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alexenkoon HortusFox – A self-hosted collaborative plant management system

I used to say the same thing, then a random (maybe not so random) YouTube suggestion taught me that PHP 8 is a _very_ different language than what I got burned with back in the day (PHP 4)

alexenkoon Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

If I recall right, you used to pick a music directory, and whatever you had there would be indexed and made available to all for downloading. Everything you downloaded would go into that directory as well. Once you find a file you wanted to download, you didn’t download from a pool of people like with bittorrent, but from that one specific user.

If you click on a username, either while searching or while downloading, you could browse everything Napster had indexed. If people didn’t configure Napster right, you could browse their whole C:\ drive. Good times.

alexenkoon Ask HN: What habit have you dropped or picked up that improved your life?

Never heard of Beeminder until now. Out of curiosity, what targets do you have that work really well for you?

alexenkoon Hacker Monthly Presents: Hacker Bundle

Do the redemption keys expire?

alexenkoon Google Apps stops accepting free sign-ups

Instead of giving you a free plan, it gives you a 30 day trial :(

alexenkoon Numba: NumPy-aware optimizing compiler for Python

... It uses the remarkable LLVM compiler infrastructure to compile Python byte-code to machine code especially for use in the NumPy run-time and SciPy modules... from the README on github

alexenkoon Check Out This Berkeley Freshman’s ‘Ridiculously Automated’ Dorm Room

Not sure if blacklight in a dorm is a good idea....

alexenkoon A quick guide to our current privacy threats

This is getting out of hand....

alexenkoon Engineering a Beowulf-style Compute Cluster

The book is also available in pdf here: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Beowulf/beowulf_book/

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