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Linell··on Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?
Hello Fresh has been my favorite.
Linell··on Ask HN: Is your work meaningful?
I work at a company with one of the catchy "changing the world" slogans that everyone likes to make fun of, but I actually feel like we are making an impact.

We provide tools for educators to get more actionable data about their students and then facilitate conversations between educators and parents, and it's a pretty great combination. If even a few students end up with a better life because of a teacher being able to reach out more easily, then I'd say that's meaningful.

If that sounds neat, check out https://schoolstatus.com

Linell··on Man raises privacy concerns after car dealership employee turns off his dashcams
Why not? Can’t you imagine a scenario in which something happens to your car in the dealerships custody that you’d like to have video footage of?
Linell··on Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project
The article mentions 100k users.
Linell··on Find out what you, or someone on your team, did on the last working day
Plain old `git log` can handle most of this, if you care less for a nice interface.

git log --author="tlbonnette@gmail.com" --since=1.days

You can of course tweak the way that git log outputs too, to make it more readable.

Something like:

git log --pretty=format:%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset --abbrev-commit

can make it quite pretty.

Linell··on Ask HN: Where are you located?
Jackson, MS
Linell··on Ask HN: What do you wish digital assistants (Siri, Alexa, etc.) could do?
I really wish that Alexa could handle push notifications. "Your order is leaving Domino's Pizza now" would be great.
Linell··on Hammerspoon – Powerful automation of OS X with Lua
I'm using it as a basic window manager and an easy way to start and stop music without having to take my hands out of their usual position.

Here (https://github.com/Linell/hammerspoon-config) is my configuration, although it's nothing fancy.

Linell··on Hammerspoon – Powerful automation of OS X with Lua
I use it primarily as a windows manager and an easy way to start and stop Spotify/iTunes.

This (https://github.com/Linell/hammerspoon-config) is my configuration, which is about as basic as it gets. The documentation has a billion other, cooler things that can be done.

Linell··on Developing for the Amazon Echo
You have to opt into the skill by enabling it via the app that was mentioned in the post.
Linell··on Getting to Zero Exceptions
While this is a good goal, and I don't think it's not a sensible goal, the amount of developer bandwidth required to take the approach given in the article is enormous.

Fixing exceptions as they come in is great if you've got someone on deck specifically for fixing them, but what happens if everyone is already working on something else? Especially if that exception is something that is relatively unimportant? The idea of setting aside time for working on it is much better. I like to do a refactor Friday and work specifically on this type of goal.

Linell··on My bank has an API so I built online banking
As others have said, that tool is Postman. I'd also suggest looking at Paw.

https://luckymarmot.com/paw

Linell··on Show HN: Make a programmable mirror
How far have you gotten on your project? The idea of a mirror I could wave at to change the information display on is pretty tempting.
Linell··on GitHub: Scaling on Ruby, with a nomadic tech team
IIRC, they use Campfire.

https://campfirenow.com/

Linell··on Ask HN : What side project are you working on?
I've been messing around with Groomy, a dog grooming salon management application. It still has a ways to go.

http://groomy.io/

Linell··on My husband needed therapy after working for Amazon
Check out /r/financialindependence on Reddit one day.

While some people go the route of eating oatmeal and tuna every day, there are plenty of routes to financial independence that don't involve living a life devoid of nice things. It's less about never working again and more about having the freedom to choose what you want to do -- whether that's work for yourself without worrying about paying rent or working full time for someone else.

Linell··on Terminal Window Manager for OS X
Hammerspoon is actually just a fork of Mjolnir from a few of the more active community members.

It has a bit more modules and whatnot and emphasizes ease of use more than Mjolnir. It comes pre-packaged so that you don't need to bother with Luarocks and finding each and every package that you want. It is also under active delevopment. .Steven Degutis, the Mjolnir creator and maintainer, has said that he won't be doing anything other than merging necessary pull requests.

So really, for what you're using it for, probably not much. It's almost a matter of preference.

Linell··on Terminal Window Manager for OS X
I second Hammerspoon. It fits perfectly between being barebones enough to not get in your way and having enough features to do just about anything you want.

Here's my configuration file.

https://github.com/Linell/hammerspoon-config

Linell··on Things I would build if I worked at GitHub
I'd also love for commit messages to be parsed as markdown. I can't really think of a downside to it.
Linell··on About the OS X Yosemite v10.10.4 Update
It still seems like they would have it available somewhere when they have giant "Try Now" buttons all of the Apple Music site.
Linell··on Exception Monitoring and Response
I'm a Honeybadger user and love it! Extremely useful.
Linell··on B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89
My wife and I saw him play in New Orleans. Half way through the show his guitar strings broke and he stopped to fix it. The band kept playing, though.

A man in the audience stood up and started singing, and doing a very good job at it. The band picked up and followed the man singing, going right on through the song. Once his guitar was fixed, BB King came back in and sang backup for the man in the audience. His interaction with the audience for the entire show, and particularly this case, was amazing.

Linell··on Introducing Aurelia
This seems really nice. Just looking through the first few links and pages, it seems to have all of the nice things I enjoy about Angular. It looks like it may have less of a learning curve too, which would be very nice.
Linell··on What I Wish I Knew When Starting Out as a Software Developer: Slow the Fuck Down
A rewrite could always be an option, if it's finished on time.

Setting a reasonable pace with the project could be tricky, but I think it would be very beneficial.

Linell··on Blunt Network Administrator Job Posting
When clicking the back button in Safari, Monster popped up an alert attempting to make me stay and subscribe. That's just not very nice.
Linell··on Farm 432
These are my thoughts exactly. While I love the idea and think it may be great for some things, I just don't see many people making the switch to eating bugs anytime soon.
Linell··on The Positive Coder Experiment
I'm sure that this helps the person being reviewed know that it's not a personal attack against them as much as it is against bad code. All too often it's easy to feel that someone criticizing your code is someone criticizing you -- the positive comments help negate that feeling.
Linell··on Tomorrow, a Spacecraft Will Try to Land on a Comet for the First Time Ever
It's an amazing thing, this living in the future.
Linell··on Hive: Free unlimited cloud storage for you and your friends
I think you're entirely right. Based off of what I saw, this isn't for secure file storage on the cloud. It's for storing photos and music collections that you'd like your friends and family to have access to.

Of course, it does mention documents and such as well, but I'm sure there are plenty of uses for "socially" sharing that type of thing too.

Linell··on Google Classroom
My university used a combination of Blackboard and Moodle, both of which are terrible. Your memory serves you correctly.
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