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I work on Pigweed, a suite of embedded C++ tools and libraries. A major focus for us is size optimization, and we've written up some of our learnings: https://pigweed.dev/docs/size…

Wow, it's cool to see astrometry.net get put to use! I worked on astrometry.net back in undergrad and grad school. If you have questions about how it works, I can answer them. How …

Take a look at Veritasium's perspective on this issue [1]. Veritasium reflects on clickbait thumbnails from the content producer perspective, and balances that against the motivati…

The key to understanding ELF is that it serves three purposes: (1) Execution - A container describing how an OS can load and execute a binary (2) Linking - A container with relocat…

Valora made it easy for me to donate to a typhoon relief effort - https://doni.app/c/36/ . The onboarding flow is well thought through. Valora is the first app that for me, feels l…

If you're interested in self hosting and willing to put in a bit of work to collect data from your online presence for archival, take a look at Perkeep (previously known as Calimst…

Have you seen Saga [0]? They're an app for making private podcasts with people in your life but, it's free - they help you choose questions and then everyone can hear each other's …

It sure does [1]! [1] https://gn.googlesource.com/gn/+/8ce4e49a990c0579ca214ab7967...

My team works on Pigweed [1], which offers a more terminal based approach to embedded development. Instead of working with Make, we use GN [3] as our primary build system (though w…

For those who are interested in the accounting side, I highly recommend Financial Shenanigans by Howard Schilit [1]. If you don't have an accounting background, all you need to get…

First, assume a spherical car...

I'm one of the founders of Ceres Solver; let me know if you need any help.

I previously used KeePassX, which was great due to the multiplatform support. However the project seemed stalled, and I've since switched to the excellent KeeWeb; it's Electron bas…

If you're using C++, consider looking at the Ceres Solver tutorial [1] http://ceres-solver.org/tutorial.html

GoDaddy's Get Found does this; http://getfound.com . Disclaimer: I work at GoDaddy on Get Found.

San Francisco, CA and Cambridge, MA - Locu is hiring Frontend Engineers, Backend Engineers and Visual Designers for Full-time Locu helps local businesses Get Found. With a patent-p…

No Ceres?

Was there anything in particular that made you migrate away from GoDaddy?

I recently went through an acquisition where we transitioned from Google Apps to the Microsoft suite. I do not share your love of Microsoft's suite. Among the many problems I have …

San Francisco, CA and Cambridge, MA - Locu is hiring Frontend Engineers, Backend Engineers and Visual Designers for Full-time; H-1B is OK Locu helps local businesses be found. With…

San Francisco, CA and Cambridge, MA - Locu is hiring Frontend Engineers, Backend Engineers and Visual Designers - Full-time; H-1B OK Locu helps local businesses be found. With a pa…

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Unfortunately most Google software is practically inseparable from Google's infrastructure. Open sourcing stuff is hard, mostly thankless work.