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Ask HN: How to start earning $500/month in passive income in next 12-18 months?
Original EnglishLong story short I bought 80% of the business a few weeks ago and I'm working on those things right now.
Ask HN: Considerations when asked to write a book?
Original EnglishI tried to get my scope smaller, but the things are still changing faster than I can process them, never mind explain.
Android Chrome 99 expands Certificate Transparency, breaking all MitM dev tools
Original EnglishMore often I use TCP clients that have no support for TLS.
Ask HN: How many of you built a profitable startup while having a day job?
Original EnglishI was the sole owner, never had more than 7 employees, and I sold it for a bit over $10M (ttm revenue was around $700k …
Postico: A Modern PostgreSQL Client for the Mac
Original EnglishI reported some bugs on GitHub and they all have been fixed on the next release, like 1 or 2 weeks after the report.
Top developers can have a life outside coding
Original EnglishSorry 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 …
Interview with John O'Nolan of Ghost
Original EnglishSo the pricing model of ghost is problematic because:
Baby Steps: Slowly Porting Musl to Rust
Original EnglishAnd 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 …
Distributed systems programming has stalled
Original EnglishAt the second one there was a mandate to rewrite everything to microservices and it took another team 5 months to migrate a single 100-line …