Added a privacy policy to one of my #unhosted apps. There wasn't much to write: https://webmarks.5apps.com/privacy

Changing your GitHub username: how painful is it on a scale from 1 to 10? (Account is from 2008, almost daily activity in many different repos and projects.)

I didn't know the Raspberry Pi ran a closed-source core OS under Linux. This, and other issues with it, are explained in this post: https://ownyourbits.com/2019/02/02/whats-wrong-with-the-raspberry-pi/

Travel update: landed in Phnom Penh yesterday, and staying for a few weeks. Been enjoying it a lot so far; especially the food. Hadn't realized just how much I missed Thai basil.

"DART will be the first demonstration of the kinetic impact technique to change the motion of an asteroid in space." https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/dart

The GNOME design team put in some serious effort to modernize app icons from GNOME 3.32 onward, and help designers and developers create better icons for their apps: http://jimmac.musichall.cz/blog/2019-01-23-the-big-app-icon-redesign/

XRP market cap may be overstated by a cool $6 billion pretty much everywhere online: https://www.coindesk.com/xrp-market-cap-may-be-overstated-by-billions-messari-report-estimates

Was wondering about how exactly maps.me submits user edits back to OpenStreetMap, and I just randomly stumbled across one of the ways they do it: https://storage.5apps.com/basti/public/shares/190109-0552-Screenshot%20from%202019-01-09%2013-47-46....

Recently stumbled across umap, which is an alternative to Google Maps for creating and sharing your own maps with POIs and such. Works really well so far, and the feature set is fantastic! http://umap.openstreetmap.fr

Adding a German word list for standardized Bitcoin HD passphrases is more difficult than you'd think: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/721

"I very recently worked on the Edge team, and one of the reasons we decided to end EdgeHTML was because Google kept making changes to its sites that broke other browsers, and we couldn't keep up." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18697824

Who controls Bitcoin Core? TL;DR: nobody. https://medium.com/@lopp/who-controls-bitcoin-core-c55c0af91b8a

This blog post for remote-work newbies also contains some useful tips for more experienced remoties: https://24ways.org/2018/thriving-as-a-remote-worker/

Had a bit of fun playing with the Mapbox API's static image generator today (creating my own static maps from recorded Strava activities). So I thought why not add a mini world map to my current location on https://sebastian.kip.pe. Totally worth it.

Happy 10th anniversary, Bitcoin! http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-October/014810.html

Apparently Baidu engineers have solved simultaneous translation from Chinese audio to English text: https://simultrans-demo.github.io/

In case you're unfamiliar with the awesomeness of KeePass as a personal password manager, and esp. with the fact that there exist many different UI applications for its password database format, my buddy Jorin wrote up a few words to clue you in: https://jorin.me/store-passwords-with-keepass/

First IPFS Berlin meetup on Oct 11: https://www.meetup.com/IPFS-Berlin/events/254816369

The Web Design Museum exhibits over 900 carefully selected and sorted web sites that show web design trends between the years 1995 and 2005: https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/

Turns out that good cycling fitness doesn't translate at all to running. Just wanted to get my heart pumping a bit, and now some of my thigh muscles are close to being non-functional, after not even 5km of slow jogging: https://www.strava.com/activities/1831523082