Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring
Emerge Career’s mission is to break the cycle of poverty and incarceration. We’re not just building software; we’re creating pathways to real second chances. Through an all-in-one platform deeply embedded within the criminal justice system, we recruit, train, and place justice-impacted individuals into life-changing careers. Our vision is to become the country’s unified workforce development […]
Emacs is my new window manager
Most companies that employ me, hand me a “work laptop” as I enter the building. Of course, I do not install personal software and keep a clear division between my “work like” and my “real life.” However, I also don’t like to carry two computers just to jot down personal notes. My remedy is to […]
Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication
A person holds up a sign during a protest against the authorization of glyphosate-based herbicide, in Rennes, on October 12, 2023. DAMIEN MEYER/AFP A quarter-century after its publication, one of the most influential research articles on the potential carcinogenicity of glyphosate has been retracted for “several critical issues that are considered to undermine the academic […]
Most technical problems are people problems
I once worked at a company which had an enormous amount of technical debt – millions of lines of code, no unit tests, based on frameworks that were well over a decade out of date. On one specific project, we had a market need to get some Windows-only modules running on Linux, and rather […]
Making RSS More Fun
I don’t like RSS readers. I know, this is blasphemous especially on a website where I’m actively encouraging you to subscribe through RSS. As someone writing stuff, RSS is great for me. I don’t have to think about it, the requests are pretty light weight, I don’t need to think about your personal data or […]
Cloudflare Is Down
“Like Zendesk, innovation is in Cloudflare’s DNA — it mirrors our beautifully simple development ethos with the connectivity cloud, a powerful, yet simple-to-implement, end-to-end solution that does all the heavy lifting, so we don’t need to.” Nan Guo Senior Vice President of Engineering, Zendesk
Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down
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UniFi 5G
UniFi 5G Max Outdoor: Rugged Speed and Extended Reach For tougher environments or deployments with poor indoor cellular coverage, the outdoor model maintains the same high performance cellular connectivity with improved antenna performance in a durable IP67 rated enclosure. It is built for rooftop installs, off site locations, and mobile deployments where reliability is critical. […]
Netflix in exclusive talks to buy HBO
Netflix has submitted the highest bid to date for Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming assets, according to people familiar with the secretive bidding process. Netflix’s most recent offer, submitted on Thursday, valued the Warner Bros. studio, HBO Max streaming service and related parts of the company at around $28 per share, sources said. Paramount […]
Fast trigram based code search
“Zoekt, en gij zult spinazie eten” – Jan Eertink (“seek, and ye shall eat spinach” – My primary school teacher) Zoekt is a text search engine intended for use with source code. (Pronunciation: roughly as you would pronounce “zooked” in English) Note: This has been the maintained source for Zoekt since 2017, when it was […]