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I've been using Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot for... years? I can't even remember how long, but it's served me very well. I just love how much more secure it is and how symmetrical an…

A couple of the startups that do go links have blog posts on the history: https://www.golinks.com/blog/go-links-history/ https://www.trot.to/blog/2020/07/09/go-links-origin-story

I forgot to add a link to our recent announcement blog post to the project README. I've added that now, and I think it may help explain why we specifically built a service like thi…

UX definitely ended up being one of the hardest parts. We also never got to the point of really building a compelling product on top of the protocols. We did actually do some work …

same team. different company.

From https://blog.golang.org/gopher : The gopher has no name, and is called just the "Go gopher"

on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20228237

Hey, Will from Google's Open Source Office here. I apologize for the confusion this caused; that was certainly not the intent. Mea culpa! The name "libcrurl" was just an internal w…

And for anyone that wants to learn more about how Google manages third-party code, all of our docs are public at https://opensource.google.com/docs/thirdparty/

https://opensource.google.com/docs/releasing/publishing/#dis...

We currently only list project that are or were primarily developed by Google. We decided to include projects that started at Google and were since donated to foundations, such as …

> The default google approach to open source is unidirectional source dumps after all the work is done. I can definitely say that is not our default approach to open source; in fac…

Could you expand on this a bit? We've tried to be very transparent with how we approach and think about open source by publishing all of our internal documentation at https://opens…

Thanks. What you said definitely exemplifies the problem we were trying to solve. People often look through one or two of our GitHub organizations, but don't realize that we actual…

The problem is that we have over 2,000 projects, so simply listing them all on one page doesn't work very well. Hence why we built this directory, which allows browsing by category…

The other problem is that we have 100+ GitHub organizations, so browsing them all together is impossible.

To clarify the timeline a little bit here... Rosehub wasn't actually motivated by the MUNI hack, as it predated it by 8 months (Rosehub started in March 2016, MUNI hack was announc…

There's no indication in the questionnaire of who is actually running it, what is being done with the data, whether results will be published and where, etc. Does anyone have more …

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/3/4691040/android-kitkat-the-... "There's no exchange of money involved"

Just to be clear on this, Google projects (including side projects of Google employees) do not require copyright assignment in the way that FSF projects to. They require an explici…

Somewhat confusingly, pulse.cio.gov lists senate.gov as supporting HTTPS with an 'A' from SSL Labs. While that is of course technically correct, it doesn't tell the full story, sin…

There are the actual Indie Web Camps that occur several times throughout the year. And each month there is the Homebrew Website Club Meetup ( http://indiewebcamp.com/next-hwc , nam…

Google Code has always been exclusively for open source projects. From https://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/FAQ#Hosting_Your_Open... > Can I use Google Code to host projects that…

that's definitely a bug that you can't read the agreement text without logging in. We'll see about getting it fixed.