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https://tenbluelinks.org helps makes this easy

See also: Overland for iOS (Very configurable, very minimal UI): https://overland.p3k.app DayOne for iOS has background location tracking with CSV export

I'm a big fan of https://www.thesimplepostcard.com/

Supported on all major browsers and 93% of total users according to caniuse.com https://caniuse.com/?search=dialog

I've written this comment before bu what you need is a remotely controlled finger for pressing YubiKeys: https://bert.org/2020/10/01/pressing-yubikeys/

I'm working on a photo-sharing service for groups to replace shared Google Drive folders. Even if a Google Drive is publicly editable uploads count against the uploader's quota unl…

It's a handy thing to have in your toolbox https://xkcd.com/530

Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone (the comedy podcast) had scientist Ralph Harvey on to talk about collecting meteorites in Antarctica in episode 208. He made the point that any r…

Cool concept! I bet there's a way to reassemble the entire book from it, though. For example "Show me the first paragraph of chapter 4." returns—what seems to be—the actual request…

A photo sharing website for high-trust groups. Only the album creator needs an account, then they can share a hard-to-guess link with the group members allowing them to upload phot…

What you need is a remote controlled finger for pressing YubiKeys: https://bert.org/2020/10/01/pressing-yubikeys/

This has been a problem with NYC's bike share program, CitiBike. The solution was to add an alert when your phone's location is far from the location of the bicycle you are trying …

More anacedata: GeForce now over Ethernet is significantly better than Wi-Fi 6 in my apartment building.

15 network requests, 247 KB transfered May I recommend as a lightweight alternative http://shrug.io which weighs in at a whopping 799 bytes transferred.

I had never heard of this and took a look at the Wikipedia page you linked. > Contact with STEREO-B was lost in 2014 after entering an uncontrolled spin preventing its solar panels…

I got this email in June of 2021 when my name came up on the waitlist, unfortunately I was not able to participate at that time. This is for the "System Blue" kit: You should try t…

I could not replicate after several minutes with the maps app open on my M1 MacBook Pro. I did find the Last.FM app seeming to request scans though?!

There are some interesting alternative search engines listed in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30783391

I have spent lots of time fiddling with OpenVPN and Wireguard configurations. On a whim I tried out Tailscale and literally within 10 minutes I was up and running, it totally blew …

I've had some luck by scribbling on the first page of every new notebook. Subconsciously it is now "ruined" and safe for every day use.

This is a nice visualization and would be nice to see similar diagrams for other technical solutions. Off topic, but the iceberg pictured is probably not a stable configuration, tr…

I've been experimenting with a static-site generator for the photography half of my website trying to make the process of getting the photos off my camera and laid out in a cohesiv…

From the proposal to remove urllib linked in the article: https://lwn.net/ml/python-dev/CABqyc3wGDmdnDjrhYh0SxT_Tgr5M8... From: Victor Stinner To: Python Dev Subject: [Python-Dev] …

The photos of negatives with holes punched in them trigger flares of anger in me, especially where the puncher has seemed to purposefully hole-punched the face of a subject. After …