Crafting a spacesuit demanded perfection from seamstresses to gluers to engineers — every stitch could mean life or death.

‘The thing I’d like most in the world’, says the reader in Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller (1979), ‘is to make clocks run backwards.’ And understandably so. Written after a period of creative uncertainty, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller…

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Security scanner as fast as a linter. 100+ built-in rules, 10 languages, sub-second scans. Rust + tree-sitter. - peaktwilight/foxguard

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In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz.

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A better WHOIS lookup tool. Contribute to retlehs/quien development by creating an account on GitHub.

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