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by Ayesh 6y ago
Noto ( https://www.google.com/get/noto/ ) is a popular font that contains glyphs for all languages. It's a gigantic 1.1 GB file. I'm involved in fonts for my native language (Sinhalese), and let me tell yo
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by Ayesh 6y ago
Firefox's Decentraleyes addon is built on a similar idea: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes... It does not work with fonts as far as I'm aware, but it can serve popular li
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by Ayesh 6y ago
For PHP, one reason why I decide to use a class because there is no autoloading support for functions. This allows me to logically group functions _and_ throw in autoloading support.
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by Ayesh 6y ago
Define high quality. If you are new to blogging, and looking to improve, just keep practicing. Some great blogs posts are worthless to other demographics, and sometimes a 10 minute post is what you'd end up as your most popular content
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by Ayesh 6y ago
I don't even want to have a medium.com account for their crappy UI and hostile paywalls, but I doubt those who use medium regularly actually discover new blogs. HN is one of my primary sources to read new things, and I'm already
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by Ayesh 6y ago
Yes, but so do registered domains without DNS records.
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Not all registries participate in the SRS registry protocol. Some of the lesser known ccTLDs must be registered by the individual authorities. It's not accurate to run a DNS query to determine whether the domain is available because on
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by Ayesh 6y ago
Many national TLD holders (ccTLDs) control a TLD in local language. .lk registry, for example, also controls .ලංකා and .இலங்கை (sounding "Lanka" "Ilangei" in Sinhalese and Tamil, the two other official languages in Sri L
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by Ayesh 6y ago
You don't have to answer this if you don't feel like it, but I always wondered if "-site:food.bar" is a search signal against that web site when Google ranks domains.
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by Ayesh 6y ago
Freelancing and personal brand are not necessarily helping each other. You can have an amazing personal brand with zero income, or vice versa too. However, personal branding can help in other situations, both socially and mentally. - Defini
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by Ayesh 6y ago
Further, the Vultr's $2.5 VPS doesn't come with an IPv4 address, but a /64 IPv6.
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by Ayesh 6y ago
- Use a proper IDE, and note a text editor with 45 plugins. - Use strict typing whenever possible. PHP has scalar typing now, and TS for JS. - Use static analyzers and bake them to your CI workflow. - Unit tests. - Test your unit tests with
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by Ayesh 6y ago
The reason why Facebook bought Giphy is not the Gifs themselves, it's the data. So I would say the privacy of search data and context would be the number one concern for anyone. It's pretty hard to find the balance between privacy
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by Ayesh 6y ago
I think Couch Surfing (the activity) + hangouts work well because you can see how "cool" a person is based on their travel history.
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by Ayesh 6y ago
A lot! The script is similar (circles and more circles), and when I watch Malayalam movies, I pick quite a few words.
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by Ayesh 6y ago
I grew up in Sri Lanka, where you can go to Buddhist schools from grade 1-12 every Sundays, and they teach a fairly good amount of Paali and Sanskrit. Sanskrit itself is not something you learn, but Paali resembles a lot of it to a point th
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by Ayesh 6y ago
Warm Showers is also pretty good. It's mostly Europe focused cycling community, where you meet amazing cyclists with a decent garage and a night full of stories.
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by Ayesh 6y ago
It's about €2 a month, and I subscribed yesterday. It didn't occur to me until they prompted that CS must be doing pretty bad during the pandemic. I still open for Hangouts (I'm "stranded" in Vietnam where things ar
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by Ayesh 6y ago
MPEG LA holids patents for mp2/mp4/hevc/h.264. I'm not sure what the licensing terms are, but they are not as liberal as VP8.
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by Ayesh 6y ago
Anyone remember Tera Copy? It (was?) is a Windows file copy/move utility that was fantastic! It support multiple file copying, and drag/drop operations to queue files and add to an existing running operation.
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by Ayesh 6y ago
VP8 in a WebM container is pretty much the lowest bar for most browser support, and comes with no licensing requirements. I'm not disagreeing with the comment about "nightmarish mess". It indeed is one, specially when it come
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by Ayesh 6y ago
Any software or hardware that needs to intercept HTTPS. One common example is antivirus software that block malicious content. It can install this wild-wildcard certificate, and act as a proxy to all sites the user visits. There are obvious
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I suppose you can use such certificate to MITM yourself to inspect the traffic to/from nodes you control, but pretty much every tool out there has features to generate certificates on the fly.
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https://ayesh.me/go/XSS HTTP Headers are user-input for the recipient. I delivered a few security-related talks where my website sends XSS payloads in its HTTP headers. There are many "HTTP Headers checker" w
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by Ayesh 6y ago
Not to compare, but I spent a couple days at an airport stranded, sleeping on my mattress and a sleeping bag. It was fairly comfortable with wifi, toilets, and other basics available at no cost or trouble. It kinda made me realize that it s
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by Ayesh 6y ago
I'm currently stranded in Vietnam (country, not inside the airport). I imagine there are many people just like me. I happen to be quite lucky because in a country of 100 million, there are zero deaths and fewer than 300 cases, most of
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by Ayesh 6y ago
You can do so to some extent in PHP. I'll wait for the PHP has rep to slow down.... In PHP, there is Framework Interior Group that created a few standards to which many frameworks implement their components. The interfaces are designed
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by Ayesh 6y ago
One of my very first was Inna domain parking app, that it tried to "fertilize" any domain that was pointed to the server. It would obtain feeds piped via Yahoo feeds for keywords from the domain, and sell the domains later at high
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by Ayesh 6y ago
memory_limit is the upper bound you "allow" PHP to allocate. You can allocate more than the available RAM, and have your OS swap or PHP crash. Pretty much every shared host I had to work with (I've been freelancing for a few
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This is changing now. There are no new php.ini changes that would affect how the parser or VM works. The lessons from things like safe_mode and register_globals are learned so well.

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