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myerson Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries [video]

There are show notes open for PRs for folks to add too. See if someone does over the next few days: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/oxide-and-friends/blob/mast...

myerson Ask HN: Books that teach programming by building a series of small projects?

I second this one. This was a great book.

There are some follow ups to the final project I like

Compile to WASM so you can run on the web: <https://hands-on-rust.com/2021/11/06/run-your-rust-games-in-...>

Port to the Bevy ECS: <https://saveriomiroddi.github.io/learn_bevy_ecs_by_ripping_o...>

myerson WebGL 2.0 Achieves Pervasive Support from All Major Web Browsers

Looks great!

myerson 'It's easier to hack an election than eBay': confessions of a Belarusian hacker

2 out of 10 voters use machines that don't have a paper trail like you suggest.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/paperless-pennsylvania-c...

myerson IPFS is a new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol

It wasn't, but you could have had multiple issuers of currency. Not that it ever got big enough to flex that part of the protocol.

myerson DDoS Attack Against Default DNS System v2

This would be made easier in Namecheap offered Secondary nameserver support. For example, DNS host at Namecheap, but use Linnode as a secondary.

myerson How a German Soda Became Hackers' Fuel of Choice

What the heck is up with the URL?

myerson Ask HN: Is Sublime Text dead?

May I suggest adding a link to the http://platform.qbix.com in your README.md

myerson The Next Mission

Here's my question: What was the board thinking to put him in place? It's not as if Eich won a contest just by inventing one of the most widely distributed programming languages, there were folks who decided he was the best to lead Mozilla forward. How did they go so wrong?

myerson Pythonium: Python 3 to JavaScript translator

Here is the python source

https://github.com/pythonium/pythonium.github.io/blob/master...

myerson Libsass – C implementation of a Sass compiler

I agree about fitting in well with HAML and CoffeeScript. You might also consider Slim as a less noisy HTML shortcut language.

This covers why I like Slim over HAML

http://me.phillipoertel.com/articles/2013/02/03/why-i-like-t...

myerson Comcast announces placing data caps

I suspect it was selectively enforced. I had a similar usage pattern and did get a notice.

myerson Comcast announces placing data caps

At least they are offering more bandwidth at a price. Before it was a hard cap at 250GB with no way to buy more.

But still, it makes me want to up and move to Chattanooga.

http://chattanoogagig.com/

myerson Did these guys just reinvent the Web?

I found "The Making of Fastbook: An HTML5 Love Story" illuminating after hearing about Facebook moving away from HTML5.

http://www.sencha.com/blog/the-making-of-fastbook-an-html5-l...

myerson What's your honest opinion on Ingolingo?

There is another language learning program that uses a similar method: RosettaStone http://www.rosettastone.com/

[disclaimer: I work for RosettaStone but do not represent them]