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vszakats··on Show HN: Apple Notes Liberator – Extract Notes.app Data and Save It as JSON
Here's a Python script that takes the JSON output from https://github.com/threeplanetssoftware/apple_cloud_notes_pa... (needs master), and rebuilds Notes in Markdown format (or HTML), with links, attachments, lists, etc.:

https://gist.github.com/vszakats/5a3bd939721d1dde6142d9ea3b2...

And a short, standalone JXA script, that outputs HTML, but loses some data, such as links: https://gist.github.com/vszakats/f24e7700428c1e694e20cee0b1c...

vszakats··on Unusual Maps
Working link for the above image: https://ianwojtowicz.com/Earth%20Doppler/Red-Shift-Earth-640...
vszakats··on HTTP/3 explained
The book can be downloaded in pdf/e-book formats (and multiple languages) from: https://daniel.haxx.se/http3-explained/
vszakats··on Soundex
Such function existed back in Clipper '87, dBase IV, FoxPro and their descendants. Here's a Clipper-compatible implementation in C: https://github.com/vszakats/harbour-core/blob/master/src/rtl...

(Disclaimer: source code author here.)

vszakats··on 2016 Retina MacBook Pro Caveats
Is it possible to set it [1] to display F keys by default (and switch to alternate functionality only on pressing Fn key)?

[1] System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard > "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" option on El Cap.

vszakats··on OpenSSL CVE-2016-0799: heap corruption via BIO_printf
"These are not the patches you are looking for": https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/mailing.openssl.de...

Clarification from OpenSSL maintainer.