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apitman
13,487karma·3,567submissions·December 11, 2014
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Software architect on the iobio team at the University of Utah Eccles Institute of Human Genetics. I'm passionate about the application of computer science to solving health problems. Hans Rosling is my hero.
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IndieBits.io - A community for data ownership, self-hosting, and decentralization.
LastLogin.net - A free, privacy-focused login provider
TakingNames.io - Domain names for self-hosters
boringproxy.io - Simple, e2ee tunneling proxy
droplock.apitman.com - Simple secure secret sharing
recent activity (3,567 total)
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OSS isn't sufficient. It must also be forkable by a small team. If the software grows complex enough, like Chromium, it doesn't really matter much if the code is open or not.
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Or maybe we'll go back to creating websites for fun/passion instead of money.
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It's both. I recommend looking into it a bit deeper https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/ …
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I think the term you want to search for is local-first.
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It's not hard to imagine a future where the only things committed to git repos are tests and specs.
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This post has some good examples of this sort of problem: https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/ …
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All 4 bits
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Not the same. SSE doesn't support binary, and has higher framing overhead than you can achieve with raw HTTP. If you don't need binary it's a solid option in the browser.
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Codeberg's achilles heel for me is not supporting custom domains for repos.
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Zig catching strays
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Craig Venter was famously involved in the Human Genome Project. He announced the first draft of the human genome alongside President Clinton and Francis Collins.
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> That said, using a vintage technology has some downsides. It was never updated to support WebSockets With widespread browser support for WHATWG streams, it's pretty easy to implement your ow…
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The VSCode remote ssh implementation is a bit concerning: https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/ Any idea if zed does things differently?…
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It links to the system SDL, on Linux at least.
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Cool idea. I was wondering why the release explicitly is `cjit-x86_64-ubuntu-24.04` instead of generic linux, but it does in fact appear to not work on Arch: `tcc: error: file '/lib/x86…
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Give io buffering an inch and it will take a mile
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I believe recent versions of nvtop show efficiency, right?
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Crazy seeing this posted today. I learned about flipdiscs from ChatGPT just a few hours ago because I'm trying to find a text display type you could build or at least repair yourself. Don't …
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This was the first article I thought of as well. Highly recommended read.
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> that's how maths works Wait is British "maths" a singular noun or is this a typo? I was willing to go along with it if it was plural, but I have to draw the line here.
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I wish we had something like Hetzner dedicated near us-east-1. They do offer VPS in the US and the value is great. I was seriously looking at moving our academic lab over from AWS but server availabil…
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This is potentially very interesting to me, but I'm having a hard time under exactly what it is. Could you give a little background on what motivated it, and what the core features are?
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Tangent, but Slint is a really cool project. Not being able to dynamically insert widgets from code was the only thing that turned me off of it for my use case.
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> As you can see from the version number, this release is not a 1.0 release. In fact, we still haven’t finished discussing what 1.0 means for Servo Wait, crate versions go up to 1.0? EDIT: Sorry, w…
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It's pretty amazing email hasn't been replaced, or at least joined, by an open protocol where you can't message someone without first being approved by them, either directly like Facebo…
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It might be the newest thing on the ship.
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Wazero is awesome. For anyone wanting to embed in languages other than Go, check out Extism.
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I saw the one in Houston for the first time last week. It was so cool. My favorite spacecraft as a kid, but in real life it was about 4x as big as I expected.
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I disagree wrt NAT. It creates huge problems for many p2p applications.