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Spone

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    Comment #46469977

    Didn't Danish postal service just ended operations? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/world/europe/denmark-lett...

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    Comment #43641081

    Sadly Shoelace doesn't play well with Rails' FormBuilder...

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    Comment #42807176

    Radix Colors ?

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    Comment #41862589

    The song actually refers to a kind of candy named "Mistral gagnant" https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistral_gagnant_(confiserie)

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    Comment #39173519

    On the contrary, I quite like how it's a very elaborate and useful ad. The link to the paid service is very discreet and the website provides real and free educational value even i…

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    Comment #33750531

    Can you elaborate on Rails' snapshot testing? Are you talking about VCR / webmock?

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    Comment #31571918

    Nice library with a very approachable documentation, congrats! I'll probably give it a go to replace my current implementation using nokogiri-happymapper ( https://github.com/mvz/h…

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    Comment #29212554

    Their customer support is really top-notch!

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    Comment #28687455

    This is usually called a "honey pot" if some people want to search tools for implementing it.

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    Comment #28563899

    Parts of GOV.UK [1] and the Paris.fr website [2] are also good examples [1] https://github.com/DFE-Digital?q=&type=&language=ruby&sort= [2] https://www.paris.fr

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    Comment #25719646

    > code itself is apolitical I suggest you read Larry Lessig's Code 2.0 book.

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    Comment #23128037

    Of course because you need to be authenticated to contribute to OSM...

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    Comment #20400834

    Relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouAccsTzlGU

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    Comment #20163359

    Ahoy https://github.com/ankane/ahoy is an interesting tool that we use to replace Google Analytics in most projects now. It covers all the basic needs, and even if you're not using…

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    Comment #19441464

    I think your referring to auto-correct, rather than "autocomplete".

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    Comment #19306234

    https://webauthn.guide is a quite good overview of the spec

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    Comment #18124360

    Huh. I hadn't really thought about malicious actors using these vast password dumps to try and target users that are continually using weak passwords.

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    Comment #18028221

    Ahoy is a great tool to do just that, if you use Ruby on Rails: https://github.com/ankane/ahoy

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    Comment #17836130

    Yes, it's well documented and pretty easy-to-learn, prevents you from reinventing the wheel, and provides simple conventions for your team :)

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    Comment #17364494

    > The open source statement isn’t accurate because Chromium is open source. But Firefox is free software :)

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    Comment #17293550

    Perfect use case for self-hosted analytics, such as https://usefathom.com

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    Comment #17024082

    It already works in Firefox (behind a flag), but sadly some websites explicitly target Chrome...

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    Comment #16995439

    See the end of the blog post: > All VC1 users can upgrade to Start servers without any price change. > To upgrade your existing VC1 server, simply do a power off and a power on you…

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    Comment #16685595

    please edit, his last name is Swartz

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    Comment #16473510

    I also use Hatchbox. It's a pretty good (and cheaper) alternative to Heroku, and you can own the VPS with your provider of choice!