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by jvns 9mo ago
From the other side, I’ve fairly often written blog posts that I don’t put much effort into and have no intention of reaching the front page of HN, only to see 12 hours later that somebody submitted it and it’s on the front page. I realize
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by jvns 1y ago
I pay for a tool to convert HTML/CSS into PDFs https://www.princexml.com/ and it seems to work well. I don't have the best idea of how it compares to the various free options though.
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by jvns 1y ago
I tried to grep the code for `api.` to get a sense for all the vendors this codebase is using, and which you'd need to have relationships with to run the code. Here's what I found: payments: https://api.paypal.com
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by jvns 2y ago
Deleted this post because I don't think a random screenshot from my email is a good source for people to refer to. A better source might be the bitly terms of service: https://bitly.com/pages/terms-of-service (1.4
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by jvns 2y ago
Yes! Katie and I made it into a zine because I was such a huge fan of her work on https://ohshitgit.com/ . (you'll notice she's a coauthor of the zine)
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by jvns 2y ago
That's a great idea, thanks.
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Google Season of Docs 2024(opensource.googleblog.com)
3 points by jvns 3y ago|0 comments
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by jvns 3y ago
That book (Ed Mastery, https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#ed ) is an April fool's joke, but it's a real book and I thought it was actually really good. I've still basically never used ed but it was fun to le
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by jvns 3y ago
fixed, thanks!
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by jvns 3y ago
fixed, thanks!
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by jvns 3y ago
Like I said in the blog post, I'd love suggestions for other things I've missed that happen when you run "hello world", _especially_ if there's a way to use a Linux spy tool to trace what exactly is happening. Consi
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by jvns 3y ago
Hello! I wrote this post and I have a couple of things to say about this "DNS is not actually hard" take. It took me many years to feel totally comfortable debugging DNS problems, and I wrote this post to explain why I think it wa
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by jvns 3y ago
note: it was available before, the only change is that now it's in a github repository instead of a zip file that you download from the website
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by jvns 3y ago
A DNS resolver is both a client and a server -- for example Google's 8.8.8.8 (which this is a toy version of) is a server (you can query it with `dig @8.8.8.8 example.com`), but also a client of the various authoritative DNS servers th
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by jvns 3y ago
thanks, I'll take a look
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by jvns 4y ago
There's this by Andreas Zeller: https://www.debuggingbook.org/ , it's an interactive free book with implementations of a bunch of different debugging tools in Python
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by jvns 4y ago
Awesome! My mom is from Trinidad so I always love hearing from folks from there :)
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by jvns 4y ago
The initial 1000 copies ran out, but I just added a few hundred extra so it should work now. (the way it works is that I add 1 copy to give away for every 1 copy sold, but it's a manual process)
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by jvns 4y ago
Unfortunately I've done a bunch of research into this and I've never been able to find a print-on-demand service that prints the zines in a way that I was happy with. Print on demand is easier for regular books, but the booklet fo
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by jvns 4y ago
As the author, I don't think this really makes sense on the front page of HN since you have to pay to read the zine. I am doing a giveaway for folks who can't afford the zine though -- if $12 is a lot of money for you but you thin
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by jvns 5y ago
I'd never heard of this, thank you! I was hoping for people to provide more examples of things that have gotten easier in this thread but I'm happy to see one or two at least :)
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by jvns 5y ago
Restarted the server and it should be back up for now :). Here's the culprit: > 2021/12/15 18:39:10 http: Accept error: accept tcp [::]:8080: accept4: too many open files; retrying in 1s
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by jvns 5y ago
should be fixed now, sorry about that!
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by jvns 5y ago
Google Keep lets you make checklists and it's easy to uncheck everything on the list. I use it to make "leaving the house" lists etc.
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by jvns 5y ago
I also implemented a vaguely Hey-inspired system in Fastmail a year ago and it's been good. One tweak that's really helped me: when I filter things to "The Feed", I also use the filter to snooze them until 6pm, so I only
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by jvns 5y ago
there's a site called focusmate that helps you find accountability buddies ( https://focusmate.com ). it's really helped me.
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by jvns 5y ago
Author here. I wrote a post about the design of this game on my blog: https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/04/16/notes-on-debugging-puzzles/
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Termshark – A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark(termshark.io)
3 points by jvns 5y ago|0 comments
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by jvns 6y ago
One thing I find a bit strange about this (as a Gumroad user) is that Gumroad employees don't seem to be granted @gumroad.com email addresses -- when I've needed to email their engineering staff or marketing staff I often get repl
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by jvns 6y ago
in case you haven't seen it: No Starch Press published a box set of all my free zines called "Your Linux Toolbox". I have some links to places you can get that here: https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/10&#x2F

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