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Interesting and possibly relevant to note that SQLite is not your typical opensource project: "Open-Source, not Open-Contribution: SQLite is open-source, meaning that you can make …

The fact that it doesn't can be exploited by running it in a virtual machine and using the snapshot feature to go back in time. That's how we made this Website is Down video: https…

Holy shit Boing Boing.

Will this technology be licensed for redistribution or only for online API use? I ask because in the video game scenario it would be great to have this in a library I could distrib…

WRT the second point, since HTTP is stateless doesn't it make a new connection for every request via whatever network is available?

Interesting... so there no security concern with using HTTPS on a public Wifi? I thought there was some way the connection could be hijacked. Thanks for the response.

Hey I'm not a security engineer but it occurred to me that when using an unsecured public WIFI network the real concern is in doing the initial TLS handshake over that network. My …

I am surprised at the number of people who think they can do everything without a framework and that everything would just be better if they weren't weighed down by the horrible af…

I always liked Brian Moriarty's definition of story: "a particular causally related sequence of events". Which certainly does allow for a conflict free story. The important thing i…

Totally agree. Modern IF is amazing. Check out the annual Interactive Fiction Competition for good games: https://ifcomp.org/ . Also, Inform is a fascinating "English language" pro…

This reminds me of some words of advice I noticed in an even older manual for the Apple II floppy disk drive: "To load a program named AGATHA, use the command LOAD AGATHA and the p…

My feeling is that as an adult I have the ability to "think creatively" when I want to. I don't feel like a study of this nature really takes that into account. I'd be curious what…

There is so much FUD around this PATENTS file. If Facebook had not included this Patent grant and had released React under only the BSD license then any user would be in the exact …

This is my blog. Glad you like it. I used yEd for the dependency graphs. There's a lot of detail on how I did it in the first segment: http://thewebsiteisdown.com/twidblog/puzzle-d…

The site is back up now.