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My first development gig in high school was at the NHMFL working with the photo microscopy guys on various projects. It was a great experience that got my development career rollin…

I just shut down a VB6 app that had been running since 1998 at the company I work for last month. The leadership team finally decided they didn't want to sell that particular featu…

Authorize.Net is what we've used for online payments and our internal subscription processing for over a decade. API is easy to use. Never really had any downtime. Rates are compet…

At this point if anyone in your family (including cousins) submit dna to one of those sites, they can use it to track it back to you with basic sleuthing skills. They've solved a h…

I am tired of people calling me a "victim" of identity theft. I'm not the victim. The companies and government agencies that allowed themselves to be defrauded by someone posing as…

TIL that eggdrop is still being developed / maintained.. I had a few bots running around EFNet and Undernet in ~96. Hadn't heard this reference in years. http://www.eggheads.org/

I am using PhantomJS for a similar project running on AWS Lambda - running into all sorts of rendering bugs / crashes. Wanted to make the switch to puppeteer, but as of now it requ…

Friendly reminder that building a wall isn't going to keep blue collar jobs around. Automation is going to kill them much quicker than immigrants will.

I've been using MotionEyeOS for several months now. I setup a a couple of Pi3's with some cheap Logitech USB webcams. Works great from inside the house - I used velcro to tape the …

You can usually easily figure out someones connect the dots password simply by looking at the smudge marks on the screen.