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https://stripe.com/it
This looks quite interesting:

A set of unified APIs and tools that instantly enables businesses to accept and manage online payments.

A beautiful, optimized, cross-device payment form, with support for single click payments.

Both aren’t “liberi”

Chrome – one of the most widespread browser – is proprietary software with Chromium being is “open source” base. According to Debian #Debian Bug report logs for “786909 – chromium: unconditionally downloads binary blob” Chromium even when built from source code still try to inject binary blobs – proprietary software – on your system without…

Paolo Redaelli

Creating vector icons with Inkscape is fun and easy.

Once you got proficient with Inkscape, of course. I forgot how much time is required to become actually productive with a new graphical tool.

Fat, obese npm

I do understand that today designs tend to put less emphasis  on conservative memory usage but that’s pretty outrageous. A simple search into node’s package manager ate one gigabyte and half of main memory having to deal with a simple question like npm find foobar more speficically GNU time told me that it took 48…