Get started with this quick list of things to do after installing Ubuntu 20.04 LTS code named Focal Fossa. Source: 16 Things to do After Installing Ubuntu 20.04 – It’s FOSS

Starting today, every app you use to access your ProtonMail inbox is open source and has passed an independent security audit. To that end, open source has long been a priority at Proton. Our web app has been open source since 2015, our iOS app is open source, our desktop Bridge app is open source, and all ProtonVPN apps…

A command-line tool and library for generating regular expressions from user-provided test cases

I think I’ve spent my whole career trying out the next cool productivity software or system. It almost always fails. I tried as many of these things as I could but it just falls by the wayside. Basecamp, Reminders, Todoist, Trello, Bullet Journal, Post-It Notes… Jira. I’m joking on that last one; who would voluntarily…

Fork of Python 2.7 with new syntax, built-ins, and libraries backported from Python 3. Tauthon is a backwards-compatible fork of the Python 2.7.17 interpreter with new syntax, builtins, and libraries backported from Python 3.x. Python code and C-extensions targeting Python 2.7 or below are expected to run unmodified on Tauthon and produce the same output. But…

Executing a full rewrite of the Dropbox sync engine was pretty daunting. (Read more about our goals and how we made the decision in our previous post here.) Doing so meant taking the engine that powers Dropbox on hundreds of millions of user’s machines and swapping it out mid-flight. To pull this off, we knew we would…

The past few weeks have seen a large number of new domain registrations beginning with the word “reopen” and ending with U.S. city or state names. The largest number of them were created just hours after President Trump sent a series of all-caps tweets urging citizens to “liberate” themselves from new gun control measures and state leaders…

Have spontaneous, time-restricted video conversations with ice-breakers. Distributed teams use Snack to build authentic relationships, promote collaboration and share knowledge within Slack. https://aboutsnack.com/

I’ve started tracking TILs—Today I Learned’s—inspired by this five-year-and-counting collection by Josh Branchaud on GitHub (found via Hacker News). I’m keeping mine in GitHub too, and using GitHub Actions to automatically generate an index page README in the repository and a SQLite-backed search engine.https://simonwillison.net/2020/Apr/20/self-rewriting-readme/