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You certainly won't have to worry about them changing fonts as easily...

Dang these are much more useful than my first port of call for looking up http codes... which is http.cat/<code>. It's a shame you have to know what a code is to get to it... e.g. /404-not-found works instead of /404

It's an omission so huge you could drive a train through it.

I still haven't reckoned the security implications, but Bitwarden supports passkeys, you can mostly use them the same way as you do a username/password across devices.

Not exactly a database but the Australian government has a few available at https://www.yourhome.gov.au/house-designs

I suspect it was written by someone who thinks "CPU" means "desktop computer".

Then you probably don't have humidity either, so the collector won't work.

I assume they work for the Mayo clinic, it's not exactly your average hospital workload.

I'm not sure whether it was due to changes in the algorithm, but at some point the logged-out front page that most people see became easily 50% outrage porn - a picture of a truck parking in two parking spaces, shaky video of someone being racist in public, most recently message conversations from horrible bosses.

When someone eventually makes an account and delves into the more niche subreddits, that's the culture that they're expecting and as more do it, it starts to change the culture of the niche subreddits as well.

Ironically the secret to reddit's success was that it was just left alone with very few changes for so long. The front page was already a dumpster fire at that stage, but a dumpster fire mostly contained to the top 20 subreddits. Now that it's more clever about pulling in posts from more niche subreddits that are doing well, or based on geolocation, it pulls people into the subreddits more which accelerates the Eternal September effect.

You don't necessarily have to choose - you can post on your own blog, then copy-paste it to Medium and set the canonical url back to your own address so you keep some of the SEO-juice.

I see a lot of people talking about reputational risk around this, but I'd be more worried about the legal implications. Most of us have contracts that grant IP of what we create to our employer at least during work hours - if you get caught doing this how do the IP implications unwind given that both your employers have the same rights to what you produced? Would it be legally equivalent to selling a bunch of IP that you never had the right to?

This whole phenomenon is just the pinnacle of the privilege that we enjoy as software developers. While warehouse or hospitality workers work two or three jobs to stay above the poverty line and have their every move tracked as they do, we choose to parlay our autonomy into occupying two well-paying jobs at the same time.

When our employers force us back into the office 5 days a week, it'll be the people who did this who made that happen.

What's happened to NICTA and Data61 breaks my heart, but it's a lot of words to convey something pretty simple and well understood: Data61's strategy is to create cool-sounding press releases and photo-ops for ministers, and occasionally try to sneak in some actual science around the side. Trustworthy Systems got killed because a solid record of delivering incremental impact isn't going to get in the papers the same way that announcing millions of dollars for AI development (what exactly gets done within AI isn't particularly important).

To be fair I'm not sure what options D61 management actually have - they could focus on supporting solid programmes like TS but it'll only last a year or two before the government yanks their funding, because if D61 has nothing to put in the background of a ministerial announcement then its of no value to the government at all.

I think the big difference is that Australia has managed to have zero cases for most of the last 18 months, which has allowed it to go on pretty much as normal for much of that time.

Although 170 cases is a lot less than 10,000 when you view it as a pure number, from an economic and lifestyle perspective the difference between 0 cases and 1 case is effectively more significant than 1 case and any number of cases greater than that - zero cases means that you can not only end restrictions, but also that people who normally wouldn't leave the house as long as there was any danger at all can go out and spend money without any fear of the virus.

So that's why there's so much emphasis on locking down even with only 170 cases - it's about trying to get back to zero ASAP.

There is an argument to be made for the fact that we'll have to live with covid eventually, but: 1. Vaccine numbers remain low 2. Given that people have seen lockdowns succeed in essentially ending covid before, and blame the government for both not locking down quickly enough in this outbreak and for the vaccination rollout, committing to living with covid now would be political suicide

Happy to see that "Nacker Hews" comes up as "Hacker News" there. The circle is complete.

Looks like it's able to automatically figure out the reversal when you map an arbitrary to an arbitrary rather than having to specifically define it like in jsverify, which is nice.

I was very pleasantly surprised to see how well this worked with i3, even if it was technically possible to get something equivalent with a lot of button presses, Firefox PIP is a lot easier.

I wrote a blog post (https://blog.nichetester.com/the-assholes-guide-to-product-v...) and eventually made a web app (https://nichetester.com) to step people through a pretty similar process for new ideas.

Judging by the shape of the API responses, looks like ElasticSearch is handling the metadata querying.

Less visibility for those not already on it looking to join in too though. If it gets forced so far underground that law enforcement can't figure out a way in I don't see how some disaffected youth somewhere could either.

In my experience 20s is good sadly - quite often the cold start is longer than the max timeout for a lambda function, so my app always shows an error when woken up.

I'd argue this use of Google is more like the White Pages, where you look up by name alphabetically.

Yellow Pages would be more like googling "<cuisine> Restaurant in <town>", in which case displaying with all your competitors is much more reasonable.

Yeah I find it really weird that he'd write this _now_, when most of the technology he's referencing is 5+ years old, and there hasn't been that much churn in the last few years. About 4 years ago I started learning React sarcastically wondering what the next thing I'd have to learn was would be, and four years later I'm... still using React, and it's still pretty cutting edge.

I've had blog posts do well on Medium but sink like a stone on those platforms. It's a very different proposition submitting to medium and having it shown to people who are likely to be interested over a day, vs self-submitting to a site like HN or Reddit and watching it sink like a stone because the few people who are likely to be interested aren't looking at that particular moment.

Not to mention the fact that if you self-submit anything to those sites people tend to take it as an invitation to eviscerate you.

VyprVPN. Fastest one I've found.

Now is hit-and-miss for me. Works great for the most part but they seem more focused on moving fast than stability.

At one point they (without any warning that I could see) turned on a CDN for all my deployments that didn't take the host header into account... so suddenly all the various URLs leading to my landing page generator all returned a single customer's page. Annoying.

There certainly are mass stabbings though...

We use this for https://search.data.gov.au and have just survived the easiest accessibility audit I think I've ever been through. It's nice using a set of components that make your UI _more_ accessible rather than less, which has been my usual experience in the past.

This is important - techloaf (big fan here!) is obviously an outlier, but generally the bigger and more complex the product, the vaguer the landing pages get.

I always thought this was a shifty strategy to get you on the phone and have salespeople con you, but after reading _Mastering the Complex Sale_ I've come to realise that it makes sense - you want to understand a potential customer's needs before you actually try to pitch anything concrete at them.

Fastmail

> If you're interested in kicking the tires and are comfortable with dev environments, then install the app via these terminal commands.

So is this actually an open-source project, or is the open source just intended as a preview, and it's expected that production workloads would always be in the SaaS version?

It looks great but I'm a bit confused by the intention.