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by mattbee 4y ago
Is it possible for a WordPress instance to participate directly in the fediverse? i.e. Establishing its own identity for other users to follow directly?
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by mattbee 4y ago
Read the whole article. The author describes how he takes immutable filesystem snapshots.
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by mattbee 4y ago
qmail was the first codebase I read that blew a lot of assumptions I had about "good code" and "clean design" out of the water. It went its own way on a lot of things compared to GNU projects and achieved an enormous l
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by mattbee 4y ago
Odds on Adobe making Ivan "an offer he can't refuse" then? They don't stand faster-moving competition for long, I hear.
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by mattbee 4y ago
Yep, I came to /new to check as soon as my messages didn't send immediately :)
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by mattbee 4y ago
I'm copying a 4GB root filesystem (on ext4!) per connection, so that's a couple of seconds, more like 10s on my laptop. The boot time for the kernel is about 2s to userspace initialisation. Then the userspace is running node.js t
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by mattbee 4y ago
I wrote a system at work that does this for VS Code instances - on a commodity server and not much optimisation effort it goes from a click to the UI starting to appear in about 10s (mostly thank you to Firecracker and Alpine) . There'
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by mattbee 4y ago
https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/ says it'll reject where it won't break the web site. But it's called "I don't care" not "I never want" cookies :)
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by mattbee 4y ago
DDs can always be reversed on the account holder's instruction. But yes, they're just the transfer service of last resort for me.
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by mattbee 4y ago
I don't doubt it! Maybe I'm just old but it's been 20 years since I last trusted PayPal enough to leave a balance there :)
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by mattbee 4y ago
Not sure about the US but penalty clauses aren't valid in UK law. You can only charge for what you might lose as a result of a breach of contract. I can't imagine how PayPal would incur $2500 costs as a result of someone buying a
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by mattbee 4y ago
I work exactly as this article describes, but 25 hours per week. It feels like I am doing the productive 25 hours of a 37 hour work week. I log my hours pretty accurately, which I think makes it a better deal for my employer - no commuting
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by mattbee 4y ago
My recommendation is First You Write a Sentence. by Joe Moran. It feels like a recent classic and I re-read chapters all the time.
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by mattbee 4y ago
Yup I did this at my last business in 2008; instead of changing payment processors we abstracted them away behind a pretty small API that also stored and charged card numbers. We could flip back and forth between two. PCI DSS gradually beca
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by mattbee 4y ago
If we're regulating, why not demand "closed" accounts must redirect to another email for 12 months? That would guarantee users could move their identity over a reasonable period while removing storage and support requirements
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by mattbee 4y ago
I would get rid of the billing_rate table or at least copy its contents into billing_account - nothing good can come of changing that reference! Also consider how you will build invoicing on top of this - i.e. A monthly PDF that covers (for
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by mattbee 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newest is pretty reliable, someone could build a down detector for the whole internet based off its data.
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by mattbee 4y ago
In the UK? Ask Thayer Prime, she will 100% know how to sell you and is in touch with a lot of interesting companies. It sounds like your unambitious employer treats your work as a cost centre, and achieving a grudging pay bump isn't go
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by mattbee 4y ago
This is why my old hosting company changed its auto disconnection code to work at 11am on a Monday morning, never at a weekend. That way it's the bill-payers that notice and get in touch, not the poor tech on the out-of-hours rota. Als
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by mattbee 4y ago
A reasonable (& previously common) defence against this was an IT-provided VPN setup, with a certificate. My old company didn't put employee endpoints on the public internet, so they couldn't be exploited without a working VPN
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by mattbee 4y ago
Ah I'm sure, but their incident report mentions that an attacker has a list of employee names & numbers like that's top secret, but the question of how an attacker could then test stolen credentials seems far more interestin
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by mattbee 4y ago
Kudos to them for showing the kind of messages that caught their own employees out - though to me they seem jarring and unsophisticated. So what other texts must Twilio send their own staff that make these ones feel legit? And what system
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by mattbee 4y ago
Looking at your site, I realise I'd forgotten to mention we do lots of Python & Python-adjacent stuff (though we're only recruiting trainers at the moment). But if that's your bread & butter, drop me an email and I&#
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by mattbee 4y ago
There are tons of children who could learn to program, could even teach themselves, but who are unaware that the option exists. This just isn't true, there are a billion ways into programming that there weren't in the 80s and 90
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by mattbee 4y ago
Please do! If the long form doesn't fit your expertise just email matthew@skillerwhale.com and I'll pass you along to the right person.
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by mattbee 4y ago
I write and train for Skiller Whale (skillerwhale.com) who train teams of software developers on React, Go, Typescript & PostgreSQL (with lots of other curriculums in development). We're always looking for experienced software deve
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by mattbee 4y ago
There was a 3D game-in-a-game concept someone did >10 years ago called Nest - https://jonathanwhiting.com/ld/37/ You use the keyboard to control walking round some corridors to a floor. On the floor was some b
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by mattbee 4y ago
Nope, when a company is struck off (directors given 2 months notice etc) its assets are frozen and passed to The Crown, who appoints an Official Receiver. They liquidate the assets, pay any creditors (pay themselves) and keep anything remai
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by mattbee 4y ago
I only ever threatened it once so didn't go to the expense of filing. In practice, yes an unpaid invoice, plus proof of delivery /service. Alternatively, a judgment from a court ordering them to pay.
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by mattbee 4y ago
It's the same in the UK: https://www.gov.uk/wind-up-a-company-that-owes-you-money "To wind up a company you must: * be owed £750 or more * be able to prove that the company cannot pay you " That's it.

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