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aaronmiler··on Heroku Seems to Be Down
Looks like we had platform initiated restarts that ended up taking down the whole app. Yay!
aaronmiler··on Heroku Seems to Be Down
Love the back dating like it has been there the whole time
aaronmiler··on Heroku Seems to Be Down
As the other commenter said, pretty sure it's at the routing layer. Deploys, start ups, all working just fine for our apps. But router can't reach them. Related to the Google CA outage maybe?
aaronmiler··on Google Public CA is down
Heroku having service issues, dependency related?
aaronmiler··on Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
Just want to say thank you. I've used your site tons over the years, it's been a great resource
aaronmiler··on Show HN: A simple, open-source Notion-like avatar generator
Found this by accident. Click the little `+2` on Outfits, and it opens Accessories/Facial Hair
aaronmiler··on Heroku Status – Dashboard/API Offline
Oh nothing catastrophic, they were just having a light outage yesterday.
aaronmiler··on Heroku Status – Dashboard/API Offline
CircleCI, Linear, now Heroku.

Universe really doesn't want my team doing any work this week.

aaronmiler··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022)
Carats & Cake | Software Engineer | Remote (US Only) | Full-Time | https://caratsandcake.com

Carats & Cake delivers the operating system for events, transforming the $100 billion annual events industry through a full suite of purpose-built marketing and sales tools as well as customer conversion solutions (contracting, invoicing, and payments).

We are looking for someone who is excited about being part of a small team with other experienced engineers and playing a key role in executing against our product roadmap.

Our stack is Ruby on Rails, Postgres, React w/ Typescript, and we use Sidekiq for background processing.

We recently raised our Series A! More info here: https://caratsandcake.com/articles/carats-and-cake-announces...

Apply on Lever here - https://jobs.lever.co/CaratsandCake/263988bf-a2d2-4da5-a674-...

If you have any questions about the role, feel free to reach out to me, aaron at [COMPANY_DOMAIN]

aaronmiler··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2022)
Carats & Cake | Software Engineer | REMOTE (North America) | Full-Time | https://caratsandcake.com

Carats & Cake delivers the operating system for events, transforming the $100 billion annual events industry through a full suite of purpose-built marketing and sales tools as well as customer conversion solutions (contracting, invoicing, and payments).

We are looking for someone who is excited about being part of a small team with other experienced engineers and playing a key role in executing against our product roadmap.

Our stack is Ruby on Rails, Postgres, React w/ Typescript, and we use Sidekiq for background processing.

We recently raised our Series A! More info here: https://caratsandcake.com/articles/carats-and-cake-announces...

Apply on Lever here - https://jobs.lever.co/CaratsandCake/263988bf-a2d2-4da5-a674-...

If you have any questions about the role, feel free to reach out to me, aaron at [COMPANY_DOMAIN]

aaronmiler··on Happy 10th Birthday, Sidekiq
#3 is one of my favorite things about Sidekiq. Anything I'm trying to do with Sidekiq, I check the wiki first, and it's usually there. Any time I've introduced the library to a team, the docs and wiki are always my recommendation for answering questions. Even Pro/Ent features are covered there, which is so much nicer than having the docs hidden behind a login/paywall.

Thanks for the hard work you've poured into them Mike!

aaronmiler··on MonitorControl: Control external monitor brightness and volume on your Mac
It does work over USB-C on 2019/2020s
aaronmiler··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2020)
Location: Portland, OR

Remote: Yes

Relocation: No

Technologies: Ruby (on Rails), React, Rspec, Sidekiq, CI/CD, AWS, Javascript, Coffeescript

Resume/CV: Happy to provide it over email

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronmiler/

Email: [REDACTED]

Full Stack Engineer with over 7+ years experience, with 6 of them being remote. I've spent the past 5 years in Ed-Tech, and am looking for my next opportunity.

aaronmiler··on Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?
There was a lot of research that was done, but we were able to get into cans with a few key components.

We use a piece of home brewing equipment right now to fill our cans and bottles, the beer gun [1]. The beer gun allows us to purge our cans/bottles with CO2 (oxygen is bad for alcohol), and then fill them from the bottom to reduce foam.

I was able to find a local supplier, that wraps cans in plastic. So rather than printing them, they shrink wrap our label on to them. They're a bit more expensive than printed cans (if I recall 34¢ sleeved vs 19¢ printed). This allows us to order a single pallet at a time, decreasing our storage needs

The last key was the can seamer[2]. I found this early on, and it's been a great little work horse for us. We've put over 6,000 cans through it, and it's been one of the best purchases we've made.

Bottles are the easy one, we just use the beer gun [1] and then a manual capper to seal them.

Happy to answer any other questions! It's been a fun ride trying to figure out how to "mass produce" something on a smaller scale :)

[1] https://www.morebeer.com/products/blichmann-beergun-v2.html [2] https://oktoberdesign.com/shop/canseamers/mk16/

aaronmiler··on Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?
We are Hood View Ciderworks (hoodviewcider.com), based out of Gresham, OR (suburb of Portland)
aaronmiler··on Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?
I licensed my house as a winery, and run a hard cider company with my girlfriend. We sell to some stores in our area, and do our local Farmer's Market during the summer.

It's been very satisfying making and selling a physical product.

The profitability part isn't quite there yet. But we're working on that.

aaronmiler··on 'Moment of reckoning': US cities burn recyclables after China bans imports
I run a Hard Cider company in OR.

We (the beverage industry/my company) are only in practice responsible for deposits. While we are required to take collections, no consumers really returns them to us. The return burden often falls on the retailers, who collect deposit directly from consumers.

When we sell product to a retail store. We collect a 10¢ deposit per can from them. The retailer then collects a 10¢ deposit from the customer.

My company gives all our collected deposits to a co-op (which is state run I believe) who handle the collection/recycling of the containers.

I interact with our bottle bill on a pretty small scale, but I believe that only changes my reporting frequency.

aaronmiler··on Personalized Hey Siri
I feel like this is a big missing piece for voice activated things. I've got an Echo device ~10ft from my TV, and it gets activated from Netflix (Parks & Rec mostly... I blame Rob Lowe) all the time. I should be able to go into the app and label it as a false activation so it can ignore it in the future
aaronmiler··on Ask HN: Is Comcast having internet problems?
Comcast home customer in Portland OR

Netflix servers responding and streaming fine, but almost everything else is slow

aaronmiler··on Ask HN: Google Doc email virus?
Just checked the malicious link again.

It looks like Google removed (at least one of) their access tokens

Checked the URL containing:

  googledocs.g-docs.win%2Fg.php
aaronmiler··on Ask HN: Google Doc email virus?
From what I can tell, it's actually Google, but then they redirect you to a malicious URL after auth/approval
aaronmiler··on Ask HN: Google Doc email virus?
Our support team is getting spammed a lot from our customers. We're in the education space, and it's spreading pretty quick.

On initial inspection the URL looks harmless, but it's got some malicious params in there, mainly

  redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fgoogledocs.g-docs.win%2Fg.php
It appears to request read/send access to your email, and then spam all your contacts
aaronmiler··on Ask HN: What is your ideal career?
My ideal career is actually a split one.

I'm working on turning my garage into a fully licensed winery so I can start producing hard cider commercially.

So in a perfect world, my time would be split 70/30 where 70% of my is spent making/distributing/marketing hard cider. Then 30% of my time is spent on lifestyle software businesses/applications

aaronmiler··on Anyone knows why is APIDock out of service?
4:15PM PST, still down :(
aaronmiler··on Ask HN: What macOS email client do you use?
I like Airmail (http://airmailapp.com), they have a markdown mode which I enjoy since most the tools I use involve markdown
aaronmiler··on Why You Can’t Get a Ticket to the NBA Finals
Dave Chappelle did something similar when he came through Portland. If your name wasn't on the ticket, you got turned away at the door. People who paid $300+ for second hand tickets weren't allowed in
aaronmiler··on The Nightmare of Replacing a Battery on a Mac Laptop
Exactly this. Open up your battery menu, it will say Chrome is using significant energy. I've never not seen it there
aaronmiler··on GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures
CodeShip would be awesome, I'd also love to see CodeClimate support. I didn't know about https://about.gitlab.com/applications/, I'll make sure to keep an eye on it
aaronmiler··on GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures
Switched a lot of personal projects over to GitLab, and been really happy. I'm very excited to see this. My only complaint is the lack of integrations from the rest of the world. It's pretty hard to find good services that hook into GitLab

Note: I'm talking about hooking into gitlab.com not a self hosted instance

aaronmiler··on Purple – Heroku UI Kit
The red box has some text that says:

> It is publicly documented in order to illustrate our design philosophy and process.