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I agree! I remember that we used to joke that at last we didn't need designers to do designs anymore. Colored rectangles were enough for everything!

Which I think was the reason that Microsoft did it that way and Apple tried to resist a bit. But the developer push was substantial.

In past instances similar to this one, when Heroku wasn't acknowledging or giving any details it was a case of DDoS. It makes sense to stay quiet to avoid other potential attackers to pile in. Maybe they have found an AWS endpoint that was suffering DDoS attacks and they brought down a lot of people with it. Heroku is surely on AWS, I'm positive that also OpenAI is using something there and all the others affected. Let's wait and see, it will take a few days for sure.

From Datocms here :) We are also actively experimenting on porting our main app. We are doing progress, so far so good!

The Nextjs site lasted 4 years. Before that we had a Gatsby one: https://github.com/datocms/old-website/

I'm helping our local Fablab to manage physical access with a series of ESP8266 and esp-rfid https://github.com/esprfid/esp-rfid/ (of which I became maintainer. If you want to use it as well I can help!)

Working in a SaaS, I'm always surprised by these companies giving two months notice before shutting down services that are powering pretty significant websites.

This move is going to cost companies using Gatsby Cloud a lot, especially if they had built tooling and workflows around Gatsby Cloud.

Why are they rushing this shutdown? 2 months seems really too little for me.

Also, Netlify is targeting enterprise customers more now, doesn't this two months notice give a bad impression to those kind of customers?

I'm honestly not sure if I am too scared by these quick moves or if it's going to be a real problem for someone.

You mean openai decided

Yes, that's what concerns me. Since it's not really clear what's going on, how can we trust a third party service by uploading personal data?

Is this Ok to upload all your messages and your contacts to these services? I'm very worried about that, really

Very useful guide for proper parenting. Thank you!

I was thinking to a 3D representation of a library or a zoomable interface. It could leverage our good spacial memory while also allowing accidental discovery of books

Sure you lose track, but it's so much easier with physical things to bump into already seen items and recognize them. Or also casually being interested by a cover or by the size of the books.

I feel like there could be a better way to handle lots of digital books/articles/songs/films/photos/etc

I'm very interested in visual ways to explore ebooks, papers, articles.

A physical library helps discovering new stuff or occasionally bumping in something. With files you need to be much more deliberate and I feel like you can accumulate a lot without really knowing what you have.

Even if this is a simple visualization it already gives ideas on how much more information you could convey with something similar. Like number of pages, color of the cover, to remind you of the book, different font, etc. A set of cues that can help you navigate in the list of books, at least I suspect :)

check this coworking space: https://toolboxcoworking.com/ there are several tech meetups of nice people and it's also hosting the local fablab: https://fablabtorino.org/

after covid there are less meetups, but I'm sure it's going to pick up again

I'm in your situation, I'm so impressed!

I don't like the idea that tech comes first and people last. That is often the case when the automation is simply meant to replace inefficient humans, without really thinking to the consequences. I'm of course pro-automation as I think it's an improvement for humanity, but I'm always worried about the end result.

Also I don't like that most companies have this kind of double-speak when they say that they are working to improve everyone lives while they simply want to automate work away, avoid rules (simply because Internet is not regulated as the rest of the economy) to make more money than in other ways.

I've found this website being really good for Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon: http://www.tier1online.com/refurbished-lenovo-thinkpad-x1-ca...

I haven't bought anything myself yet, but quality and price seem very interesting to me.

Just a curiosity, which CDN are you using?

Felipe Fonseca's critical thoughts about the last 10-15 years of the "makers" movement.

Very insightful reading how the general culture of the movement has changed from a repair-reuse-recycle to a prototype-industrial-capitalistic mentality.

It's really funny because I'm working on a real project which uses a CSS which is really like universal.css, and we are thinking of going responsive. Luckily at least this is a joke.

I sympathize with the other commenters with my same problem.

It's funny that I've received the notification for the HN500 while I was reading "Mr. Penumbra's 24h bookstore" and noticed it after having finished the book. Clicked the link and the author was Robin Sloan as in the book :)

Apart from the funny combination I just chime in to recommend the book here, I think most of you here would enjoy that.

Yes, crazy. I think that most of the people don't think that are dealing with humans through computers. They just deal with machines, so they can try to fool them.

It's also part of the being really rude on the Internet behind the anonimity that we have.

I'm astonished that we need to explain that being correct sales people is the way to build relationships.

As if over the web you could fool human beings and get out without being noticed.

But then doing that would mean that you split a single system configuration through two different tools, right? I don't think it's ideal in practice.

That's a good reason, but I don't understand if the use case scenario is the same or different. And if different, in what?

What's the benefit of Guix compared to tools like Chef (https://www.getchef.com/) or Puppet(https://puppetlabs.com/)?