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← Back to News page Migrating from AWS to Self-Hosting September 12, 2024 You often hear this story in tech news: some project got increasingly popular, so they had to migrate from their simple, one-c
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The following guest post from humanities scholar Katie Livingston is part of our Vanishing Culture series, highlighting the power and importance of preservation in our digital age. My Grann’s edition
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I’m a journalist with a master’s degree in computer science. Subscribe now to get future articles delivered straight to your inbox. You might remember around Thanksgiving last year when news broke abo
I A specter is haunting Eastern Europe: the specter of what in the West is called "dissent." This specter has not appeared out of thin air. It is a natural and inevitable consequence of the present hi
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2024/09/08 5 min read Does Your Startup Really Need Complex Cloud Infrastructure? I recently listened to Pieter Levels on the Lex Friedman Podcast, and it was eye-opening. Pieter has built numerous su
The Boy and the Heron is legendary director Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece. The 2023 Studio Ghibli film is a triumphant work of art that revisits and interrogates every theme Miyazaki has spent his leng
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