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Built on WebRTC and Node.js. No downloads, no signups, just share a URL and you’re good to go.

Group video call is achieved using WebRTC mesh. So the quality of the call is inversely proportional to the number of people on the call. The sweet number is somewhere around 6 to 8 people in an average high-speed connection.

If you like the topics we cover on Brain Science, then you’ll love this post from Matthieu Cneude based on this study and his own experiences.

Depending on the project, the impact of biases can be completely different, from insignificant to dangerous for the survival of the project itself. … Come with me, I will show you what our enemy looks like, and how to bring it down with a sharp mind.

Yes, it’s that time once again… Time for yet another front-end JS library!

Since Moon is so simple at its core, where it creates an abstraction to allow drivers to handle input and output, it only weighs 2kb minified and gzipped. On top of that, it is specifically optimized for JavaScript engines to perform fast virtual DOM diffing and DOM operations.

Often times “simple” is a proxy for “only solves my immediate use-case, but I will continue to link up JS solutions that bring good ideas to the table, and pure functions are a good idea for many reasons.

We’ve linked K9s up in the past, but I’ve been playing with it today and I just had to share it again. Gerhard has us up and running on LKE (more on that coming to the blog and podcast soon) so I’ve had a chance to kick the tires a bit.

I have no idea how any of this magic works, but I do know that I like it and I’m excited to learn more. Here’s a screen grab of its Pulses feature, which gives you an overview of your entire cluster.

Darius Kazemi writing in Issue #14 of Increment magazine:

HTTP status codes are largely an accident of history. The people who came up with them didn’t plan on defining a numerical namespace that would last half a century or work its way into popular culture. You see this pattern over and over in the history of technology.

Because technology isn’t immune to historical contingency, it’s important for us as engineers to remember that long-lasting technical inflection points can occur at any time. Sometimes we know these decisions are important when we’re making them. Other times, they seem perfectly trivial.

Graviton Database is simple, fast, versioned, authenticated, embeddable key-value store database in pure Go… Every write is tracked, versioned and authenticated with cryptographic proofs. Additionally it is possible to take snapshots of database. Also it is possible to use simple copy,rsync commands for database backup even during live updates without any possibilities of database corruption.

Still in Alpha, but a lot of work has been done and there are features a-plenty.

Infinite scroll through 65k Winamp skins with instant search and in-browser interactive preview. This is a cool new addition to Webamp from our long-time friend Jordan Eldredge.

Is Changelog CI a new service offering from your favorite news feed providers?! Nope!
Is Changelog CI a way to generate a changelog via carefully crafted PR titles? Yep!
Is auto-generating your project’s changelog a good idea? Maybe…

Psst… You’ve found it. This is the JavaScript meetup for 🥼 mad science, 🧙‍♂️ hacking, and 🧪 experiments. Hang out virtually on Friday at 4pm Pacific Time each week.

The Analog Terminal Bell isn’t for sale, but that isn’t going to stop Aaron “Tenderlove” Patterson from trying to sell it to you in this epic infomercial. “It even works with /dev/urandom” 😆

Jesse Donat:

Go has a problem. Go modules place a strange naming requirement on modules version 2 or greater. Module names on modules v2+ must end in the major version ala …/v2, and communication of this rule has been weak. It’s non-obvious, and the community at large does not understand it.

I have seen many very large projects including Google owned projects get it wrong.

I brought the issue up at my local Go meetup, and no one had ever heard about the rule. They were very skeptical the rule existed at all.

Jesse goes on to tell the history, explain the problem in-depth, and suggest next steps for the Go Community.

Many of these “vs” style articles are too shallow or narrowly-focused to be of much use. Not this one. It even has a table of contents. Dive in deep for the full analysis or jump straight to the end for the if/then framework selection advice.

Jared Mauch was tired of waiting for high speed internet access to his very rural house in the outskirts of Ann Arbor, MI so he started a telco to get fiber to his town.

Development was happening in and around Ann Arbor putting new subdivisions nearby. I expected broadband would reach my new home eventually (Cable, DSL, FTTx), but…nothing came. I know…start a telco! – source slides

Jared covers everything in this video – the research, planning, finances, pre-builds, getting customers, internet access, construction, contractors, and running all the fiber.

Vimpeccable is a plugin for Neovim that allows you to easily replace your vimscript-based .vimrc with a lua-based one instead. Vimpeccable adds to the existing Neovim lua API by adding new lua commands to easily map keys directly to lua.

All of the power and customization of Vim without the inscrutable and othewise compulsory Vimscript? Sign me up! (metaphorically… I’m far too lazy to customize Vim anymore than I already have.)