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I have horrible news for you. Google had it, then they killed it

https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleMaps/comments/1737ft9/google_...

Oh yeah, n-gate.com, "we can't both be right"

Can you pitch me on why I would want to use this, instead of Rails.cache.fetch (which supports TTL) powered by redis (with the "allkeys-lru" config option)?

It's nice being able to toggle flags immediately, without waiting for a deploy. Having near-instant rollback is reassuring for launching new features.

Very neat. I've been doing this with Calibre (https://calibre-ebook.com/), which involves plugging it into your PC via USB. Simple RSS feeds work with little configuration, and more complicated news sites require writing a custom python "recipe".

This project uses Amazon's email gateway, which I think is limited to 25 articles per month (don't quote me on this).

TIL there's a name for this! (Chargie)

I have an old Mac multiport adapter (USB C / USB A / VGA) that I use only to limit the current going into my smartphone, for the sake of battery health. It effectively downgrades any fast charger to a slow charger. This looks nicer, thanks for sharing.

It really is! I built a system to monitor/control my wood stove with a pi. The GPIO pins made it easy-ish to hook up an infrared temp sensor over i2c. I found a relay hat that allowed me to switch 120 VAC to control the stove's fan. My pi 4B had plenty of power to run a Ruby on Rails server to build little charts/graphs, a config UI, and some cron jobs. Lots of very powerful Lego blocks, basically.

https://github.com/locofocos/wood-stove-rails

That's so wild. Many small businesses in my area give you a discount for paying with cash. They pass the card fee onto the consumer, but it's baked into the menu prices.

I do this! My personal computers run Windows. I have an iPod touch that I use for listening to music on a stereo in my living room. I use iTunes to manage my music library. When I want more music, I buy CDs (or mp3s if those aren't available).

It's nice owning things. It has no ads, unlimited skips, and music doesn't sporadically disappear.

It's not exactly what you have in mind, but my friend walked into local small businesses saying "Hey, can I make you a website?". Then he googled "how to make a website" and figured out how to drag and drop with WordPress. Literally no tech experience, just a few business cards, and it went uphill from there.

He gradually moved into SEO and marketing as his customers wanted that. Right now he has about 40 customers that give him consistent work.

To this day, he's still amazed that I can code and write CSS.

Precisely. I'm trying to understand the resistance in good faith, but the article didn't explain their position very clearly.

"It's already prohibited" - so why the fierce opposition?

"Passing a law against discrimination of X will stigmatize X" - Imagine someone was making this argument for an existing federally protected class.

I used this when modeling a shed-to-house I built. Like most open source software, it's not SUPER polished but it's useful. Making basic walls, doors, windows, and placing furniture is fairly easy. It gets very complicated using their workaround for things like ceilings, roofs, and such but it's doable.

One great feature is being able to export a 1:12 scale reference for my shed builder. It took some very careful toying with background layers, but I was eventually able to get a large-scale Kinko's printout from a PDF where 1 inch on the printout = 1 foot in the real world.

Today I learned that certificates getting revoked/expired can break existing locally installed applications on my Mac.

How do we find places that still value and foster this kind of community?

And how do we contribute to it ourselves? Lately I've been wanting to be intentional about getting involved, getting to know people, etc. I came across this blog post on the topic from HN a few months ago: https://www.seanblanda.com/its-time-for-localism-in-america/

Neat. I did this for a very basic react ratio calculator I built. My state was so basic and small, it felt fine for a toy project. Certainly a practice I would scrutinize in a production application, but it could be useful.

https://locofocos.com/anything-ratio-calc

Is this a good example of one of those talks? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dKZ-dWaCiU&ab_channel=ITkon...

I'm a happy user of Atom as my daily driver for basic note taking and scratch pads. Even though it's being sunset, I look forward to using it for years to come.

Perhaps it will have a good fork one day, but honestly it works great as-is. Sometimes software reaches a point where it just works, and you appreciate not having a team that wants to change everything.

I find it hilarious that a bit lower down, someone is discussing https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email to do the opposite of this.

How does 3M 425 compare to 3M 3340? 3340 is some foil tape I bought from Lowes in the HVAC section, with "cold weather" printed on it in red text.

In terms of thickness, I see 425 is 2.8 mils thick, vs 3340 which is 2.0 mils.

In terms of temp range, I see 425 goes down a bit colder (-65 F vs -40 F).

They seem really similar, like 425 is a somewhat improved version. But it's surprising that this comparison PDF, which shows a lot of 425 alternatives, doesn't show the basic stuff I got from Lowes (3340) https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/1390627O/3m-aluminum-foi...

I'm using the included monitor stand. The monitor definitely can move relative to my desk if I shake my desk, but it's noticeably sturdier than a cheap (but highly rated) monitor arm from Amazon. I'm personally pleased using the monitor stand.

I bought one, and I'm also upset with how Mac OS handles the scaling.

I've tried absolutely every utility that allegedly makes higher DPI monitors work: BetterDisplay, SwitchResX, EasyRes, and a few other little ones. BetterDisplay makes it sound like they support full resolution with any arbitrary scaling factor. But all of them, at least the ones that did ANYTHING, they only offered the exact same behavior that Mac's built-in display settings offered. They only let me run at a lower resolution. I'm on a 2020 Intel MBP.

Running it at 1920x2160 (just via Mac's built-in settings) is annoying, but it displays things at the correct size and lets me move on with my life. It's still slightly crisper than my old 96 DPI monitor, and the screen real estate + aspect ratio is absolutely amazing for coding.

It's a real shame that neither Mac nor LG has a solution similar to what Windows offers. Hooking the Dualup to my Windows 10 PC, it immediately just worked. Full resolution, 150% scaling, it was the perfect size. Text looks so much crisper on Windows than Mac with this monitor. I've been considering installing some Linux distro for my daily work just to enjoy proper scaling (I figure Ubuntu would offer something similar to Windows).

I have a similar experience with coding! I bought this monitor precisely for that. It's nice to keep some bottom IDE panel open (test results, find results, git log, etc) while keeping the rest of my editor at a normal vertical height.

Similarly, I can keep a browser open at a normal (or even extended!) height, plus keep the developer console open at the bottom. It's made web development more pleasant, just the feeling of not being so cramped vertically.

I have one- I can confirm, no bezel. It's just a single contiguous panel as far as I can tell. I does have software support for feeding 2 inputs into the top/bottom, but by default it just hooked up as a single monitor. Looks great!

The death of Google Play Music sent me down a similar path. I fired up my old 3rd gen ipod touch and synced it up with my old iTunes collection. It was jarring missing out on a decade of UX development, but it's been a breath of fresh air being able to just.... manage your music collection and play the music you want to play. No ads, no playing something I didn't ask for. ITunes on windows is really nice today. Older CDs are super cheap, and my family is often happy to offload their old CDs to me.

It's also helped me rediscover a lot of old music from my formative years. If I had to choose between my old favorites and all the new neat stuff I've found on Spotify, I would choose the old stuff! And I can still pull out my phone for those occasions I want something on Spotify, but if that happens enough, I buy the CD and it gets loaded into the collection.

It even sent me down a rabbit hole of getting a home stereo again. It's so nice leaving music playing in our living room.

For music on the go, iTunes makes it dead simple to copy/paste playlists onto my android phone's storage.

I wanted to chime in as one of the software engineers on the team here to give another perspective (excuse me if this isn't allowed, I didn't see anything in the rules against it).

I think Upright is a really pleasant place to do development. We've got a good team culture, no boxing gloves or overly-zealous standards on code reviews. We maintain a low friction to push changes to production, but we still pay careful attention to quality. Though I'm not doing front-line customer support, I do get to interact with customers to gather ideas about upcoming feature or tell them when bug fixes / features are released, which I find to be really fulfilling. We're not constantly building concrete deadlines just for the sake of deadlines - it's really about "what would be best for the customer?". We enjoy shiny technology when it makes sense, or if it would make the dev team legitimately happier, but we try to keep our tech/design choices pragmatic. I think we've done a good job of embracing and enjoying the fully remote culture (fun on slack, off-topic video calls to catch up, that kind of thing).

So neat, thanks for the history.

After casually watching the progression from SWF, to Silverlight, to some overdone version on the Wii, it gives me warm fuzzy feelings that linerider.com is still hosting a down-to-earth (albeit modern) version.

I remember backing up the SWF version of line rider. And then they added a STRAIGHT LINE tool. No more abusing the right click menu! How far this game has come!

After years of development, after some more collaboration with that Line Rider friend, and after connecting with the owners of Line Rider, it wound up becoming the official version on linerider.com. This version resolved many of the issues I had with the original version

I'm so curious to hear more about this. That's like a geek dream come true.

"For pictures that have been reencoded to JPEG multiple times I recommend shred." (https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/shre...)

That's the funniest thing I've read in a while.

Neat. This might not be satire though. To those wondering why it needs to be passively cooled:

Jews and other folks that keep Torah do not kindle a flame on the Shabbat. For those who are very strict about keeping God's commandments (basically orthodox Jews), they avoid anything that would create a spark. This spark is like a very tiny, short lived flame. Any time physical electronic contacts join together (like when turning on a light switch), the argument is that there's a very small spark that occurs. The same would happen with the electric contacts in a motor, such as the motor inside CPU fans, desktop power supplies, and platter hard drives. By running on this physical hardware, they're avoiding breaking the Sabbath as much as possible.

source: I'm a gentile Christian that tries to keep the Torah. So I'm more familiar with Jewish laws than the average person, but don't quote me too much.

I recently started taking notes in markdown. I previously had notes scattered across txt files, Word docs, ColorNote, and emails to myself.

I take journal-type notes about personal things, and I demand that I have them available conveniently decades from now. I strongly prefer a dark theme. I was going to jump ship entirely to OneNote, but I can't get a dark theme on Desktop and mobile.

Moving to markdown has tremendous benefits. You have proper separation of concerns- "how do I edit on X platform" vs "how do I store my notes".

For storage, I've considered a git repo, but I'm using Dropbox for now. It has 30 day history, so I can correct for any mistake I'd care about.

For editing, I pick an editor on my current platform. Atom on Desktop. IA writer on Android.

I don't currently have great search, but I think I can do that with Dropbox. I'm more concern about future-proofing and dark theme.