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Will O'Beirne

@wbobeirne

Laying (digital) concrete at @ICON3DTech, founding engineer at servicebell.com, creator of @LightningJoule

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Huge thanks to pleb.fi and Unchained Capital for hosting an amazing weekend of talks and hacks. And stay tuned for more 𝓑𝓪𝓴𝓮𝓑𝓸𝔂, coming to a mobile device near you.

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The world is a better place with products that are shaped by principles before all else. Hats off to Mullvad.net. mullvad.net/en/blog/2021/9…

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❯ python >>> bool({}) or bool([]) False ❯ node > Boolean({}) && Boolean([]) true Surely nobody would mix these two up.

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I would love to hear the explanation from the engineer who built the Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator as to why they can't support numbers greater than 10 million.

I would love to hear the explanation from the engineer who built the Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator as to why they can't support numbers greater than 10 million.
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The bits vs sats argument seems to be missing how annoying overloading "bits" will be. That's already a commonly used unit of measurement for data. Are you really going to measure the fee rate in bits/byte?

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SMS-based 2FA is a scam. If a product is pushing it on you to enable it for "security", but doesn't offer actually secure alternatives such as U2F or TOTP as an alternative, this is why. ftc.gov/business-guida…

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Pretty surprised to find development in the Redux ecosystem for local persistence and rehydration has basically completely stopped over the last three years. Seems like SSR has effectively killed it, since you can't render on the server using data that's stored locally.

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Web Environment Integrity showed up publicly for the first time 3 months ago: github.com/RupertBenWiser… Today it was enabled in Chromium behind an origin trial: github.com/chromium/chrom… Very worried what the web will look like in the near future if this pace continues.

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One of the best HN articles and threads this week IMHO “The tyranny of the marginal user” Or how startups either die OR grow by diluting the product to work for the most average user Which happened to OK Cupid for example which was an amazingly in-depth dating app, allowing

One of the best HN articles and threads this week IMHO 

“The tyranny of the marginal user”

Or how startups either die OR grow by diluting the product to work for the most average user

Which happened to OK Cupid for example which was an amazingly in-depth dating app, allowing