
At Automattic, we are able to pick our own job titles. After hosting a few rounds of Among Us within my team yesterday, I am officially our in-house Among Us wrangler!
At Automattic, we are able to pick our own job titles. After hosting a few rounds of Among Us within my team yesterday, I am officially our in-house Among Us wrangler!
— Nader Dabit (@dabit3) January 30, 2021
Okay, this is me. 😅
I came across Brian’s comment on Backblaze reddit, where I learned of a few interesting things about how internet data traffic is billed between customers, hosts and transit partners. In particular, they explain how Backblaze and Cloudflare have peering agreements in place to enable free egress for customers. It’s great read!
The way the CloudFlare/Backblaze relationship works is that CloudFlare is very arguably big enough to be tier 1, and should be allowed to have the utterly free peering of a tier 1 provider, but they are “locked out”. They don’t get the sweet sweet deal the tier 1 providers get of running their businesses terribly and pocketing billions of dollars of profit without innovating. So normally, without contortions, if a Backblaze customer wanted to route a network packet to CloudFlare, it would flow over at least 1 of the tier 1 network providers and Backblaze and CloudFlare would both have to pay a lot of money. But here is the work-around: Backblaze is in several datacenters where CloudFlare has network cabinets (where their equipment is housed), and essentially CloudFlare and Backblaze run a network patch cable between our cabinets BYPASSING the tier 1 network, and therefore don’t have to pay the tier 1 providers to route packets between Backblaze and CloudFlare. That’s it, that’s the magic.
I love it when NextDNS actively blocks these Facebook requests. 👊🏽
A quick screencast of what I hacked on today: setting up exit nodes on my @Tailscale network, and switching my laptop's internets between them. https://t.co/JfaF1t5MaN
— Dave Anderson (@dave_universetf) January 20, 2021
Still WIP. Still TODO: exit node picker GUI on other OSes.
Exit nodes are coming soon on Tailscale! I have been waiting for this functionality for a while now. I would like to run Cloudflare Warp on a Raspberry Pi, and route all devices traffic via that Pi. Super looking forward to it!
After leaving Facebook, Brian Acton, previously co-founder of WhatsApp, invested in Signal, the private messaging app.
— What is the business model of (@businessmodelof) January 12, 2021
Here’s how Brian went from being the founder of WhatsApp to an investor in Signal👇
Great thread on how Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, left Facebook post acquisition. He gave up 850 million dollars along the way, and invested 50 million in Signal, a non-profit.
Signal is a no-brainer. 🙂
I found this interesting 40 hours case study of Signal, by Built For Mars. Two key takeaways seem to be that prompts must be contextual. And, being a privacy-first product, it must be even more important to ask for permissions only when necessary. It’s actually better to read the post below, to get a visual overview of where Signal can improve on. A related Hacker News thread is open too.
I don’t remember how the competitors like Telegram and WhatsApp fare, but I am keen on giving it a look myself. Maybe sometime in the future.
That’s it. My grand mother is on signal. What the fuck is going on.
— David Wong (@cryptodavidw) January 18, 2021
I’m loving it! 🚀
I have always wanted to have a replacement for Twitter in my personal blog. So far been using specific categories to classify micro blogs from long-form posts, and I have strategically placed them with Gutenberg’s blocks. Inspired by Mike’s format here, I am taking this one step further by hiding the titles for micro blogs.
I’m testing a status update, hoping that it doesn’t send an email out to subscribers. Let’s see what happens.