OSINT tip: One very good reason to get global entry is that you will get an email if it's revoked, and that's a really good way to find out if you are the subject of a criminal investigation. Don't ask me how I know this.

wait is it 2023 right now or 2013

Do you remember Etherpad? etherpad.org There was a brief period where it seemed like everyone was using it, talking about it, and even posting recordings of themselves drafting posts in it.

I am going to start a podcast about Postgres extensions. Postgres extensions are not well understood, and I want to make them understandable by talking to the people who create them. Extensions are so valuable to me and to the broader community, and awareness deserves to be

We teach sorting in algorithms classes because it is a simple and easy to motivate EXAMPLE of different algorithms for accomplishing the same task. The solution isn't the point in the classroom. The problem is the point...

We're extremely excited to introduce the Magic Nix Cache, a GitHub Action that will dramatically speed up your Nix workflow runs with a single line of YAML. No signup, SaaS membership, or additional Nix config required. determinate.systems/posts/magic-ni…

Speaking of CAPTCHA, I added Cloudflare Turnstile to yupdates.com/try/ Now there's no email needed to check it out. Had a good experience setting up Turnstile. The fact that for most people it's completed automated is a big plus. No crosswalk puzzles to solve, etc.

An aspect of participating in the FOSS ecosystem that I struggle with a lot is dealing with the excessive entitlement people who have barely commited anything to contribute to the commons and how they use it against the people doing the work.

"GPT-3 is a double-edge sword: In comparison with humans, it can produce accurate information that is easier to understand, but it can also produce more compelling disinformation" science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Separating services out is not guaranteed to be the wrong design or anything, but identifying externalities and where complexity is shifting to will lead to better decisions. x.com/seancribbs/sta…

"Moving to Hpc7g offers up to 70% better performance and almost 3x better price-performance compared to the previous generation AWS Graviton instances for compute-intensive workloads. They also consume up to 60% less energy for the same work" aws.amazon.com/blogs/hpc/appl…

I knew it had millions of users, but didn't realize Google Reader had hit over 30 million. A shame that is still a "rounding error" at Google. theverge.com/23778253/googl…