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Awesome! Been running an IRC server and looking for a decent native client, the ecosystem seems to have frozen around the first Bush presidency so will definitely be trying this ou…

That comment was specifically engendered by Python trauma

> The bottom line: There are only two absolutely guaranteed ways to build bug-free, resilient, maintainable software. Two. And they are not static vs. dynamic typing. Two ways. Thi…

I don't see what problem this solves, especially in its current form only supporting Unix. Bash scripts are already portable enough across Unix environments, the headaches come fro…

Who is the audience for this article? Anyone who has read Frost's body of work understands there is a plaintive, wistful, and dark nature to his poetry. The article even goes so fa…

Holy shit this is incredible. Incredible for both the animator and OSS community around Blender that makes this possible.

Three-man dev team to leap-frog right past all the AAA studio entries.

I have been conditioned to expect low-effort, surface level, self promotion fluff when I click on a Medium article. The site feels like if Quora and LinkedIn had a baby. I don't kn…

Tailscale.

In my experience it's been extremely competitive to get a spot in the non Bay Area offices within FAANG. The New York and Seattle offices are generally highly sought after, and the…

Briefly wrote up the process of solving a simple CTF challenge from the perspective of a near-beginner at security stuff.

Different Linux distributions ship with various package managers / other userspace tooling. But they all run on top of the Linux kernel. I can see how having a base image called "U…

Good spot, but be careful in the future in your approach. Some places will nail you for having not stopped at the point where you unpacked the apk resources and noticed the API key…

Indeed, I didn't notice that. In any case, the issue doesn't exist anymore, and the public discussion on this problem was wiped.

Plaid imitates major bank account UIs in their login forms to make users more comfortable submitting their bank credentials to Plaid. This issue was addressed in this Github issue …

Bloom Filters are awesome.

You're totally right. I also acknowledge that it's hard to develop those technical skills in the first place without patience, humility, and a willingness to admit to more experien…

I guess it's like saying the most important traits of a golfer are patience and focus. Sure, if you're missing those, you'll toxically spiral when you don't perform, but are those …

I see your point, but I think when migrating over a million loc, it's a question of practicality. Incrementally migrating a project from Python 2 to 3, between which at least large…