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@sir

> Beware the Keybase formula:
1. Integrates with an existing, open ecosystem
2. May have open-source clients, but server is closed source and does not federate
3. Pretty UI and good marketing
4. VC funded

Agreed. And I'd pay *particular* attention to #4.

With a normal company, you have to ask "can the current business model make money?" If not, it will change.

With a VC-backed company, you have to ask "can the current business model make 10× returns?" If not, it will change.

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Zach "earboxer" DeCook  

@sir
"We need to rewrite everything with the benefit of hindsight."
-You, probably

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Drew DeVault  

@zachdecook not just with hindsight but with discipline

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Zach "earboxer" DeCook  

Does anyone know of any open source alternatives to Kahoot, a real-time multiple-choice quiz game where participants vote by clicking 1 of four buttons on their phone screen. Boosts appreciated. @switchingsoftware

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Zach "earboxer" DeCook  

@ac Welcome to not-twitter, a place where, much like twitter, groupies congregate around the personalities who put in the time, torrentially tooting.

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Drew DeVault  

Announcing the SourceHut project hub 🎉

sourcehut.org/blog/2020-04-30-

I don't usually explicitly ask for shares, but this is a big deal for SourceHut - the project hub solves one of our major goals for the alpha. Please help spread the word ❤️

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Philip White  

@sir No, it's a good language because it slows people down, which means it causes them to write less bad software than they otherwise would have been able to.

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Nelson Chu Pavlosky  

@amiloradovsky @sir I love Ansible because it lets me (1) document in code exactly how my servers are set up, and (2) quickly rebuild my servers if something goes wrong.

That said, Drew has a point; because Ansible makes servers easier to maintain, it enables/encourages more complex configurations that you would not create if you had to deploy everything by hand. The complexity is still there, even if you manage it with automation.

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Zach "earboxer" DeCook  

Thinking about trying again to set up a system (on a different machine). Last time I tried, I got stuck and ended up wiping macOS.

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DoeNietZoMoeilijk 🥔  

Docker rant 

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Zach "earboxer" DeCook  

What if I told you we could give your site a dark theme just by **deleting** a few lines of CSS.

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Zach "earboxer" DeCook  

CSS normalization is where you tell your users that you don't care about their preferences.
`@media prefers-color-scheme` says "we care about some preferences... iff your browser/OS is new enough"

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Drew DeVault  

SourceHut:

820ms, 50 KiB

GitLab:

4030ms, 4400 KiB

Also GitLab:

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Drew DeVault  

GitHub’s new notifications: a case of regressive design

drewdevault.com/2020/03/13/Git

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Zach "earboxer" DeCook  

question: Is there a need for black-and-white ?
Do any existing vendors provide satisfactory monotone glyphs?

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Zach "earboxer" DeCook  

Waiting for unicode-based output to devour fontawesome (and similar). For accessibility purposes. defines some ui-element glyphs in the private-use area: github.com/hfg-gmuend/openmoji

Maybe some of these should move to become part of the standard?

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Zach "earboxer" DeCook  

Recently discovered , a completed emoji font project. openmoji.org.
I don't think I'll retire yet though: emoji-font design should be accessible to the masses, and I still believe composing them from multiple semantically-named files enhances the process.

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Zach "earboxer" DeCook  

Spent some time this evening working on [Otter](github.com/poowf/otter), a free content management framework for laravel (PHP framework). It's promising, but currently leans heavily on a vue.js frontend... for now...

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Drew DeVault  

Idea: NFC receipts as an alternative to paper receipts

I don't want to give you my email address, but you encode the receipt data onto an NFC pad I can tap my phone to, we can save paper without giving you that oh-so-tasty data

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Zach "earboxer" DeCook  

Years ago, I had this cheap $10 "gaming" mouse I bought maybe on ebay or dealextreme. It was perfect: shaped well, no weird, sticky texture. I lost it (maybe left at a friends house) and never saw it again. Tried to buy one online, but I think the model was discontinued. I'd like to get a good mouse for work: Does anyone have any mouse recommendations?

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