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"an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp" Sounds like every metacircular interpreter I've written!

SMS 2-factor authentication isn't super secure because it's too easy to call a phone provider and do a SIM swap. It seems like a dedicated smartphone app is significantly better here? It's just as convenient for the user, but harder to compromise.

Travis CI is effectively dropping its support for open-source projects: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/travis-cis-new-pricing-plan-threw-wrench-my-open-source-works

Presumably a language with little syntactic sugar should be called sour?

Fedora may be dropping scp (the protocol, not the command) and NTP in future releases: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-Down-With-NTP-SCP

Fun compiler bug exposing an issue with LLVM (alias analysis): https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/54878 Impressively, they are able to replicate the issue in C with clang, and even find a similar bug in gcc!

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/779/clipboard-indicator/ is a clipboard manager with a nice touch: you can see the current value in the UI! Occasionally I think I've copied something when I haven't (or vice versa), so making the state visible seems really helpful.

Shower thought: as more packages move to a chronological version format, could you build a calendar app that uses the available package database to work out the current date?

A https://readme.md/ is brilliant for small projects. For very large projects, there are lot of mature tools: mdbook (used for Rust), Sphinx (used for Python) and Scribble (used for Racket). I don't know of many good options for "slightly bigger than a README" though.

A fun esolang I haven't seen before: expressing the entire program as a directory structure!

I'm a fan of simple issue trackers. A description, comments, and maybe a small integration with something. Given this, perhaps it makes sense to build your own? You get a bespoke solution, and focusing on your main project prevents feature creep.

Apparently Google runs a registrar that consumers can use! https://domains.google/ I'm not sure what's in it for Google (surely it's fairly small market?) but it seems pretty slick.

Graphical editor for ASCII art: https://monodraw.helftone.com/ It actually makes sense to me as a concept! It's not an intuitive product need, but it totally makes sense. I like the 'palette' of symbols available.

Really neat test suite that aggressively tests the corner cases for JSON implementations:

What's old is new again: a hit counter for GitHub repos! https://hits.dwyl.io/