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Bluetooth now has something that does this more accurately on a protocol level: https://www.bluetooth.com/learn-about-bluetooth/feature-enha...

I've built this website which shows the land registry data (Kadaster) information of The Netherlands but with nice vector graphics and much more performant than other websites I fo…

I think that used to be the idea but then they got acqui-hired

We use NixOS for all of our robots and servers at https://www.monumental.co , hard to imagine how we would do constant updates of our robot fleet without it. If you're working on c…

The alternative firmwares give you a lot more options in this, stock is OK in layout

We could still deploy manually but it's suboptimal! And we're 'flying blind' without CI runs

Insane, we have to come up with contingency plans now for long-duration GitHub outages because we can't safely do deployments. For a service we're paying thousands of $ per year fo…

iDeal is an enormous success in the Netherlands so if banks implement it as well in other countries then it will definitely be competitive with credit cards for online payments

No, open-source maintainers don't owe you anything if you don't pay for it

I highly recommend anyone to look at jq's VM implementation some time, it's kind of mind-blowing how it works under the hood: https://github.com/jqlang/jq/blob/master/src/execute.c…

Hopefully some actual competition against GSuite (or whatever it's called these days)

Wow I've heard pieces of this but never the full thing, incredible

Wow 11 years ago, takes me back...

Sure, but getting this far would be inconceivable just half a year ago. It will only get better as time passes

My website: https://bou.ke/ I should blog more, and so should you!

It's not available in my region (NL) :(

big L for all the cloud providers that made the mistake of using it instead of forging their own path, they're kind of screwed now

option 2 is what this blog is about, the example code creates a socket using that method

HR, finance, sales any non engineer is called an operator these days basically

Could you how a decimal point in the distance measuring tool? I want to measure distances in my backyard from the satellite photo and the rounded number makes it hard to be accurat…