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by Spone 9mo ago
Didn't Danish postal service just ended operations? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/world/europe/denmark-lett...
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by Spone 1y ago
Sadly Shoelace doesn't play well with Rails' FormBuilder...
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by Spone 2y ago
Radix Colors ?
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by Spone 2y ago
The song actually refers to a kind of candy named "Mistral gagnant" https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistral_gagnant_(confiserie)
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by Spone 3y ago
On the contrary, I quite like how it's a very elaborate and useful ad. The link to the paid service is very discreet and the website provides real and free educational value even if you don't use their service.
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by Spone 4y ago
Can you elaborate on Rails' snapshot testing? Are you talking about VCR / webmock?
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by Spone 4y ago
Nice library with a very approachable documentation, congrats! I'll probably give it a go to replace my current implementation using nokogiri-happymapper ( https://github.com/mvz/happymapper )
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by Spone 5y ago
Their customer support is really top-notch!
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by Spone 5y ago
This is usually called a "honey pot" if some people want to search tools for implementing it.
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by Spone 5y ago
Parts of GOV.UK [1] and the Paris.fr website [2] are also good examples [1] https://github.com/DFE-Digital?q=&type=&language=ruby&sort= [2] https://www.paris.fr
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by Spone 6y ago
> code itself is apolitical I suggest you read Larry Lessig's Code 2.0 book.
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by Spone 6y ago
Of course because you need to be authenticated to contribute to OSM...
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by Spone 7y ago
Relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouAccsTzlGU
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by Spone 7y ago
Ahoy https://github.com/ankane/ahoy is an interesting tool that we use to replace Google Analytics in most projects now. It covers all the basic needs, and even if you're not using Rails, I think you can draw insp
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by Spone 8y ago
I think your referring to auto-correct, rather than "autocomplete".
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by Spone 8y ago
https://webauthn.guide is a quite good overview of the spec
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by Spone 8y ago
Huh. I hadn't really thought about malicious actors using these vast password dumps to try and target users that are continually using weak passwords.
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by Spone 8y ago
Ahoy is a great tool to do just that, if you use Ruby on Rails: https://github.com/ankane/ahoy
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by Spone 8y ago
Yes, it's well documented and pretty easy-to-learn, prevents you from reinventing the wheel, and provides simple conventions for your team :)
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by Spone 8y ago
> The open source statement isn’t accurate because Chromium is open source. But Firefox is free software :)
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by Spone 8y ago
Perfect use case for self-hosted analytics, such as https://usefathom.com
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by Spone 8y ago
It already works in Firefox (behind a flag), but sadly some websites explicitly target Chrome...
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by Spone 8y ago
See the end of the blog post: > All VC1 users can upgrade to Start servers without any price change. > To upgrade your existing VC1 server, simply do a power off and a power on your server. Your server will start on a Next-Gen Start H
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by Spone 8y ago
please edit, his last name is Swartz
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by Spone 9y ago
I also use Hatchbox. It's a pretty good (and cheaper) alternative to Heroku, and you can own the VPS with your provider of choice!
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by Spone 9y ago
Downside is that this is very new and there is only a PHP library.
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by Spone 9y ago
Main reason for me is performance. Especially important on a mid-range smartphone with sloppy network.
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by Spone 9y ago
https://www.webcomponents.org/publish
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by Spone 9y ago
> During the maintenance period, Public PAIR will be unavailable. > Immediately after the maintenance, users will only be able to access Public PAIR through URLs beginning with HTTP,
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by Spone 10y ago
It's exactly the point made by John Oliver when he interviewed Snowden for Last Week Tonight, and showed him a picture of his d*ck.

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