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Anything attempting to proxy public Internet traffic and buffer the entire body at all times is in big trouble. Either it has to have a very low body buffer limit and reject anythi…

In quite a few countries, the vast majority of Internet users (in Kenya, 97%!) use whatsapp at least once a month: https://www.verint.com/blog/what-countries-are-the-biggest-w... I…

I too loved Knockout's observable model - I've found Mobx a worth successor. As it's entirely independent of any framework it is very practical for general purpose usage. I use it …

Counter example: I've lived here for most of a decade, and I'm a big fan of the superillas, ejes verdes, and other plans. There's definitely some short term pain from all the const…

It sounds like you're not talking about superblocks, you're just talking about the existing blocks of Eixample. The superblocks concept is that they'd be grouped together into 3x3 …

Technically voluntary, but every major phone manufacturer (including Apple) committed to it and followed it (although in Apple's case, with a dongle).

> A private, trusted, permissioned blockchain is pointless Not at all - it's a verifiable audit log. Git is an example of exactly this.

Slightly off topic, but I love the site design here - the demos at the top illustrate it perfectly and simply, and it's one of few scroll-to-reveals I've seen that actually makes s…

Too little, too late.

This is really impressive! I mostly use Inkscape normally, but it feels dated and painful in all sorts of ways, and a capable web alternative is a great thing. Personally, the most…

I'm struggling to imagine the use case where anyone would use this. Who wants to run an arbitrary script from the internet directly on their machine, instead of just looking at a w…

New browser extension idea for people outside the EU: automatically spot sites using tools like this, and put enormous great big warnings all over the page. Seriously, _most_ of GD…