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cdubzzz

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https://www.chris-wells.net

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https://github.com/babybuddy/babybuddy

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opencollective.com 3y ago

Open Source Collective Is Hiring Maintainers

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ethereal.email 3y ago

Ethereal Email

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github.com 5y ago

Show HN: Kcal – the personal (self-hostable) food nutrition journal

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github.com 5y ago

MailChimp updates Privacy Policy to permit expanded third party tacking

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: What was the top post the day you joined HN?

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github.com 5y ago

Zenith – htop with charts for CPU, GPU, network

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www.axios.com 6y ago

Tinder's parent company criticizes Apple over App Store

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en.wikipedia.org 6y ago

Hurricane Turn

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features.propublica.org 6y ago

The Quiet Rooms

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crosscut.com 6y ago

After 15 years, Seattle’s experiment in no-barrier housing is still saving lives

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www.merriam-webster.com 6y ago

On 'Biweekly' and 'Bimonthly'

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www.axios.com 7y ago

Tech veterans debut site to report workplace misconduct

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shapecatcher.com 7y ago

Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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pi-hole.net 8y ago

FTLDNS and Unbound Combined for Your Own All-Around DNS Solution

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en.wikipedia.org 8y ago

Blockbusting

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www.bunniestudios.com 8y ago

Innovation Should Be Legal. That’s Why I’m Launching NeTV2

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objective-see.com 8y ago

When Disappearing Messages Don't Disappear

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chrxs.net 8y ago

Pip, Pis, Pandas and Wheels

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writing.kemitchell.com 8y ago

Proseline – Git for prose, in the browser

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writing.kemitchell.com 8y ago

The Well Appointed Skinner Box (Farewell, Medium)

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github.com 8y ago

Show HN: Baby Buddy

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apnews.com 8y ago

FBI couldn’t access nearly 7K devices because of encryption

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www.drupal.org 8y ago

Drupal looking to adopt React

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chrxs.net 8y ago

Consistent Selenium Testing in Python

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chrxs.net 8y ago

Consistent Selenium Testing in Python

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www.businessinsider.com 8y ago

What the Google Manifesto author gets wrong about engineering

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www.washingtonpost.com 8y ago

How bad is the HBO hack? The company is still struggling to find out

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www.garfieldtech.com 8y ago

Deception and discrimination in Drupal

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news.sky.com 9y ago

Russia threatens to ban end-to-end encrypted messaging app Telegram

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: What do you use for cloud file storage?

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I started out with Dokku and it was fine, but ultimately switched to Coolify solely because it has a web UI. Dokku Pro has one as well, but my use case was primarily just for hosting a demo and spinning up instances from GitHub PRs so didn’t feel worth spending money on.

On every service we have ever subscribed I’d say we’ve streamed all that we want to stream within about six months at most. After that there needs to be basically a constant stream of new (good) content or it does not feel worth it.

Sparkle 3 years ago

I wish I’d kept the damn server code around somewhere. Lost to Internet history ):

Sparkle 3 years ago

It's cool Sparkle is still around and offering an alternative for app updates. I remember working with it in Quinn on Mac OS X like 10 or 15 years ago.

VirtioFS[0] is making a _huge_ difference on the macOS side. I hated using Docker on macOS for a long time and started testing it as soon as it came out. Had some bad bugs initially and apparently does still have kinks being worked out but I’ve been using it consistently for a few months now and actually forgot all about how terrible the experience used to be. It is such a great improvement.

[0] https://www.docker.com/blog/speed-boost-achievement-unlocked...

The tweet and video don’t seem to imply this _should_ be a comment.

I have been “learning to program” for 20+ years and would absolutely find this useful as a quick way to get basic information about a chunk of code I’m unfamiliar with.

Not that learning to read code isn’t important, just not always necessarily worth the time (:

Open source programs: If you are a maintainer on an open-source project, and would like to request Heroku support for your project, contact the Salesforce Open Source Program office at ospo-heroku-credits@salesforce.com.

Both the text version of this email (ospo-heroku-credits@salesforce.com) and the mailto it actually links (ospo@salesforce.com) appear to be invalid.

I tried both and got:

We're writing to let you know that the group you tried to contact ($GROUP) may not exist, or you may not have permission to post messages to the group.

I should have taken more notes on this...

I think my primary issue with Render.com was the shared database for PR previews. The way I am setup on Heroku is I run a demo instance that resets hourly and build PR reviews from the Heroku Dashboard when necessary. All with no cost. The shared database makes the PR reviews effectively useless because of the need for the ongoing demo database.

I was also turned off by the default service plan being a non-free one. I got a surprise bill in my first month of testing this because I had not specified the free plan in the service configurations.

Also one of the weirdly nice things from Heroku was the ability to run cron jobs for free. Lacking that I had to create a GitHub Action to handle resetting the demo data every few hours. Just an additional pain.

Well shit. After the Heroku Dashboard issues I moved my OSS project demo instances and PR reviews process to Fly.io, then Render.com, then Railway, then back to Heroku because it was the only one that had a truly free and well integrated process.

Sigh.

Cascade Public Media (KCTS9.org/Crosscut.com) | App Developer | Full-time | Hybrid (Seattle, WA area)

I'm looking for an iOS/tvOS or Android/Fire TV app developer (the PD currently asks for iOS/tvOS but we are flexible) to help maintain and build streaming apps for our KCTS9.org video content (Seattle area PBS affiliate). We have been working with firms for the past few years to build and release Roku, tvOS, Fire TV, iOS, and Android apps and are now looking to start building a small in house crew to maintain and move those apps forward. For now this will be the only app developer position at the org so we are hopeful that we can find someone with some level of experience and ability to work independently.

Position is technically hybrid but the Digital Product team remains remote for now (and will work to stay that way for as long as we can, hah).

Feel free to email me (via HN profile and personal website) if you have questions.

https://www.cascadepublicmedia.org/careers/opening/swift-app...

I'm doing the Hugo list now!

Just about at the end of Speaker for the Dead. A Canticle for Leibowitz was the first ones that I really enjoyed. Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead are up there too but my absolute favorite so far is Dreamsnake.

I'm really annoyed at myself for not reviewing or at least jotting down some notes about the books as I've finished them. I remember liking Canticle a lot but I would be hard pressed to summarize it without some help.