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tosh

183,920karma·27,647submissions·May 4, 2010
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https://smolenv.com (a smol agent)

https://findableapp.com (SEO toolkit for Google & ChatGPT)

https://kiwilang.com (k-like language and implementation in Zig with support for GPU via Apple MLX)

https://chesscatsapp.com (a fun way to play chess)

https://moreepisodes.com (tv show episodes generated by GPT-4)

https://jamshelf.com (open source Clubhouse)

https://magic.do (early stage fund)

https://lemmings.io (sci-fi themed hackathons (think "zombie apocalypse", "aliens"))

https://applesilicongames.com (game compatibility and game performance on Apple Silicon Macs)

https://devmonthly.com (curated news & input & jobs for software engineers)

https://blossom.io (project tracking for distributed teams)

more from me around the web:

https://twitter.com/__tosh

https://github.com/tosh

https://angel.co/tosh

https://medium.com/@__tosh

https://lobste.rs/u/tosh

https://dribbble.com/tosh

https://linkedin.com/in/tschranz

https://instagram.com/thomas.schranz

https://facebook.com/thomas.schranz

{UX Service Game} Design, Typography, Clojure, Lisp, Python, Tea, Minimalism, Dao, …

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/tosh; my proof: https://keybase.io/tosh/sigs/gBG56O339IbBPh1iaudGL3dgJuX2yONIATYv62xHXdg ]

recent activity (27,647 total)
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Very interesting to see a major brand starting to accept Bitcoin. I guess that's a huge next step. So where are the reliable exchanges right now? Haven't really looked into BTC since the Mt Gox incide…
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Microbenchmark: Ruby 1.9 MRI vs Google Dart 0.2 TP(lukas.zapletalovi.com)
13y ago·2 comments
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Growth Engineering 101(blossom.io)
13y ago·discuss
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Growth Hackers Conference: Lessons Learned(blossom.io)
13y ago·discuss
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Let me know if you have any questions or want to chat about trade-offs :)
14y ago·view thread
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Blossom Under the Hood: Our Tech Stack(blossom.io)
14y ago·1 comments
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How to Resurrect your Customers(blossom.io)
14y ago·discuss
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We're using lockitron at the apartments we stay in San Francisco. It works like a charm. Thinking about getting one for back home :)
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Hey squarecat, thanks a lot for chiming in. I don't think you're cynical. I try to write about useful stuff but of course producing content is a form of content marketing. That said I try to be consci…
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Hey Brian, great tip. Haven't thought about that yet. It sounds like a brilliant concept for reality-checking the value of the Stand-Up and winning buy-in from people who (rightfully) question the ben…
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Hey :) thanks a lot for the recommendation. Definitely very helpful feedback. We're currently retinafying the public pages and the app itself, landing page overhaul is coming. Communicating about the …
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Hey Michael, I absolutely agree that the "slowing down" and tea ritual in front of the stand-up can potential be dangerous for speed and terseness if you aren't conscious about keeping the meeting to …
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Love the brushing teeth analogy.
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YouTube links already opening in new standalone app on iOS(thenextweb.com)
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“A bad system, will defeat a good person, every time.” -- Deming I can no longer count how often I heard "you're doing it wrong" when people explain why scrum didn't work for them or when they feel th…
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Great question. I might have a harsh tone in my previous comment but I've got really frustrated with scrum (or implementations of it) over the last few years. Scrum in my eyes is a process and from wh…
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The problem with SCRUM is that it is not agile. That's why we see most of the pragmatic companies adopting a kanban or scrumban approach and they see good results. I would argue that just having a kan…
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Dart almost exactly matches what Yegge wrote about a few years back.
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Great use-case for lnotify, haven't thought about that. Feels much cleaner than having cron jobs for conversions like these.
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Great article. You should also check out Joel's posts about 'overnight success' which imho have a related message: http://joel.is/tagged/achieving-overnight-success The buffer guys do a great job to…
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we're using SSL on a custom domain at https://www.blossom.io in the trusted tester program and it works like a charm.
14y ago·view thread
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we have sub 3% IE usage at https://www.blossom.io and most of them (56% use IE 9) so it depends on your target audience I guess :)
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The UI is very very slick, saw them a few weeks back featured as one of the twitter bootstrap example apps. Reminds me of the warm fuzzy feeling I got when I first used Path. I especially like the int…
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I wonder if they support IndexedDB
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https://www.blossom.io because we haven't implemented payment yet :D
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They still could've STORED them in a different way in the backend (e.g. use the md5 hash as 'password' and then use pbkdf2) then the leak would not have been as much of a problem as it was.
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there also was a leak around 5(!) years ago, didn't bother them to do something about it though :/ see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4083339 …
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Holy cow. Apparently reporting the vulnerability to them 5(!) years ago was not enough :/ http://discuss.joyent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=139497 * Communicate over SSL/TLS (avoids session hijacking scen…
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Azure is a product from Microsoft which competes with AWS (IaaS/PaaS) from Amazon and App Engine (PaaS) from Google.
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