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adamfeldmanon Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

Cloudflare doesn't really seem to care about their tunnel product. "cloudflared service install broken on macOS" since 2021: https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/issues/327

adamfeldmanon Biff.graph: structure your Clojure codebase as a queryable graph

There are a few great talks on YouTube by the creator of Pathom explaining the value of the graph: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IS3i3DTUnAI

adamfeldmanon ESP32-S31

Zigbee supports binding, allowing devices to directly control each other without the intervention of a controller. For example, I've Inovelli light switches that communicate directly with Zigbee smart bulbs.

adamfeldmanon OpenAI introduces a Codex plugin for Claude Code

Repo: https://github.com/openai/codex-plugin-cc

adamfeldmanon Burger King will use AI to check if employees say 'please' and 'thank you'

It should've been called Manna: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel)]

adamfeldmanon Claude for Excel

https://www.metabase.com/features/metabot-ai

adamfeldmanon Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

Is it DNS or BGP?

adamfeldmanon Launching XTDB v2 – time-travel SQL database

adamfeldmanon Analysis of the Spyware That Helped to Compromise a Syrian Army from Within

The article, or original source, doesn't answer who orchestrated the attack https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/how-a-spyware-app-compromi...

adamfeldmanon Coffee reduces risk of Type 2 Diabetes; okay to add cream, but not sweetener

Can’t delete my comment any more, misread the parent comment while it was too early in the morning!

adamfeldmanon Coffee reduces risk of Type 2 Diabetes; okay to add cream, but not sweetener

Whole milk works fine and is more commonly used

adamfeldmanon Building a Sync Engine in Clojure [video]

https://www.instantdb.com. Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41322281

adamfeldmanon Visualizing Weather Forecasts Through Landscape Imagery

Weather Strip (iOS) https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weather-strip/id1528594026

adamfeldmanon Spotify Car Thing will be discontinued

If you paid with PayPal you can still file a dispute there. The seller in the U.S. was called Luzern (working on behalf of Spotify).

EDIT: don't waste your time, PayPal auto-denied it because it's been >180 days since the transaction ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

adamfeldmanon Houston, We Have a Solution (2023)

I live in a townhome in the area talked about in the article (inside the 610 loop). As a local, this article felt spot-on and matched local understanding of how Houston manages residential land-use hyper-locally through deed restrictions and the like.

Curiously unmentioned in the article were TIRZ, but those are mostly used to manage commercial areas, not residential.

adamfeldmanon The best way to have complex discussions?

How does CQ2 compare to Zulip?

adamfeldmanon Announcing the Open Home Foundation (a new home for Home Assistant)

adamfeldmanon Memcached 1.6.25 Release Notes

New functionality: tiered storage between new and old/cold data

adamfeldmanon IAM Is the Worst

In the spirit of "the problem is always ~DNS~ IAM", I made https://isitiam.com

adamfeldmanon JSON Canvas – An open file format for infinite canvas data

This was released (and originally implemented) by Obsidian: https://obsidian.md/blog/json-canvas (see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39670684)

adamfeldmanon Days Since Incident (2022)

The purpose of this hurricane rating scale is to "provide some indication of the potential damage and flooding a hurricane will cause upon landfall." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffir%E2%80%93Simpson_scale

adamfeldmanon Weaveworks is shutting down

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/05/cloud-native-container-man...

adamfeldmanon USPS is falsifying safety docs as its workers die of heat

I did the opt-out linked below and the volume of junk mail dropped significantly.

https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-stop-junk-mail

adamfeldmanon Texas just got closer to blackouts than it has since 2021. What happened?

This is the first I've seen data on high demand growth this summer (I live in Texas and try to follow these issues).

> The power grid has seen overall demand grow 7% this summer, after two decades of predictable 1% per year growth, and 10 preliminary demand records since late June. [1]

[1]: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/erc...

adamfeldmanon Reddit Continues to Fall Apart

“Voyager is an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy”

https://github.com/aeharding/voyager

adamfeldmanon Solar power is bailing Texas out this summer

Of course the ERCOT political appointees put out a release [1] blaming the wind, when the problem was the fossil fuel sources.

Why there was a projected supply shortage:

1. Expected: low wind production (as is normal on a summer day)

2. Unexpected: "...The problem is that they only expect 4.0 GW of thermal to be offline (see Typical planned and unplanned outages, thermal). FYI, thermal includes, gas, coal, and nuclear.

According to ERCOT, 12 GW of thermal ("dispatchable") is offline today." – quote from thread: https://twitter.com/AndrewDessler/status/1546528816272654337

[1]: https://dentonrc.com/news/denton_municipal_electric/grid-hol... (via https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/renewable-energy-...)

adamfeldmanon Using Adapt and Beam for Effective Data Modeling

Thank you, I learned about a few new tools and techniques today.

adamfeldmanon The obvious final step

Code as data https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16398791

adamfeldmanon CheerpJ 3.0: a JVM replacement in HTML5 and WASM to run Java on modern browsers

Context: a classic episode from the Flash animation series Homestar Runner (and my favorite) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1F4W8-DqjE. Original release date January 2003.

Edit: the song is likely it https://youtu.be/JwZwkk7q25I

adamfeldmanon Datomic is Free

One example: https://www.datomic.com/nubanks-story.html