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Getting Jitsi running is actually trivial (depending on your definition of trivial). I went from zero to fully running in about 30 minutes on a fresh Ubuntu server when I wanted to…

I remember following those same tutorials and not really learning much (but I was probably 11 at the time). I also remember that the OS includes were around £300 and there was no w…

This is really nice, good work! I once made a similar thing, but it was more of a creative-play-thing for children (so no way to create tiled graphics, but hopefully easy to use an…

This looks really nice. It's a shame the name is so similar to an existing app though (Pyxel Edit, https://pyxeledit.com/ ) My favourite 2D framework right now is is LOVE (love2d.o…

There are a few really good low-ish cost options on Mac. You should take a look at Pixelmator, Acorn and Affinity Photo. I think all have free trials. Out of those, Affinity is the…

This site doesn't seem terribly useful -- looks like they're mostly looking for shiny things; pretty buttons, nice on-boarding flows, fancy modals etc. What I would like is a nice …

No. And if your comment was a headline, that wouldn't be either. :)

I presume many here will have seen this before, but a while back somebody deconstructed/explained all of the problems with ET and then went on to correct them (by hex editing the r…

According to the book 'Night School' by Richard Wiseman, just lying down for a nap, even if you don't manage to sleep, is still beneficial.

Undertaken? How far out in the road are you riding? I've never undertaken a fellow cyclist in my life, out on the open road, and I can't think that I've ever seen it done.

I feel the same. And I often wonder if the 60 year old versions of ourselves will feel much the same about the crazy, misguided 37 year old fools they remember once being.

Have you seen the Game Programming Patterns book ( http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/ ). It was originally a blog that later become a book, and I think you can browse most of the …

(Some of the responses here are hilarious. I feel like I'm reading a Slashdot thread from 1998.) +5 Insightful

Presumably if you go this route you can't enter any organised sporting events or do any form of competitive racing? Just saying, because as you get older, if you start getting some…

I dislike mocks. I've never seen the point in testing code against an entirely fictional representation of the most complicated and slow part of the system, just because it happens…

Heartbleed wasn't a remote execution vulnerability. I am not a security expert, but I'm pretty sure that Heartbleed in and of itself wouldn't allow hackers to install a root kit. I…

Indeed, and maybe we'll see some of the big companies hire and assign people to work on it now. I hope so. It'd be good to see the code audited too, though I'm not sure how you'd g…

All software has bugs. That's an unavoidable reality. You need to learn to deal with that fact.

It certainly would not defeat the point to pay the OpenSSL engineers. Free and open software is about your freedom to modify and share software, not about taking no money. Open sou…

I always love to read Don's stories, they're always pretty great, and this post is no exception. The last few paragraphs are poignant, and not because it's about Steve, but because…

Carousels have their place, but I agree, not on a conversion page. Also, never create a carousel that randomly shuffles between images. If an image is worth showing, show it and le…

When I see people talk about X% improvement because of some new tech, I always think about Fred Brooks and the No Silver Bullet essay. Nothing changes under the sun.