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purge··on Postgraphile v5 Released
a ground-up rewrite of the popular GraphQL API from schema builder
purge··on Epoch Times CFO charged in $67M crypto money laundering plot
I send money to 'the third world' a lot and it's extremely easy without having to resort to crypto nonsense. Hearing these implausible points repeated every time this question comes up just seems desperate now.
purge··on After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL
postgraphile v5 has significantly improved query generation (https://postgraphile.org/postgraphile/next/) since moving to grafast (https://grafast.org/grafast/)
purge··on After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL
many of these concerns are mitigated by ensuring you are using trusted documents (https://benjie.dev/graphql/trusted-documents)
purge··on Meta Horizon OS
it requires a meta sign-in, which isn't a facebook account.
purge··on A 'CSS reset' for TypeScript, improving types for common JavaScript API's
they made the change from any to unknown in the catch handler so its not without precedent
purge··on GraphpostgresQL: A GraphQL Extension for PostgreSQL
I love postgraphile and the graphile toolkit (worker and migrate are best in class imho).
purge··on Why are hyperlinks blue?
The second screenshot is from windows 2, which was released in 1987
purge··on Uganda Bans VPNs to Prevent Users from Dodging Its New Social Media Tax
I'm not sure about the peering connections but Uganda does have a good range of ISPs (outside of Kampala connectivity is mobile network only).

The mobile providers are:

- Africell (was orange)

- MTN

- Airtel

- Smile

- Uganda Telecom

purge··on Uganda Bans VPNs to Prevent Users from Dodging Its New Social Media Tax
This is good to know about (and a great idea) - i'll take a look later. The other issue with using a VPN is people can no longer use the 'social pack' which is a cheap social media only data package available on all the networks.
purge··on Uganda Bans VPNs to Prevent Users from Dodging Its New Social Media Tax
I'm living in Uganda at the moment and have a couple of things to add:

1. VPNs still work fine (I'm using one right now, though its one I installed on a digitalocean instance - it's possible those receiving lots of traffic have now been blocked).

2. This tax is unaffordable for many Ugandans (it would be about 5% of the average wage here). Whatsapp is very popular here and this has impacted everybody I know. Most people I've talked to are using a free VPN (they aren't aware of the risks here).

I haven't done much analysis of the blocking yet but I will be doing a more in-depth post about this whole debacle in a few days.

purge··on The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org
The backend API is indeed (modern) Perl and the repository is here: https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-api
purge··on Chrome’s Plan to Distrust Symantec Certificates (2017)
full history of Symantec CA issues: https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:Symantec_Issues
purge··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2016)
SEEKING WORK - Brighton / London, UK. Remote.

Experienced freelance dev React and React Native.

Backend node.js / postgresql / graphql / REST

Email: simon@papercreatures.com

Web (updating soon!): http://papercreatures.com

purge··on After 100 years World War I battlefields are poisoned and uninhabitable
I feel I should do the obligatory Dan Carlin link here: http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50-bluepri...

Long, harrowing and left me hankering for more. He covers Verdun in the later episodes.

purge··on Mandrill’s Betrayal
We had issues every few months because the server we were assigned would be added to a RBL. Customers would notice, we'd talk to Mailgun and they would move us to another server. rinse, repeat.

The only way to avoid this was to get a dedicated IP which is an additional $59 / month.

I'm not sure why Mailgun couldn't detect this themselves, maybe they do now.

purge··on Be aware of phishing at airbnb
I don't understand how this scam was realised then. They must've managed to get access to the applicants true email address somehow?
purge··on Be aware of phishing at airbnb
One of my friends was caught out by a similar scam last year. There is plenty of prior art for airbnb to look at when developing a safe platform for people to communicate through. At the very least they should disallow exchange of e-mail / non-airbnb websites via the platform communication channels.
purge··on Dash – Beautiful instant offline docs for almost everything
This has been the single best investment i've made to my workflow for years. Really communicative, friendly developer too.
purge··on Squarespace: They Asked for My Password.
I was somewhat dumbfounded when I was asked for my apple id and password when I went to get my screen replaced at the apple store.

After some debate with more senior team members, I reset my password to something generic and gave it to them, but it sets a bad precedent for customers who should be educated into never giving their password, under any circumstances.

purge··on 'Blue Screen of Death' haunts iPhone 5S users
I actually had a BSOD in the first few minutes of my 5S arriving. It's been rock solid since apart from the usual iOS7 issues.
purge··on PHP in a Tweet
Don't invite Perl to this party
purge··on Google Maps: “Treasure Map” mode
that just so happens to be very near to where I'm currently located. wonder if thats the plan?
purge··on Google Maps: “Treasure Map” mode
you need to turn off webgl experimental
purge··on Google Maps: “Treasure Map” mode
mine ended in a similar manner - https://maps.google.com/maps?q=50.62,+-113.81&hl=en&...
purge··on Google Maps: “Treasure Map” mode
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=47.57,-122.25&hl=en&l... is next (correction)
purge··on I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out
We had a similar problem with a talentless rogue designer at my old agency.

It only became clear he had blatantly copied other sites after he left, unfortunately (he was also sacked from future jobs for the same thing, I suspect).

He even had the audacity to claim an award for one of his rip-offs, including attending the vegas ceremony (IIRC). I really don't know how he slept at night.

I'm not going to name names as this was a long time ago and I'm hoping he's changed his ways.

purge··on Love Your Terminal
Be sure to read the documentation when installing zprezto on OSX. If you don't run the following, your PATH will be screwed up.

sudo chmod ugo-x /usr/libexec/path_helper

purge··on Miscellaneous Thoughts and Observations on iTunes 11
You can, just go to window > mini player and it appears in conjunction with the fullscreen itunes.
purge··on Making MathBox: Presentation-Quality Math with Three.js and WebGL
I was at full frontal and this presentation was captivating. One of the best talks I have ever seen. Bravo.
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