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A few months ago I got so fed up of squinting at glowing rectangles to stay informed/updated. I feel like there's a finite amount of podcasts I can reasonably follow/digest so I built a very basic prototype to summarise RSS feeds/transform the content and transcribe it in to a personalised podcast.

I put a bit more work in since May have it running almost end to end, still with plenty of gotchas. It's transcribing on an RTX3070 under my desk so pretty limited, but have enjoyed a few morning briefings just as I want them (weather, chance of rain today, BBC/NPR top stories from yesterday, some specific sports news then HN most popular summarised with summary of comments. Got a chuckle out of the LLM summarisation of HN commen threads which was always "Comments reaction: mixed" (which it no longer embeds!)

Found traces of it being done before and I understand you can do similar in Notebook LM, but I was hoping to build something set-and-forget.

Genuinely curious if people would just let this rip with no obvious isolation?

I’m aware Mac OS has some isolation/sandboxes but without running codex via docker I wouldn’t be running codex.

(Appreciate there are still risks)

More focussed on developer UX than telemetry, `Make VS Code Awesome` [0] shares a lot of configs to clean up the UI/nags/prompts. I'm not affiliated but have bought it and found it significantly improved my days in Code.

[0] https://makevscodeawesome.com

I'm implementing some faceting in a project I'm working on. I have some nested `jsonb` columns which include categorical variables (to quote this article).

The table is only 5 million rows and isn't likely to grow significantly, but it is not very wide.

The performance is okay and I was about to experiment with flattening out the table (putting all categorical vars into their own columns) and indexing that way vs. indexing JSONb paths.

I'm not super familiar with the postgres internals to know if this is better or worse so wondering if anyone could share any similar experience?!

Non-starter because you don't want to migrate the images into Cloudflare? I.e. you want the transformation/caching of some non-CDN images via Cloudflare?

Asking as this could look very attractive (£ wise) for a project with images stored in Uploadcare where it would be feasible for us to do the source-image migration.

They also had a snafu with marketing emails late last year [1] - not a great look for a company handling bank/payments.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54521820

EmpowerRD | https://www.empowerrd.com | London, UK or UK REMOTE | Full Time

EmpowerRD is a fast-growing scale-up based in London, UK. Our vision is to assist our clients to unlock all of the funding that rewards innovation globally. We do this by combining expert knowledge and advanced technology to take the complexity out of claiming for funding that is available. Our current focus is on helping companies within the UK unlock some of the £5Bn of funds available annually for companies that invest in research and development.

As we grow we're looking for a full stack developer versed in Ruby.

Skills and experience we need:

  Ruby (1+ years), Ruby on Rails, Modern frontend framework (1 year, React/Vue/Alpine), SQL

  AWS (EC2, RDS, VPC), Docker, Experience in a SaaS business

I recently purchased something from the official UK Nintendo Store [1]. I did not opt-in, and was not asked to opt-in, to marketing emails.

Several days after purchase I received a marketing email with an Unsubscribe link.

I submitted a GDPR enquiry and after a few weeks I get:

  Having investigated this matter fully, we can see that you were opted in as a result of a small technical difficulty which we are now fixing. We have taken action to set your marketing permissions to "no" as requested.

[1] https://store.nintendo.co.uk/

EmpowerRD | https://www.empowerrd.com | London, UK or REMOTE | Full Time

EmpowerRD is a fast-growing startup based in London, UK. Our vision is to assist our clients to unlock all of the funding that rewards innovation globally. We do this by combining expert knowledge and advanced technology to take the complexity out of claiming for funding that is available. Our current focus is on helping companies within the UK unlock some of the £5Bn of funds available annually for companies that invest in research and development.

As we grow we're looking for a full stack developer - versed in Ruby - who can support both internal and external development.

Skills and experience we need:

  Ruby (1+ years), Ruby on Rails, Modern frontend framework (1 year, React/Vue/Alpine), SQL

  AWS (EC2, RDS, VPC), Docker, Experience in a SaaS business

EmpowerRD | https://www.empowerrd.com | London, UK | Full Time | Onsite (Remote during Covid-19)

We are looking for a Ruby full stack developer to help support our journey from startup to scale up.

EmpowerRD is a fast-growing startup based in London, UK. Our vision is to assist our clients to unlock all of the funding that rewards innovation globally. We do this by combining expert knowledge and advanced technology to take the complexity out of claiming for funding that is available. Our current focus is on helping companies within the UK unlock some of the £5Bn of funds available annually for companies that invest in research and development.

As we grow we're looking for a full stack developer well versed in Ruby.

Skills and experience we need:

Ruby (3+ years), Ruby on Rails, Git (gitflow), front-end JavaScript (jQuery/Alpine/vanilla) and CSS, SQL (Postgres)

Skills and experience that would be a bonus:

AWS (EC2, RDS, VPC), Docker, Redis, Sidekiq, Agile/Scrum sprint planning, Postgres PL/SQL programming and statistical analysis

Please apply directly via https://empowerrd.breezy.hr/p/b2ba3dcd368601-full-stack-deve...

Unless I'm misunderstanding something, they are going to have an immense SLA claim issue. 99.9% SLA on Workspace services, so any business paying for Google for Business (now known as Workspace) is going to have a credit claim (assuming the outage is longer than 43m 49s which feels like it will be).

Edit: As I comment it looks like things are coming back! Timing or what...

Workable solution for "who was in the office" to aid tracing, but the capacity part seems a bit off.

You'd really want to know ahead of commuting what the planned capacity is, and make a decision based off of that.

Otherwise you run the risk of travelling in and walking into an over capacity office. Surely better to prevent this than view a report about it after the fact.

I was a bit confused given the recent launch of YC-funded Stacker (https://stacker.app/) - given the sibling comment, it sounds like another Stacker will be unveiled soon!

EmpowerRD | https://www.empowerrd.com | London, UK | Full Time | Onsite (Remote during Covid-19)

We are looking for a Ruby full stack developer to help support our journey from start up to scale up.

We are an exciting, VC-backed Government innovation incentives service provider using technology to automate, improve and optimise our customer's claims for R&D tax incentives in the UK. By layering in tech to what has traditionally been an advisor business, we are able to support customers secure government funding for R&D quickly and reliably.

As we grow we're looking for a full stack developer - well versed in Ruby - who can support and then lead on both internal and external development.

Skills and experience we need:

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Git (gitflow), front-end JavaScript (jQuery/Alpine/vanilla) and CSS, SQL (Postgres)

Skills and experience that would be a bonus:

AWS (EC2, RDS, VPC), Docker, Redis, Sidekiq, Agile/Scrum sprint planning, Postgres PL/SQL programming and statistical analysis

Please email hn@empowerrd.com if interested.

It’ll be interesting to see how Strava copes when the tap is turned on again. Maybe there’s some rate limiting built in but they’ll be getting a flood of accumulated data to process

I've also made quite a bit of bread - very satisfying first thing in the morning.

I used the change in routine to put spare time into launching a specialty coffee indexing site[1]. I've been thinking about it for +1 year.

Still working on the backend and the ultimate goal is to tell you when harvests from producers you've liked before are back on sale (i.e. I liked this coffee last year, what might I like this year), and build a kind of engine to recommend coffees.

(It's also a testbed for ruby continuous deployment with Docker!)

[1] https://www.coffeesindex.com/

I've come back to TabNine after a hiatus and do see the occasional lag or the process thrashing at 100% of a core. Depending on mood I'll kill it or let it recover. I find myself forgiving any sporadic lags thanks to the productivity gains.

On the desktop side, I'd recommend Tim[1] to anyone looking for a similarly-simple, hassle free time tracking app ($2.99 on Mac app store). My only gripe is you can't archive old tasks so the menu gets a little overwhelming.

[1] https://tim.neat.software/

I used to publish[1] guides/snippets a lot more frequently, but sort of feel the audience for these things has dried up and naturally favour a StackExchange result instead. I now do it to help that 0.01% of people who find a post, or as an outlet to produce/create something when other things are a little slower on that front.

[1] https://www.kdobson.net

I've been running some live services on Hetzner Cloud (https://www.hetzner.com/cloud) and it's been very reliable. One server blip in ~1 year.

2Gb (20Gb storage, 20Tb transfer) from €2.49 - there are a few different DCs now so you can hedge your bets. The higher spec ones are great for Dockerizing a couple of postgresql backup servers.

Their VPS ('Cloud') offer is relatively new, with the dedicated and server auctions being their historical staple.

P.S. Very Euro centric, so probably not so good for Americas/AsiaPac

I saw it this morning via BBC - appreciate it's not the same article.

'Thanksgiving Four' say Google is punishing them: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50554931

Looks great! Do you have any plans to support third-party sending APIs (e.g. SES)? I see the reference to SMTP.

I've been looking for a good solution for ad-hoc email campaigns (w/ templates) and for sending "systems" emails to an audience of customers.

I currently look after lists on both MailChimp and EmailOctopus and get frustrated by the flat pricing for the size of the list and not how you engage with the list (e.g. I'd love to see: store your list for $X/mo, or pay $X + (list size * $Y) in the months when you email the list).

I did a module in my undergrad degree that used Prolog as the learning tool/language. At the time I didn't understand why Prolog was such a different paradigm (declarative); all I remember is feeling a true sense of joy writing prolog code and running it.

I've never found/made up a reason to try it out since then and no language/system/paradigm has given me the same enjoyment since!

The (lack of) speed and complexity of GA astounds me every time I go in (use it over a portfolio of businesses). Using it on a 100Mb connection is still like pulling teeth.

I've researched building out a desktop app that pulls GA data over the API in the background so you can get key stats out much quicker, but it's quite an investment of time to be beholden to Google's platform.

Now doing some dogfooding on a web analytics service I've been evolving that tries to answer the "why" of change in traffic/behaviour over time ("traffic's up today....not sure why?"). Google do this with their GA mobile app ("Insights") but what and when they show you don't seem to be too predictable.

If your routes are restricted to only EU countries, sure! Stray over the Croatian border to Montenegro, for example, and you'll be racking up the bills.

Source: knowingly burnt £10 trying to find somewhere child friendly for lunch.

Feel like I've trialled every multi-DB client under the sun. Spent a good deal of time with Valentina, then DataGrip but firmly in bed with TablePlus (http://tableplus.com) now. First class Mac native experience and it's hard to see ever giving it up! There's a Windows build I've not used.

I've used Redash [1] and Saiku [2] with good success. Redash is a swiss army knife approach to dashboarding and can run/schedule queries against a plethora of data sources and visualise in different ways

Saiku uses Mondrian (OLAP) tech to give a slice/dice drill down view of data. Unfortunately the docs for Saiku seem very disjointed these days - there's a docker image for the CE (Community Edition) that I recently setup okay. Quite a learning curve on setting up Mondrian schemas here, though, but worth it when it's done.

[1] https://redash.io [2] https://www.meteorite.bi/products/saiku

I've recently noticed Chrome (71) on Mac is now hijacking the `Command + Q` shortcut and asking if I really want to quit. I appreciate people will occasionally shut down a Chrome session by mistake, but it seems a little ironic that they're clamping down on behaviour hijacking in one space whilst implementing it in another.

(Caveat: I'm not sure if this change is being committed by a Google Chrome dev or non-Google Chromium dev)

I feel like this has been some months in the making. We have an IAP enabled app (https://www.bestcoffee.guide/app) just turned a year old. When we launched last year we had no issues with our - very clear - subscription page.

Subsequent updates, however, have required closer and closer adherence to the specifics of the Apple iap guidelines. All the boiler plate text needed to be displayed, the button needs the price on it, and to be on the same page.

Overall a good change for the user but man it makes it hard to design a remotely aesthetic subscription page.

This isn't an Electron bash, but I tried this a few weeks ago (found via Product Hunt) and after adding a few apps (G Suite, Trello, Slack, Workflowy), I found the UI frustratingly sluggish and ultimately counter-productive. This is on a well specced 16gb MBP.

Should I try again?! It seems you'd have to move the needle on performance quite significantly to remove the lag. In a non-Station workflow I'd just cull the offending tabs/browsers.