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I have my LLM/gaming PC tucked in a rack in my basement: - 100ft DisplayPort + USB cables going to my home office's monitor - 100ft HDMI cable going to the TV on the wall in my hom…

For what it's worth, this is exactly why I am working on Jean-Pierre[0], pitched as: > A command-line toolkit to support you in your daily work as a software programmer. Built to i…

Location: CEST TZ Remote: Yes, exclusively. Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust (4y), Golang (5y), Ruby (5y) Résumé/CV: https://jeanmertz.com/career Email: jean@ethical.engi…

Even though GP meant to highlight compiler error messages, I also have to take my hat off for the library/application error-handling story in Rust. Using a crate such as thiserror[…

Résumé/CV: https://jeanmertz.com/career Location: The Netherlands Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go, Ruby, Rust (see résumé) Availability: Full-time/part-time/co…

Clippy has an (off by default) lint to warn/deny using multiple versions of the same crate.

We've been discussing potential solutions, and came up with three avenues, listing their pros and cons. We're leaning towards a "Sandbox accounts in production" approach at the mom…

At our company, we've neglected our "staging environment" for quite some time, and are feeling the pain. It is hurting our iteration speed, and even though we do rigorous unit and …

We booted a fresh GKE 1.4 cluster yesterday to migrate from our old 1.3 cluster. Looking at the machine, it looks like this is a fork(?) of CoreOS: $ grep core /etc/passwd core:x:5…

Not sure if you are serious, but while Azure is from Microsoft, it is definitely not Windows only. In fact, most of the products coming out of the "new" Microsoft pipeline aren't i…

Whoops, that shouldn't happen. The team is unable to reproduce this though. Could you share the link where you tried to sign up? If you want, you can send me an email (see other co…

Good point. Our current "onboarding process" for publishers is a bit too heavy-weight to allow "just anyone" – even you ;-) to join Blendle right now. This is definitely something …

They "disappear", as in, they won't show up at the front of your timeline. They can still be accessed and/or searched for. We also have selected curators who can promote articles w…

We would certainly _like_ it if you upvoted, but you'll get access either way :-)

This is indeed an annoyance that we noticed as well. Send me a message at jean [at] blendle.com and I'll get this sorted.

You mean a button like on this page? (It's in Dutch, scroll a bit down) https://www.vn.nl/het-debat-21/ We hear you. And we're working on it. This is only the first step of which m…

It's pretty hectic at the office, but TIME will be available shortly! update: here it is: https://blendle.com/issue/time/bnl-time-20160321

What we've found at Blendle, is that it's not the regular newspaper articles that sell best, but in fact it's the bigger opinion pieces, and more importantly the more in-depth back…

Related, this[0] Monday Note is interesting as well: Last November, in a rather blunt way, I expressed my reservations regarding Blendle’s model (see The New York Times and Springe…

Once the beta launches, the privacy statement can easily be accessed in English. But for now, here's how it starts: === Blendle takes your privacy very seriously, and will process …

Interesting questions. Re: Do you require users to purchase a certain number of credits up front after the trial? The "trial" is really $2,50 that we give you upon signup. You get …

Our founder, Alexander, just announced this on Business Insider's IGNITION event. You can add yourself to our beta invite list at https://launch.blendle.com . We're really looking …