HN user

jamesmoss

1,470 karma

I'm a engineer from Brighton, England interested in coding, startups and building cool things. If you want to get in touch you can reach me at james@moss.io

http://twitter.com/jimbomoss

http://github.com/jamesmoss

http://moss.io

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/jamesmoss; my proof: https://keybase.io/jamesmoss/sigs/LAsWYAaUX4AtKMtLv7M8acia-fFlBmUNOZ-jzQPhRzc ]

Posts29
Comments66
View on HN
lightform.com 6y ago

Lightform launches second generation all-in-one projection mapping hardware

jamesmoss
1pts0
pastebin.com 10y ago

The darknet's biggest drug market to cease operations due to Tor vulnerability

jamesmoss
15pts0
builtbybuffalo.com 10y ago

How we combined our love of ping pong and Slack

jamesmoss
4pts0
www.bbc.co.uk 11y ago

SpaceX cleared for US military launches

jamesmoss
197pts116
www.sublimetext.com 11y ago

Sublime Text developer promises more updates in 2015

jamesmoss
2pts1
markokarppinen.com 11y ago

What Apple Pay Could Mean for In-App Purchases

jamesmoss
69pts41
www.networkworld.com 11y ago

Rackspace bows out of IaaS market

jamesmoss
2pts0
chrome.google.com 11y ago

Show HN: Embark – A hyper minimalistic new tab page for Chrome

jamesmoss
3pts0
www.amazon.com 11y ago

Amazon/Hachette Business Interruption

jamesmoss
173pts130
insane.domains 11y ago

Insane.domains – A rhyming domain generator using new gTLDs

jamesmoss
3pts0
www.tombom.co.uk 12y ago

Apple + Patching = You’re Doing It Wrong

jamesmoss
6pts0
www.georgeandjonathan.com 12y ago

George and Jonathan III

jamesmoss
2pts0
wordpress.org 12y ago

WordPress 3.8 “Parker” released

jamesmoss
7pts1
www.spacex.com 12y ago

SpaceX Successfully Completes First Mission to Geostationary Transfer Orbit

jamesmoss
262pts63
www.telegraph.co.uk 12y ago

The Internet mystery that has the world baffled

jamesmoss
3pts0
codepen.io 12y ago

Apple mice over the last 30 years in CSS

jamesmoss
1pts0
www.nytimes.com 12y ago

Online Attack Leads to Peek Into Spam Den

jamesmoss
1pts0
www.knocktounlock.com 12y ago

Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac

jamesmoss
160pts163
www.bbc.co.uk 12y ago

3D printer 'gun parts' found in Manchester raid

jamesmoss
24pts48
www.theguardian.com 12y ago

Ikea boosts solar power outlook with £5,700 home system

jamesmoss
2pts0
www.quora.com 12y ago

What is the most catastrophic mistake made by an intern at a tech company?

jamesmoss
2pts0
markokarppinen.com 12y ago

In iOS 7, the final straw for Newsstand

jamesmoss
128pts89
www.bbc.co.uk 12y ago

Plymouth woman 'woke up sounding Chinese'

jamesmoss
4pts1
stripe.com 13y ago

Stripe is hiring in Europe

jamesmoss
2pts0
blog.ircmaxell.com 13y ago

Why PECL (C based) frameworks for PHP suck

jamesmoss
1pts0
www.guardian.co.uk 14y ago

Apple poaches Dixons chief, John Browett as VP of retail

jamesmoss
1pts0
wynnnetherland.com 14y ago

GitHub is a fish bowl

jamesmoss
69pts21
penny-arcade.com 14y ago

Avenger controller company pisses off gaming community with bad customer support

jamesmoss
271pts90
areweplayingyet.org 14y ago

Areweplayingyet.org: An initiative to improve HTML5 audio support

jamesmoss
14pts0

You knew you were breaking, at the very least, Stripes ToS when you processed payments for drugs...

As it says in the post, these guys sell SaaS software, not pot.

Another great step for SpaceX. At the moment it feels like they're making progress every other week.

What sort of G loads do the astronauts in that capsule experience in an abort scenario? It shoots up much faster than a typical launch. The separation from the trunk looks fairly violent too.

I'm really fed up of sites like this that hijack scrolling, it prevents you from skim reading. Instead of scanning 100% of the page's content I've just left the site after reading about 20%.

Atom 12 years ago

This isn't why it's going to be popular for plugin development though. Sublime plugins are Python, which isn't that hard to learn.

Agreed, but Javascript has many more developers who know JS over Python. From my initial glance at the docs the learning curve for package development isn't too steep either.

Atom 12 years ago

I've just had play around with the beta. It looks like it's using a version of CodeMirror 4 (as it has multiple ranges). Fairly fast but it doesn't match Sublime Text just yet

Initial impressions: it's early days but this thing is just oozing for customisation. The fact it's written in JS means writing packages is pretty simple compared to Python for ST; we're going to see TONNES of addons for it. I can already think of 2-3 I'd like to build.

The one thing that really excites me is how people getting into programming could start off with a pretty basic editor and add and write packages as they hone their skills, ending with something incredible powerful and tailored to them. In fact I'd really love to see a super customised starter version for children / beginners that acts as a learning aid as well as a text editor.

No doubt there's going to be haters in the vim / emacs / ST / insert favourite editor here camp but I really hope this works out for the Github guys (and I have a feeling it will).

Scaling Asana.com 12 years ago

I'd be wary of using Statamic, at least the admin panel portion. I did a code review of it recently and it's pretty insecure, if you can disable/delete admin.php I'd recommend it.

After a quick look I found a few basic CSRF and session hijacking exploits going back several versions (including the latest). The PHP code is pretty amateur - I imagine somebody with more skill could find many many more holes.

Introducing Paper 12 years ago

Anybody know how they kept the phone so still in those videos? The hand holding it doesn't move. Is there a pole underneath attaching it to a surface we can't see?

I really want to love Rdio.

I switched from Spotify 8 months ago and at first it was a breathe of fresh air but I soon started noticing issues with the desktop client. It's just a UIWebView that loads the web app. Album artwork loads slowly if you've got a large collection, UI interactions are unresponsive and will often time out.

The other major issue is having albums in your collection become unplayable due to what looks like licensing issues, only to reappear months later as the same album, except not in your collection. Spotify doesn't seem to have this issue.

Spotify is about to roll out Collections. Searching for spotify:app:collection in the desktop client enables it for some people, although it didn't for me.

Show HN: Unirest 13 years ago

It's a shame the PHP lib has a completely static API. It makes it very hard to mock when doing unit testing.

If you're talking about scroll events only firing when you release your finger from the screen I can't see this being changed any time soon.

Apple want to keep scrolling responsive at all costs and definitely wouldn't let those pesky JS developers make Mobile Safari appear slow and laggy.

The move away from Gitolite is great as I know it was the source of many of install and upgrade headaches however the new component they've replaced it with is very very closely coupled to GitLab.

This could have been a great chance to create a lightweight alternative to Gitolite for other projects to use too.