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# sQratch.us: open-source privacy-first in-browser editor - No tracking. No cookies. No cookie warning. - A way better edit box than the little tiny one in Mastodon, Twitter, etc. Has a character counter. - Auto-resizes…

OSS lawyer types: how would you analyze the legal status of sample code that is widely copied, with no clear owner or license? I'm reviewing a proprietary code base for potential infringements and am finding a lot of…

1. This stuff is not webby, usually. Hash trees are not the web. IPFS is not the web. NFTs are not the web. PoW is not the web. 2. The web2 meme was hype from the beginning. Just let it die. 3. Other tech (like, RDF)…

Have you seen tooling to help give credit to contributors? I'm imaging a name, handle, and info on their contribution.

I am working on a tool to measure the speed of work by engineering teams. One visualization shows whether work is speeding up, slowing down, or going at a constant rate. What would you call that?

I have had success hiring junior developers who I thought were exceptionally intelligent, even when their experience didn't make them the best candidate. I'd like to continue hiring with this strategy, but to be more…

Are you aware of program management or project management methods for distributed organizations? I am designing workflows for a highly dispersed company where everybody is WFH, languages are split between English and…

Our AI startup has a complex product which usually requires us to assemble a slightly customized version for each customer. Using https://hackernoon.com/products-and-solutions-do-you-know-the-difference-4ff9169cefe3 as…

We have a desktop Electron app which needs to be signed before we ship it. Most of this codebase is written by developers on Upwork. Doing the work to sign the app means putting our private key in their hands. To give…

I'm going to post a job on Upwork to create static HTML+CSS from Sketch designs. I want to be able to say in the job description: "must achieve FOO rating on BAR code quality test." It's good to use automated metrics as…

Is it possible to get reverse tab completion, so that you type the last characters in the filename you want, press tab (or whatever the reverse keystroke is), and get the full file name? Sometimes I have files where the…