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Dachande663

1,078 karma · joined February 20, 2011

Dev.

If you cannot access one of my websites, then you have probably been blocked due to wider rules I have in place stopping attackers and/or scrapers. I apologise but will not remove them.

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Dachande663··on Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?
I loved dreamweaver when starting out. Never got on with the WYSIWYG (hence moving on), but its ability to read your CSS file and suggest classes was great. MX was the pinnacle in early 2000s.

More relevant to me though, I miss Fireworks so much. Nothing comes closer. Figma is great but web based and already shown willing to sell out everyone who trusts them.

Dachande663··on PHP 8.4.4 Released
It is valid. I’m running 8.4 and with autoloading etc it all works as expected. Maybe the language you’re arguing against isn’t the same language anymore.
Dachande663··on PHP 8.4.4 Released
I think you’re being a bit disingenuous here. Almost all packages are vendor and package prefixed yes, but your own code from very easily be as simple as:

namespace Me;

function test(){}

———

use function Me\test;

test();

Conflicting package names require you to be working on a very poorly written project (not using PSR-1) or a dependency that is even worse which is fewer and further between since composer.

Dachande663··on Ask HN: How can I realistically change careers?
Sounds like a reserves position, probably in S6/Signal Corps given the description of dealing with IT.
Dachande663··on Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI
We currently use Metabase for SQL reporting, so I've been looking for something to allow actually changing values for a while. That being said, I don't think I would want to touch this. Reading through the code, it looks like a) it doesn't actually use transactions which I just find mind blowing and b) the first two files I looked at (api/database) has the schema for a database defined twice so already I worry about the data model of the app, let alone managing my own.
Dachande663··on Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA
The site runs off of a tiny little server at home so I’ve got some very aggressive firewall rules. Anything from the usual bad countries, certain signatures etc are blocked. Reduced traffic to 1% of previous load.
Dachande663··on Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA
99% certain this is where I copied the idea from.
Dachande663··on Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA
Semi-related but I needed a CAPTCHA on my site[0] mainly to block comment form spam and settled on repurposing a fun method I’d seen before. Is definitely not foolproof (or hard at all), but I really liked making it.

[0] https://www.hybridlogic.co.uk/contact

Dachande663··on PHP 8.4
The last few point releases have been very stable, so normally within a week or so. Obviously this relies on having a pretty good test suite (we run ~8,000 tests in ~60 seconds so not too bad for us).
Dachande663··on Upcoming Hardening in PHP
PHP still has PECL[0] which is a huge collection of C extensions.

[0] https://pecl.php.net/

Dachande663··on Mr. Smith – An Open-Source Framework for Building Project Scaffolds
This reminds me of Yeoman in a way. Never thought I’d reminisce about the days of backbone and gulp.
Dachande663··on The DeskThing: the perfect desk assistant
Is there a simple BOM for making something like this without a Car Thing. Would an arduino/rock chip with a tft touch screen work or does it warrant pi levels?
Dachande663··on It's been 30 years since Intel's infamous Pentium FDIV bug reared its ugly head
Today I learn where the name Pentium actually came from (fifth in Intel's release history, pent).
Dachande663··on Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations
I didn't mean it quite so insultingly, but yes, even a very modest server would handle that kind of load easily. You're not particularly high throughput (a few requests per second?) and I imagine the database is fairly efficient (you're not storing pages of text or binary blobs). I think you'd be pleasently surprised by what a little VPS can do.
Dachande663··on Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations
I love the idea of this but, given the traffic numbers, this could run on a $4 Digital Ocean droplet and have the same result. They've burnt over a grand just to use vercel. Maybe I'm just older but I don't understand the logic here. A basic VPS, setup once, would have the same result and would be neutral in cost (it's how I run my own little free apps). Maybe the author is lucky enough that $100/mo doesn't really affect them or they're happy for it to pay for the convenience (my assumption).
Dachande663··on Python client for the $20 Colmi R02 smart ring
The python runs on another machine and is just communicating with the ring. You don't run it on the ring itself.
Dachande663··on The Paradox of the Distance Runner
Only about 1800ft total elevation, which isn't much when you average it down and take into account a couple of hours here and there to swap plasters, eat some scoff etc.
Dachande663··on The Paradox of the Distance Runner
I did a 24-hour running race a couple of months ago. Didn't hit my goal, but still came back with 50 miles under my belt.

To me, the bliss is the moment I forget I've been running for five minutes, or 15, or an hour. I can't meditate. Sitting still and breathing, it's never worked for me. I collapse in on myself. But when out running, or even just walking if it's a longer distance, I hit a point where I disconnect. My body is doing... something, and meanwhile I'm off diving deep into ideas or worlds or scenarios or who-knows-what-else.

Dachande663··on Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
Working on my first foray into DML-based speakers. Low expectations, but more enjoying the fun of learning a new domain (and it’s a distraction from building garden furniture). Got various exciters, panel types, mount ideas ready, just taking the time out of the evenings.
Dachande663··on Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS
I suppose the real question now is: did the author give it a 9.9 out of ignorance or malice/ego?
Dachande663··on Bootstrap Your SaaS (The Fast Way)
AppSumo users are typically the worst kinds of customer as well, speaking from past experience.
Dachande663··on Automating My /Now Page
I still have a /now page, but it follows the 2007 Web 2.0 trend of basically been a stream from audioscrobbler, Flickr, blog etc (or their modern replacements). Life updates are just blog posts
Dachande663··on Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? (2021)
(2021)
Dachande663··on Ziff Davis is buying CNET for just $100M
Mentioned in the article.
Dachande663··on Is Cloudflare overcharging us for their images service?
I would be interested to know pageviews/bandwidth because this feels like it's still at the scale of it could run on a single box (rather than Heroku or a whole kubernetes cluster as seems to be the current case). For reference, we served a genealogy image/audio/video site from two servers behind an LB for ~$60/mo and handled 100K pageviews a day with nary a bother.
Dachande663··on Revealing the Inner Structure of AWS Session Tokens
tl;dr it’s a standard protobuf payload after ignoring the first byte.
Dachande663··on We created a fake delivery company to get a job
What vile people. Each step is a further descent into hell.
Dachande663··on WTF Is Wrong with Webflow?
Putting cloudflare etc in front of webflow breaks how webflow does their lets encrypt renewal (they use HTTP, not DNS), so after ~90 days the site goes offline unless you allow un-encrypted origin connections.
Dachande663··on WTF Is Wrong with Webflow?
The "publish to your own server" is a cruel joke. Anything remotely dynamic, even things like CMS pages that can be generated at build time, don't work. To be fair, webflow itself is a joke.
Dachande663··on Retirement of Office 365 connectors within Microsoft Teams
Teams is already chaotic for development. The documentation mixes between multiple deprecated versions already. This is just going to add to the chaos. It feels like there is no-one at Microsoft responsible for "Teams" as a product. Instead it's the bastard orphan that gets bits given and taken away as each department takes a swing at it. At this point, I would genuinely say it's the current most hated Microsoft product in daily use. And for good reason.
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