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I made an app for competitive hot air balloon pilots(patrykkalinowski.com)
2 points by pkalinowski 1y ago|0 comments
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by pkalinowski 3y ago
I'm using snapdrop.net for that. It requires a server, but clients only need to open a webpage, so it's easier after initial setup. I run mine on Synology server. Too bad it seems to not be mantained anymore
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by pkalinowski 3y ago
Why build dropbox, you can easily do it yourself just by using (...)
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by pkalinowski 3y ago
I picked up Svelte to build my first non-trivial app, which is flying navigation aid for hot air balloon pilots[1]. Svelte is much, much easier to grasp than React or Vue, especially when it comes to state management. I like that it’s super
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by pkalinowski 4y ago
Unreal Keanu: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FeHzQizPDNg people in the comments have no idea it's a deepfake. Without knowing beforehand, I wouldn't recognize it too.
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by pkalinowski 4y ago
Vector map of the whole Earth in PMTiles format is only ~65GB[1] and doesn't need any server or database - it's just a static file which you can host wherever you want. bdon (author of PMTiles) already commented on this thread. I
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by pkalinowski 4y ago
https://forestry.io could help
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by pkalinowski 4y ago
I did different setups over time, but currently settled on forwardemail.net for incoming catch-all custom domain and iCloud+ SMTP servers for sending.
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by pkalinowski 5y ago
40 people web startup. Currently Metabase as main BI tool, but I'm thinking about introducing a tool like hex.tech. IMO classic BI and dashboarding is inflexible and future lies somewhere else. Backend is Bigquery + dbt. I highly recom
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Ask HN: Salary discussions – numbers are before or after taxes?
15 points by pkalinowski 5y ago|50 comments
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by pkalinowski 6y ago
So advertising works? If it didn't, those buying ads would not take the pepsi market share
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by pkalinowski 6y ago
Man, this is perfect example of why most open source software has no chance to compete with commercial one. One day I wanted to improve getting started documentation in open source f.lux alternative for linux, because it didn't work fo
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by pkalinowski 6y ago
VR gamedev is pretty exciting for me. There are almost no conventions or good practices, everybody is winging it. It's very greenfield and you work with your own hands and body.
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by pkalinowski 6y ago
Check out headless CMSes: https://jamstack.org/headless-cms/
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by pkalinowski 6y ago
Why single data scientist should be responsible for obtaining data from 2000 stores? Data at scale requires people at scale. Data engineers would do this job.
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by pkalinowski 6y ago
I wonder why it seems nobody wants to use Hugo. Smashing Magazine appears to be happy with it and they tooted about their experience with Hugo multiple times. Instead, everyone chooses Gatsby, Next or another javascript based framework of t
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by pkalinowski 6y ago
Putting advertising outside of marketing is not a nuance. Advertising is part of marketing.
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by pkalinowski 6y ago
In Europe, giving employee less time than it's needed to complete a task is called mobbing.
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by pkalinowski 6y ago
My Slide sorts by hot by default
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by pkalinowski 6y ago
Isnt ActiveRecord using SQL behind the scenes?
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by pkalinowski 6y ago
> Completely agree. For example, why isn't there functionality to define aliases for complex expressions and then reuse those through a query. Simple query-local SQL functions would be nice too. What about common table expressions?
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by pkalinowski 6y ago
GIS is something I have limited experience with (I'm a hobbyist pilot), but find very interesting. How did you enter the industry?
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by pkalinowski 6y ago
In my experience input lag in Google Docs is very small but noticeable compared to local writing. You can get used to it, but I prefer more snappy experience.
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by pkalinowski 6y ago
https://commercejs.com/ looks like nice platform. They have a plan with 0 upfront cost, you only pay % of transaction.
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by pkalinowski 6y ago
Good adblockers do DNS lookup to see if subdomain points to tracking server anyway. Only completely self-hosted (your domain, your tracking server) solutions are resilient to adblocking
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by pkalinowski 6y ago
It looks insanely complicated for no reason. Why do such super organisation, where you have great search at your disposal? I just have everything inside Notes folder with subfolders if any project is getting bigger. Anytime I want to look f
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by pkalinowski 6y ago
Console support is not there by default due to licensing, but I heard that one of Godot developers runs a company which provides console builds for Godot.
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by pkalinowski 6y ago
People pay with electricity, uncomfortable temperature and fan noise, wasting time working on slow apps. Apparently, they trade off still worth it, as many electron apps are popular despite these issues. Many times there is electron app or
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by pkalinowski 6y ago
You know, it's called estimation. Maybe come up with better number?
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by pkalinowski 6y ago
Leisure and fun are often unproductive, some people include "unproductive" as part of their definitions.

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