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https://gobyexample.com/ was helpful for me to understand what is possible with Go. Visit a topic that seems interesting or completely unfamiliar and try to think of a small exerci…

Gleam is fantastic! https://gleam.run/ The syntax is familiar but there are several next-level features: - no conditionals (case all the way down) - `use` expressions - pipe operat…

minisign - https://jedisct1.github.io/minisign/ super simple digital signatures!

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I saw a t-shirt from a local plant nursery that I absolutely loved. The price was $25 USD, and for me it was an instant purchase because I loved the design and wanted to support th…

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81948.The_E_Myth_Revisit... Changed the way I think about b…

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Proving identity and authentication with public keys: https://proof.im/jshawl Signing a session claim to "log in" means I can authenticate users without storing any sensitive infor…

I'm exploring a signature-based authentication scheme here: https://github.com/jshawl/proof.im At a high level: 1. Claim and prove ownership of a public key 2. Sign a session claim…

FWIW signed packages are available out of the box with rubygems: http://docs.seattlerb.org/rubygems/Gem/Security.html >

I was curious about trying out my own diff so I went to the home page: https://www.difflensapp.com/ and didn't see an option. It would be interesting to be able to append a github …

>Meanwhile, if your caching reverse-proxy goes down, you have the option to immediately put a different caching service in front of your site, or temporarily serve static content f…

Is there another window in your house you can open so that the airflow comes in from the other side of the house?

I wish deno files had a different file extension. Editor gets confused often switching between front end typescript and deno typescript.

I churned when Dropbox started removing features and asking for more money. e.g. limits on number of devices, more frequent nags, forcing me to unlink devices that had already been…

To be fair you have the burden of proof by asserting "computers connected to the internet can not be secured."

Risk tolerance?

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If you say you're willing to accept an offer at 50K less than they had budgeted for, you just lost 50K.

but.. what if they lowball in the end? isn't that a reason to give up your expected salary? IMHO I'd rather have the interview and negotiation experience than the time back. Practi…

"I'm looking for the right fit in a career and am open to many different compensation options". and then after three or so more iterations of that: "I appreciate your persistence b…

oof just spent a solid 30 minutes trying to debug why I was getting 404s in a docker build. Thanks HN!

My experience with this has been that when teams dissolve, new apis are created on top of the existing apis to avoid making changes to the original api. Debugging a production issu…