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Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?
Since 2018, Babel has been doing a funding experiment: can full time work on Babel be sustained? We've learned the answer might be no.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,820 posts.
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What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?
Here in Austria, you need to be either vaccinated against, tested negative for, or have recovered from COVID-19 to go to the pub (or pretty much everywhere) right now. If you don't want to carry around your paperwork proving one of those, you can alternatively show your Green Pass QR code to be let in.
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The “Granny Knot”
Many people are tying a “Granny Knot”, which sits crooked and comes loose. Learn the “one simple trick” for keeping your shoes neatly and securely tied.
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Deno 1.9
Deno 1.9 adds a new native HTTP/2 web server, a vastly improved op infrastructure, import completions in the LSP, an interactive permission prompt, blob url support.
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Life before smartphones (2020)
An essay about life pre-iPhone addiction, why you're wrong about Salt Bae, an Indian butter chicken Instant Pot adventure, and a new Hell & Wellness pod discussing Marie Kondo.
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Google Cloud vs. AWS Onboarding Comparison
Kevin Lin builds tools for humans and agents.
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Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux
A year ago at BUILD 2020 we introduced our goal to bring Linux GUI applications to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to run Linux GUI applications. We
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Security issue related to the NPM registry
We're sharing details of recent incidents on the npm registry, our investigations, and how we’re continuing to invest in the security of npm.
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Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees
Introducing Cloudflare’s S3-compatible Object Storage service, with zero egress bandwidth charges and automatic migration from S3-compatible services.
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The Unix Magic Poster
I understand the classic UNIX Magic poster by Gary Overacre was distributed at past USENIX conferences, and I’ve known of it for years but now in confinement, I’ve decided I want one to hang in my ...
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Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one
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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Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time
Crystal close up. Capturing the Moment of Emergence of Crystal Nucleus from Disorder. © 2021 The University of Tokyo by T. Nakamuro, M. Sakakibara, H. Nada, K. Harano, and E. Nakamura
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How to draw S-curved arrows between boxes
When I was building the spatial “tool for thought”, Jade, one frequently requested feature was drawing arrows between blocks, so we could make mind maps, flowcharts, etc. Here’s how I made it.
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Blacksmith – Rowhammer bit flips on all DRAM devices today despite mitigations
We demonstrate that it is possible to trigger Rowhammer bit flips on all DRAM devices today despite deployed mitigations on commodity off-the-shelf systems with little effort. This result has a significant impact on the system’s security as DRAM devices in the wild cannot easily be fixed, and previous work showed…
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Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship
Claiming that “right-wing voices are being censored,” Republican-led legislatures in Florida and Texas have introduced legislation to “end Big Tech censorship.” They’re right. Conservatives are being censored. But it’s not just conservatives who have their political speech blocked by social media giants.
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Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default
Starting in version 90, Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default, improving privacy and even loading speed for users visiting webs...
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Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke
In 2017, KrebsOnSecurity showed how easy it is for identity thieves to undo a consumer’s request to freeze their credit file at Experian , one of the big three consumer credit bureaus in the United States. Last week, KrebsOnSecurity heard from a reader who had his freeze thawed without authorization through Experian’s…
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Milky Way, 12 years, 1250 hours of exposures and 125 x 22 degrees of sky
This blog is all about astrophotography and it works mainly as an imaging diary. J-P Metsavainio is a Finnish astrophotographer,
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Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)
Blog of Jonas Bernoulli
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Why I Work on Ads
"I work on ads at Google" "Can I ask why? I honestly can't understand how anyone could." Someone recently asked me why I work on ads, and I wanted to write up something more thorough than my comment. (Despite being a work topic this is a personal post and I'm speaking only for myself.) One answer is that I'm earning…
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Has UML died without anyone noticing?
Stuck with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect? Time to upgrade to Microsoft PowerPoint.
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We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem
During COVID we experienced rapid growth in the amount of data we ingest. This post details some of the problems this caused us and how we solved them.
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My 2 Year Journey to $10K MRR
Startups are hard, bootstrapping is harder! Here's how I bootstrapped a SaaS product to $10k MRR over the course of 2 years.
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Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt
As the use of HTTPS continues to increase across the Web, we need more support from Certificate Authorities that issue the certificates to make it all work. I'm a huge fan of Let's Encrypt and what they're doing, but if we want to encrypt the entire Web,
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