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API Connection Errors, Mail Send Delays, and Site Unavailability(status.sendgrid.com)
1 points by medmunds 6y ago|0 comments
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by medmunds 6y ago
Music credited in the FAQ: DET https://soundcloud.com/detmusic
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by medmunds 6y ago
> The issue isn't with the user's email. The issue is with the site's email provider. Actually, it could be either. Postmark (the email provider for a bunch of sites) monitors "time to inbox" for several user ema
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by medmunds 6y ago
They will charge you for it if you ever cancel service. (And they'll charge the full retail price when it was new, not the current value.) Return their modem, get a receipt, double check the serial number on the receipt matches the equ
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by medmunds 6y ago
And unlike many clothing stores, Amazon doesn't allow directly exchanging an item to change size. Instead, they treat an exchange as a refund followed by a new purchase (at the then-current price). When something is on sale, the discou
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by medmunds 6y ago
Wow, TIL. Plate movement is mentioned in the original article, but more detail on how Australia is dealing with "drifting at about seven centimetres a year to the northeast" here [2017]: https://theconversation.com&#x2F
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by medmunds 6y ago
If you're looking for something that runs on both Apple and non-Apple devices: Pocket Casts https://www.pocketcasts.com/
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by medmunds 6y ago
Actual bug and disclosure timeline: "Stealing local files using Safari Web Share API" https://blog.redteam.pl/2020/08/stealing-local-files-using-s...
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by medmunds 6y ago
Had been wondering about the sudden flood of "you have been selected as a potential nominee to get awarded at a global technology conference" emails...
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Predatory Conference(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by medmunds 6y ago|1 comments
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TypeScript 4.0 RC(devblogs.microsoft.com)
2 points by medmunds 6y ago|0 comments
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How to detect machine-translated webpages(ctrl.blog)
2 points by medmunds 6y ago|0 comments
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by medmunds 6y ago
Nice! I've needed something like this several times. Two suggestions: 1. Almost gave up on waiting for it to load... thought the blank white page meant it was broken or getting the HN-hug-of-death. Maybe add a loading indicator? 2. The
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by medmunds 6y ago
> The data include responses only from the official Python Software Foundation channels ... collected in October and November of 2019 through the promotion of the survey on python.org, the PSF blog, the PSF’s Twitter and LinkedIn account
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Python Developers Survey 2019 Results(jetbrains.com)
3 points by medmunds 6y ago|1 comments
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by medmunds 7y ago
While there are still plenty of sites out there with absurd password requirements, I believe this particular example is outdated. When I used it last year, US Global Entry had changed over to the login.gov authentication service. The new ru
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by medmunds 7y ago
Oh, just realized that pip-tools (being discussed favorably downthread as a pipenv alternative) is a Jazzband member project: https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools .
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by medmunds 7y ago
I’m in a similar situation, maintaining a project that’s used widely enough it should probably have a continuity plan, but not enough that it’s developed a robust community of other contributors who could step in. Jazzband [0] seems meant t
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by medmunds 7y ago
> I've actually had one company reach out to me after making it on the list and they made their password rules less dumb. That’s a huge win! My pet peeve is sites that block pasting, say, from a password manager (glaring at you, Cos
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by medmunds 7y ago
For a nice counterexample, check out login.gov, the unified authentication service that seems to be replacing individual approaches at many US government sites. Their password requirements: “It must be at least 12 characters long and not be
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by medmunds 7y ago
If you're using Google Sheets, the QUERY function [1] can do all kinds of lookups. For complex logic, I find its SQLish syntax a lot more readable than mixtures of VLOOKUP and IF and other functions (but that might just be me). So, um,
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Coming Soon to Netflix: Movie Trailers Crafted by AI(cbsnews.com)
1 points by medmunds 7y ago|0 comments
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Email Deliverability Almost Killed Matter and What Brought Us Back to Life(matterapp.com)
2 points by medmunds 7y ago|0 comments
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Gubernator: Cloud-Native Distributed Rate Limiting for Microservices(mailgun.com)
61 points by medmunds 7y ago|20 comments
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by medmunds 7y ago
> If you are going the U2F route, I highly recommend having a permanent key for each computer How do you deal with services that only permit a single key to be registered to each account? (Notably AWS. But they're not alone in this
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by medmunds 7y ago
Even more so, the page offers a theory to explain that: > Speculative bubble > The page never actually existed and was fundamentally impossible, but everyone bought into it in a frenzy and it's all now ending in tears.
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by medmunds 7y ago
Like this one? https://smile.amazon.com/Vilros-Raspberry-Model-Aluminum-Coo... (I'm just running Hassio, so can't really speak to its thermal effectiveness myself. But it's got enough weight to keep cables fr
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by medmunds 7y ago
Postmark has a free service that will handle the DMARC XML analysis for you, sending you a human-readable summary report once a week. (You don't have to be sending through Postmark to use it; I've been surprised at how many spamme
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Implement ```-style (fenced) Markdown code blocks(meta.stackexchange.com)
2 points by medmunds 8y ago|0 comments
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by medmunds 8y ago
StackOverflow finally added ```language fenced code blocks a few months ago. https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/322000

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