siralonso

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by siralonso 8mo ago
If any of this looks like fun (it is so very much fun), dropping by your friendly local soaring club on a weekend is a good place to start! The Soaring Society of America has a club map here: https://www.ssa.org/where-to-fly
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by siralonso 8mo ago
Super affordable for an aviation thing. I'll often fly 4-5 hours from a $50 tow. My previous club charged about $500/yr with no hourly fees for glider use. I bought my own mid-performance glider for $15k and a $200 annual inspecti
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by siralonso 8mo ago
Also, as pointed out below, Github's GraphQL types also include fields like `permalink` and `url` (and interfaces like `UniformResourceLocatable`) that probably save you from needing to construct it yourself.
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by siralonso 8mo ago
I wouldn't decode them like this, it's fragile, and global node IDs are supposed to be opaque in GraphQL. I see that GitHub exposes a `databaseId` field on many of their types (like PullRequest) - is that what you're lookin
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by siralonso 2y ago
Ditto, except in my glider! I would appreciate a slightly smaller form factor, though - the cockpit in the Libelle is a bit... tight.
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by siralonso 5y ago
There are plenty of different definitions of the word "bubble" out there, but most of them relate in some way to asset prices coming untethered from fundamentals. For example, here's Schiller's from 2015: > A situatio
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by siralonso 5y ago
Yep, I was wondering the same - it reminds me a lot of the SwiftUI visual editor in Xcode. Very nicely done.
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by siralonso 5y ago
I've been consulting full-time since my early 20s - it's been an adventure! You could talk to your current employer about switching to a part-time contract - it seems like in the last couple of years, more companies (especially st
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by siralonso 6y ago
These two things are simultaneously true: 1. The experience of using a native app is substantially superior to web/electron. 2. Figma has done an amazing job of building features to support teams and organizations. I used to use Sketch
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by siralonso 6y ago
Thanks! METARs [1] are standardized weather reports that pilots use to evaluate current conditions. They're often reported from stations located at airports, and include (among other things) wind direction, cloud bases, temperature&#x2
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by siralonso 6y ago
Good callout. I've got a feature coming to show age on the widget face, but for now you can tap the widget to view the full version, which includes the age and timestamp.
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by siralonso 6y ago
Not a pain at all - I did explore this, but I wasn't really happy with the result - which may have been because I was trying to cram it in with the existing information. Having an alternative layout that is more cloud-centric instead o
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by siralonso 6y ago
Thanks! Onwards to the instrument rating. That's a great idea RE: nearest reporting airport - I've put it on the list to explore for the next version. Haha, roger wilco on the taildragger time.
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by siralonso 6y ago
Me too! The lack of ForeFlight widgets was the reason I started hacking on this, actually. Love the idea of showing wind direction relative to the phone - one challenge with this is that you're not allowed to do any animation in widget
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by siralonso 6y ago
Hi all! This was a side project I worked on over the last few months while learning to fly in South Dakota. I learned a lot about working with Widgets and SwiftUI, and I hope to do a writeup on those soon. Feel free to ask me anything, and
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Show HN: iOS14 weather (METAR) widgets for pilots(apps.apple.com)
12 points by siralonso 6y ago|12 comments
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by siralonso 6y ago
Lots of negativity here, but I think if your goal is to be able to sprinkle in bits of interactivity (or demos) among mostly static content, this is a great choice. Yes, it has more dependencies than some other solutions - but the goal isn’
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Big Crowbars: The Development Tools I'm Using in 2020(medium.com)
2 points by siralonso 6y ago|0 comments
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by siralonso 7y ago
I’ve been using the muji cases for years. My partner just got an Away case of equivalent size as a gift, and I can’t figure out why people would choose them over muji. In almost every way the muji cases feel better to use, and they seem muc
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A street photo per year from 1838-2019 [video](youtube.com)
1 points by siralonso 7y ago|0 comments
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by siralonso 7y ago
I've been traveling full-time for a year and living out of basically one big rolling-suitcase. Every time I'm back in the states, I convince myself to put the OP-1 in storage - it's just taking up weight, I could just as well
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by siralonso 7y ago
One datapoint to the contrary - I had an excellent experience with their support. Shortly after I bought my original OP-1 (the $800 version), I managed to brick it during a firmware update (my computer died while loading the new FW IIRC). T
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by siralonso 8y ago
IIRC, the instability is caused by the engine nacelles (the metal shroud around the turbofan), and therefore is present whether the engines are active or not.
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by siralonso 8y ago
I studied in Boston and then lived in SF for several years, and also needed a break. SF is incredibly beautiful - land's end, the presidio, twin peaks, the fog, hwy1 in either direction - but I started to feel like the natural beauty w
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Show HN: A React port of Sketch's grid system(medium.com)
7 points by siralonso 8y ago|0 comments
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by siralonso 8y ago
Our last app (Chorus, a podcast player mashed up with a social network, http://chorus.am ) was built entirely in react-native - with the exception of the streaming implementation. In my mind, it's a great example of the opti
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by siralonso 8y ago
The "telegraphing" of moves in ITB is really great. The devs worked on FTL previously (also a great game if you haven't played it!), and one of the really nice interface choices they made is to make the effect/requiremen
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Show HN: Sparknotes for your GitHub account (prototype)
2 points by siralonso 12y ago|0 comments
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Find the odds of your Indian Railways ticket getting confirmed(trainman.in)
2 points by siralonso 12y ago|0 comments
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SpaceX is hiring a Farmer in Texas(spacex.com)
120 points by siralonso 12y ago|50 comments

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