Cooking with glasses(macwright.com)

24 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 9 comments

Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)(tim.dierks.org)

520 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 223 comments

Tim Dierks' 2014 blog post explaining how Netscape-Microsoft browser war politics led SSL to be standardized and renamed as TLS.

Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB(matthew.science)

603 points by sodality2 2 years ago | 198 comments

Blog post describing how the author built a campus occupancy sensor using a $5 ESP32 counting Bluetooth devices and a serverless database.

Greg (2017)(blog.samaltman.com)

247 points by admp 2 years ago | 112 comments

Achieving Great Privacy with Safari(matanabudy.com)

89 points by matanabudy 1 year ago | 45 comments

Epanet-JS(macwright.com)

202 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 22 comments

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.

VCs aren’t your friends(openvc.app)

441 points by taubek 2 years ago | 286 comments

OpenVC blog post by Stéphane Nasser arguing that founders should not treat venture capitalists as friends when fundraising.

The future of software development is software developers(codemanship.wordpress.com)

376 points by cdrnsf 10 months ago | 471 comments

A Codemanship blog post arguing that the future of software development still depends on human software developers.

Open Source is one person(opensourcesecurity.io)

325 points by LawnGnome 1 year ago | 132 comments

Blog post by Josh Bressers on Open Source Security arguing that many open source projects are maintained by a single person.

What a Hacker Stole from Me(mynoise.net)

355 points by wonger_ 1 year ago | 106 comments

A myNoise blog post by founder Stéphane describing a hacker's attack on the myNoise website, first via code-injection attempts and then a different strategy.

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing(pluralistic.net)

1007 points by jay_kyburz 2 years ago | 473 comments

Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic blog post arguing that if buying digital media isn't owning it, then piracy isn't stealing.