Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines
The Pinball Map website, API, and app make extensive use of many free and/or open source services (as well as paid services). The website uses Ruby on Rails along with open source gems. The app uses React Native and likewise is aided by many open source modules. Dokku. We use Dokku to build and deploy […]
Open Source color palettes generator in HSLuv color space
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An alternative cause for the Great Stagnation: the cargo cult company
In 2011, Tyler Cowen argued that the developed world economies were in a Great Stagnation. It had started in the late 1970s because all of the low hanging productivity fruits—machines and factories powered by fossil fuels and electricity—had been exhausted. Technological improvements were happening at the margin. This same sentiment is captured in Founders Fund’s famous […]
AWS charge for using IPv4 expected to bring $1B/year and speed up IPv6 adoption
On Thursday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced a new charge for customers with public IPv4 addresses. It had warned that a new pricing plan would be put into place six months ago, and we had a rough idea of the scale of charges that many customers would face. However, the Border0 blog has spotlighted some […]
There Are Too Many Damn Honeypots
“According to Huntress Labs, a Shodan search for “Confluence” returns more than 200,000 results, and searches for the Confluence favicon return more than 5,000. These figures aren’t an indication of the number of vulnerable instances, but do show how many are exposed to the internet.” – The Register At the time of publication, there’s more […]
Japan to introduce six-month residency visa for ‘digital nomads’
TOKYO — Japan will establish a new visa status that will make it easier for IT engineers and other workers for overseas companies to reside in the country, the Immigration Services Agency said Friday. The planned status will allow highly skilled workers to work in Japan on a teleworking basis for up to six months while […]
A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define–Combine Procedure
1 Introduction Following the 2020 Census, every state in the United States redrew their congressional and state legislative district boundaries (Warshaw, McGhee, and Migurski Reference Warshaw, McGhee and Migurski2022). Many city councils, school boards, county commissions, and other representative bodies also drew new maps. Redistricting creates opportunities for political actors to benefit certain groups over […]
Tailwind Color Palette Generator
Read the launch blog post for full details on how this works. Palette Creator Set the initial Value as a valid hexadecimal colour. By default this is stop 500, but it can be changed to any stop from 50-950. For colours that have 100% Saturation, make the Palette more interesting by shifting the Hue up […]
Significant features introduced for recent versions of Perl
perl version cheat sheet The most significant features introduced for recent versions of the Perl scripting language. Core security support is provided for 3 years, so typical users should run at least 5.34. Stable distributions such as Debian 10 maintain 5.28+. Enterprise platforms retain versions up to 5.10. 5.38 2023-07-02: latest stable release use feature […]
Google has another secret browser
I recently discovered [another] secret browser that is inside Google Play Services. The uniqueness of this browser is that it is accessible by a link. That means, it not only bypasses the “normal” google parental control, it also bypasses the “lock-down” mode (the “lock-down” mode is the “your device has been locked” screen in parental […]