I paid people to try and follow my README(shkspr.mobi)
356 points by edent | 184 comments
Blog post by Terence Eden on shkspr.mobi about paying people to try following a project's README; the capture shows only a bot-verification interstitial.
shkspr.mobi on Hacker News
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CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human – they prove you're American(shkspr.mobi)
57 points by theanonymousone | 55 comments
Terence Eden blog post (2017) arguing that CAPTCHAs rely on American cultural knowledge, using an anecdote about a US-centric IQ test question about coins.
“It works better in the app”(shkspr.mobi)
595 points by blenderob | 400 comments
Terence Eden blog post ranting that Google's Android calendar app on a Pixel can't subscribe to an events calendar from a URL link.
Death to px, long live ch(shkspr.mobi)
20 points by Brajeshwar | 10 comments
Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)(shkspr.mobi)
365 points by felineflock | 260 comments
A 2013 blog post by Terence Eden arguing against building government databases, such as records of sexuality, that a future hostile regime could misuse.
And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway(shkspr.mobi)
399 points by _djo_ | 317 comments
Terence Eden blog post on how governments can force tech companies to comply, starting with Egypt's 2011 forced mobile phone alerts during the revolution.
I'm a USB-C Maximalist(shkspr.mobi)
317 points by speckx | 414 comments
Terence Eden's blog post arguing for using USB-C for everything, based on traveling Europe for seven weeks with a single universal power brick.
This blog is written in en-GB(shkspr.mobi)
281 points by mritzmann | 273 comments
Android now stops you sharing your location in photos(shkspr.mobi)
399 points by edent | 309 comments
Terence Eden blog post explaining how Android now strips location metadata from photos shared via the web, breaking geotagging for sites like OpenBenches.
Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses(shkspr.mobi)
329 points by m_km | 88 comments
Blog post by Terence Eden describing how a unique email address he gave BrowserStack ended up with a third party via Apollo.io, implying a leak.
I'm OK being left behind, thanks(shkspr.mobi)
730 points by coinfused | 610 comments
Terence Eden's blog post arguing he is fine waiting to adopt hyped technologies like crypto and AI until they are mature, rejecting fear of being left behind.
This time is different(shkspr.mobi)
170 points by speckx | 308 comments
Stop crawling my HTML – use the API(shkspr.mobi)
107 points by edent | 110 comments
The web runs on tolerance(shkspr.mobi)
76 points by speckx | 72 comments
Drunk CSS(shkspr.mobi)
66 points by FromTheArchives | 24 comments
How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?(shkspr.mobi)
374 points by FromTheArchives | 448 comments
Terence Eden's blog post calculating how large a home battery would be needed to store summer solar output and make a London house fully self-sufficient.
1KB JavaScript Numbers Station(shkspr.mobi)
38 points by blenderob | 19 comments
EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR(shkspr.mobi)
28 points by fanf2 | 17 comments
Decorative Text Within HTML(shkspr.mobi)
69 points by tobr | 4 comments
Some Thoughts on LCP eBook DRM(shkspr.mobi)
12 points by sprawl_ | 0 comments
Reverse geocoding is hard(shkspr.mobi)
259 points by pavel_lishin | 124 comments
It is time to ban email(shkspr.mobi)
13 points by keepit | 18 comments
Is Android Unicode Yet?(shkspr.mobi)
19 points by edent | 6 comments
HTTP: , FTP:, and Dict:?(shkspr.mobi)
410 points by edent | 111 comments
Terence Eden blog post exploring the obscure dict: URL scheme and DICT dictionary server protocol found in an old codebase regex.
How random are TOTP codes?(shkspr.mobi)
159 points by ColinWright | 95 comments
Infrared Infrastructure(shkspr.mobi)
36 points by ColinWright | 13 comments
.well-known/avatar(shkspr.mobi)
35 points by llimllib | 32 comments
Edit This Blog Post(shkspr.mobi)
59 points by edent | 11 comments
Compressing Text into Images(shkspr.mobi)
67 points by edent | 60 comments
USB-C Cures Mosquito Bites(shkspr.mobi)
44 points by robin_reala | 34 comments
You Don't Need HTML(shkspr.mobi)
77 points by tomhazledine | 43 comments
EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR(shkspr.mobi)
214 points by shakna | 366 comments
The Future of the Web Is VNC(shkspr.mobi)
67 points by edent | 48 comments
I feel hopeless, rejected, and a burden – One week of empathy training (2019)(shkspr.mobi)
387 points by willm | 238 comments
Terence Eden's 2019 blog post recounting a week spent pretending to use a wheelchair to experience accessibility barriers at venues and events.
Discord is not documentation(shkspr.mobi)
487 points by edent | 257 comments
Terence Eden's blog post arguing that open source projects should not use Discord chat as a substitute for proper documentation, citing the Watchy platform.
The Pull Request Hack Is Fucking Magic(shkspr.mobi)
116 points by edent | 43 comments
Why did Usenet fail?(shkspr.mobi)
148 points by edent | 226 comments
Let's (not) share our VR headsets(shkspr.mobi)
11 points by edent | 4 comments