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A great collection of Latin texts you can use to find your next books: https://thelatinlibrary.com/

Postico is my favorite desktop software of any kind

Another endorsement of Windy. In 2017 Windy knew that Hurricane Harvey was going to stall out over SE Texas days in advance.

St. Domingue (now Haiti) was France's wealthiest overseas possession in 1790. It was a human meat-grinder as slave life expectancy was low from being worked and whipped to death on…

Some of this increase is attributable to lowering taxes brings more income out of the shadows and on to the tax return. If we lowered the marginal rate to 1% I think we’d see a lot…

+ 5,000 for Postico. Such excellent software.

https://pgexercises.com/

Many of those un-updated Erlang projects on github are reliable, don't overlook them.

the advance of minifies and transpilers and modules doesnt seem to increase page performance. one of the effect of it being so efficient to minify and transpile is that large impor…

One reason for them to scale to 10x F-Large on Heroku is that their app gets super-slammed (150x more than average traffic) around college application deadlines. So they can spend …

There now is a robot that can knock you out safely https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/new-machine-...

#2 on BBC's list of 100 Greatest Britons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Greatest_Britons The only one in the top 10 I had never heard of before.

I second "raise your rates". I'm 90% sure you are significantly undercharging because a) you live in NYC b) you are getting work for SF companies, and one that's YC c) you care a l…

Did you just merge "Connect" and "Marketplaces" so that there is no "Marketplaces" anymore? I saw that stripe.com/marketplaces is a redirect to stripe.com/connect

In my context, Ruby in Nashville, full-stack has meant you can do front-end html/css/js, backend application code AND the hosting/deployment/linux systems administration stuff too.…

I was just re-reading about the Drupal super-vulnerability of Oct 2014. This could be some of the fruit. That was an enormous vulnerability that might have compromised 100,000's if…

I think someone could have a hit building a flappy-bird clone off this concept.

I think I remember reading a story about an Instacart founder personally fulfilling orders in the early days, but can't find it anywhere? Can anyone confirm that and/or have a link…

Thought 1: I love hearing that good plumbers are getting paid well. There is such a need for reliable, professional just-solve-my-problem-with-service tradesmen in America. In a ju…

You can get the best of both by using a dynamic site CMS, and then hooking it up to Amazon Cloudfront to cache your html. The only challenge then is page cache expiration. You can …

I'm a Ruby developer and interested in creating a business in this space. Specifically a online-CMS that generates static html uploaded to a CDN. The target market is businesses wh…