To the OP: On the page with the pigpen cipher and knights templar code, the code at the top is the same as braille and morse.

I really like this! Great way to introduce codes and make your own secret language. Also a good way to lead into how to decode them with pattern recognition.

Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben Rich is really good

I'll second this recommendation, it isn't about that damned swede, but it does give you some sense of his magnitude.

Which Swede are you referring to?

Sorry, it was a bit opaque but there's a famous quote by Hall Hibbard about Johnson I was referencing

"That damned Swede can actually see air."

Unfortunately, there's not much about Johnson in it, especially not his early career.

I remember getting a good sense of the man from Ben Rich's book.

Yeah. The books isn’t about Kelly Johnson but he gets referred back to a lot in cases of “what would he do” or “he told me to go the other way” or “kelly knew better in that instance”. It’s almost like Ben Rich bouncing ideas of Kelly while he isn’t present.

Does it cover his role in the development of the P-38, the F-104, the NF-104A or the U2? I don't think so, but my memory may be faulty.

I believe the earlier stuff is mentioned in passing when talking about Kelly Johnson's history but the more modern stuff Ben Rich worked on understandably gets more attention, with the bulk of it about the Blackbird and the F-117.

He spent some space talking about the U-2 and that material is the kind of thing I had in mind when talking about how the book gives an impression of Kelly Johnson. For example, prior to reading the book I didn't know that while the CIA people expected downed pilots to kill themselves, Kelly Johnson thought that was nuts, was sympathetic to Francis Gary Powers, and gave him a job as a test pilot when he returned from captivity.

I think the book is well written and accomplishes a lot with small anecdotes like that one. It was a lucky find for me. I pulled it off a bookshelf in an airport convenience store because it was the only book that didn't look insanely boring.

This is neat. I use disqus on my blog and had never heard of Isso. I'll have to check it out.

Shameless plug: my own alternative to Disqus: https://github.com/adtac/commento

There's also a hosted service I've been building for the past five months, if you don't want to bother with setting up and maintaining servers, but also don't want your readers to be mercilessly tracked by Disqus and their endless tracking partners. It's currently in private beta, but I'd be glad to invite anyone reading this (as a bonus, you'll get a lifetime free subscription for beta testing); shoot me an email (address in profile) :)

There's also Talkyard, which is like Disqus, and open-source, no ads, no tracking. Serverless hosting. Google, Facebook etc login.

https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments (I'm developing it)

Your pricing being cheaper for people in developing countries is interesting. I quite like the idea behind that. A few Euros is practically nothing for me but for some people it's a week's worth of food.

Ok :- ) It's related to the vision & goals: helping people to find ideas & solutions to problems in society. And then it needs to be affordable for people in developing countries too (because maybe that's where there're most problems to solve?).

Check out https://github.com/schn4ck/schnack as well!

This sort of editor makes it impossible to edit text. Say I want to change a link or image.. I have to delete it and insert it again. I prefer editors that show a side by side of markdown and rendered text so I can type/edit markdown but also see the output. I think that's a better compromise than replacing the markdown with live text.

That was the first thing I looked for. Cool that it runs in browser instead of uploading all of my data to their server.

If you're into that, check out our core project, https://www.textile.photos/. The idea is to give you control of all your data (starting with photos) doing backup not on our servers but on a decentralized service called IPFS, so you can maintain control and ownership of your data, always.

Please also check your waitlist signup form processing -- I've tried it multiple times, but haven't received an email yet.

(Yes, I've checked I've typed it correctly, and it's not in my junk folder.)

Were you able to register timb07? If not, let me know and we'll tweak things on our end.

I just tried again, but still no email. Don't your metrics on sign-up rate show a problem? Or is it just isolated to me somehow?

That link doesn't work for me, but this one does https://www.textile.photos/ :)

thanks! updated in comment too

Don't really see a point in all the gifs. Would be much easier to see the difference if you just showed two separate images of good/bad examples.

Took me at least three loops to even realize what the gifs were illustrating.

I was looking for one a while back and ended up making my own in PHP. I know it's not a popular language anymore but I have a PHP host where I put my websites and it's the quickest to get up and running for me. Anyway, it's on github https://github.com/sachleen/Steady and a website I made using it: https://github.com/sachleen/SacSciOly | http://sacramentoscienceolympiad.com

I tried all the others and none worked for me. Had to install all these new development environments, lots of issues setting up the local servers and building sites, etc. It's not perfect and I probably would not recommend it to anyone else (no docs yet, after all), but it works for me and doesn't take too much time to throw something together if you want simplicity.

I've done a tiny bit of PHP in my life and I was never good at it so I'm going to shy away from your suggestion. But, this will definitely put a smile on my friend's face. He just loves PHP. So, thank you for this!

For anyone using Windows with vertical monitors, I made something in AutoHotKey that helps snap windows to top/bottom half or third of the screen. This is useful if you regularly use Win+Left/Right key to snap windows to the left/right screen on landscape monitors but miss the feature on portrait monitors.

https://gist.github.com/sachleen/6ee644b25d77eac49b0b1f8ee4b...

I've never experienced this as a form of spam myself but I have noticed that some times events will get added to my calendar without me seeing the email message. I'll see something on my calendar and think "I don't remember this..." but if I had just seen it in my inbox, I would have marked it Done and remembered it, even if it was way in the future.

Then there's always this: https://www.troyhunt.com/bypassing-browser-security-warnings...