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davidcorbin | 3 years ago | on: Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers

NextDNS is great. Totally worth the $

davidcorbin | 5 years ago | on: VPN over SSH? The Socks Proxy

This looks really useful. Gonna give it a try!

davidcorbin | 5 years ago | on: M1 Macs cannot support dual Extended displays through their Thunderbolt 3 ports

I’d like to add to this my disappointment in using a G2 dock. Have had two different HP G2 docks (using DP and USB C) for dual external displays and they both broken over two years of sitting on my desk. I don’t know what’s happening to them but eventually both external displays start flashing and getting artifacts and USB and Ethernet devices start randomly disconnecting.

Just my experience. Hope other haven’t had those issues.

davidcorbin | 5 years ago | on: Maxima – A Computer Algebra System built with Lisp

How does this compare to Sage?

davidcorbin | 5 years ago | on: TikTok found to have tracked Android users’ Mac addresses until late last year

Real question is why does android allow access to a phones MAC address?

davidcorbin | 5 years ago | on: A new and improved Twitter API

All these years and they still don’t have a serious API offering.

davidcorbin | 5 years ago | on: Unit Testing Is Overrated

This. Making the distinction between the two is huge. Save time and money testing the right pieces of a codebase.

davidcorbin | 5 years ago | on: Apple Mail randomly becomes the frontmost application in macOS

Exactly. Been doing the same thing for years. Eventually just switched to AirMail.

davidcorbin | 5 years ago | on: An introduction to RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ has been awesome in my experience. One of the few tools that just works and has a super useful management web interface and Prometheus support among other plugins.

For those noting HA and scalability, it not meant for those use cases where (virtually infinite) horizontal scalability are the biggest concern. If you need horizontal scalability at a massive scale, use Kafka. But for the majority of cases, you can get away with limited scalability and the prod setup, development experience, and reliability of RabbitMQ are unmatched from my experience.

davidcorbin | 5 years ago | on: Swift 5.3 Will Be Supported on Windows and Additional Linux Distributions

100% correct

davidcorbin | 6 years ago | on: Gitlab features that are moving to open source

This. Pull mirroring is a must before my team would considering using it.

davidcorbin | 7 years ago | on: Github restricts public Faceswap repo to logged-in users

The https endpoint works without authentication

davidcorbin | 7 years ago | on: GoDaddy injecting JavaScript into websites and how to stop it

The good ol days :)

davidcorbin | 7 years ago | on: SageMath – Open-Source Mathematical Software System

I use Sage on a daily basis rather than Mathematica as an undergrad. Love it and plan on contributing in the future!