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https://mikeflynn.github.io/egg.js/
Egg.js is still the most popular public project on my GitHub page.
Let's Encrypt (along with the coauthors of https://abetterinternet.net/documents/letsencryptCCS2019.pdf and many other contributors). Now the world's largest public certificate authority!
You win. I'm only the co-founder of Digitalocean. I tip my hat to one of the giants we all stand on the shoulders of.
(Including Peter Eckersley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Eckersley_(computer_scie... who passed away earlier this fall at just 43.)
The Windows Terminal. It was a long journey to get the console code fairly modernized and maintainable. Another long journey to build a whole new application that could be compatible with the old. And years now of iterating of that original prototype, out in the open. It's not a perfect application, by any means. But the bar was _so_ low, that I can't help but think of how much we've helped users just over the last f…
* Before anyone asks, I was not involved in any of the recent JPEG-XL removal choices happening over at Google (I don't work there). I was as surprised as everyone else was. I'll admit I haven't given JPEG-XL as much of a R&D spin as I should, but it seems like it has a lot of cool features and if people prefer it to AVIF, game on. I'm proud of the library, but I'd rather people used their preferred format in any avenue and not be locked into something they dislike. I'd certainly rather that any technology succeed or fail on its own merits than any other possible reason.
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Being an extensive ingress player, i'm quite surprised at this considering this should have been ingress code to begin with. Did pogo not share much code with ingress, just the dataset?
There was very little code shared on the backend. Ingress was appengine talking to custom clients via JSON, PGO was GCE/GKE talking to Unity clients via protobufs. Almost everything on the backend was written specifically for PGO because the Ingress codebase just couldn't scale, at least not cost-efficiently, to the number of users. Also, Ingress is all about controlling areas of the map, while PGO was mostly based o…
I started an airplane turbulence forecasting website for nervous travelers back in 2005 (think - will it be bumpy when I take my flight from Chicago to New York tomorrow?). It started by repackaging government turbulence maps in an easy to use manner, and has evolved into a service where I handwrite forecasts of turbulence for your flight, and now offering automated turbulence forecasts. It has been used by employees…
I built the first "post-play" experience for Netflix. It made it so that Netflix would automatically start playing the next episode of the show you are watching after a 15 second count down. We built it in the Silverlight player on the web because it was the fastest way to A/B test new features at the time. Before post-play, you had to open the episode menu and click on the next episode to play it. We didn't want to…
Why not just have a next episode button without auto playing the next episode? Make the autoplay optional and not the default.
I'm not in hi-tech or engineering. In fact, I'm a photographer who has made a living in the this field starting in 1989. This forum is a wonderful resource for me, so I thought I would mention my particular contribution to the world as I contemplate retirement. I've traveled North America photographing native bats. This was born from an obsession with documenting creatures that are not easily observed (this goes far…
I love bats. As you may know, two species of bat are the only mammals native to New Zealand, where I live. I hope to see one one day!
[1] Back in 2006, created a web scraper with .Net framework and C# that helped my wife run a home-based scraping business for 2 years. There were no tools / libraries / frameworks for spidering / scraping back then - or at least I wasnt aware of them. Helped her have a replacement income since she had quit her job for maternity. She of course enhanced it and made it better. Was fun while we were the early ones in it.
[2] SAP's Community Network in 2002: Supports a million users today, started with a much smaller user base of 10k, implemented it from scratch as a Java MVC web-app with another colleague.
[3] Amazon Ads in 2015: Contextual commerce ads in review websites and blogs, this single product drove (and still continues to drive) multi-hundred million dollars in incremental revenue for AMZN every year. HN doesnt like the Advertising business, but hey.