispenser and I don’t drink. If your reaction after reading the last line was “Why don’t you drink?” or “Most of us do and it’s your choice that you missed out.”, then this blog is for you. I’m…
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SSH commit verification now supported
GitHub now supports SSH commit verification, so you can sign commits and tags locally using a self-generated SSH public key, which will give others confidence about the origin of a…
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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become
The title of this blog is a quote from James Clear’s Atomic Habits book. The tl;dr of this book is a set of strategies to get 1% “better” each day.
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We used Elixir's Observer to hunt down bottlenecks
Learn how to use Elixir's Observer to chase down bottlenecks and fix runtime issues.
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What's the big deal about embedded key-value databases?
What's the big deal about key-value databases like FoundationDB and RocksDB?
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Amazon, Verizon found using IPv4 240/4 addresses
In this article we use data from RIPE Atlas probes to investigate the usage of 240/4, a block of IPv4 addresses 'reserved for future use', formally known as Class E in the wild.
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How to communicate why your startup is worth joining
How to show why your startup is worth joining: facts about founders, team, culture and progress, with examples from Canny, Fibery and PostHog.
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Remote startups will win the war for top talent
Forty percent of workers are considering quitting. Management that opts for empty arguments to force people back in-office will bleed talent to their competition.
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Class action against Oracle’s worldwide surveillance machine
Oracle claims to have amassed dossiers on 5 billion people, and generates $42.4 billion in annual revenue. ICCL's Dr Johnny Ryan is a lead plaintiff in a new U.S. class action to stop its global surveillance machine.
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VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?
VS Code collects telemetry data to help understand Microsoft how to improve the product. Is it above board? Can I turn it off completely?
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Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019)
Your email provider owns your online identity by controlling your email address. You can’t port your email address to another provider as with phone numbers.
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Should notes be end-to-end encrypted?
A comprehensive guide about the different types of encryption, the upsides and downsides, and how to make decisions about how much encryption you need for note-taking, passwords, or anything else.
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On Corpspeak
Syncing Up, Circling Back, Learnings and Asks, Oh My
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Parsing SQL
SQL is a language to handle data in databases. However, it has limitations and you might need to parse SQL to get around them.
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The best and worst of 1994 and predictions for '95
Disaster Relief. We saw the best of Internet users when they pulled together to help each other through several natural disasters in 1994. The year brought floods, earthquakes, and other major tragedies. Almost immediately following each of these events, Net users gathered around their terminals and formed newsgroups…
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Why Apple Will Switch to ARM-Based Macs (2014)
When Steve Jobs announced the transition from PowerPC to Intel processors in 2005, he revealed something that, in hindsight, seemed obvious to everyone who didn’t anticipate the switch: There are two major challenges in this transition. The first one is making Mac OS X sing on Intel processors. Now,
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My black body story (it's physics)
I studied physics in university, and at one point asked a professor if I should learn German, because it seemed all the key texts of early ...
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An odd discovery on Spotify
New releases; good catastrophes; an alluring and unnerving encounter.
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Gmail will call the cops on you based on the content of your emails
Correction: An earlier draft of this story misstated a technical detail; Mark didn’t email his photo to his doctor; rather, he took the photo with his phone and the image was automatically synched to his Google Photos account, triggering a scan .
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Using Mypy in Production
At Spring, we maintain a large Python monorepo with complete Mypy coverage configured under Mypy’s strictest available settings. In short, that means every function signature is annotated and implicit Any conversions are disallowed.
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How messed up was Germany's energy policy?
It's not as bad as a lot of people are saying
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A general overview of what happens before main() (2019)
8 April 2019 by Phillip Johnston • Last updated 22 August 2022For most programmers, a C or C++ program’s life begins at the main function. They are blissfully unaware of the hidden steps that happen between invoking a program and executing main. Depending on the program and the compiler, there are all kinds of…
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Reflections on my time in Y Combinator
A quick intro: This is the first post I’ve written in quite a while, but it’s also the first time I feel like I’ve had a chance to breathe this year. I’m on a “vacation”, although it stops feeling like that when you have a toddler
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YouTube disrupted in Pakistan as former PM Khan streams speech
NetBlocks metrics confirm the disruption of YouTube on multiple internet providers in Pakistan on Sunday 21 August 2022. The disruption comes as former Prime Minister Imran Khan makes a live ...
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Stable Diffusion Public Release
We are delighted to announce the public release of Stable Diffusion and the launch of DreamStudio Lite.
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What alcohol does to your body, brain and health [video]
Learn how alcohol impacts the brain and body over time. Discover tips for making informed health decisions - science-based tools from the Huberman Lab podcast.