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It's available in Canada too

Funnily enough, I've found that the .email TLD is often rejected as an invalid domain when I'm filling out my email address online.

Micrometrics | Lead Front-end Developer | Ottawa, ON | Full time | REMOTE in Canada

Micrometrics exists to help businesses create more meaningful connections with the people they serve. Since being founded in 2013 Micrometrics has grown to become a premier guest communication and experience management partner in the hospitality and travel industries.

With COVID-19 changing how we travel, work, and communicate, we're at the forefront of innovation in the B2C communication industry and we’re constantly looking for new and innovative ways to deliver streamlined communication and exceptional experiences.

As our lead front-end developer, you'll be responsible for leading and taking ownership of the front end portion of our application stack. Your role will require a high level of precision and a strong focus on detail with an eye for design and user experience.

More details + application link:

https://micrometrics.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=8&source=...

+1 for Fastmail

Can I change my local secrets without using the web interface? I see there's a local fallback mode but it's not immediately clear if it's user updatable.

I wonder what would happen if HN banned the submission of insecure links. I bet more than a handful of 'Show HN' posters would take the time to set up letsencrypt (or something similar) in order to post.

Wow, I was not expecting to see functional P2P Matrix so soon. Props to the folks working on it.

The hard part of selling Matrix to family and friends who currently use WhatsApp is still the user experience. To be fair Riot has improved substantially since I first tried it but there's still some way to go before my Mum will be comfortable using it.

That said, I'm encouraged by the progress I'm seeing! My money's still on Matrix to supersede traditional centralized messaging systems.

Seconding Freehand.

Great job! I've not seen python-based keyboard firmware before, I'm impressed that it's fast enough to run something like a keyboard.

Without detracting from the code in the post, I recommend that anyone wanting to make and program their own keyboard should take a look at QMK, a widely supported keyboard firmware project that is FOSS: https://qmk.fm/

A unicorn with wings is an Alicorn, thank you very much.

I had to manually ISP flash a bootloader.

I read about that problem with the Tokyo60 v3. Seems like a big problem with quality control, that should have been fixed by sending a new, working versions of the PCB to all customers.

I'm currently waiting on some Aqua Zilents which are delayed thanks to the current pandemic. I understand the delay, but they waited until the posted ship date (April 10th) to inform customers that it's going to be late. That rubbed me the wrong way for sure.

Notify17 looks great, and I plan on giving it a go.

However, since their example is a curl with plaintext body, I question their assertion that "Whatever your content is, we will never know about it".

It sounds to me more like the content is encrypted at rest, which is important but I still have to trust that N17 isn't squirreling away a plaintext copy or accidentally leaking it via logs or something similar.

I can already host my own blog and have it safe from the whims of a central service.

Depends which central service. You aren't beholden to social media companies at that point, but you still have to:

* play by the rules of your ISP (If you're hosting on your home connection)

* trust that your hosting service won't arbitrarily turf you out

* make sure that your domain is safe from unauthorized transfers, sudden price increases, etc.

If the convenience and ease-of-use of current systems is worth those downsides (And for many, it is!) then fine. But it's not entirely accurate to say that you're safe from any central service.

To your second point, legality shouldn't be the final word. There are lots of governments with laws that are either actively or inadvertently used to silence dissenting opinions, or used to root out various undesirables. "You can do crime easier using it" isn't a great argument IMO.

Precisely.

In their case, they're also trying to host the various communities rather than simply being a tool that anyone can use to run a buy.

Niche hobby communities do this all the time.

The mechanical keyboard community wouldn't exist without group buys, they rely on them to hit minimum order quantities from producers of custom keycaps, PCBs, and other manufactured items. These are then shipped to proxy vendors around the world who do last-mile shipping to end users.

Homebrew clubs also put in wholesale orders for raw materials like yeast, grain, and hops. These are usually more localized given the large volumes involved, and involve a physical meetup where the goods are repackaged and distributed to the buyers.

I daresay there are more groups like this (home bakers maybe?) but they're largely invisible outside their own circles.

I've stopped coding on my 2012 Macbook Air in favour of my desktop PC for similar reasons. The fact that my ports are shared between Windows and Linux makes the web dev I do a dream.

The new Terminal app is great too. I've got all the same split pane stuff that I rely on in iTerm, including useful keyboard shortcuts for switching between them and resizing them. I'm very impressed.

Having to log into an external account makes this a hard pass for me.

Back when WSL was first released I tried getting my ruby environment set up using it, but at the time I still used a graphical text editor and getting it talking to the Linux filesystem was too much of a bother.

Nowadays I use vim so I gave it another chance a couple of weeks ago. Together with the new Windows Terminal app [1] it's been a great experience. I can run my editor and my code on Linux and then visit the webapp from the browser in the Windows environment.

Note: There's also better support for talking to the Linux filesystem from Windows nowadays, but I've not needed it so I can't comment on how good it is. Scott Hanselman has a good blog post on getting it set up though [2])

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal

[2] https://www.hanselman.com/blog/RubyOnRailsOnWindowsIsNotJust...

This is built using Jekyll, which has built-in support for both categories and tags (for blog posts, anyway) via yaml front-matter: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/posts/#categories-and-tags

That might be more involved than you want, but given the structure of this project I don't know of a better way.

The last two images in the README are links to YouTube videos. Here's the one for the latest version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TnzuIsVT6o

I saw the L2 group go over my house tonight! It was fantastic.

All my previous experience has been viewing the ISS, and watching the Starlink satellites go over was a much different experience. Each was only visible for a handful of seconds, but they kept coming one after the other in a perfect line, each equidistant from the next.

I didn't stay out to watch them all go by but it was a fantastic experience that I'd recommend to anyone.

Just yesterday I was discussing how one might do live translation for someone speaking to a multi-lingual group, for example a tour guide at a museum. The broadcast features mentioned here would make things way easier, and people could use their own headphones to boo.

I think this gets pretty close to what you're after: https://runyourown.social/

What does 'decent' mean for you here? Something portable? Or are you more concerned about battery life?

Capslock is an Escape key for me because I use Vim a lot. I've heard lots of tmux users map it to Control and then configure tmux to use Ctrl+a as the activation mapping, which sounds very useful too.

This is the sort of thing I'd want to modify the keyboard firmware for. QMK has explicit support for this kind of thing, for example: https://docs.qmk.fm/#/feature_advanced_keycodes?id=mod-tap

Good read!

If folks are interested in getting deeper into keyboard hacking I highly recommend looking into a board that supports [QMK](https://qmk.fm/), which is a very hackable set firmware that works across a bunch of boards.

I don't know if this is what the OP is after, but I found this guide on running a social network for a group of close friends to be a good read: https://runyourown.social/

Those aren't scare quotes, they're just regular quotes. Here I assume they're taken from the police statement on the incident.

Edit to add quote in context:

West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said the cause of the "dramatic" incident was "excessive" air freshener use.

Capslock is the only 1.75u key on a standard layout, so none of the other caps from the cheap set used here will fit there without leaving a gap.