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Sunday 5th January, 2020 #

  • Distributing Software in a Post-Google Safe Browsing World - This appears to me to be quite an important issue, developers need to be able to distribute the software they are making
  • Restored complete curl changelog - A nice bit of tidying on a project a lot of us use on a daily basis
  • Amazon is getting ready for everything you do online to be encrypted - They have implemented an open source replacement for the TLS component of OpenSSH called s2n and it is 6000 lines of code compared with 70000 lines of the old implementation
  • Bruce Perens (OSI co-founder) quits Open Source Initiative amid row over new data-sharing crypto license - The license blurs the lines between software and data
  • JobFunnel - Automated tool for scraping job postings into a .csv file
  • Folklore.org is a web site devoted to collective historical storytelling (of computing), has a focus on Mac related topics, uses lots of relatively short anecdotes rather than a longer, monolithic narrative
  • Notes on Technical Writing - Summarises the main points from a variety of sources about technical writing, pretty useful if you have to write documentation, includes references to lots of useful books