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pflockon Neovim 0.5 is overpowering

Haven't used Magit w/ emacs but have been using a library inspired by in for the last year or so: https://github.com/jreybert/vimagit

not sure how it compares feature wise but I've found it extremely helpful.

pflockon Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?

if you have a kindle library is it possible to import to use with Kobo readers? Calibre maybe helps?

pflockon Rust for web development: 2 years later

definitely not relevant to all web-dev, but Discord found that the garbage collection in go was causing bad performance spikes and switched to go for one of their read-state services: https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...

pflockon Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories

Not sure about with Firefox's built in tracker protection. But I recall reading that having ad/tracker blocking could actually make a user easier to uniquely identify, because the browser now behaves differently than most: https://panopticlick.eff.org/about. My hope would be that built-in tracker will make ad-blocking browser traffic more ubiquitous.

pflockon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)

Are you hiring for any Junior/entry-level engineering positions?