jamiedumont

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by jamiedumont 1mo ago
I trialed Claude for a sorely needed redesign on my website. I was quite impressed with the results, but decided to hang fire on deploying it. Cue my surprise when I just found the same design applied to a coffee shop! The similarities are
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by jamiedumont 9mo ago
I’ve noticed a lot of changes on the site recently, which I believe is powered by Ghost which makes messing around with feed links a more advanced (for lack of a better word) tweak than many platforms as you download/upload a routes fi
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by jamiedumont 1y ago
I thought the two sounded similar, then I saw at the bottom they both have come from the same two founders. Nice to have a straightforward alternative to NextDNS to recommend to relatives.
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by jamiedumont 1y ago
This is very close my personal struggle; summarised by “I can do anything except one thing”.
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
Agreed. We bought my wife an NC last year when the criteria was “cheap, petrol, naturally aspirated and Japanese”. The criteria was in response to my Land Rover (Discovery / LR4) which is none of those things and becoming a bore. After
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
I have a small flask - about the volume of a cup of coffee - made by Kinto. It can deliver those surprise burns hours after filling. It’s almost too good, and has been relegated to long road trips or post-surf coffee where I know it’ll be
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
That was my sense too. Used it for a few similar programs today (like converting HTML to Markdown but parsing certain <figure> elements to shortcodes) and scaffolding a Rust web app. It's done a reasonable job — but rips through
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
I did this recently when a blog post described the exact, very niche issue I was having with a production server. This post described the symptoms of the issue clearly and included a flow-chart of required fixes. There was no preamble, just
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
And if you can't read German, it's very similar to the IR35 [0] rules that we have here in the UK. Effectively... "Don't work as a freelancer for a company if they are your only client. That's employment." [0]:
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
Take my upvote!
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
Me three
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
Thanks! I've always been a surfer, but split my time with other activities. Post-accident everyone thinks I'm scared of getting back on the bike — maybe a bit? — but genuinely my first thought post-crash was how long I'd be o
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
Ah, thanks for the clarification. That post-ORIF pain being worse than the break was my experience too. Even with the plate I became quite paranoid about shifting the screws because it provided so much immediate stability I was worried I wa
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
Mine felt immediately worse after the ORIF. After two weeks getting comfortable in their new positions, all the ligaments really resented getting wrenched back into place. Good illustration was that my run of the mill, 45 minute surgery end
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
I shattered my collarbone - and I do mean shattered, ~8 pieces - in a mountain bike crash September 2023. I went over the bars after the back wheel of my hardtail caught a berm. Landed on my head and shoulder and compressed it laterally inw
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
I bought a 16 Pro after the camera on my previous iPhone stopped working. Despite being a camera-led purchase - and I do care about the camera on my phone - I would have bought this 16e in a heartbeat over the Pro.
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
Using fish shell has largely solved my gripes with complex commands. It’s not AI autocomplete, but it remembers the complex commands perfectly, so I only need to work it out once. It’s suggestions are also uncanny - the right command and ju
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
My German peaked during an exchange, where after a few weeks of it "washing over" me I was using the language more naturally, even if still making frequent errors. Equally my French peaked when I was working around lots of French
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Ask HN: How to best learn a new (spoken) language
6 points by jamiedumont 2y ago|9 comments
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
Can’t argue with that! :D
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
I’ll confess to being ignorant on the science. For instance I know that many of the local guides don’t use oxygen, but attributing that capability to time at altitude (“training” for lack of a better word) or genetics (on the back of genera
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
I'm only pointing out that those SaaS starter kits existed over ten years ago, and I've got the invoice to prove it! :D
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
There was a time about ten years ago I worked with a few people who had climbed Everest (one multiple times) and a handful more that were due to in the next couple of years. We worked in a climbing shop, and the regulars were all experience
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
I've not encountered "Brave New World" but I love (and can see) the metaphor!
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
34 year old who grew up on Guernsey (small island south and independent of Britain but with very much the same values) and went to a state-funded Grammar school for secondary and can't relate to all of this, but certainly most. The det
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
Hate to break it to you but this trend of selling people a system to make money where the seller is actually enacting the system they’re selling is older than the internet. I can recall online versions in 2012 - that I’m ashamed to say took
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
I've been evaluating and building out small prototypes with all the usual suspects for backend Rust work. So far I've reluctantly agreed with the hive mind that Axum on balance is the best choice, despite being lower-level than I&
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
This is a brilliant endeavour and incredibly well executed! I’ll certainly be bookmarking it to share with others. I’ve recently decided to start adding to my website with just hand-written HTML, and slowly migrating the back catalogue. I l
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
I’m solidly reinventing the wheel by building my own cut-down version of Ghost, cut with a minimal platform such as Blot, Bear, Mataroa, etc; using classless HTML as the source (rather than mobiledoc). Aim is for a static-site development&#
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by jamiedumont 2y ago
Agreed. Annual is usually paid upfront in exchange for the discount you receive. I paid for a year of Ghost Pro and realised after only a few weeks that I’d really rather use something else. It’s my mistake and there’s no comeback. I have a

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