Does that work in Firefox as well? This is one pretty big pain point for 1password for me

It’s free, it’s very easy to setup and understand, and there is a lot of documentation out there on how to integrate it into different popular systems like Wordpress. It’s definitely invasive, but it’s hard to deny that it’s easy to integrate.

End-user-facing SaaS products are one thing. On a site I run on infrastructure that I run myself I can just look at the httpd logs¹ and doing so is way faster than looking at GA², but if I also bought a dozen other random SaaS products then the companies that run those won’t ship me httpd logs, but they will almost always give me a place to copy-paste in a GA tracking <script>. If I have to track usage on microsites and my main website, it’s nice if the same tracking works for all of them.

It has some useful features. I believe offhand that, if you wire up code to tell it what counts as a “conversion event”, GA can out the box tell you things like “which pages tended to correlate positively and negatives with people subsequently pushing the shiny green BUY NOW button?”

There’s a populace of people familiar with it. If you hire a head of marketing³, pretty much every single person in your hiring pool has used GA before, but almost none of them have scraped httpd logs with grep or used Piwik. (Though I would be surprised if they didn’t immediately find Piwik easy and pleasant to use.) So when that person says that they require quantitative analysis of visitor patterns in order to do their job⁴, they’re likely to phrase it as “put Google Analytics on the website, please.”

(¹ GA writes down a bunch of stuff that Apache won’t, out the box. GA won’t immediately write down everything you care about because you have to tell it what counts as a conversion if you want conversion funnel statistics.)

(² I have seriously no idea whatsoever how anybody manages to cope with using GA’s query interface on a day to day basis. It’s the most frustratingly laggy UI that I’ve ever used, and I’m including “running a shell and text editor inside ssh to a server on literally the opposite side of the planet” in this comparison. I think people who use GA regularly must have their expectations for software UI adjusted downward immensely.)

(³ or whatever job title you give to the person whose pay is predicated on making the chart titled “Purchases via our website” go up and to the right.)

(⁴ and they do! If you think they don’t, take it up with Ogilvy. He wrote a whole book and everything, you should read it.)

For me it was probably ego-stroking to find out how much traffic I was getting. I’ve been blogging for more than a decade and not always from hosts where logs were easily accessible.

What gets me is why people care about how many hits their blog gets anyway. If I write a blog, the main target is actually myself (and maybe, MAYBE, one or two other people I’ll email individually too), and I put it on the internet just because it is really easy to. Same thing with my open source libraries: I offer them for download with the hopes that they may be useful… but it really means nothing to me if you use it or not, since the reason I wrote it in the first place is for myself (or again, somebody who emailed me or pinged me on irc and I had some time to kill by helping them out).

As such, I have no interest in analytics. It… really doesn’t matter if one or ten thousand people view the page, since it works for me and the individuals I converse with on email, and that’s my only goal.

So I think that yes, Google Analytics is easy and that’s why they got the marketshare, but before that, people had to believe analytics mattered and I’m not sure how exactly that happened. Maybe it is every random blogger buying into the “data-driven” hype thinking they’re going to be the next John Rockefeller in the marketplace of ideas… instead of the reality where most blogs are lucky to have two readers. (BTW I think these thoughts also apply to the otherwise baffling popularity of Medium.com.)

Also, it’s invasive, sure but it’s also fairly high value even at the free level.

You get a LOT of data about your users from inserting that tracking info into your site.

Which leads me into my next question - what does all this pro-privacy stuff do to such a blog’s SEO?

(I know, I know, we’re not supposed to care about SEO - we’re Maverick developers expressing our cultural otherness and doing Maverick-y things…)

I think that the features you mention could be mapped to IRC, with some loss of course, but IRC users are (maybe?) used to a simpler experience.

IIRC, less choice is often touted as a good design practice. But Slack is removing the simple thing in favour of the bells and whistles. It’s not a surprise, but it’s sad.

hard to fit into IRC

Could you be more specific? This is a Slack-IRC gateway using the recent IRCv3 drafts for threads, reactions and rich content messages: https://twitter.com/irccloud/status/971416931373854721

As far as I can see, IRC can handle all these just fine.

It’s in the ‘wrong’ place in my stack, but the wee-slack plugin mentioned by @oz claims to have thread support. As a WeeChat plugin has access to windows and buffers I can imagine that being a smoother experience that a plugin in the otherwise ‘correct’ place: the bouncer.

Messages from apps are or could be notices in IRC, and images appear as links that I can click through to see using a web browser. It is certainly true that the more a tool tries to structure a conversation the more difficult it becomes to map that to the IRC protocol. That said, I’m absolutely open to retaining the ability to chat from an IRC client by fixing problems anywhere and everywhere they need to be fixed. There is no fundamental reason a thread feature can’t work outside of the official client.

The only reason I like the tree model above one-level conversations is that a tree that becomes “toxic” can be hidden entirely from the discussion. It helps when a “troll” comment gets posted, and all the conversation related to that comment as well as the comment itself can just be collapsed out of a conversation, instead of polluting the whole conversation flow. Kind of like the “comment score below threshold” on reddit. Even if lobste.rs didn’t want to auto-hide these flows, I think it’s useful to be able to do that my self.

Sure, great question. Hosted Artifactory is a great option if you have a large organisation, or you want to store packages of many different kinds. The downside is that it is fairly expensive to run and somewhat complicated to manage and configure. This is in part because each customer runs on their own VM.

Deps is designed for smaller JVM based teams that want simpler management and browsing. Crucially it runs as a multi-tenant service, so we don’t need to run a VM per customer. In exchange you get a simpler interface, higher availability, and cheaper pricing. It will be better for some people, but not for everyone, particularly if you need to handle multiple kinds of packages in one system.

Yep, I pasted the wrong thing, thanks for the fix.

It just has an expiration date. Much simpler.

The bags last for 5-7 days after which the machine supposedly refuses to process them.

What advantage does this machine deliver which bottled, cold-pressed juice does not?

I think he means that people think that if the green lock is there, that the website is somehow more “trustworthy”. When in fact, it’s just a measure of connection security. So someone sees the green lock on https://we-steal-from-your-paypal-account.mysite.com and thinks that means it is “trustworthy”. Most people I know have no idea what the green lock means other than “it’s good to look for when I online bank”.

I agree. If anything, I’d say it makes more sense for browsers to take on this role rather than the CAs. Perhaps browsers could warn users if they’re about to send secrets to a site with a domain that contains or is a misspelling of one of Alexa’s top 500 domains.

This certainly isn’t a perfect solution. It might not even be a good one. But I don’t think a CA filtering which domains are allowed is a good solution either.

I’m just going to assume that in some places, if you accept payment for driving someone around, you are considered a “taxi / limo service” and would have to follow ordinances and whatnot. Isn’t that what Uber has run into?

Yes, using a GPL library requires the entire tool to be GPL’d. If this isn’t the desired behavior, you can use the LGPL.

Some libraries are licensed with the full GPL on purpose, such as GNU Readline. It’s a very useful library, and many software authors have chosen to GPL their entire app rather than find a replacement readline implementation.

FWIW, desktop firefox also has reader view.

But, I doubt they’d cripple Edge like that, right? So, presumably they have some new tricks for Hyper-V that will make the experience better?

Hypervision (is that a word?) in general can be nested, but “Type-1” or “bare-metal” hypervisors typically don’t like to coexist with other hypervisors.

You can run Virtualbox and VMware Workstation next to each other (both Type-2, the app kind), but you cannot run Virtualbox under Xen.

I agree. I switched to GitLab for a few projects and after an initial phase of confusion I like it better than github now. It really is a nice project.