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Thanks for the kind words! I'm one of the maintainers, and we are always eager to hear what new users think of it.

Ah yeah, hooks are strange at first.. They didn't click for me until I read this netlify blog post: https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/03/11/deep-dive-how-do-rea... If you think of …

Fun fact! SVG is one of those things that is often easy to minify down below your nginx/apache/cdn minimum gzip length. If your SVG files are < ~1kb, it's usually faster to just no…

I see lots of responses to this article asking "why client-side navigation?". I can share my own experience with building an app a few months ago, and how/why I switched to a clien…

> Realistically, we can't pay people full engineering salaries to do random OSS. Why can't you? Professors get paid full professor salaries to do "random research". Doctors get pai…

As a professional full-time open source maintainer and developer, initiatives like this bother me a lot. The work we do is worth much more than $20/hr. Ideally I'd like to see open…

Do we really have to Ask HN this every few days?

from TFA: >Crucially, self-driving cars also rely on conventional cameras. So if those lidars are not camera-safe, it won't just create a headache for people snapping pictures with…

Cool. This will be fine as long as 2 self driving cars never go near each other.

Lots of people don't realize that 1 cup milk has 13g sugar from the lactose. For comparison, a typical sugar packet is 2-4g. (This is why cereal + milk is probably just about the u…

Set your profile picture (Slack/Twitter/GitHub/etc) to something happy. You’ll see it thousands of times a day as background noise, but it will affect both your own mood and how ot…

Hah yeah, it was kind of funny that by the 4th shot, the ER docs and police there knew me as "the rabies guy". I also was told that the immune globulin is a bit complicated because…

Oh! I got rabies shots in 2014 after being bitten by a dog. The course of treatment is injections 0day, 3day, 7day, and 14day. I went to the emergency room to get these injections,…

I'm kind of amazed they were even able to record a video in a 1200 Tesla magnetic field.

OpenStreetMap US | Executive Director | Remote USA only | Full Time OpenStreetMap US seeks a new, full-time Executive Director to be a part of our continued mission and growth! Ope…

Hey sorenjan - The OSM Wiki is not correct. We've received no license from Strava that allows tracing outside of their iD fork. Current progress on securing permission to use the h…

> And it has a barrier to entry - you have to be a tiny bit nerdy to confidently make edits. Serious question - what can we do to lower these barriers to entry? Friendlier communit…

Sorry to hear that you had a bad experience.. For what it's worth, it sounds like your edit was fine (what you described is actually the preferred way to map divided roads) and sho…

The patent helps sensitive equipment work (think like an EKG monitor) during a lightning storm.

SF also has like 1/10 the population of NYC.