FROM BUILDERS, FOR DOERSVOL. 03 / QUALITY-FIRST DISCOVERY

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DigitalOcean lost our server

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I tell clients your monthly support charges are $0.

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Glowstone: open-source Minecraft server

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I used to run my own Ultima Online server with an emulator called RunUO about 15 years ago.

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An ad plugin was stealing revenue for a year and I didn't even notice

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I was burned by people profiting with work I made for free while I was struggling to survive during the 2008 crisis.

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Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)

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10. meditation retreat [3], it's on a donation basis and I've paid less than $1000.

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Android Chrome 99 expands Certificate Transparency, breaking all MitM dev tools

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More often I use TCP clients that have no support for TLS.

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Top developers can have a life outside coding

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Sorry to disagree but I have spent my whole 15 year career as a developer at banks and many fortune 50/100 companies and I can …

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Baby Steps: Slowly Porting Musl to Rust

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And you can't use them simultaneously because there's a conflict on the shadow memory, which makes actually deploying software with security checks enabled impractical if …

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Lessons learned from running Apache Airflow at scale

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To make dataset creation and management easier, I also wrote a custom Terraform provider for Coriaria.

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Debian Dropping the Linux Standard Base

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but is particularly undesirable given parallelism serves no other purpose beyond startup speed optimization (for which process checkpointing I maintain is a better solution). …

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