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How Stripe teaches employees to code
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,816 posts.
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2048 Numberwang
Join the numbers and get Numberwang! Careful: this game is extremely addictive!
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There oughta be a WiFi Game Boy cartridge
It took a while, but I finally managed to create my own Game Boy cartridge. With WiFi! At this point, it can only demo a simple telnet-style communication and access Wikipedia articles, but I am confident that I will showcase more in the future. For now, the interesting and surprisingly tricky part is how the thing…
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Writing Python like it's Rust
You can check out a YouTube recording of a talk based on this blog post.
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Desktop compositing latency is real
Update: Note that the capture method I use needs to read pixels back from the GPU which can be slow. This means the Windows 10 results are probably worse than they should be. However, without external hardware this seems to be the only way to measure keyboard to screen latency.
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Things not available when someone blocks all cookies
The personal blog of Thomas Steiner
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Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California
It’s the first half of 2021 – nearly five years since the “first half of 2016” – but in many ways not much has changed. The United Kingdom is still trying to figure out Brexit, another Justin Bieber song hit #1 on the charts (is it too late now to say sorry?), and Signal still doesn’t really know...
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Kotlin Is Better
I've also ended up using Emacs along side Jetbrains IDEs (PyCharm & Webstorm). It is an odd combo but it works great. Emacs for mind-control level text editing, and the IDE works great for mouse-oriented poking around and small edits.
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How to Raise Money
September 2013 Most startups that raise money do it more than once. A typical trajectory might be (1) to get started with a few tens of thousands from something like Y Combinator or individual angels, then (2) raise a few hundred thousand to a few million to build the company, and then (3) once the company is clearly…
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South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste
A compulsory recycling scheme in South Korea has dramatically cut the amount of food the country throws away. Here's how it works.
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Xi-Editor Retrospective
A bit more than four years ago I started the xi-editor project. Now I have placed it on the back burner (though there is still some activity from the open source community). The original goal was to deliver a very high quality editing experience. To this end, the project spent a rather large number of “novelty…
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Why Johnny Won't Upgrade
Software distribution has over the years gone through an enormous revolution in efficiency. Originally, software was developed on things called ‘plug boards’, a matrix of sockets that allowed quick (or so they thought) re-configuration of computing hardware to adapt it to different problems. This was soon followed by…
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The Kolmogorov option
Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov was one of the giants of 20th-century mathematics. I’ve always found it amazing that the same man was responsible both for establishing the foundations of …
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Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
Can't you just turn it off?
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I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
I don't want your streaming music service, I just want the music I've collected and care about available to stream.
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Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation
UNSW Sydney engineers have utilised sound waves to cut the time it takes to make a cold brew coffee from many hours down to mere minutes.
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There are no instances in ATProto
Like RSS and Google Reader.
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On Being Indispensable
It took far too long for it to click in my brain that I was stuck. There was no career path. Sure my title changed, pay went up, but my day-to-day never changed. I was so busy collaborating with dozens of people across all departments, that it felt like I was growing. I wasn’t.
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Procrastinatory Doom Loops
I am running for Corvallis City Council again this fall! Campaign site is here .
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AWS mistakes to avoid
Since this year I’m working as an AWS Cloud Consultant where I see a lot of small to medium sized AWS deployments. Most of th...
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“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless
I recently started verifying user email addresses during signup to prevent bots, mistyped emails, and also to ensure that addresses are…