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Re:London Street Trees on Thursday September 07, 2023 @08:51PM (#37427845)
Did not see anyone mention what’s available in Singapore yet:

https://www.nparks.gov.sg/treessg

And you can build on it too: https://exploretrees.sg/

Re:Ask HN: Show Us Your Personal Website/Blog? on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @04:32AM (#19197755)
Still just a blog that clearly needs a huge theme update? Heh, but it has collected fragments since January 2004, when I gave up hand coded HTML and doing an rsync on the diary.

http://www.bytebot.net/blog/

Re:Amazon RDS Update – MariaDB Is Now Available on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @01:35PM (#10347515)
MariaDB 10.1 is not a GA release, yet. When it goes GA, presumably this will also be available on RDS. Currently 5.5 & 10.0 are GA releases.
I've seen some usage in production of SphinxSE. If you find problems, why not ask at the http://kb.askmonty.org?
Re:The iPad’s Dirty Secret on Sunday May 02, 2010 @01:42PM (#1312817)
This isn't the most well thought out post. I can admit that having only 9 open tabs is annoying and it uses an arbitrary method of closing previously opened tabs (or lets call them new windows, because they're not exactly tabs). But I guess this is something we'll just have to live with.

Instapaper is an app that's about $5. It solves all my offline reading needs for me. I've never looked back since.

Re:Now this is a job posting on Sunday April 11, 2010 @01:31PM (#1257236)
"MySql" ? Eh, call it MySQL!
Re:Open Source Projects for social causes? on Sunday December 13, 2009 @02:13AM (#992518)
With regards to energy, hacking on http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/ might be useful

With regards to disaster relief, Sahana is a good project to hop onto