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Release age v1.0.0 🏁 · FiloSottile/age

age—pronounced [aɡe̞], like the Italian “aghe”—is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library. It features small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style compos...

The Crypto-Carry Trade

This is not a crypto bull or bear case piece. It’s simply a discussion of some crypto-currency policy problems which must be addressed over the next few years. The way the US monetary system reacts to these problems or fails to will have huge consequences. The…

Why not ZFS

ZFS is a hybrid filesystem and volume manager system that is quite popular recently but has some important and unexpected problems.

My phone case, the hidden state of an RNN

What I needed was a new phone case. But I wanted a case that declares “my owner is a nerdy deep learning engineer”. So I made a visualisation of an RNN and had it printed, and I’m quite happy with it. This post is the origin story of this case, or, how to mash…

Optimizing Netlify - Atif Afzal

I don’t work at netlify but I’ll show how their Single Page Application load time can be improved. Log in to https://netlify.com. You’ll be

What kind of work I want

A brief statement of values for recruiters or hiring managers

Saving a restic backup the hard way

This is the end of the holidays in which I spent a long time building a backup infrastructure like a responsible adult. The villain of the following story is the junk MIPS machine which held hostage most of my important data (about 1TB). Its evil plan was to b…

A meditation on three dead side projects

If you're building a side project your motivation likely fits in the overlap of two broad categories: education (and, in general, practicing the joy of your craft) and money (clout, fame, etc). The story of these three dead projects is ultimately the story of …

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ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after order by Swiss authorities – TechCrunch

ProtonMail, a hosted email service with a focus on end-to-end encrypted communications, has been facing criticism after a police report showed that French authorities managed to obtain the IP address of a French activist who was using the online service. The c…

Revolt

Don't bother with chat apps that don't respect your privacy. Revolt is a brand new chat platform designed around you.

Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

[I am not a sleep specialist. Please consult with one before making any drastic changes or trying to treat anything serious.] Van Geiklswijk et al describe supplemental melatonin as “a chrono…

What is Semantic HTML? 🤨

Do you have a ton of div's in your HTML code? 🤔 then, this is for you

Ordering asynchronous updates with coroutines, part 1: Mutual exclusion

I opined some time ago on the perils of holding a lock across a coroutine suspension point. But say you have a bunch of asynchronous activity that you want to serialize. How can you do that without a lock? There are a few different scenarios in which you may n…

In defence of .NET Minimal APIs

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Python in Visual Studio Code – September 2021 Release

We are pleased to announce that the September 2021 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. You can download the Python extension from the Marketplace, or install it directly from the extension gallery in Visual Studio Code.

C# Caller Attributes Make Tracing and Logging Easier

If you wanted to include information about your source code in a trace message, there would be quite a lot of prep work to do before you could actually write a message out. Let’s use the below WriteTrace example to show what this does to your application.

git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree

Merge NTFSv3 filesystem from Konstantin Komarov: "This patch adds NTFS Read-Write driver to fs/ntfs3. Having decades of expertise in commercial file systems development and huge test coverage, we at Paragon Software GmbH want to make our contribution t…

Freewrite: Distraction-Free Writing Tools

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SolarWriter

SolarWriter lets you type on your e-reader outside in the sun, like a modern typewriter that uses the equipment you already have.