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I bought a domain that forwards *@example.com to my personal email address. Easy to set up on google domains.

This ensures everything before the @ is opaque, i.e. foo+bar@gmail.com is now bar@foo.com

Services that block my domain are usually the ones that also block foo+bar@gmail.com

Love rebasing, love merging, squash or no squash, it all depends on what I'm trying to communicate with my pushes.

Just discovered the --rebase-merges option, worth exploring if you want to edit a commit under a merge commit, but don't want to mess up the merge commits.

[dead] 5 years ago

Google Meet was a big problem for me until I cleaned out the dust.

[dead] 5 years ago

These things usually fix performance issues for me:

- Open your macbook and clean out the dust. I do it yearly. It always helps.

- Keep macOS and apps (e.g. browser) up-to-date. coreaudiod high cpu was fixed for me in 11.6.

- Review login items, delete what you don't need.

- Reboot, with the occasional nvram, pram reset

- Review activity monitor, find apps that have background processes and delete the ones you don't need.

- Review installed applications, especially ones w/ kernel extensions (e.g. hamachi, vbox). Delete if you don't need them. Easy to re-install.

- Kill docker desktop when not using docker.

- Fine tune spotlight settings.

42technologies.com | Onsite | San Francisco | Engineer - Full Stack / Data | $80k - $120k + equity

We're a YC company building the data layer for retail. We're currently solving the problem of reporting, where retailers are crippled by old systems and bad data models. We give them a reporting dashboard that gives them any metric, over any timerange and dimension, instantly. So, instead of spending a bunch of time making reports, they can just focus on the analysis. Store managers to CEOs at large international retail brands are using our software every day to make real-time decisions based on facts and data. Adoption of our software is growing rapidly, so we're looking to expand our engineering team.

Our team is small, tight-knit and efficient. We're passionate about helping our customers, and building most loved tool in retail. As an engineer at 42, you can expect to work on many areas of the stack, and you'll have a high degree of autonomy. You'll also own your projects and talk directly to customers, blowing their minds with the stuff you'll release. You don't need to have retail experience but you should have 3+ years of professional engineering experience, and be very familiar with Python and/or Javascript, and SQL.

If you're interested, send your resume/portfolio/github/etc to nick@42technologies.com

If you're shopping around for a different distro, you should try out Gentoo or Funtoo. It's fast, customizable, and you'll learn a lot when installing it.

Looking at the videos, it seems to be some kind of carbon nanotube sensor that checks the resistance of the water its dipped in. This is hooked up to an arduino and the data is pushed to a smartphone via bluetooth.

Not sure how she made the carbon nanotube detector, but I think people figured out a way to do it with a microwave oven? Seems dangerous, but very cool.

You can get to the level select screen in Sonic 3 using a similar process.

1. Open Sonic 2 and enter the level select cheat

2. Freeze the game by wiggling the cartridge

3. Replace the cartridge with Sonic 3, and hit the reset button

This blew my mind as a kid.