westi | 1 year ago | on: A technical history of Acorn Computers
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westi | 1 year ago | on: The Airbnb/Hotel Gap: Private Common Spaces
Looking for places that are good for small team off/onsites for companies that work remotely is a good solution to this problem. In general more of those spaces would help those groups too!
westi | 1 year ago | on: How the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain's strangest pub chain
Been there, done that ;) tis a gem of a pub
westi | 1 year ago | on: Two Years of Turmoil at Big Tech's Anti-Terrorism Group
westi | 2 years ago | on: Dating is exhausting, so I let a chatbot flirt for me. Things got weird fast
westi | 3 years ago | on: What It’s Like to Learn You’re Going to Live Longer Than You Expected
westi | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Name 3-5 books that had the most impact on your career and knowledge?
The Mythical Man Month - important lessons for any developer
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life - A really good read on how to write which is applicable to everyone who needs to communicate well
Producing Open Source Software - This is such an in depth book into everything you need to consider when working “in public”
westi | 3 years ago | on: In search of Britain’s oldest pub
Oh my, the memories (or lack there of)
westi | 3 years ago | on: ARM original operating system: RISC OS still alive after 35 years
@dang This seems to be an ad laden rehash of https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/21/risc_os_35/
westi | 4 years ago | on: Mailchimp Employees Shocked When Their Health Benefits Ended
westi | 5 years ago | on: P2 powers internal collaboration at WordPress.com, and is now free
Yes. The technology that made up o2 powers p2 now.
westi | 5 years ago | on: P2 powers internal collaboration at WordPress.com, and is now free
The previous version was a theme and is still available - https://wordpress.org/themes/p2/
This version is also a theme and will be released for self hosting in future too.
westi | 6 years ago | on: I Made My Shed the Top-Rated Restaurant on TripAdvisor
(2017) - previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861136
westi | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: A remote browser product, open-sourced
This is pretty cool.
It might be work stopping the browser 'loading' itself inception style with some kind of blacklisting of loadable urls - I assume you already have something to protect against SSRF type attacks on the platform itself.
westi | 6 years ago | on: HTTP 451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons
WordPress.com uses it -
https://transparency.automattic.com/country-block-list-augus...
westi | 7 years ago | on: Coverity Scan Update
Based on DNS history for the domain it looks like it was https://twitter.com/nephoscale | http://nephoscale.com/
westi | 8 years ago | on: Wolfenstein's original rendering engine as 450 line shader with no external data
Wolfenstein, the game whose textures are being generated by this, was set in World War II Germany.
westi | 8 years ago | on: How the robocall industry outwitted the government and wrecked the DoNotCall list
Looks like you can read this without the paywalling here: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/how-robocall-mogul...
westi | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)
Automattic | Front-end, Back-end | Full-time | Worldwide Telecommute | REMOTE | http://automattic.com/work-with-us/
Automattic is currently hiring for a variety of positions.
We are passionate about making the web a better place and are strong believers in Open Source. We build WordPress.com, contribute to the WordPress Open Source project (http://wordpress.org) and work on a lot of other really cool stuff including CloudUp, Gravatar and Akismet. Join us if you are passionate about making the web a better place.
If you like solving interesting problems in different ways, are passionate about giving people the platform to share their knowledge, views etc we would love to hear from you :)
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westi | 8 years ago | on: U.S. To Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights from Europe, Officials Say
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Somewhere in my parents attic is my RISC PC 600 and 486 Co-Processor card. Not sure if they also have the A3000 we had before that.