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7ewis

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Senior Tech Manager @ Just Eat

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7ewis··on Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
That is true, I don't really know what the answer is. You could do something like show half code/half readme, with extra code hidden behind a fold.. but I'm sure that would annoy devs working on those additional hidden files.
7ewis··on Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
I know obviously files are important in GitHub, but for the opening page of a random repo I think I would actually prefer to see the README first.

I just went to the Explore page and picked the first repo:

https://github.com/johannesboyne/gofakes3

You have to scroll so far down to find out what the project _actually is_. I know there's an about message on the right, but it's not great.

The new UI does look more modern, but there could definitely be some improvements.

7ewis··on Show HN: Tunnelto.dev – expose localhost with a public URL (built in Rust)
I didn't know Cloudflare offered that, looks nice.

Wonder how these compare to Ngrok?

7ewis··on Cloudflare TV
Will the videos be uploaded somewhere like YouTube after airing?
7ewis··on It is as if you were doing work
Supposed to be doing actual work, ended up getting to Computation Administrator in this.
7ewis··on IMAP Email Backup
I've found GYB works quite well:

https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back

It's created by the developer of GAM - a popular tool you may have heard of, for managing G Suite.

7ewis··on Show HN: Open GIF Search
"car" returns the same thing
7ewis··on Nukemap
Amazing seeing how far the effects can go with a surface burst and radioactive fallout with the W-87.

Probably on some list now though.

7ewis··on Apple Mail randomly becomes the frontmost application in macOS
Wow, thanks so much!

Always thought it was bug, turned that straight off.

7ewis··on Apple Mail randomly becomes the frontmost application in macOS
Something I still don't understand, similar to this - not sure if it's a bug or feature but I use Desktops heavily, especially while working at home without my extra monitors.

For some reason, the order of my Desktops on Mac seem to reshuffle, I can't work out what causes it or when it happens. I often have it ordered something like this:

Desktop 1 - Google Doc (Chrome)

Desktop 2 - Researching (Chrome)

Desktop 3 - Slack

Desktop 4 - Spotify

I'll do the three finger gesture moving from Desktop 1 to 2 and randomly say Spotify will have moved there. It's so annoying.

7ewis··on Show HN: I built a free forms service for static websites
I agree, companies are happier paying for things as they have someone to blame when something goes wrong.

Maybe if they just offered a paid support plan, but kept the actual service itself free?

7ewis··on NextDNS Is Out of Beta
Saw this when it first came out, never tried it until now.

Used it for around an hour and I've already made 2,000 requests and 15% of those were blocked. Can definitely see myself going over 300,000 requests (free monthly allowance) but it's looking great so far so would be happy to support it.

Currently use AdGuard on my phone, looks like this does almost everything AdGuard does (stats, logs, blocklists) with the added benefit of the processing being done elsewhere.

7ewis··on NextDNS Is Out of Beta
Oh that's in Canary now? Will give it a try
7ewis··on NextDNS Is Out of Beta
You can choose what blocklists you use and whitelist individual domains, so you can make it not block the t.co links.
7ewis··on Speed.cloudflare.com
Love how Cloudflare keep coming out with all these new tools, 1.1.1.1 DNS, then VPN, isbgpsafeyet.com now this. The CEO is awesome too, and often hangs around HN.

I seem to be getting pretty accurate results unlike others here, not sure if it's been fixed or my peerings are better:

Tests (Download):

Cloudflare: 78, 73, 73, 73

Netflix: 74, 78, 71, 69

Google: 70, 70, 70, 65

Speedtest.net: 68, 67, 70, 71

I know this doesn't mean too much alone, but for me seemed to produce on average the highest speed.

7ewis··on Notion for everyone
Currently use the Student plan, love Notion!

Do sometimes get lost and wonder if I'm doing things in the most optimal way though, it's so powerful.

7ewis··on Our Chrome Extension Is Safe
Yeah, pointed it to the crx, set it to force install and nothing happens.

If I install the crx locally it works fine. No way of seeing any logs to troubleshoot, pinged a message to our reseller but that method is looking like a dead end.

7ewis··on Our Chrome Extension Is Safe
For testing sure, but this needs to go to just over 1000 people.

The only example I can find online on deploying via URL is this:

https://support.securly.com/hc/en-us/articles/360036540753-H...

Can't see many official docs on it at all.

Now I've gone the Developer route I can see you can create internal apps without having to get them approved so think that's my best option now.

7ewis··on Our Chrome Extension Is Safe
On a positive note, I signed up to get a Chrome Developer account today - made a submission and it was approved within an hour.

Read it could take a month plus be delayed due to COVID-19. I was pleasantly surprised.

7ewis··on Our Chrome Extension Is Safe
Funnily enough, I was actually trying to figure this out today.

I created a very basic Extension, to modify the new tab page (as it's something you can't set in G Suite the way we'd like it).

I wanted to deploy it our G Suite users, and saw there was an option to deploy via a URL. So I packaged it up in Chrome, put the .crx in an public S3 bucket and set it to force install.

Unfortunately it did nothing... is this not possible? Why is it even an option? Eventually ended up paying for a developer account and submitting it for approval (which was actually super fast).

7ewis··on Google Meet premium video meetings–free for everyone
Meet already has grid view, can show up to 16 people.
7ewis··on Ask HN: How can I tell if a site is being rate limited?
Would mtr[0] help diagnose this?

[0] - https://github.com/traviscross/mtr

7ewis··on Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts
Looks cool, anyone got any good use cases for it?
7ewis··on NextDNS is my new favourite DNS service
What are Handshake domains?
7ewis··on Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update
Wonder if this update could be related to an issue I had.

Installed Snap Camera a few days ago, was on a video call and when I came off it the green camera light stayed on. Even after quitting Hangouts and Snap Camera.

I restarted and the green light persisted throughout the whole reboot. I then shutdown, and it finally turned off.

After turning it back on, the camera didn't work at all. I uninstalled Snap Camera, reset PRAM, SMC. Nothing seems to fix it. Now thinking it must be a hardware fault, but think I was on the latest update already and just seems like a strange coincidence that it happened almost immediately after I used Snap Camera for the first time.

7ewis··on Deploys at Slack
Fair enough, only reason I noticed is because I was actually going to post this link yesterday but did a search to make sure sure I wasn't reposting.

Plus they didn't get much traction anyway, so I wrongly assumed there wasn't interest.

Know for the future now!

7ewis··on Deploys at Slack
This link has now been reposted 6 times in the past two weeks:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22816645

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22729766

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22801191

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22784712

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22720028

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22806810

7ewis··on Unverified.email
Could the JSON return info like SPF/DKIM too passes too?
7ewis··on Bose QC 35 Firmware 4.5.2 Noise Cancellation Investigation Report
So is the general consensus that we can safely update now?

Honestly I'm not great at noticing sound quality differences, unless there's a huge difference. But this one seemed to affect so many people I stayed away.

7ewis··on How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you clicking ‘install’
Said this on Reddit the other day and got downvoted.

It _is_ bad on macOS. It used to be one of the better platforms to stream video content to others, but now it just lacks in many areas compared to most of its competitors.

The worst bug I had was it essentially started muting random people on a call, but only for me. I could see their mouth moving, and thought it was a problem their side but turns out everyone else could hear them apart from me. I could hear everyone else too apart from them.

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