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Congrats for knowing what's important to you (time and peace of mind, from what I read), and acting on it. I work as a consultant, but for the same reasons: I choose to work only a…

As noted by the other investigating organization (La Quadrature du Net), the problem is worse than just the question of the algorithm implementation. The problem is that the CNAF d…

Kazuaki Morita was a programmer on Mario Bros., Zelda NES, Zelda SNES, Zelda Game Boy, Zelda 64, where he did the bosses and fishing game; among many others. He was often assigned …

I did this with every first committer to https://github.com/zladx/LADX-Disassembly : giving commit rights immediately (so that they can merge their first PR themselves). I did wond…

Author here! Most of the engine documentation was figured out by many romhackers over the years; I merely started the efforts to write a comprehensive overview. If you're intereste…

To find someone on Mastodon, I would either enter their nickname in the search bar (no need for the domain, it will search on all instances) – or simply click on their profile on a…

I used Scalingo for Rails apps a while ago, and was quite impressed by the quality of the platform. Very Heroku-like. Maybe not as polished, but still doing the PaaS job pretty wel…

I was expecting someone to post a comment along the lines of "Pixelmator is great for picture editing on macOS"; it is one of the best Mac editors. But I'm also delighted to see yo…

Indeed – although I guess WSL made unix tools slightly easier to use nowadays. But even without executing the Makefile, simply reading it can tell new developers which language-spe…

I like nothing more than dropping into a new project, and, rather than figuring out the commands to make it run, see that it has a Makefile with a handful of targets for common tas…

I guess to encourage drunk people not to drive, which makes the roads safer for everyone.

The construction of the only new nuclear reactor in France started fourteen years ago (2007), and is not due before two more years. It was expected to cost 3.3B€, but in the end wi…

Interesting setup. Do you have any resources about how efficient TrackerControl is at preventing Google to collect data from the phone various system services?

To be fair, they probably ship one of the best and most optimized Electron app out there. I still don’t like Electron, but Discord is doing a good job with it. Even their React-Nat…

There are many more recordings in the BNF archives linked by the article. There are even recordings of people speaking latin and Esperanto in 1912. Fascinating stuff!

IMHO, Signal main advantage is that you can sell it to your parents and friends like "WhatsApp, but safe". It tries to have feature-parity to WhatsApp; looks the same, works the sa…

Tl;dr: CSS conical gradients, overflow detector in the DevTools, and Webrender for macOS and older Windows. I was wondering why Firefox felt speedier than usual ; turns out the com…

Nicholas Nethercote is, of course, the author of the "How to speed up the Rust compiler" series of articles [1], which I found fascinating. He spent quite some time at Mozilla opti…