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Think of it as a collab between two leading open source organizations. Adafruit has contributed a significant amount of open source software and hardware that improves developer ex…

This article is talking about Portal:Current Events on Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events ). The current events articles are fantastic! Normal newspape…

I’m continually impressed by Wikipedia’s quality controls. In my experience people underestimate them.

Can you recommend any articles about minimum scale necessary to make Kubernetes worth it?

The mouse actually works quite well with trackpad mode disabled. I’m using an iPhone Mini. One trick: To select a menu option tap-and-hold a menu title then drag to an option and l…

Are there any artist groups in your area? You might like participating in critique groups, meet ups, or entering shows.

Those interested in this branch of the discussion might find Dave Winer’s blog series about building an open social network on top of the RSS standard worth a read. Here’s one of m…

“Explain your terms of service to me.”

Fully Automated is a Solarpunk RPG game manual with fun game systems for exploring optimistic tech futures, https://fullyautomatedrpg.com/

> even seemingly simple systems are infinitely complex. (As Carl Sagan put it: “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”) Wikiquote cites…

Since the website doesn’t have pictures or videos… Is “webtop” a way to package GUI desktop apps in a Docker container so that the only dependencies to run the app are Docker Deskt…

By the dictionary definition, yes. However, there are three key differences. (1) People rank the HN feed instead of an algorithm; (2) the incentives of YC, companies, and the HN co…

Your point seems spot on to me. We’ve fallen into the trap of differentiating legislation by implementation (technology) instead of job-to-be-done (societal OKRs). Email is just ma…

Building on your idea, it’s also important to look at how wikis use Mediawiki. Different wikis in the Wikimedia ecosystem apply different sets of patterns appropriate to their size…

Adafruit has a couple holiday guides based on their Feather boards and NeoPixel lights. https://learn.adafruit.com/festive-feather-holiday-lights/ov...

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gitlab The team that runs this Hacker News comment site also invests in startups from time to time. GitLab did pretty well. :-)

Focus on your docs, code, and blog because they’re under your control. Write for yourself. Write for the people who use your work. Publish smaller chunks of work. Add value to your…

Your question is great. It’s easy to forget that people are the point, not the tech. When I was in college, automation was envisioned to reduce injuries to people, increase access …

Excited to try this out. Will the app edit my iOS calendar, or is it isolated off? I love that you’re treating tasks as calendar events. Tasks take time, so that’s how it should be…

It’s ridiculous how complicated it’s gotten to answer my parents’ questions about stuff like this. The old desktop metaphors are gone. Screens are difficult for older eyes to read.…

Really interesting to learn about the ML perspective of the cost of localized efficiency. Local efficiency can also make things worse from a queueing theory perspective. Optimizing…