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A look at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin Bird ID app, which has been downloaded 42M times since launching in 2014 and can identify 11,000 bird species (Claer Barrett/Financial Times)

A free app has propelled birdwatching into the mainstream, offering a portal to a hidden world.

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Java Service Steward, an open-source host for Java Windows services that reads wrapper.conf

Java Service Steward is a new Windows service host for Java applications. It reads the wrapper.conf format used by the Java Service Wrapper, follows the same command line and log format, and is…

  • Java Service Steward is an open-source Windows service host for Java applications.
  • Project created due to lack of 64-bit Windows build in Community Edition of Java Service Wrapper.

I Ran 89,479 WhatsApp Messages Through WAHA. Twilio: $604.

Last month my WhatsApp stack moved 89,479 messages. I got no invoice for any of them. That is not a brag, it is the setup for an honest accounting.

  • Author ran 89,479 WhatsApp messages through WAHA platform.
  • Estimated cost of self-hosting WAHA: $604.
  • Twilio charged $604 for same outbound messages.

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