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If you had to start over, what technologies would you learn in 2014?
Original EnglishSurely Chrome's permissions for extensions could be improved for better security, because as we've seen, perfectly legitimate extensions can turn over night to mallware/spyware/adware.
A Plea for Lean Software (1995)
Original EnglishWe used to close our chat program to compile to save the 1GB memory it was using.
Static site hosting hurdles
Original EnglishI tried it was because I was looking for FastCGI support (i.e. non-PHP dynamic sites that you don't have to maintain a daemon for) …
The code worked differently when the moon was full (2021)
Original EnglishInteresting bug, but I don’t like the fix.
Some clients are evil and their work is toxic
Original Englishwe pushed back because they knew there was real scarcity in the labor force for the enterprise software that we deployed. …
Show HN: Hacking a Raspberry Pi into a wireless airplay speaker
Original Englishit's more expensive (i think), and less flexible than the logitech solution, but it's also (much) simpler, (much) more reliable, and better sounding (imho - …
Mozilla launches venture fund to fuel responsible tech companies
Original EnglishI spent my last evening, and this one, on working around the fact that firefox still doesn't support modules in WebWorkers.
A brief reflection on Mac software stagnation
Original EnglishEg before we used to use Campfire for team communication, using indie apps such as Flint as clients because campfire had an api.
Fonoster: The open-source alternative to Twilio
Original EnglishI use a few for testing, like DIDLogic, CallCentric, and VoIP MS.