Firefox 87 with some nice changes
Published on in 👨💻 Dev
Firefox 87 was released with a new feature for everyone developing websites with light and dark modes.
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Ghost 4.0
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This thread and comment in the forum of the blogging platform Ghost show me, that it was the right decision to not use Ghost anymore since 2018.
extinction.fyi
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Doug Belshaw has a new side project: extinction.fyi. A site dedicated to climate change. For example, you learn that if you buy a Tesla with bitcoin, you cancel out the lifetime CO2 savings four times. Or that a battery-electric car needs only one-eightieth of the energy of a biofuel-powered combustion car.
“How do onion services work?”
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I found this description that explains quite well how Onion Services (also called Hidden Services) work. I have to admit that Tor is an exciting thing.
Telegram goes Clubhouse
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If I understand Cloubhouse and this Telegram announcement correctly, Telegram now has features like Cloubhouse, except Telegram is not an iPhone-exclusive app.
Tor support in GoBlog
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I don’t know of any other blogging software that supports this: Serve a blog directly as a Tor hidden service.
Published on in 💬 Micro
Still the same person, just with a lot less hair. This is probably also the first selfie on this blog.
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When the use of JavaScript is justified
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JavaScript is a controversial topic, especially in privacy and open source circles. That’s because JavaScript is often used to execute code on website visitors’ devices that does things that aren’t so cool. For example, tracking users across the entire Internet. That’s why the use of ad blockers is actually indispensable nowadays, and some go so far as to block JavaScript altogether.
Published on in 💬 Micro
Colin Walker writes:
It’s a little bittersweet — on the one hand it feels good as I know that I have a new solution but, on the other, it feels a little sad that the fruits of so much time and effort are now redundant.
I had exactly the same feeling when moving from my kind-of-microservice-architecture to my new GoBlog solution. But I think all the time and effort was still worth it, I learned a lot and had a lot of fun.
“Improving large monorepo performance on GitHub”
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I always find it interesting to learn how well-known services work under the hood and what efforts are being done behind the scenes to solve performance or other productive issues.