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I skimmed the paper, and it makes more sense than a lot of SPAs.

Wow. It never occurred to me that this was possible in the US. I've seen lightning three days out of the last five.

We have fireflies (or lightning bugs) in the back yard, too. I remember there being a lot more of them when I was a child, though.

My daughter used to think—and tell people—that her father "makes money."

Then one day I figured out that she thought I literally created paper currency at my day job.

I'll be looking for a new contract or job in June. Last time through the process, someone actually told me I was bad at interviews! They might be right; I spend a lot more time doing the job than looking for jobs. I'm not looking forward to the grind, and doubt I would be so fortunate to run into fun little problems like this one:

  letters = %w(A a b b c c c c d e)
  
  letter_map = Hash.new(0)
  
  letters.each do |letter|
    letter_map[letter] += 1
  end
  
  def print_count(map)
    map.each do |key, value|
      puts "\"#{key}\": #{value}"
    end
  end
  
  def match_count(map, count)
    map.select { |key, value| value == count }.keys
  end
  
  print_count(letter_map)
  match_count(letter_map, 4)

No, certainly not. My parents couldn't even help with college. But I bought my home in 2012 when prices were more reasonable.

Between one and two years ago, my team had serious issues getting OBS working reliably on T2-equipped Macs. We switched to an expensive commercial product and all our problems went away.

I couldn't duplicate the OBS issues on older Macs that didn't have the T2 chip.

My experience is similar. It's a fantastic product, with less-than-stellar reliability.

I'm wondering about this, too.

I have a client with a Cloudflare Pro subscription. They've received about 57 million image requests through Cloudflare in the last month, of which the origin has only served 2 million, and the Cloudflare Cache has served the rest.

If we used Cloudflare Images, would it cost $570 to transfer those 57 million images? Or would the Cloudflare Cache significantly reduce the number of transfers attributed to Cloudflare Images?

The manual included with Microsoft Flight Simulator (4.0 maybe?) in the early 90’s was thick and dense. I remember using it to learn how to navigate using VOR stations. They don’t make them like they used to.

A common technique is that somewhere in the email you'll see something like:

<img src="https://example.com/cd726f02-d2f4-4c0e-a717-e69044180c59.gif" height="1" width="1">

The image filename is a UUID. The UUID is of course unique for each email sent, but the Web server is configured to serve the same image for any given UUID (after recording the UUID as an "open" into a database).

There isn't a way for an email client to be certain that the image is or isn't a tracking pixel.

I see your point. If you're the kind of user who keeps automatic image download disabled, and rarely downloads them manually, keeping Mail Privacy Protection disabled might actually be more private. Fortunately, it isn't automatic. You'll have to enable it.

But if you do download a tracking pixel, email marketers already know you are using an Apple device. I see the Mail Privacy Protection feature as being primarily for people who want to automatically download images while sending less PII.

Leaked to who, though? If you use this feature, then sure, Apple will know that you're using an Apple device.

But the purpose of the proxy is to shield the end-user's IP address, and probably their user agent, too. Some email providers already do this. If you load an image from a Yahoo mailbox, for example, the reported user agent is "YahooMailProxy; https://help.yahoo.com/kb/yahoo-mail-proxy-SLN28749.html".

Not necessarily. Tracking pixels are implemented using images (usually transparent ones), so all Apple Mail needs to do is send the image URLs to the proxies, not the entire contents of the email. What they're actually doing remains to be seen.

You're not wrong. Not loading images will block tracking pixels completely. Apple is just adding a way to send less PII while still loading images.

Unless I'm misunderstanding how this new feature is implemented, tracking pixels will still work, but the data that can be gleaned from them will be more generic (the IP address will belong to a proxy).

Senders that are using these pixels to measure engagement (as opposed to building user profiles) shouldn't have much to worry about.

Ford trucks still have steel frames. Only the body is aluminum.

The world will be better off when we abolish freedom of belief? That doesn't sound like a world I'd want to live in.

I'm seeing very different experiences even within my own community. I have family in the same town who don't know anyone that has died from COVID, or even had a serious case, while I personally know multiple people who have died from COVID complications. To say this difference shapes our perspectives is an understatement.

Me too.

There isn't a 16" MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon yet.

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Technologies: Ruby on Rails (10+ years), Vue.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Ansible, Linux, Postfix, AWS. PHP and MySQL in a former life. Learning and looking for an opportunity to use Elixir and Phoenix.

Resume: On request

Email: hello@imjonathan.com

I’ve been doing full-stack web development for over 12 years, and programming far longer. My heart is on the back-end but I can do front-end, too. Rails is my first love, and though I sometimes wander, I keep coming back to it.

I’ve built everything from custom CRMs to advanced payment integrations to high-performance email broadcast and management systems (at a scale that was too large for MailChimp to handle).

I love slinging SQL (especially in Postgres) and am comfortable architecting and managing databases. I’ve managed Linux servers and done a lot of DevOps/automation work.

I also have expertise in the challenging world of email delivery, and what it takes to get emails into inboxes and keep reputation high.

Finally, I have a traditional art background and a good eye for front-end design, and experience doing it when necessary.

Thanks for reading!

Location: Chattanooga, TN

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Ruby on Rails (10+ years), Vue.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Ansible, Linux, Postfix. PHP and MySQL in a former life. Learning and looking for an opportunity to use Elixir and Phoenix.

Resume: On request

Email: hello@imjonathan.com

I’ve been doing full-stack web development for over 12 years, and programming far longer. My heart is on the back-end but I can do front-end, too. Rails is my first love, and though I sometimes wander, I keep coming back to it.

I’ve built everything from custom CRMs to advanced payment integrations to high-performance email broadcast and management systems (at a scale that was too large for MailChimp to handle).

I love slinging SQL (especially in Postgres) and am comfortable architecting and managing databases. I’ve managed Linux servers and done a lot of DevOps/automation work.

I also have expertise in the challenging world of email delivery, and what it takes to get emails into inboxes and keep reputation high.

Finally, I have a traditional art background and a good eye for front-end design, and experience doing it when necessary.

Thanks for reading!

That is not what the article says.

It says Internet Archive had already started ignoring robots.txt on US government websites.

Now (since 2017) they ignore it on all websites.

Archive.org does not respect robots.txt IIRC. I’ve run into this problem before with them. Ironically, I ended up blocking Internet Archive’s ASN using Cloudflare.

EDIT: Internet Archive started ignoring robots.txt in 2017: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/internet-archive-rob...

Agreed. They couldn't take my $20 fast enough. Such a great service.

In the back of my truck, I routinely have:

  Gas cans
  Used oil containers
  Lawn and tree equipment
  Gravel
  Sand
  Soil
  Mulch
  Trash/refuse/recycling
  Mountain bikes

While a floor liner would certainly help, all that stuff is still going to destroy the inside of a family vehicle pretty quickly. And taking precautions to prevent that from happening means being extremely diligent about cleanup, whereas I don't care one bit if the bed of my pickup truck is dirty.

It is extremely easy to go over the tow and payload ratings for any minivan sold in the US market (and that's without getting into why vehicles with transverse engines make poor tow vehicles). Towing at or beyond design limits is more irresponsible than owning a pickup truck IMO.

I own a minivan, too, as it's the only vehicle that the entire family will fit inside.

Like the pickup truck, our minivan is an extremely versatile vehicle, but there's just no way I'm going to put loose gravel, wet bags of mulch, or trash bound for the landfill in the back of it. Furthermore, I sometimes need to tow a trailer, and minivans simply aren't built for this.

I always preferred sporty sedans. But then I became a (relatively handy) homeowner and a father. After I got my pickup truck with a crew cab, I couldn't imagine not owning one, even though (as the title says) it barely fits in my garage.

I work from home and drive maybe 6K miles per year, so the fuel costs and emissions aren't a significant consideration for me. But there's something in the bed almost every weekend, and even when there isn't, there's usually a kid or three in the back seat.

If you don't have a family, or you automatically call a handyman when something breaks, I can understand why you might not want or need to own one of these magnificent vehicles.

But for many of us, these trucks are carefully considered purchases that solve a lot of problems.

In your defense, I don't see a link to the extension anywhere on the GitHub page.