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Besides the usual (HN/Reddit/preferred news site), i really like checking deviantart.com daily. Insanely talented bunch of people there.

Remember Crypto knows no borders, it's decentralized, peer to peer, and private keys aren't seizable by force. Central banks may outlaw it, and that will hurt, but it's not going t…

Few years back when awareness about email tracking wasn't so common, I noticed often I after I looked at one of those recruiter spam emails, they'd call my phone 5 minutes later. J…

For those who have the freedom to decide what to use, I recommend looking into rolling your own. Especially if you're writing back-end services for your app anyway. After Google sh…

Are you kidding me? This is great news for indies and small companies, to which I count myself, and I will be making 15% more money. Dude, I'm really happy reading this announcemen…

Yeah, I think chess can give you cold hard feedback on how well your mind is working on a given day. As the author already mentioned, performance can vary a lot. When you're doing …

The number of government requests for user information is actually scary: https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview So Google handed over info on 175k accounts in th…

Kinda like it. Looks like a Nintendo DS to me :) Could be a productivity power house in a nice compact form factor. I'm not the guy that checks his phone every 15 mins. but when I"…

Ideally you want to have all your state in one place, the "single point of truth", in tightly modeled data structures, keeping it as lean and immutable as possible. The program is …

Swift / Vapor is amazing as well. They just released version 4, which streamlined and tidied up lots of things, can't recommend it enough. There's just something solid about Swift'…

The Navy has also demonstrated laser based transmission of energy recently: https://www.nrl.navy.mil/news/releases/researchers-transmit-... They are talking about beaming power to …

Oh man, I've done Google, Facebook, Reddit and all of them have tiny but annoying differences in their Auth Flow. I've given up up on Twitter, because they didn't even seem to supp…

It doesn't have to be easy to replace, there just needs to be an intended way to do it. Even if it requires you to bring them to a shop and let them do it (e.g. how most phones han…

The question is, is the battery replaceable? As with Airpods, I won't buy any product that automatically becomes trash after 2 years, and I hope others will too. It is not sustaina…

Looks nice and clean, not sure about the bouncy animations though. I mean these are charts of people dying, it doesn't fell all that appropriate. Simple ease out would be more fitt…

Very cool. This will probably get some kids onto the path of a future programming career. I remember my first PC running MS DOS, being young and curios I just had to try everything…

Still no real GPU. It's the reason I went back to a MacBook. What drew me in is the desktop class i7. At the time the Mini outperformed all other Macs in benchmarks, and it is noti…

Not too worried, but that's what I'm doing just in case supplies chains break down. Mostly beans, dried fruit, chicken stock. You might want to get a few things to boost your immun…