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Talking about staring at interfaces, I got my first Pentium computer when I was 7 in a village in Pakistan. I spent all day fooling around and accidently stumbled upon quick basic.…

I grew up in a city with temp reaching 48 Celsius in the summer Of course this wasn’t very good for electronic devices and hence every console I bought died with a year of over hea…

No tracking (no external domain requests or analytics), built using Gatsby. Your IP only goes to Cloudflare (caching) + Netlify (Hosting) + BunnyCDN (when watching videos on the si…

Edit as this is flagged by many people already: My opinion is all art and historical text should be discussed and talked about. Apparently an attempt to share the context is not ve…

Self fulfilling prophecy. It took several near burn-outs and tons of hours of my life lost due to frustrations before I truly understood this. The world is what you want it to be. …

Want to point out how incredibly good the website phys.org is. I was first introduced to it over 15 years ago and remember visiting it using dial-up internet from Pakistan as a tee…

I had to search what this graph actually meant and this post gave some context: https://www.americanactionforum.org/insight/tracker-the-fede...

Symbian was the era that trains you to never be afraid of debugging the hardest problems and understand how big of a blessing documentation is. A few examples of my childhood exper…

I love the execution of this! Not comparing but I did a similar project 8 years ago at the peak of Israel / Palestine conflict to compare tweets from Palestine vs tweets from Israe…

NiceDay | Web Engineer, Backend Engineer | Remote CET/CEST, Netherlands, Indonesia | Full-time We are a team of 50+ people, changing the way mental health care works in the Netherl…

There are certain regulations that make it much harder to implement E2E. The data in a therapy app can be considered part of a clients medical file and the medical file has various…

We have had potential employers who wanted employee data back to them and our answer has been a flat out no to them. We have also had legal consultation on this due to the continuo…

NiceDay | Senior Data Engineer, Backend Engineer | Remote, Netherlands, Indonesia | Full-time We are a team of 50+ people, changing the way mental health care works in the Netherla…

NiceDay | Product Manager, Senior Data Engineer, Backend Engineer | Remote, Netherlands, Indonesia | Full-time We are a team of 50+ people, changing the way mental health care work…

The US sanctions on Iran has such a massive impact on Iranians that most of us don't realise. All US companies have to comply and majority of the tech companies are unfortunately i…

NiceDay | Web Engineer | Netherlands (Visa + Relocation), Remote | Fulltime We are a team of 50+ people, changing the way mental health care works in the Netherlands by organising …

Heads up before opening the link, your IP is leaked to anyone who is watching the same video. Have spent only a couple of minutes looking at it but it works by connecting to a webs…

Why not just use VSCode for formatting JSON/XML/etc? https://twitter.com/Rapchik/status/1310843502578880513

NiceDay | Web Engineer | Netherlands (Visa + Relocation), Remote We are a team of 50+ people, changing the way mental health care works in the Netherlands by organising a new way o…

Interesting read, makes me wonder as a thought experiment if it counts as downtime if the latency of commands on the machines rises to 5 minutes? You could clone the VM to another …