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Using SVG as image placeholders
I’m passionate about image performance optimisation and making images load fast on the web. One of the most interesting areas of…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,470 posts.
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I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection
After my trip in Hamburg, Germany, for the 33rd Chaos Communication Congress, I left Germany for t
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Exploring different microcontrollers less than $1
A new series that reviews 21 different microcontrollers — all less than $1 — to help familiarize you with all the major ecosystems out there.
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Starting an Internet Service Provider
The personal site of Chris Hacken — entrepreneur and operator who founded and sold Loop Internet. Essays and a podcast on building internet infrastructure, companies, and other hard things.
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How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block
Catalonia, with Barcelona as its capital, is currently one of Spain’s seventeen autonomous comunities. It has a long story of pro-independence movements, and has even declared itself independent in the past. Nowadays, the political climate is very heated up. A majority of catalan people want to hold a referendum for…
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Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters
Thanks to a recruiting process that left a bad taste in my mouth, I refuse to accept any further interviews from large tech companies unless they are on my terms.
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The Mac Pro Lives
Apple is currently hard at work on a “completely rethought” Mac Pro, with a modular design that can accommodate high-end CPUs and big honking hot-running GPUs, and which should make it easier for Apple to update with new components on a regular basis. They’re also working on Apple-branded pro displays to go with them…
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I'm not a Woman in Tech
My name is Maria. I happily identify as female. I work as an Agile Coach for a tech company in Cambridge, UK. I am not a woman in tech. I grew up in Pjedsted, a village in Denmark, with my mum and …
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iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just by asking
I work with U.S. law firms as a non-testifying technical consulting expert on matters involving the Apple platform and iOS apps. Learn more about my litigation consulting.
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Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922)
Update: See this post for a free ePub eBook version of this long post. A very odd essay from a 1922 issue of The American Magazine that seems to go against the general grain of most of the articles…
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Avoid Non-Microsoft Antivirus Software
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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How I got to 200 productive hours a month
A tested approach to improve your focus and productivity
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Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications
Full disclosure: my employer makes a Slack alternative. All my concerns about the use of Slack type chat services apply equally to its competitors, including my employer’s.
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Cutting your salary by 40%
Have you ever thought to yourself, “I need to get paid far far less than I’m worth?” Me neither. And yet some companies not only pay less, they’re proud of it. Allow me to explain—
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The Depression Thing
the depression thing: a neat story about depression and mental health. By Zach Holman.
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Tracking friends and strangers using WhatsApp
You and your good buddy, Steve Steveington, are in training for an arduous charity walk. You signed up together on the spur of the moment and pledged to hold each other accountable whilst you got in shape for the big day. However, you have developed reason to suspect that Steve Steveington is losing his commitment to…
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Acing the technical interview
If you want to get a job as a software witch, you’re going to have to pass a whiteboard interview. We all do them, as engineers–often as a part of our morning ritual, along with arranging a beautiful grid of xterms across the astral plane, and compulsively running ls in every nearby directory–just in case things have…
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Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered studies”
This blog post focusses on Chapter 4 about Implicit Priming in Kahneman's book "Thinking" Fast and Slow." A review of the book and other chapters can be found here: https://replicationindex.com/2020/12/30/a-meta-scientific-perspective-on-thinking-fast-and-slow/ Daniel Kahneman's response to this blog…
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Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs
[Jan 26, 7:25am]: Google has responded to this article and the plans for throttling: Unfortunately, our current implementation throttles...
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Chrome is Not the Standard
No single browser vendor represents ”the future of the web.” Each ships in line with its own business priorities. And that's a good thing.
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The Other Half
On January 19th of this year, I set off to California to participate in a hastily-arranged appearance in a UCLA building to talk about saving climate data in the face of possible administrative swi…
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Pinboard Acquires Delicious
If you’re a Delicious user, you will have to find another place to save your bookmarks. The site will stay online. but on June 15, I will put Delicious into read-only mode. You won't be able to save new bookmarks after that date, or use the API.