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UniFi, or the Story of Unnecessary Cloud Accounts(den.dev)
3 points by dend 3y ago|0 comments
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A collection of secret and lesser known built-in Windows tools(den.dev)
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by dend 3y ago
https://den.dev Entirely static site built with Hugo. Blogging for a bit more than a decade now.
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by dend 3y ago
There's no hand to overplay here anymore - the app is shutting down, and the author made it clear that is the intention. While the verbiage could've been different, that doesn't really matter. In these kinds of conversations
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On AWS Shutting Down Open Source Documentation(den.dev)
4 points by dend 3y ago|0 comments
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Experimenting with Linux as a Daily Driver(den.dev)
2 points by dend 3y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft announces new customer identity offering – Entra External ID(devblogs.microsoft.com)
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Just Works for Me(den.dev)
1 points by dend 3y ago|1 comments
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Recipes for Product Failure: Obsess over Competitors(den.dev)
1 points by dend 3y ago|0 comments
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by dend 4y ago
Been blogging for more than a decade on my own site ( https://den.dev ). 1. Got my break in the tech industry thanks to a blog post on some reverse engineering tinkering I've been doing. 2. On multiple occasions, I ended up s
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Principles of Horrible API Documentation(den.dev)
1 points by dend 4y ago|0 comments
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by dend 4y ago
There have been rumors that some of the variants that I cover in the blog post are actually somewhat playable, albeit I was not able to reproduce the results. From one side, I can understand this - testing and shipping something like Forge
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Reverse engineering the Halo Infinite API to play experimental game modes(den.dev)
2 points by dend 4y ago|2 comments
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by dend 4y ago
Indeed the feature is undocumented, but it's been known for some time - its goal is to mimic as much as possible the reset button, for those situations when your computer freezes up to a point where Ctrl+Alt+Del works, but literally no
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by dend 4y ago
That's the wrong analogy. In your example, the former is required for the latter. FedEx wants network stability and a data store, most likely, but the success of their business does not depend on them hosting their own infrastructure.
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by dend 4y ago
This makes a lot of sense if you think through the angle that their core value prop does not come from the network/data latency optimization. It's not Netflix and Dropbox - this is FedEx. Their core business value proposition come
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by dend 4y ago
I am an active Twitter user and I know what you mean by screenshots of walls of text. There is no endemic use of such modality across Twitter, with few exceptions. I stand by the statement that Twitter moving into publishing long-form conte
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by dend 4y ago
The thing is - other providers exists, it's just they are not as convenient as the walled gardens. That's a big part of the challenge. You can own your blog on your own domain and site, but you need to be able to set that up, not
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by dend 4y ago
I would generally agree, _except_ with the fact then this just defeats the entire point of Twitter - it might as well become the next Medium then. Which, let's be realistic, can be a strategy too - become a content publisher rather tha
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by dend 4y ago
Yes and no. You lose exclusivity, and the ability to manage where and how your content can be used. Once you post it on Twitter, you can see from the ToS that they can basically do what they want with it - plug it into ads, print on billboa
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by dend 4y ago
Ghost is also just one way to do it - there are others that still allow you to have ownership of your content and the portability/domain connection that allows you, the writer, to manage your content in whatever shape you want.
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by dend 4y ago
I have the same hunch, to be honest. The core value proposition of Twitter, at least to me, is that it's short-form content - quick updates from the network that I care about. I don't go there to either write long-form content or
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by dend 4y ago
You could also still post links to your content wherever your audience is - it's just a matter of being able to maintain control over the content itself.
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by dend 4y ago
You can have your blog make you money if you want to, in whichever way you want to. "Donate content" is just that - when you write long-form on any platform that you have no direct control over, you're handing over the rights
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by dend 4y ago
My earlier comment is not contradictory to this statement. Indeed, you need to be on social media sites to reach a broader audience, but you can post links to your content that is external to those sites rather than giving it up wholesale w
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by dend 4y ago
Comments is a _secondary_ component to the core of what I am talking about - long-form content. I can still post a link to my blog post on Twitter and have all the commentary from my audience without donating the content itself to Twitter.
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by dend 4y ago
I think ultimately you're getting to the _why_ of the equation - there is a big desire to keep you, the customer, within the app rather than let you abandon the feed. Going back from a note to scrolling through Twitter is easier than j
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by dend 4y ago
You don't need to look far for this. To be fair, my comment was much less about decentralization and more about the existence of tools for content portability and control. For example, you can have Markdown + Ghost + custom domain. Wor
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by dend 4y ago
My reaction to this is that it's an effort to keep users within the "walled garden" of Twitter, which is not the best thing for those that write. Recall the story with Medium - yes, you get broader reach with less effort, but
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by dend 4y ago
Also would recommend this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/awake Disclaimer: I built the tool.

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