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Give Django your time and money, not your tokens
The Django community wants to collaborate with you, not a facade of you.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,196 posts.
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RIP, Harvest
I’ve been a self-employed contractor for about a decade now, and I’m bummed about Harvest .
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Rust for Python Programmers
Are you a Python programmer and interested in Rust? This article goes over the basics of making the jump.
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On The <dl> (2021)
The semantics you didn’t know you needed.
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It's all who you know?
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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Visualizing World War II
If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you’ll know that maps and history are two of my favorite things. I love history because I love learning about the vast panoply of the human …
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The real cost of owning a home
Owning a home costs a lot more than just the mortgage. Here are the hidden costs to consider when deciding whether to buy or rent.
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Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, Awk, Forth, Rust
Performance comparison of counting and sorting word frequencies in various languages (Python, Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust)
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The UK is wasting a lot of wind power
The UK discarded 6% of its windpower last year, at a cost of almost £1bn. What’s going on, and how can we fix it?
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I saw your HN comment
I used to love getting emails from people in response to things I’ve written online, blog posts or Hacker News comments, but in the last 2 years it’s changed from mostly signal to mostly noise. I’ve …
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Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence
What was the key to successfully learning to drive, ride a bike, or speak a foreign language? Confidence, and it’s every bit as important in computing, and in macOS.
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Bitwarden PINs can be brute-forced
Video showing bitwarden. User then sets the pin 2345. The vault is locked and then bitwarden is quit. In the terminal the exploit program is run, which after a short while outputs the PIN 2345.
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Tags to make HTML work like you expect
I was watching Alex Petros’ talk and he has a slide in there titled “Incantations that make HTML work correctly”. This got me thinking about the basic snippets…
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Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
Can you believe it's been 6 years since my last Tools list? Tools have changed, ...
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The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+
I've had a long history playing around with Raspberry Pis and other Single Board Computers (SBCs); from building a cluster of Raspberry Pis to run Drupal, to building a distributed home temperature monitoring system with Raspberry Pis, I've spent a good deal of time testing the limits of an SBC, and also finding ways…
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Why I no longer contribute to Racket
Beautiful Racket
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Accidentally Load Bearing
Sometimes people will talk about Chesterton's Fence, the idea that if you want to change something—removing an apparently useless fence—you should first determine why it was set up that way: The gate or fence did not grow there. It was not set up by somnambulists who built it in their sleep. It is highly…
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Chris Poole
Back in 2011, USV invested in Chris Poole’s startup Canvas. I worked closely with Chris on that investment and they built something great called DrawQuest. But it did not turn into a sustainable business and eventually Chris shut it down. All through this time, Chris ran and managed 4chan, a service he built and…
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An interactive-speed Linux computer made of only 3 8-pin chips
Dmitry.GR: Interactive-speed Linux on a tiny board you can easily build with only 3 8-pin chips
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Designing a SIMD Algorithm from Scratch
Another explainer on a fun, esoteric topic: optimizing code with SIMD (single instruction multiple data, also sometimes called vectorization ). Designing a good, fast, portable SIMD algorithm is not a simple matter and requires thinking a little bit like a circuit designer.
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Making USB devices – end to end guide to your first gadget
Introduction to implementing USB devices. Minimal overview of hardware and software with an example with STM32 microcontroller. Also contains an index to very detailed guides for more information.