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Blobless Linux on Raspberry Pi
Original EnglishI've used Pi's non-stop since day 1, and it's been a large part of my career for over 3 years.
MRI Developers Don't Use RubySpec and It's Hurting Ruby
Original EnglishI am aware that RoR has been successfully adopted many places, but i guess part of what i failed to explain here (that thankfully foobarian …
Launch HN: Spinach.io (YC W22) – Better daily standups
Original EnglishI have tried irrationally hard to make transparent pricing work for larger customers, and failed.
CyanogenMod Installer Application Removed from Play Store
Original EnglishI knew to backup my pictures/docs/data but a typical user would not.
How do bank payments actually work?
Original Englishbut the expansion card that handled the encryption wouldn't work with a faster system and a new card cost upwards of $10k), 9-track vacuum-fed tape …
ConvertKit: How Nathan Barry Bootstrapped an Email Marketing Business
Original EnglishI was totally relying on happy customers telling other potential customers (which worked, but I failed to recognize that many of our customers saw our …
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 …
Google’s in-house desktop Linux
Original EnglishI use testing+unstable (I didn't know that backports exists, thanks) + self compile some software that doesn't exist in either or is too old.
Bidirectional Replication is coming to PostgreSQL 9.6
Original EnglishEdit: I've used MySQL extensively and only started for now 2 years to use PostgreSQL, and though I have more knowledge in MySQL optimization and …