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Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone
Anyone can now sign up to use Cloudflare’s new privacy-first Web Analytics -- even without changing your DNS settings.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,921 posts.
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ITunes 11 and Colors
iTunes 11 is a radical departure from previous versions and nothing illustrates this more than the new album display mode. The headlining feature of this display is the new view style that visually matches the track listing to the album’s cover art. The result is an attractive display of textual information that…
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Why I feel like a fraud
Most high-performing people experience Impostor Syndrome. I did too. When you understand the cause, you can defeat it.
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gRPC: Internet-scale RPC framework is now 1.0
Building highly scalable, loosely coupled systems has always been tough. With the proliferation of mobile and IoT devices, burgeoning data volumes and increasing customer expectations, it's critical to be able to develop and run systems efficiently and reliably at internet scale.
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Mozilla’s Manifest v3 FAQ
Developers have asked what Google's proposed changes to their extensions API, known as Manifest v3, mean for Mozilla. Here are some frequently asked questions.
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Ethical anti-design, or designing products that people can't get addicted to
In the photo above, a Wii Remote is sitting on a table next to an open window. People who grew up playing the Wii might remember it; while playing Wii Sports, the game would give you a pop up window of it with a message politely reminding you that you can always take a break. While it might seem a bit…
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Trust is Fragile
Taylor’s post about our growth in 2011 included a bunch of numbers showing how the pistons inside the 37signals engine are pounding faster, but it all got swept away by what seemed like an innocent side-note: The 100 millionth file was called cat.jpg. Being as it is that the internet is co…
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OpenSCAD 3D rendering just got an order of magnitude faster
TL;DR: OpenSCAD users: download a nightly build & enable fast-csg in settings for 10x faster render (YMMV). Make your models more ambitious and report is...
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50 authors, 50 science fiction stories shorter than novels
See the updated 80 author version. I've been playing around with re-reading favorite science fiction short stories while also seeing if the...
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The Drupal Crisis
There have been many pretty obvious signs in the recent past for what can only be considered as a critical milestone :
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2020
We take a look at the Q1 2020 and lifetime performance of 129,764 hard drives used in the Backblaze data centers.
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Important security vulnerabilities in OpenVPN
UPDATE: OpenVPN fuzzers now released. Summary I’ve discovered 4 important security vulnerabilities in OpenVPN. Interestingly, these were not found by the two recently completed audits of Open…
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How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025?
Speaking of earning a living, would you expect them to pay for web hosting/ cloud providers?
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Superrational
“Will Vicktoreya Keyneslee Beauxpensees please come see the principal right now?” said the voice over the intercom.
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How to present to executives (2021)
Have you presented to company executives about a key engineering initiative, walking into the room excited and leaving defeated? Maybe you only made it to your second slide before unrelated questions derailed the discussion. Maybe you worked through your entire presentation only to have folks say, “Great job,” and…
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Fast UTF-8 validation
One of the most common "data type" in programming is the text string. When programmers think of a string, they imagine that they are dealing with a list or an array of characters. It is often a "good enough" approximation, but reality is more complex. The characters must be encoded into bits in some way. Most ……
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2012 Personal Annual Report
Jehiah 12 - A Personal Annual Report
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Meeting everyone on a new team
Strategic technology leader
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My Hacker News knowledge assimilation stack
My stack for assimilating knowledge from Hacker News.
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I built my own hair electrolysis machine
Axiom: body hair is cringe. That's how I feel, at least. I decided to build a machine that lets me permanently remove it using electricity.
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Tree-sitter vs. Language Servers
I got asked a good question today: what is the difference between Tree-sitter and a language server ? I don’t understand how either of these tools work in depth, so I’m just going to explain from an observable , pragmatic point of view.
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Hilariously fast volume computation with the divergence theorem (2018)
The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently out of scope.