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Isn't that how del.icio.us started all this bookmarking in the first place?

I started the year happy in my opinion that "it's ok to be crap at your hobby if you find the process enjoyable". I made some really rubbish things and enjoyed the process. Then I …

Many people have been running headless Chrome in AWS Lambda functions for a while now. Use cases include testing, screen scraping, screen capture.

The Spectrum (and ZX81) had a big effect on a whole generation of Brits. I know my folks could not have afforded a C64 or BBC Micro but they did manage fifty quid in Currys to star…

Just write. Stop procrastinating on HN, and type this: mkdir doc && $EDITOR doc/index.md

I like theoldreader.com. It's very similar to Google Reader and worth every cent of its annual fee for premium access ($25 IIRC).

Ah, the memories. Here are my first few: Sinclair ZX81 with 16k RAM add-on Rubber-key Sinclair ZX-Spectrum ZX-Spectrum +3 with 3" (not 3.5) disk Commodore Amiga (I can't remember t…

I feel your pain as I pay about the same for 1.1mbps down. I can't get any faster speeds (I checked when I worked for Internode) and speed drops whenever it rains. I once tried to …

I generally wake up when 5 kilos of fur jumps on my bladder and shouts "MEOW!" However, in my life before cats I really struggled to wake up for a 9-to-5 until I got an alarm with …

Does anybody have experience with Red Hat's OpenShift PaaS? [0] Reading through the sales copy, it seems to be a reasonable competitor to Heroku. They offer 3 small gears free and …

Discover weekly is the reason that I pay for Spotify. I'm an old guy that prefers vinyl to mp3s, misses the local record store terribly and hates radio, so modern music distributio…

Are programmers not people?

Agreed. My partner is a Wine Educator and this is one of her favorite rants. Consider the costs of getting wine onto a store shelf: - Glass bottle - Bottling & Labelling - Transpor…

We're almost 100% Atlassian at my $WORK (as OP's original list but Jenkins for CI/CD). For my side projects, I don't need anywhere near as much team communication, so free services…

When I was working in the UK, I negotiated to change an IP clause from "during the period of employment" to "during the course of employment" for precisely the reason that you stat…

keybase.io do something similar with github - they give you a piece of text to publish as a gist. It seems to work for them.

My kid is still very young and still learning the very basics of reading/writing/arithmetic. So we reinforce/practice those at home. I've found that his motivation is higher when t…

High-end real estate agents are a possible source of custom. Similarly, commercial property developers would benefit if they can add augmentations to your VR environments (move a w…

Eat that elephant one bite at a time.

A former employer tested out a number of residential Ethernet over power devices. The results were mixed - they either work really well, or really badly. It seems that the home's w…

This does happen quite often, but does anyone still use del.icio.us?

Would it work if keybase periodically send an email containing a phrase that is encrypted with your public key. You decrypt the email and enter the phrase into the keybase website?…

Maybe not "parent bot" but "buddy bot"? My kid's school has a buddy system to help prevent bullying, wherein each young child gets buddied with another kid that is four/five years …

As the ease of use and zero cost of LE prompted me to use way more certs this year they get a donation.

Here you go, AU gov notice: https://www.productsafety.gov.au/recall/samsung-samsung-top-...