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StepBroBD

10 karma · joined December 10, 2021

- [homepage](https://stepbrobd.com) - [github](https://github.com/stepbrobd)
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StepBroBD··on FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs
US of A’s Chinafication letsgooooooo
StepBroBD··on Declarative Git repo sync/migration tool and self hosted code search engine
I've seen a few post on moving off of gh and now is probably a pretty good time (?) to show case this project I've been working on since last year ;)

There are 2 screen recordings [here](https://github.com/stepbrobd/inc/issues/112) and the NixOS module implementation for the search engine is [here](https://github.com/stepbrobd/inc/blob/master/modules/nixos/n...)

The code search engine reusing [zoekt](https://github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt) as library (in the module, its the api backend but the stock web interface is quite usable) and [neogrok](https://github.com/isker/neogrok) as frontend

StepBroBD··on Pain Points of OCaml
For printing, there’s show in ppx_deriving [1], and I think ppx in general had made my overall experience with OCaml a lot better.

[1] https://github.com/ocaml-ppx/ppx_deriving

StepBroBD··on Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?
Freethink [0] has some interesting write-ups, their videos are pretty fun to watch too.

[0] https://www.freethink.com

StepBroBD··on University of Utah Homepage Down
“Canvas, CIS, Peoplesoft, UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group), Network Availability, VPN, UMail, University of Utah Home Page, Voice Systems”
StepBroBD··on Apple May Have Added 5G Support to Google Fi Carrier Bundle
Related: https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleFi/comments/q56uxn/how_does_a...
StepBroBD··on Google Fi seemingly affected by latest T-Mobile data breach
After all these years, Google Fi still has NOT add 5G support on iPhones, now another data breach, nice!
StepBroBD··on iCloud+ custom email domains should be better
this actually says everything i need