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by vogtb 6mo ago
I lived in Chicago for about a decade, and around 2017 to 2023 I set a goal of biking to every one of the 76(?) neighborhoods. I made it to about 63. There are definitely neighborhoods rougher than others. But tbh every neighborhood has goo
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by vogtb 6mo ago
This reminds me of another artist that did an isometric map of the city. I bought one and it hangs on my office wall. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1673296980/map-of-chicago-loop-... Always fun to have someone over
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by vogtb 7mo ago
Handy rocks. I recently had minor surgery on my shoulder that required me to be in a sling for about a month, and I thought I'd give Handy a try for dictating notes and so on. It works phenomenally well for most text-to-speech use case
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by vogtb 7mo ago
Same. I thought his portrayal of anarcho-primitivism was really cool and interesting as well. Also, other people called it boring but one of my favorite parts was in Blue Mars as they hammer out the Martian constitution.
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by vogtb 8mo ago
Neat! Having literally everything backed by object storage is The Dream, so this makes a lot of sense. So to compare this to the options that are available (that aren't Kafka or Redis streams) I can imagine you could take these items t
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by vogtb 9mo ago
The line "How could I forget that I had given her an extra key?" comes to mind. Maybe someone left an API key laying around somewhere? Although I could be giving the hackers too much credit...
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by vogtb 9mo ago
Val.town seems to be serverless, where as this is explicitly a server. One is really a subset of the other though, so I suppose if you're deploying ts functions to a service/server, and your execution costs match up with the tiers
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by vogtb 9mo ago
Oh, we're doing Fly again? Cool! I don't mean that sarcastically -- making it dead simple to get a VM at a domain or IP in a few seconds is good and useful. We should keep trying this idea, because every time it gets easier. On a
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Optimizing 100B ClickHouse Events(replo.computer)
2 points by vogtb 1y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Best way to share a portrait-mode screen?
1 points by vogtb 1y ago|0 comments
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by vogtb 3y ago
This is super true. Whenever I find myself struggling w/ flexbox it helps to take a step back and solve it one step at a time. Working my way out-to-in, parent-to-child element, and it becomes so much easier. There's a skill to it
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by vogtb 3y ago
This is rock solid. I keep a plaintext file with all my daily notes in it, but still find myself formatting code before/after dropping it in. The formatting feature alone is a draw here. The math part is great as well - I use a REPL al
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by vogtb 4y ago
+1 for pgtap. Surprised it's not been mentioned more in this thread. I'm using it w/ supabase, and it works really well. They have a small doc on it that's a better primer than the pgtap docs: < https://supa
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by vogtb 4y ago
Yes, there are two default widget packages, Cupertino and Material. https://docs.flutter.dev/development/ui/widgets/material
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by vogtb 5y ago
I had to go digging to find it, but last time someone created a spoof HN page, a user emailed @dang asking why they were logged in under the wrong account.[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10248773
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by vogtb 6y ago
For anyone interested in Mars geology, I highly recommend Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars" sci-fi trilogy. It has an astounding amount of detail that is largely realistic.
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by vogtb 6y ago
I think that no-code and low-code a real movements, and are going to be popular. But the terms are too broad to have a productive discussion about what their power really is. Are all tools with programmatic capabilities low-code? Where do w
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Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage (2018)(lowtechmagazine.com)
76 points by vogtb 6y ago|90 comments
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by vogtb 6y ago
Having looked into a couple of these, it seems like they each have their own sort of focus, which makes sense. From my own experience, and talking to other engineers, companies use kafka for: an http replacement that lets subscribers have d
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by vogtb 6y ago
A company I used to work for a few years ago did it pretty well. To begin with, we agreed on who is asking questions if there were multiple rounds for the interview. If I recall correctly, it was just a straight up spreadsheet with the peop
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by vogtb 6y ago
David Reich's "Who We Are And How We Got Here: ancient DNA and the new science of human past" covers it a bit, but only for the first couple of chapters. It's focused on genetics as well, and is a little technical but he
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by vogtb 7y ago
A lot in common with Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing [1] which was previously on HN. [2] [1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/24/elmore-leonard... [2] https://news.ycombina
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Review of Spreadsheet User Interfaces(benvogt.io)
3 points by vogtb 7y ago|0 comments
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by vogtb 7y ago
It's interesting (and great!) to see this level of research and attention to detail in a blog. Do you mind if I ask why? Are you gathering potential users for a product, service, or startup in this space?
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by vogtb 7y ago
I have a habit of taking notes on these types of talks when I stumble upon them, so for anyone interested, here's a quick write up of the video. Some of it is paraphrased,. * "[Microsoft estimates that 750M users of Excel. (%7 of
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by vogtb 7y ago
This is really cool! Back in college I used the Kinect dev kit to build proof-of-concept special effects for live theatre as an independent study project. I used the Kinect pointed at the face of an actor off stage, ran the resulting 3D dat
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by vogtb 8y ago
Nice, that sounds ideal! I've always found it frustrating to use the AWS console for anything other than dashboards and one-off trouble shooting. You don't ever have issues with teams not applying resource changes? I.e. contributo
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Ask HN: Who's Using Terraform?
5 points by vogtb 8y ago|3 comments
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by vogtb 8y ago
I was playing around with s2 a year or two ago, and it was surprisingly difficult to find information on it, so FWIW here are some links I was able to find at the time if you're looking for some historical reading on s2: Google Present
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Show HN: Typescript/JavaScript spreadsheet parser, with 250 formulas(github.com)
4 points by vogtb 9y ago|0 comments

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