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Pretty fun. But I saw this issue come up on multiple days: Letters were AIERNGT for the final word of day #2. I tried INGRATE. Didn't work. Then I tried TEARING. That worked. But t…

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I think it's pretty neat. It'd be cool to have recurring commenters with different personas who focus on different things. I wrote a test post and almost all of the comments focuse…

After looking into how conceal works, it doesn't look like you can use it to "annotate" a line or dynamically change the text on the screen without actually changing the contents o…

I've looked into this a bit and the closest thing I could find is in VimWiki, where certain plaintext patterns are dynamically replaced with other text without actually changing th…

That looks useful. Do you know if that works with gRPC-Web where the underlying gRPC port is behind a service proxy?

Good points. I don't see anything wrong with these individual open source releases. See my other comments about the larger trend this represents. "Releasing these things don't give…

Again, I don't think this specific example is hugely significant, I'm looking at the larger trend. Re: public endpoints. Say you're poking around a public web service, and it doesn…

Many companies are "all-in on the web" but aren't in the same position as Google. Look at the recent Chrome profile / Google account auto-login issue. Isn't that an example of Goog…

"It's open source" isn't the full story. Something can be open source and also used in a harmful way. You're right that gRPC-Web alone isn't a huge issue, but it's part of a larger…

It's interesting to watch Google's moves to control every part of the stack. Browser: Chrome. Frontend: Closure compiler -> obfuscated SPAs. Transport: gRPC. Backend: Proprietary G…

It looks like an anti-adblock measure: https://github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer/pull/2502 > after the page finished loading. It removed the real page content and replaced it wit…

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Watching tech talks on 2x speed makes this much more bearable for me. It's a lot easier to fit a talk into 15 minutes of free time vs. 30 minutes. You can change the playback speed…

Agreed. That's why it might make sense to fight NIH on the general problem of sending emails, but to give into NIH when deciding to use an "external service to handle email drip ca…

Here's one I found a while back: https://github.com/usablica/intro.js

Cygwin comes with mintty [1] now, which is a decent terminal, though it doesn't match iTerm, Gnome terminal, etc. in terms of features (like tabs). [1]: https://code.google.com/p/m…

Looks nice! The design of the example PDF is a bit noisy for my taste (the geometric shapes at the bottom of every page). And the demo PDF you generate by uploading a markdown file…

It's not on the list. The least expensive metros range from $0.50/sqft to $0.65/sqft and Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI is $0.94/sqft. That metro area is larger than just the city of D…

"asyncore" [1] has been in the stdlib since 1.5.2 (15 years ago!). Twisted, gevent, tornado, etc. were newer projects and built to overcome the deficiencies and crudeness of asynco…

After registering, it gives you this message which says they'll help match you up with a mentee: "Thanks for pledging to mentor! You’ll receive an email with more information about…

For Python there is pex [1]. [1] http://pex.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Here's a python one-liner that will do it: import os; import random; os.system("vim %s +%s" % (lambda f: (f, random.randint(1,len(open(f).readlines())+1)))(random.choice([f for f i…

4-5 years ago this was how you did it in World of Warcraft: http://www.lavishsoft.com/wiki/index.php/Inner_Space http://www.lavishsoft.com/wiki/index.php/LavishScript

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