Are there any good collaborative code editors?
I'm sick of this antipattern of downloading files from git, sending pull requests, merge conflicts etc.
Why can't a group of us edit source code as easily as using Google Docs?
🆕 blog! “It is 1939 and you want to use public-key cryptography”
Imagine, just for a moment, that a mathematical breakthrough had occurred on the eve of the second World War. Perhaps Turing or Rejewski or Driscoll realised that prime number theory held the key to unbreakable encryption. This blog post attempts to answer the question "could public-key …
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To be clear, we don't *need* the money. I can afford to keep paying the hosting and API costs myself. But it is nice when people help us out.
Please don't give if you can't afford it.
🆕 blog! “Grinding down open source maintainers with AI”
Early one morning I received an email notification about a bug report to one of my open source projects. I like to be helpful and I want people who use my stuff to have a good time, so I gave it my attention. Here's what it said:
😱 I Can't Use On This Day 😭
Seriously, What’s Going On?! 🔍
I’ve been trying to use…
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🆕 blog! “Get the location of the ISS using DNS”
I love DNS esoterica. Weird little things that you can shove in the global directory to be distributed around the world instantly(ish).
Domain names, like www.example.com usually resolve to servers. As much as we think of "the cloud" as being some intangible morass of ethereal Turing-machines floating in probability space,…
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Holy shit! I've found a contactless payment app which works on #GrapheneOS!
Google Wallet refuses to play nicely with nonofficial OSes.
All UK credit card providers seem to go via GPay.
But Curve - the virtual card app - works perfectly! I added my credit card, set up their contactless wallet, and just paid for a bun using NFC 😃
Only works with Visa & MasterCard, but that's good enough for me.
Obligatory referral link (sign up and get £10).
