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Apple's feedback mechanism is broken
Apple's feedback system is fundamentally broken, and they don't seem to care.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,938 posts.
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Surprising result while transpiling C to Go
Experimenting transpiling Uber h3 library with ccgo.
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Web 3 is Flawed
My opinions on Web3 and why it is flawed
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On leaving Mapbox after 12 years
It’s been about nine months since I left Mapbox and the circumstances of my exit didn’t offer much opportunity for closure. I feel a combination of gratitude and resentment that I’m still sorting out. Last week was the one year anniversary of the Mapbox Worker’s Union going public, the event that lead to my departure…
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Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
The Wirecutter’s review of the IKEA air purifier is a mishmash of scientific errors, shoddy testing, and self-contradictory logic.
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Action Plan for a New CTO
This post previously appeared in Fast Company. How does a newly hired Chief Technology Officer (CTO) find and grow the islands of innovation inside a large company? How not to waste your first six …
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SSO should be table stakes
Withholding security for money feels a little gray-hat.
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Terminated
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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We are removing the option to create new subscriptions
In order to store less data we will no longer accept NEW PayPal and Credit card subscriptions (recurring payments). One-time payments are not affected.
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How to Find and Stop Running Queries on PostgreSQL
Your PostgreSQL server is seizing up, with some naughty queries consuming too many resources or blocking others. Don’t panic! You can stop those problem queries and stabilize your system.
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The State of WebAssembly 2022
WebAssembly has gone through quite a transformation this last year, while the wasm language landscape is slowly shifting, the more notable change is in what people are using WebAssembly for. The use of wasm for serverless, containerisation and as a plug-in technology has leapt considerably, with WebAssembly System…
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Writing one sentence per line
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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The integrated timetable of Switzerland
When people talk about great nation-wide public transit systems, names such as Japan or Switzerland are often mentioned. In this article I will show what makes Switzerland’s network so unique and why it is has become so popular.
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Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right
In December, 2020, Apple did something insanely great. They changed how iOS, their mobile operating system, handled users’ privacy preferences, so that owners of iPhones and other iOS devices could indicate that they don’t want to be tracked by any of the apps on their devices. If they did, Apple...
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No-one knows what they are doing
When I was a child I assumed that all the adults running the world knew what they were doing. Now that I am an adult, I am under no such illusions. Just look at the current British government. They…
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Linux Threat Hunting: ‘Syslogk’ a kernel rootkit found in the wild
Syslogk Rootkit Revealed: Analysis
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Two Years of Life with PinePhone
On June 9th, 2020, early into a still raging pandemic, I received my PinePhone UBports Community Edition. It's incredible how fast these two years went by, and how much the PinePhone experience improved in the meantime. This is just a subjective post about what I remember, you may also consider it a
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Notes on WebAssembly
An advanced beginner's take on WebAssembly.
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A Quick Look at QUIC Censorship
An introduction to QUIC and its potential for censorship resistance, as well as a survey of current QUIC blocking in China, India, Russia and Uganda.
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We need a flowchart editor that doesn't give you carpal tunnel
This is a post about why I'm making knotend , a flowchart editor designed for speed, and why we need to get away from mouse-based flowchart editors.
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700M users and Premium
Telegram now has over 700 million monthly active users. Today we're launching Telegram Premium – a subscription that lets you support Telegram's continued development and gives access to exclusive additional features.
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“Google” programmers. How one idiot hired a couple more idiots
A long time ago, I performed technical interviews on a regular basis — I was recruiting candidates for the position of a programmer in a company. I had a simple, clear, and smart recruitment plan (I...
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Webcams aren't good enough
There are no good webcams. Why? And what can we use instead? This article compares the most popular webcam options (such as the Brio, the Kiyo, and the C920) to better alternatives.
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Apple’s macOS Ventura – New Security Changes
With macOS 13, Apple have made some bold and potentially disruptive changes to Mac security. We explore them here.
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Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for Google Fonts
Strengthen your privacy, improve your performance and give your website a personality by using Bunny Fonts. The only fully GDPR fonts powered by a CDN!
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Text consoles and framebuffer consoles in Linux
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Early Access to Chrome OS Flex: The Upgrade PCs and Macs
Today, we’re excited to announce early access to a new version of ChromeOS bringing the benefits of Chrome OS to PCs and Macs. ChromeOS Flex is the cloud-first, fast, easy-to manage, and secure operating system for PCs and Macs.