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Re:Ballmer Peak on Sunday October 04, 2026 @12:39AM (#49950688)
Re:A technical history of Acorn Computers on Monday March 10, 2025 @02:35PM (#43324090)
Some great memories here.

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.

Re:The Airbnb/Hotel Gap: Private Common Spaces on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @02:49PM (#43187419)
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!
Been there, done that ;) tis a gem of a pub
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”

Re:In search of Britain’s oldest pub on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:43PM (#32671675)
Oh my, the memories (or lack there of)
@dang This seems to be an ad laden rehash of https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/21/risc_os_35/
Yes. The technology that made up o2 powers p2 now.
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.

Re:Show HN: A remote browser product, open-sourced on Monday November 18, 2019 @02:20PM (#21567271)
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.

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