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It's available in Canada too

Funnily enough, I've found that the .email TLD is often rejected as an invalid domain when I'm filling out my email address online.

Micrometrics | Lead Front-end Developer | Ottawa, ON | Full time | REMOTE in Canada Micrometrics exists to help businesses create more meaningful connections with the people they s…

+1 for Fastmail

Can I change my local secrets without using the web interface? I see there's a local fallback mode but it's not immediately clear if it's user updatable.

I wonder what would happen if HN banned the submission of insecure links. I bet more than a handful of 'Show HN' posters would take the time to set up letsencrypt (or something sim…

Wow, I was not expecting to see functional P2P Matrix so soon. Props to the folks working on it. The hard part of selling Matrix to family and friends who currently use WhatsApp is…

Seconding Freehand.

Great job! I've not seen python-based keyboard firmware before, I'm impressed that it's fast enough to run something like a keyboard. Without detracting from the code in the post, …

A unicorn with wings is an Alicorn, thank you very much.

> I had to manually ISP flash a bootloader. I read about that problem with the Tokyo60 v3. Seems like a big problem with quality control, that should have been fixed by sending a n…

Notify17 looks great, and I plan on giving it a go. However, since their example is a curl with plaintext body, I question their assertion that "Whatever your content is, we will n…

> I can already host my own blog and have it safe from the whims of a central service. Depends which central service. You aren't beholden to social media companies at that point, b…

Precisely. In their case, they're also trying to host the various communities rather than simply being a tool that anyone can use to run a buy.

Niche hobby communities do this all the time. The mechanical keyboard community wouldn't exist without group buys, they rely on them to hit minimum order quantities from producers …

I've stopped coding on my 2012 Macbook Air in favour of my desktop PC for similar reasons. The fact that my ports are shared between Windows and Linux makes the web dev I do a drea…

Having to log into an external account makes this a hard pass for me.

Back when WSL was first released I tried getting my ruby environment set up using it, but at the time I still used a graphical text editor and getting it talking to the Linux files…

This is built using Jekyll, which has built-in support for both categories and tags (for blog posts, anyway) via yaml front-matter: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/posts/#categories-and-…

The last two images in the README are links to YouTube videos. Here's the one for the latest version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TnzuIsVT6o

I saw the L2 group go over my house tonight! It was fantastic. All my previous experience has been viewing the ISS, and watching the Starlink satellites go over was a much differen…

Just yesterday I was discussing how one might do live translation for someone speaking to a multi-lingual group, for example a tour guide at a museum. The broadcast features mentio…