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American here, but I've always known these to be distinctly different. ANSI art uses the full 256 character set (and mostly the extended, block-like characters), and 16 colors, whe…

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This red "major outage" status has been reported on their dashboard since at least Dec 2, when an (unrelated to messenger) api bug was introduced that I've been waiting on a fix fo…

Love it! Thanks for sharing. I remember when split-screen chat started becoming popular in the BBS scene. Being able to type at the same time as the other person was groundbreaking…

"Clever" "marketing" language like this is not unique to Laravel, most frameworks use language like it for tag-lines on their homepage. Pyramid, a framework for Python, even goes w…

I've slowly started tracking tutorial articles like this, and also automated setting up an Ethereum/Solidity development environment and tooling in a VM, with Vagrant. This has bee…

Yes, there is Golem https://golem.network/

Yes, Coinbase supports daily / weekly / every 2 weeks / monthly recurring buys. They have fees on every buy though.

Interesting, this could be like an RBL for Ethereum addresses, instead of ip addresses of spammy mail servers. If the data were kept current and remained open for other systems to …

I'm also curious what the approach was to being able to scrape sites in a way where the code is not coupled to a known, fixed markup structure using css selectors, xpath etc. What …

Beautiful design! Care to share any of the details on the tech? Are you using each of the exchange's individual APIs to calculate the weighted average? Did you use any library or f…

Hah. Any idea why the system admin didn't want you to bubble sort anymore? Was it noticed to be taxing on some system's resources or too long-running of a process or something?

I wonder how many similar stories there are out there and how they were handled. Good times they were not, though. As a kid who didn't have bad intentions, dealing with the repercu…

Consider if you will be fulfilled by selling a commodity. It's a race to the bottom and unprofitable users often demand the same level of attention and support as ones who pay more…

I use the -subdomain argument for this available in the Pro version and it works perfectly.

Define "good" :) If you need to have a desktop app quickly (for multiple platforms, even) and it's the difference between launching something or not, then yes it is good. If memory…

I agree about childhood days, but I don't know if that's entirely it. I think we now take technology for granted and apps/sites are less special of a thing than BBSs were. Users ar…

Good commercial. Kind of chilling how visionary those ideas were at the time and that they did happen, though not exclusively brought to us by AT&T.

Great story! I don't have a memory of caller id being around when I ran my BBS, or maybe I just didn't have it.

Someone local to me had launched a pay-for-membership based MajorBBS that had something like 16 phone lines in. MajorBBS was the only thing I had seen that could support so many us…

Thanks for those recommendations, I didn't know about r/bbs and Enigma looks like an interesting project. I just starred it on Github and will definitely check it out!

About missing those days - I still find joy in doing a lot of the same things around software, and although I did sell Dementia for $50/copy, it was a passion project and not a job…

Yes, it was Midnight Sun and my BBS was called The Night Light. You were long distance in 609, so we might not have ever met. My only memory of the 609 area code was of a good Pasc…