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Dominik Picheta Oct 2, 2023

What if instead of WASI we just create POSIX-WASM: Two subsets of POSIX, one that can be supported by a web browser and one that can be supported by a serverless cloud environment.

Dominik Picheta Aug 5, 2023

Ahh. Tory Britain. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/05/investigation-after-57-world-triathlon-championship-swimmers-fall-sick-and-get-diarrhoea-in-sunderland-race

Fifty-seven swimmers fall sick and get diarrhoea at world triathlon championship in Sunderland

Athletes competing on stretch of UK coastline where reduced water quality at centre of dispute over sewage discharges

The Guardian

Dominik Picheta Jul 1, 2023

Sheldon Jul 1, 2023

This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.

#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS

Dominik Picheta Jun 30, 2023

Christian Selig Jun 30, 2023

I wrote a short goodbye post on Reddit as we enter the last hours of Apollo. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for the support over the years, it’s truly been the journey and dream of a lifetime building this app and meeting so many people. 🥰💙 https://reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14nb5qs/today_is_apollo_for_reddits_last_day_and_i_just/

Today is Apollo for Reddit's last day, and I just released its last update. 🥹 I just wanted to say a big thank you to the folks who have used and supported Apollo over the years, it's been the dream of a lifetime to build this app over the last 9 years. ❤️ Read the eulogy inside! ❤️

Hey all, With that, Apollo's last update has landed! It includes: - Some fun easter eggs! - Tidies some things up for the closure later...

Dominik Picheta Jun 14, 2023

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josef Jun 14, 2023

damn it finally happened for real https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-65907496

Tesco: Students accused of scamming NI stores with TikTok Clubcard

The pair are alleged to have used a cloned Clubcard app to scam Northern Ireland Tesco stores.

BBC News

Dominik Picheta May 23, 2023

cool notebook, where did you get it?

Dominik Picheta May 2, 2023

The Mojo programming language is looking really impressive and might even be the language to replace Nim for me.

✔️ backwards compat with Python
✔️ var/let
✔️ compiled
✔️ strong type checking
✔️ compile-time metaprogramming

https://www.modular.com/mojo

Mojo 🔥: Powerful CPU+GPU Programming

Mojo is a programming language that unifies high-level AI development with low-level systems programming. Write once, deploy everywhere - from CPUs to GPUs - without vendor lock-in.

Dominik Picheta Apr 27, 2023

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Technology Connections Apr 27, 2023

You plug your phone in (or even connect wirelessly now) and your car hands over the screen (or some portion of it) to your phone.

Your phone is sending an audio and video feed to that screen, and the car will send touch inputs (and some other data) back to the phone.

This has been a thing for a long while now, and a really neat thing is that my folk's 2017 Bolt has infotainment from 2023 when I plug my phone into it.

It's a fantastic idea, and dropping it is bonkers and/or nefarious.

Dominik Picheta Mar 15, 2023

Celso Martinho Mar 15, 2023

We just launched a URL Scanner 100% using Workers and Cloudflare APIs. Yet another example of how versatile and powerful our stack is today and how we increasingly build our own services on top of it. Take a look https://radar.cloudflare.com/scan

Dominik Picheta Feb 23, 2023

Apparently it is possible to salary sacrifice your way to getting universal credit in the UK (even on a hefty salary). The universal credit assessment is done on income after pension contributions!

https://www.reddit.com/r/FIREUK/comments/1197d8n/accumulating_a_fire_pot_with_the_uk_benefit_system/

Accumulating a FIRE pot with the UK benefit system

I thought I would outline my FIRE plan here. It may be of some interest to people as it takes an alternative approach to accumulating a large...