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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!