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I remember the painful feeling in college of solving problems in reverse . That is to say; when presented with a problem, there are no intrinsic reasons propelling me to solve it w…

Schema has the same problems as Microformats where adoption only takes off if the market demands it, or it gains enough momentum that people can't imagine webapps without them. The…

SO many problems are being solved on the same plane they were created with. What I love about Ethereum is the direct action approach where rather than simply request that those in …

Well one way to test is to put honey links into an IM session and see which ones are pinged. Invariably they will be pinged from a co-lo situated in a remote U.S data center.

Similar to: http://bioischanged.com/privacy but for Facebook :) Slightly tangential, but what's to stop me flipping one bit in a JPEG and uploading it again. JPEGs are renowned for…

Aside from addressing potential collisions, what other use cases does this strategy have?

I would liken the whole process of 'success' as nothing more than the acquisition of accolades. If you peek beyond the veil of most institutions (financial or otherwise), there is …

I've yet to see heart/fave/star/like buttons being context aware. I've heard anything from people using these mechanisms to read articles later, to using them as attention grabbing…

> I understand Pages has nothing to do with source control Slightly disagree. What I always loved about pages is every commit is on record and auditable by the public. This makes c…

Side projects start to bit rot if the creator stops caring for them with a full heart. Like anything, if you're not committed to something, it becomes a second class citizen, and i…

For those who are not clicking, this site just houses a YT video located here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBjXUBMkkE8 > Our family has been priced out! Has the Bay Area gone c…

Of course it's worth mentioning :) Even small projects are worth posting, like this recent one by Holman: https://github.com/tholman/github-corners

These are my babies currently: http://www.jque.re/ https://www.unicod.es/ I could keep making these, but it's do or die with side projects. You either commit to them with a full he…

Those who ran BBS systems wax nostalgic about being early adopters of new communication methods and systems. It's the same with the digi-native set; waxing nostalgic about Geocitie…

If you don't like lists, then put in the necessary hard work to curate them, and you only need to do this once to enjoy Twitter There are so many ways to do it, and there is no 'on…

Hey Hackernews! I wrote a small rambling piece on my 'Why' of the web, and the assumed roles we play when we use the web, and how we can subvert these roles and use the web in our …

DNS is often the weakest link in the chain and well worth hardening if you're doing proactive sec. Combined with DNSCrypt it can be a pretty robust setup. My only problem with DNS …

This sounds like a judgement on those who carry phones and don't think too hard about this but then call out those who go phoneless because they (the phone-equipped) don't understa…