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I'm curious if HashiCorp changed their licenses to GPL/AGPL, will everyone be as frustrated?

Hi Peter! For H1B visa holders, is there any way to start a company and remain in charge (whether as CEO or not)? From what I find online you can only be employed as a H1B holder, …

I'm interested in building something with this to aid my own French learning. Would love to read your findings if you end up posting it somewhere like twitter/blog!

If you enjoy this, you might find this meta list on "notation and thought" interesting: https://github.com/k-qy/notation

I built my own. It's a Chrome extension that - captures a tree tab structure (inspired by Tree Style Tab) - has a text-heavy interface - is keyboard driven (inspired by Vim) - keep…

I have thought about building a vocabulary learning tool for learning Japanese on top of Apple Dictionary. My idea is simple: user collects dicitionary items and the tool offers lo…

Does anyone have recommendation for static site hosting with simple server-side analytics? The only thing I can find is Netlify Analytics, but $9/mo is too much for hosting a few p…

If you are interested in creative coding but don't know where to start, me and my friend are running Codecember, a month-long challenge to do one code sketch a day: https://codecem…

It's almost 2021 and Slack still can't syntax highlight code blocks.

Nice work! The other day I was doing a SVG renderer for Shiki[0] (a code syntax highlighter), but found no easy way to measure font width/height (SVG needs absolute positioning) in…

One take away for me was: Language designers & compiler writers today need to consider editor support as one of their goals. On the top page there's another thread about rust-analy…

> worst of all the software Steve Jobs had the same conclusion[0]. [0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/velocity/2011/10/05/nicholas-ne...

> Let's start with something simple, like syntax highlighting. I built a syntax highlighter, Shiki, that allows you to use any theme from VS Code to color your code [0]. It works g…

> Obviously with log parsing you don’t get as much information as a JavaScript-heavy, Google Analytics-style system. There’s no screen sizes, no time-on-page metrics, etc. But that…

Well, here are two things that have been brought up many times: 1. Required fields on new issues. Has been requested since 2016[0]. 2. Better issue search. Open Source projects fac…

Never know that existed! Maybe you can improve discoverability by doing that on typing a dot.

I like everything about Observable but the editing experience. In 2018 no one wants to write code like writing txt files. Is there any plan to adopt Language Server Protocol so at …

> that's not maddeningly complex I'm not sure what's complex. Adding one more option "Triaging" here[0] doesn't seem complex. I'm working at VS Code and now we are trying to make a…

I hope GitHub could add some features to help Open Source maintainers. Allow adding contributors with issue triaging privileges is an obvious one. Required fields (link to repro, s…

Now when I see any new product I look for a pledge to not get acquired like PostHaven[0]. Otherwise I simply refuse to use it. Sparrow, Mailbox, Inbox...Have been burnt too many ti…

One thing I want to say is: Don't assume only developers make websites. Don't assume everyone wants to ship a heavy and complex SPA. Example 1: A great typographer, Wenting Zhang, …