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callback.woolf.io 6y ago

Show HN: Burner Callback URLs for API Testing

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substrakthealth.com 8y ago

Autoscaling GitLab CI Runners with Docker Machine and AWS Spot Instances

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fairfare.woolf.io 9y ago

Finding grounds to appeal a UK train penalty fare

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github.com 10y ago

Use LetsEncrypt and CloudFlare to secure any Heroku app for free

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max.woolf.io 10y ago

Things Learnt from Launching Big Projects on Heroku

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substrakt.com 10y ago

Writing code that writes code in Ruby. A beginners guide

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substrakt.co.uk 10y ago

Scaling Wordpress with HHVM on Heroku

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max.woolf.io 10y ago

Let's end Imposter Syndrome

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code.steadman.io 11y ago

Teletext Bootstrap Theme

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github.com 11y ago

Show HN: Restart DigitalOcean Droplets from Slack Using /restartserver

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github.com 11y ago

JQuery Text Highlighter

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www.youtube.com 11y ago

Show HN: Watch young people present their hacks. YRS

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twitter.com 11y ago

Someone left this graffiti in my local park. What is the equation?

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maxehmookau.github.io 12y ago

Moving From Agile Development to agile development

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maxehmookau.github.io 12y ago

The graduate software developers' reading list

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maxehmookau.github.io 12y ago

The graduate software developers' reading list

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openbloodstocks.herokuapp.com 12y ago

OpenBloodStocks

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github.com 12y ago

Show HN: OpenBloodStocks – Blood Donation API

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www.boxuk.com 12y ago

Affinity estimation: what is it?

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openbloodstocks.herokuapp.com 12y ago

Show HN: BloodStocks

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maxehmookau.github.io 12y ago

Why agile? It works. I think.

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maxehmookau.github.io 12y ago

Why agile? It works. I think.

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graphhost.com 12y ago

GraphHost – Hosted graph database (neo4j) in the cloud.

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graphhost.com 12y ago

Show HN: GraphHost.com Zero-configuration, cloud hosted neo4j graph database.

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maxehmookau.github.io 12y ago

Age is largely irrelevant.

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github.com 12y ago

Provision a Graph Database (neo4j) Server using Ansible in 5 mins

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github.com 12y ago

Ansible Playbooks for Booting a neo4j Development Environment

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github.com 12y ago

Use YAML instead of Javascript to write linkedin/hopscotch introductions.

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github.com 12y ago

Write linkedin/hopscotch Website Tours in YAML for Rails Applications

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maxehmookau.github.io 12y ago

Things I Did Not Learn During My Degree vs Things I Did Learn During My Degree

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A lot of the replies to this are, predicably, disappointing. For what its worth, I entirely agree.

AI is good at a lot of things, but it genuinely sucks at anything that requires real creativity. The human at the heart of a creative endeavor can't be replaced, and I hope that never changes.

Resetting Xbox 16 days ago

A year-long restructure, where over 1000 people could lose their jobs is beyond disgusting. There's zero justification for it. Ever.

Using the Ryanair website makes me feel icky. The whole thing feels like you have to be constantly on guard not to get tricked - and I'm relatively wise to these things.

I dread to think how much of their revenue is generated from people buying stuff they don't want or need.

I will always pay more to not use Ryanair, given the choice. Unfortunately I don't always have a choice.

Absolutely get in the bin with this ridiculous take from a newspaper with a vested interest in getting people back in to expensive office real estate.

Juniors cost more to train, take more effort, and time from seniors who are otherwise "productive" and so companies don't want to hire them and be responsible for that additional work.

It's not remote working, or AI that's to blame for weak junior hiring. It's short-termism from companies that see no reason to spend their time training up juniors.

One of the best things I've read this year. Also one of the worst things I've read this year, actually. But also, I enjoyed reading it.

I _think_ it's the best we have right now, right? Excellent UX research speaks for itself, there's just not much of it. As an industry, we've done a realllllly good job of devaluing high-quality UX research and those who do it for a living.

This is a distillation of what we used to (still do?) teach junior SWEs.

"You are not the customer for the thing we're making, nor have you ever been. You don't know what they want/need."

"Can I tell you one more thing from your X,Y,Z results which is most doctors miss ? "

That's actually gross and would result in an immediate delete from me.

Layoffs at Block 5 months ago

Oh man, I'm so entirely sick of this.

Why are billionaires so allergic to using capital letters at the start of sentences? You're laying people off, it just shows how little you actually care about the detail.

"i'll own it" doesn't mean ANYTHING. You've kept your job, your money, your security. You haven't owned anything because your decision doesn't make you accountable to anyone.

Additionally, not a single person is being "asked to leave". Every single one of those people is being _told_ to leave, and given no choice about it.

Language matters, and this entire post shows how little they care.

In reality, us thinkers will have to find other things to think about. Maybe not right now, but in the not-too-distant future we'll have to find other things that make us think and scratch that bit of our brains that need itching from learning new stuff and thinking hard about it.

It might be difficult to figure out what that is, and some folks will fail at it. It might not be code though.

I guess it depends on which spaces they're banned from. Before Facebook, online communities were bulletin boards and chat rooms. They weren't hyper-addictive social media platforms designed to suck as much attention as possible; they were genuine places of connection.

My hope is that children being banned from the mega platforms would lead to a growth in less harmful online communities for folks who can benefit from it. But I don't know.

Get in the habit of tapping "Don't Allow" when apps ask for notification privileges. You don't need them. Open the app when you want to.

I get that this is cool, but I also feel grateful that my life just isn't busy enough to justify this as a thing beyond "oh wow, that's cool tech".

I'm able to juggle the competing priorities in my life without the need of an AI assistant, and I guess I'm just gonna enjoy that for as long as I can because I assume at some point it will become assumed of me.

ChatGPT Atlas 9 months ago

This is too creepy for my taste. The benefit of having an LLM be aware of my browsing history doesn't give me even close to enough extra value to allow it.

Reasonable people know you only start pointing to the contract when things escalate to a certain point as it locks everybody into a defensive posture and now everybody is going to be rigid moving forward.

First, and arguably most important, thing in learned in tech & business. Once the contracts come out, it's game over.