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https://bsky.app/profile/karmn.bsky.social/post/3lcuc4dqudc2... It's hard for me to read this any other way.

then when they back down we could have "UK threats to end end-to-end encryption end"

your website appears to have a bunch of meta data on it from something called soapbox. If I link to your website in slack it comes up with a "That looks like a Soapbox link. Would …

There was an awesome project a while back to recreate a new buckling spring keyboard: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=79141.0 https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/

Have you tried the trackballs formerly known as "Clearly Superior" now "Xtrac" apparently[1]. I like the physical scroll wheel and dedicated middle mouse button, the internals are …

Consumer centric API design https://github.com/tlhunter/consumer-centric-api-design

I think it's interesting that out of all the news articles about famous people that have died, Ursla le Guin is the one that turns up in this list.

Go helped me learn about designing good interfaces, and how to write tests using dependency injection rather than just patching stuff out.

I found that learning and writing some Clojure and Go made me think better about the code I was writing in my main language (python). I enjoyed working through Clojure for the brav…

A few months back I saw a comment[1] from one of the stripe co-founders where they mentioned they were thinking about "pace layering" and how it applied to their company and proces…

I'm investigating the way that encounter difficulty is estimated in Dungeons and Dragons. I've felt for a long time that the influence the number of opposing monsters have is somew…

- Post-mortem - Incident report - Scheduled down time

Also I imagine that depth would be a significant factor

Mileage may vary depending on language support, but vim does have a go to definition feature[1][2]. I believe there is also out box error checking for some languages, and if that i…

> Are taxes and maintenance costs shared proportionally? Day-to-day maintenance (replacing lightbulbs, shelf falling down etc) is your responsibility. Plus you get to decorate howe…

I recently bought a 3D printer and have enjoyed programing objects in cljoure with scad-clj. https://github.com/farrellm/scad-clj This is biggest project I know of that uses it: ht…

Unmortgage | London, United Kingdom | Frontend, Backend & Data Engineers | Full-time | Onsite | https://unmortgage.com Millions of people are stuck in the rent trap, with no way to…

I think this was the company that became pebble (correct me if I'm wrong). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2221579 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3290884

> Git doesn't include better built-in support for issues, wikis, PRs / code reviews, and releases I feel like a lot of these features could be handled with git-notes[1]. For exampl…

so while it's not exactly the all in one service you describe, you can do something similar already: http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/ to design your layout, then http://build…

Clojure! the thing I like most about a lot of the libraries is how they seem to blend so seamlessly. I don't know if it's an artefact of just being a lisp or just a lot of the deve…

There is a decent interview with Jamie Cudmore on the rugby dungeon where he talks pretty candidly about concussion issues: https://www.acast.com/therugbydungeon/ep-22jamiecudmore

a lot of custom keyboards use a amtel avr controller which is easily flashable with custom firmware. I think I can see a teensy like board in the picture. here is an (the) example …

We are a smallish tech team (11 developers) actively developing a product where downtime has immediate negative revenue implications. It's starting to get difficult to ship changes…

could someone explain to me why >>> ranges = [range(i) for i in range(5)] >>> [*item for item in ranges] [0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3] would be better than: >>> ranges = [range(i)…