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Steppschuhon Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

The one that the most other people found useful: Remote Control Collection. It's an app that allows you to control your PC or Mac from your Android or iOS smartphone while connected to the same network. It also was available for Windows Phone and BB10 back in the days.

I've built it about 10 years ago for myself because I was too lazy to get up from the couch to control my media PC and the existing apps were all terrible to use. Turns out many people found good use for it, over 10 million across platforms by now.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.steppschuh...

Steppschuhon Ask HN: How would you invest $20k?

Thanks for sharing. The white text on light green background is very hard to read though (Google sheets app).

Steppschuhon German laptop retailer fined $12.7M under GDPR for employee surveillance

Sure. This wasn't the only reason and I had a meeting with my team lead talking about all of them.

Steppschuhon German laptop retailer fined $12.7M under GDPR for employee surveillance

I worked for NBB as an Android Engineer about 5 years ago. While refactoring the analytics / tracking services (5 different providers in the app), I noticed that customers credit card data was leaking to analytics providers. I informed my PO about this, but he decided that this wouldn't be worth the effort fixing. I left the next day.

Steppschuhon Ask HN: What video games got you thinking about society this year?

Couldn't agree more. Hollow Knight is easily the best game I've ever played, topping even Zelda Breath of the Wild.

So much to explore, so challenging and so interesting lore. I'm really looking forward to Silksong.

Steppschuhon Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology

You can, in fact, do BLE scans in the background on iOS. It's tricky and requires some workarounds, like basically everything related to background tasks in iOS.

Source: Providing apps with that functionality.

Steppschuhon Show HN: Buy Me A Coffee – A free, fast and friendly way to receive donations

Also created a page: https://buymeacoff.ee/steppschuh

I'd wish for a higher maximum word count in the Thank You message section.

Steppschuhon Ask HN: What encrypted Dropbox alternative do you use?

Bdrive[1] is end to end encrypted and implemented as RAIC of different cloud storage providers. It's currently a B2B only solution provided by the Bundesdruckerei (German federal printing office).

Disclaimer: I work for a software engineering company related to the Bundesdruckerei.

[1] https://www.bundesdruckerei.de/en/About-us/Innovations/BDriv...

Steppschuhon Ask HN: How do you stay focused while programming/working?

You might also enjoy http://chillingvibes.com

It's playing mostly chillstep and slow electronic music with decent or no vocals.

Steppschuhon Ask HN: What is your home media PC setup?

You could check out the Remote Control Collection app. It will allow you to use your phone for controlling the mouse, keyboard and media players.

Steppschuhon Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

Newton Mail subscription is 50℅ off at the moment, which I find is a great deal for their service.

Steppschuhon Show HN: Whosfiring

That's not true. Google indeed waits for async content to load for a given amount of time. You can inspect this from the Google webmaster tools.

Steppschuhon Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

It's just indexing data from other porn sites. Pretty much like Google, but accessible via a JSON API. I contacted you with more details. Make sure to check the spam folder ;)

Steppschuhon Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

Contacted you. Make sure to check the spam folder ;)

Steppschuhon Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

Everything is scraped from large porn sites. Please contact me for details, link in my profile.

Steppschuhon Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

Thanks for pointing this out. The actual API provides SSL encryption, the landing page however doesn't.

Steppschuhon Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

http://json-porn.com

Well known API for adult content, hosted on the Google Cloud Platform. 0 seconds down time since about a year. Profitable.