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by newswangerd 18d ago
Reminds me of the good ol' fail whale :)
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by newswangerd 20d ago
One thing I'd like to learn is how to effectively meditate as someone with aphantasia. I took a course in college and all of the exercises involved some variation of tuning out your internal monologue going to your happy place in your
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by newswangerd 1mo ago
One thing I’m starting to see more and more is that software is no longer as big of a moat as it once was. Netflix gets to cruise along with a tech like evaluation because it pioneered online video streaming software. They caught the incumb
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by newswangerd 2mo ago
I have an old iPhone SE and I want to give you kudos that the animations run buttery smooth on this page. There are a lot of websites where just the ads will cause my phone to completely freeze.
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by newswangerd 2mo ago
These are all very conservative back of the napkin calculations. Also, this isn't 1000 connections. It's 1000 customers, each of which can consume dozens of connections. My point here is that it is important to match the tech stac
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by newswangerd 2mo ago
This is one of the killer Firefox features. I'm so happy to see it's getting added by default!
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by newswangerd 2mo ago
I went through this process when I was designing the sync server for Digital Carrot. In the end, I decided to just go with the simplest solution possible. In my case it's just a barebones Go gRPC service that uses an in memory channel
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by newswangerd 2mo ago
I had to double check that today isn’t April 1st
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by newswangerd 2mo ago
Buf is well established and maintains a lot of protobuf packages for many languages, including the YAML implementation for go.
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by newswangerd 2mo ago
This is incredible news! I’ve used protobuf in Python, Go, Kotlin and Dart and the Python implementation is totally unusable. I don’t know what black magic Google uses for the Python implementation, but the classes it generates are totally
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Using Go for Mobile Apps: A retrospective on a year of development with Gomobile(davidsobsessions.com)
5 points by newswangerd 2mo ago|0 comments
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by newswangerd 4mo ago
Using AI to inform architecture doesn’t seem so different from googling architecture in this case. Architectural patterns are mostly well understood and well documented these days and are something that you could piece together via Google s
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How Rockstar fit a city into 32 megabytes of PS2 memory [video](youtube.com)
3 points by newswangerd 4mo ago|0 comments
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by newswangerd 4mo ago
All so that they can lose this accumulated knowledge during the next round of layoffs.
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by newswangerd 4mo ago
Good gravy... I hadn't even considered that. I assume end to end encryption would help mitigate this. Breaking E2E encryption would require a client side update that could be hard to implement if the company has already gone belly up.
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Ask HN: Is it possible to craft a privacy policy that perpetually protects users
2 points by newswangerd 4mo ago|3 comments
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Firefox appears to be bulk removing extensions with no explanation(discourse.mozilla.org)
11 points by newswangerd 5mo ago|1 comments
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by newswangerd 6mo ago
I admit that vibe coding was kind of a clickbaity way to frame this, but I couldn't think of a better way to describe it. That might just underscore my ignorance in this domain. One problem I personally have here is that I write code a
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by newswangerd 6mo ago
Here’s another question. Has anyone been able to get an agent to produce reliable high quality code? My first experience with it was a year ago and the tests it produced were so horrendously hard to maintain that I kinda gave up, but I imag
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Ask HN: Is vibe coding a new mandatory job requirement?
39 points by newswangerd 6mo ago|79 comments
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by newswangerd 6mo ago
I'm still trucking away on Digital Carrot ( https://www.digitalcarrot.app/ ) It's a cross platform productivity app that lets you block apps, websites and games until you reach a set of verifiable goals such as walk
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by newswangerd 6mo ago
There was a project at Ansible that aimed to address this kinda thing when I worked there. The idea was to write policy as code definitions that would prevent users (or AI) from running certain types of automation. I don’t know where that p
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by newswangerd 8mo ago
I was thinking about ways for the app to receive webhooks, but being able to send webhooks is an even better idea! I'm going to start writing down some thoughts for creating generic webhook triggers. That should also work for zapier (a
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by newswangerd 8mo ago
How do home assistant sensors work? I've thought about adding a webhook capability. Would it be something like that?
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by newswangerd 8mo ago
I would also love to hear what kinds of plugins the HN Community would like to see. At the moment I'm thinking about the following: - Github: this would allow you to set goals based on reviewing PRs, closing tickets, reading GH notific
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by newswangerd 8mo ago
I'm working on something like this for Android. My goal is to build a system where plugins can selectively block parts of apps based on a set of rules. I can't promise that this will end up making it into the final version because
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by newswangerd 8mo ago
At the moment pretty much everything automatically resets at midnight, including any timers. It's not an issue for me since I rarely stay up past midnight, but I did notice one problem where my step goal reset on New Years eve and I wa
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by newswangerd 8mo ago
I would LOVE to be able to open source this project at some point, but I also want to be able to make a living off of maintaining it. I've been reading up on some source available licenses such as Polyform, which can contain clauses th
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Show HN: Digital Carrot – Block social media with programmable rules and goals(digitalcarrot.app)
39 points by newswangerd 8mo ago|11 comments
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by newswangerd 9mo ago
Western auto makers are getting slaughtered by Chinese competition outside of the US (and maybe the EU? I don't know what the EU tariff situation is). I have a Chinese EV. It was half the price of an equivalent Tesla and better in ever

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