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"Like many of you, I was disappointed when I learned that Redis®1 was changing to a non-free licensing model. This is a betrayal of the free software community, but perhaps not an entirely surprising one. Forks are likely to start appearing in the coming days, and today, I would like to offer Redict to you as a possible future home for your needs, and present its trade-offs as compared to the other forks you’re likely to be choosing from soon."

"How to build notifications that do not ruin the experience for your users: when and how to ask for permissions: 3 rules for good notifications and how let user control what they need."

Most of these were *way* too optimistic.

"For millions of years, we’ve evolved to live in community. Our brains, which are hugely expensive to maintain, got bigger and bigger, primarily to support our ability to engage with others..."

March 22

Spam/Phish technique: find old CNAMEs or SPF records that reference abandoned domain names, register the referenced name, and effectively take over control of the subdomain and/or its SPF.
Countermeasure: Delete your old CNAMEs and update your SPF records if they include an old domain.

"DrumBeat is a WordPress plugin forked from Easy Liveblogs with an emphasis to rewrite the code and add a handful of features and templating. This was initially done in haste for We Distribute's live coverage of FediForum, when we realized serious limitations with Automattic's own grandfathered-in Liveblog plugin."