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yakshaving_jgt

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Programmer. Likes: Haskell, Elm, Nix, Vim.

Contact: jezen@jezenthomas.com

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doccharm.com 1d ago

Show HN: DocCharm – The help center that keeps itself up to date

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github.com 8mo ago

PgFirstAid: PostgreSQL function for improving stability and performance

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jezenthomas.com 10mo ago

Using Git to Manage TODOs

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github.com 10mo ago

Chrome extension that replaces occurrences of 'the cloud' with 'my butt'

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jezenthomas.com 1y ago

When Test Coverage Isn't Enough

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www.theguardian.com 1y ago

Poland to close Russian consulate in Kraków over Warsaw fire

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jezenthomas.com 1y ago

Test Spies in Haskell

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jezenthomas.com 1y ago

My Technological Regrets

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reasonablypolymorphic.com 1y ago

Read the Code, Not the Profile

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jezenthomas.com 1y ago

Production Haskell Style Guide

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kellysutton.com 1y ago

Moving on from React, a year later

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janmonschke.com 1y ago

Adding webmentions to your static blog

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www.politico.eu 1y ago

Estonia's third-largest city is struggling to face off threats from Russia

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Hack the Toaster [video]

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jezenthomas.com 1y ago

I Feel Unsafe

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www.politico.eu 1y ago

Russia paying people to vote against joining EU, Moldova warns

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ma.tt 1y ago

WP Engine and Trademarks

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jezenthomas.com 2y ago

Is it c? Or is it с?

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www.theguardian.com 2y ago

US House approves $61B in military aid for Ukraine after months of stalling

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www.wsj.com 2y ago

A Mistake in a Tesla and a Panicked Final Call: The Death of Angela Chao

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jezenthomas.com 2y ago

Kill on the Cover Letter, but Not Like That

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jezenthomas.com 2y ago

Hello World in Haskell

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www.theguardian.com 2y ago

Elon Musk to file 'thermonuclear lawsuit' as advertisers desert X

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jezenthomas.com 2y ago

Stubbing I/O in Yesod

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jezenthomas.com 3y ago

Yesod Forms, Newtypes, and Smart Constructors

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jezenthomas.com 3y ago

Derived Instances Can Break Smart Constructors, Too

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jezenthomas.com 3y ago

Please Don't Kill Me, Google Maps

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jezenthomas.com 3y ago

Make your types smaller

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jezenthomas.com 3y ago

Make your database tables smaller

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jezenthomas.com 3y ago

At Least Assert Your Serialisation Roundtrips

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Thanks for the feedback.

I hadn’t considered that someone would want to see screenshots of the application on the landing page since they can just log in and interact with it themselves. But clearly, this was a gap.

I've got links to my help center. You're asking me to throw out everything to start fresh on a platform with almost no information.

It is possible to automatically import a help center from Zendesk or Mintlify. Content is re-hosted and links are rewritten so everything links internally the way it does on your existing help center. As you’ve pointed out, this should be communicated more clearly.

Don't build your own, update your users' existing sites.

I had considered this initially but it didn’t fit my initial use case at the time. But I think it’s worth me reviewing this because I can see how this would be less friction when getting started, and also less perceived risk when choosing whether or not to adopt a new tool.

Again, genuinely appreciate the feedback :)

The only thing Odessa is known for under the Ukrainian rule is burning 42 pro-Russian Ukrainian citizens[1] by Ukrainian nationalists.

Another complete lie, constantly perpetuated by Z-patriot zombies. And if you actually read the source you linked to, you would see that most of the antagonists of the clashes on this day were russians. They came from russia, or from russian-occupied Moldova, specifically to try to destabilise southern Ukraine.

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Here, I have something for you.

https://imgur.com/nuAM1sy

This is the first medal I received from the Ukrainian military for volunteering and supporting them as they destroy the terrorists that you support.

https://imgur.com/7wILMO1

This is the second medal I received from the Ukrainian military for volunteering and supporting them as they destroy the terrorists that you support.

https://imgur.com/6bboPxH

This is the third medal I received from the Ukrainian military for volunteering and supporting them as they destroy the terrorists that you support.

The lies you continue to spread on this website are the best inspiration for me to go for my fourth medal. So, in a way, thank you. Thank you for encouraging myself and others to continue helping russian invaders to meet their fate, blown to pieces, left rotting on a Ukrainian field under the harsh sun, their corpses feasted on by wild dogs. Surely you've seen enough videos of exactly this happening. Ah, the miracle of modern technology.

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Rest assured — as I do — that nothing you say here actually changes the trajectory of this war that your country launched against Ukraine. You will never reach the Ukrainian city of Odesa. And you will be forcibly removed from Crimea.

Your terrorists have been launching missiles and drones at me and my neighbours for years.

I see it with my own eyes.

Your attacks on the people I care about dearly are routine. Every fucking day, you scum try and kill us.

Seeds in your pocket. Go to the front.

I’ll tell you what. Give me your address and I’ll send you a postcard from the Ukrainian city of Odesa, where the Ukrainian flag flies proudly on every street, and where your terrorists will never reach. Because Odesa is Ukraine forever. Kherson is Ukraine. Kharkiv is Ukraine. Kyiv is Ukraine. Donbas is Ukraine. Crimea is Ukraine.

Go to the front.

You are a russian propagandist.

We’ve seen you here before, and we’ve called out your bullshit before.

Go to the front Ivan. Put seeds in your pockets.

Anyone can look at your comment history and see that you are here to antagonise, and to spread disinformation in service of the russian regime and its leading war criminal.

This forum is meant to be for substantive discussion primarily about the intersection of technology and things that people in STEM would be intellectually curious about.

This forum is not for spreading lies as you have been doing for so long.

Please assume that the people you are talking to you are not ignorant.

In this case, I believe I am substantially more up to date with both Ukrainian and Polish politics than you are. From your comments, it appears your knowledge on the topic is superficial at best.

You’re not a Konfederacja voter by any chance?

I’m so fucking embarrassed to be Polish and hear this populism bullshit from Nawrocki and any other compromised russian shill.

You know who killed our people? The fucking russians. Remember when the bad guys came from Berlin? The other bad guys came from Moscow. Don’t forget that.

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For anyone unsure what this throwaway account is talking about: when he says “not too long ago” in a discussion about a war that is happening literally today, he’s talking about 1943. If this isn’t a bad faith argument from an antagonist, then I don’t know what is.

The demo scene — as cool as it is — is an obscure hobby for a particular kind of nerd.

The business side of programming puts food on the table for tens of millions of people.

I find that incredibly hard to believe.

You're right they don't want to carry a musket, but that's because muskets are not sexy. They don't want superdrones either, because superdrones are not sexy.

2A people just like guns. Guns, culturally, are sexy.

Siri AI 1 month ago

For apparently being unable to listen to or participate in a conversation while operating a motor vehicle.

Siri AI 1 month ago

Or perhaps pull over and adjust your routing like most of us do

The entire point is I don't want to have to stop in order to receive new information.

I don't know how to make that clearer, sorry.

Siri AI 1 month ago

I use Shure se215 IEMs inside my helmet together with a Cardo Packtalk (which includes a microphone mounted inside my helmet).

The audio setup is not the problem.

The problem is when I say "Hey Siri, cancel route guidance," it will say something like "…You must unlock your iPhone to do that."

The entire point is that I can't take my gloves off, get out my phone, and unlock it, at speed, on a motorcycle.

Siri AI 1 month ago

I think I want a physical AI device.

I want an AI assistant that I can use truly hands free. I keep my phone in my jacket when I'm riding my motorcycle. I want to be able to start, stop, adjust, and check details in route guidance. I want to be able to ask what the weather is like ahead on my route. I want to be able to ask it to start looking for a sensible place for me to stop for fuel and/or food without making me do a big detour.

Actually I would also quite like better driving directions, since I can't look at the directions on a screen.

There are competent CTOs who are not above getting their hands dirty, and there are career politician type CTOs who have no discernible skills beyond projecting an illusion of technical brilliance.

I've seen plenty of both, and I'm sure everything in between exists too.