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> the third party, unaffiliated, developer experience is better on an EVM than it is is on a traditional centralized database. This is definitely a take, given how easy it is to wr…

In Blink setHref is automatically bound to C++ code [1]. I think it's fair to say that anything goes. [1]: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:thi...

Would love it if the scrollbar was draggable on iOS! I thought it was broken until I realized you can click on a spot to scroll to.

uv is a great drop-in replacement for pip: https://astral.sh/blog/uv

The instructions state the following: > Imagine you begin a journey in Seattle WA, facing exactly due east. Then start traveling forward, in a straight line along the Earth’s surfa…

Perhaps the HN headline doesn't match the article, but the instructions say: > Imagine you begin a journey in Seattle WA, facing exactly due east. Then start traveling forward, in …

The Substack version says "Go east from Seattle": https://finmoorhouse.substack.com/p/go-east-from-seattle

I don’t think this is a fair conclusion; web development is harder than desktop GUI development for various reasons. For one, clients (mobile, desktop) are drastically different wi…

HSTS is intended for browsers. For API clients the correct behavior (following curl's lead) is probably to never follow/make any redirects by default.

Aren't these two forms isomorphic: type MyUnion = { type: "foo"; foo: string } | { type: "bar"; bar: string }; vs type MyUnion = Foo of { foo: string } | Bar of { bar: string }; Yo…

The AgeMin/AgeMax example seems more of a deficiency due to a lack of named function parameters; it would be equally clear if it had a type signature (using OCaml as an example) of…

Both Katran[1] by Facebook and Unimog[2] by Cloudflare are L4 load balancers written using XDP. It's factually incorrect to claim that XDP is useless on servers as many companies i…

simdjson can parse JSON files at ~2.5-3GB/s: https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson

It would be cool to also discuss how llamafiles[1] work, and how they differ from the GGUF files. [1]: https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile

In this section: > I think in the context of the merge commit ours/theirs discussion earlier, HEAD^ is “ours” and HEAD^^ is “theirs”. Should HEAD^^ be HEAD^2 instead?

I wish there was some way to evolve the DMARC spec such that only DKIM and not SPF is used for validation. Sadly things like Google Calendar invites still fail DKIM…

Yeah I guess it depends on how sophisticated the "hiddenness" of the field is. Instead of straight up using the hidden property (which is easier for a bot to detect), you could try…

Tailscale recently announced an integration with Mullvad [1] that is probably what you're looking for: Mullvad's VPN servers act as Tailscale exit nodes, and they have servers in c…

The default relay can be found in constants.go [1]: // DEFAULT_RELAY is the default relay used (can be set using --relay) var ( DEFAULT_RELAY = "croc.schollz.com" DEFAULT_RELAY6 = …

Does this run a mini IPFS node on the sender and relayer and rely instead on the IPFS network being up to propagate the DHT changes through the network?

This looks very different; it requires having a server to temporarily store the file, while croc and magic-wormhole directly connect two peers (via a relayer) to send the file.

magic-wormhole (which croc was inspired by) also uses a public relay server: https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/welcome.html... Any tool that wants to reliably connect…

Maybe I'm thinking specifically of 1Password which can store your previously-filled out form fields as well as autofill fields like address or credit card number.

I've heard this concept described as a "honeypot field" before and it works pretty well as you've said. I'm curious how password managers/autofill avoid tripping up though; are the…

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