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mukundesh··on New Year, New CEO
I hope signal and signal foundations stays along for a long time, would be good to model it around Wikimedia Foundation. https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/financial-reports/
mukundesh··on Iconoir – An Open-Source SVG Icons Library
Great resource of open source icons, wonder how these folks make money ?
mukundesh··on Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years
I would like a SAFE distributed shell - allow me to run commands seamlessly on remote machines as if they are on my own.

Check out op https://docs.shoreline.io/op op> hosts | filter(cpu_usage > 80) | `pkill high_cpu_proc`

mukundesh··on AWS us-east-1 outage
Little honesty from cloud providers will ensure regulators don't step in.
mukundesh··on Ask HN: Is it me or are we entering an ARM era?
on desktop yes, but not in the cloud
mukundesh··on Ask HN: Can web scraping be the basis of a viable business model?
Not sure if this company survived the pandemic but check out Applaudience it was crawling seat level data from event websites.

https://www.screendaily.com/features/how-uk-data-company-app...

Applaudience’s algorithms trawl through every exhibitor website, looking at every showtime of every film, and tracks the auditorium layout as each seat flips from available (unsold) to unavailable (sold).

mukundesh··on Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)
Timeless
mukundesh··on Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)
My Favourite "Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions"
mukundesh··on Ask HN: Life Changing Books?
Agree with all the ones in the list except #3
mukundesh··on Ask HN: Life Changing Books?
Atomic Habits - How to manage both good and bad habits.
mukundesh··on Marketing is scary for a solo developer
Nice one, would have loved some more tips..
mukundesh··on GNUstep: Open-source, Object-oriented, Cross-platform Development Environment
Wondering how Steve Jobs would have reacted to GNUstep...
mukundesh··on WhatsApp has removed answer to “how do I choose not to share data with FB”
Signal is developed by a non-profit and is open source, they have a higher chance of staying independent. With the cost of cloud services dropping hopefully there is less of the back-pressure to monetise
mukundesh··on Apache Guacamole
This is a life saver, have used it on different environments and it always worked...
mukundesh··on Design Principles: An Open Source Collection
Good effort in collecting the principles bit diverse IMO. Would be interesting to do a global analysis of most common words/principles.
mukundesh··on Ship / Show / Ask: A modern branching strategy
if code reviews come with responsibility sharing then the are going to slow things further, 100% agree with the rest.
mukundesh··on Ship / Show / Ask: A modern branching strategy
I can't see how you can get any non-tribal code in the codebase without asking.
mukundesh··on Windy.com
Love windy.com, it is great for big weather events, but I have found it going a bit off for day-to-day weather...
mukundesh··on Gobang – Cross-platform TUI database management tool written in Rust
Found it, no this is good. Thanks. Somehow it did not show up when I went to the repository the first time.
mukundesh··on Gobang – Cross-platform TUI database management tool written in Rust
Would be great if you could post some screenshots of the tool.
mukundesh··on Gobang – Cross-platform TUI database management tool written in Rust
Another TUI DB tool written in go https://github.com/mathaou/termdbms
mukundesh··on Awk: The Power and Promise of a 40-Year-Old Language
awk is great for data analysis - usually, I start with cut, then move to awk as complexity increases and finally to python.
mukundesh··on Why and how to use RSS for consuming knowledge
For me RSS died with the death of Google Reader
mukundesh··on Making world-class docs takes effort
I hate viewing documentation in a browser, too many distractions. Everyone should distribute docs in a dockset format (https://kapeli.com/docsets).
mukundesh··on SQLite-TUI: A TUI for viewing SQLite databases, written in Go
Very nice ! Wish I could build the schema, then this would be Microsoft Access in a terminal !
mukundesh··on WaterBear – A free library of documentaries and shorts
Sadly not available in India yet !
mukundesh··on Retailers are spending millions to combat organized theft from stores
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/us/san-francisco-shoplift...

"The retail executives and police officers emphasized the role of organized crime in the thefts. And they told the supervisors that Proposition 47, the 2014 ballot measure that reclassified nonviolent thefts as misdemeanors if the stolen goods are worth less than $950, had emboldened thieves."

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