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alexmorenodevon Sublime Text 4 Build 4142

At the time I made the change, vscode had a better plugin ecossystem to my needs. Still use it when I need for specific stuff, but it isn't my main text editor anymore.

alexmorenodevon Sublime Text 4 Build 4142

The single piece of software I attached to in my entire life. It was a really hard decision to leave it behind.

alexmorenodevon Daft Punk Break Up

I had this same feeling with SNES games and Diablo 2 and stuff I listened to when I was 10 till 14 (especially with System of a Down). Took me years to disassociate then. Not that I wanted, but it happened eventually.

alexmorenodevon AirPods Causing Tinnitus (600+ reports since 2019?)

I kinda have a friendly relationship with my tinnitus. If I move my jaw in circles, the noise frequency follows the movements. I find it kinda funny. For example, right now I don't hear it (only if I really focus on it), but if I move my jaw, I immediately can hear it.

alexmorenodevon Attention Is My Most Valuable Asset for Productivity as a Software Developer

Man, barbell stuff do wonders for me. I sleep better, I eat better, the pain I feel is a good feeling, like, my body is repairing for some heavy effort I made, my sexual drive is (a lot) better, my energy levels are better. Food has a purpose. My hormones are better. I feel great overall. I eat without guilty. Besides that, I'm stronger by the day.

I tried to simulate these feelings with other activities (soccer, running, bike, even calisthenics). No success. Not the way that barbell stuff do to me. And I'm not even a very strong guy (101kg bench, 130kg squat, 150kg deadlift @ 73kg).

alexmorenodevon Attention Is My Most Valuable Asset for Productivity as a Software Developer

One of the reasons why I don't do weightlifting stuff is that they seem a lot riskier. Same doubt here. These people who recommend weightlifting stuff (I don't mean in any way to discredit Robert Oberst, Eddie Hall... I follow and watch Strongman scene and really enjoy these guys), are they recommending it as "you should get a weightlifting coach and learn the movements properly" or "go to the gym and do power cleans as you go"? I find powerlifting a lot easier to learn alone, youtube only. And less riskier with the progress of increasing load + nonstop learning.

alexmorenodevon The physiological effects of slow breathing in the healthy human

Is it? I always read about it as "used" by Navy SEAL, not "created" by them.

alexmorenodevon Wim Hof breathing technique can modulate immune response to pathogens (2014)

Thanks for your work. I really enjoy it.

alexmorenodevon I switched to Linux after using Windows for 10 years

Until 2012 I was using an old laptop, Celeron with 760mb RAM, running Lubuntu and Windows XP. It was very crappy, but allowed me to do some web freelancing (thanks Sublime Text, I miss you) and browse web in general (sure, one thing at a time. Sometimes I couldn't listen to music on Banshee and have a heavy RAM tab opened). That's what I could afford at the time. Today I got a powerful Dell laptop, don't care anymore about these micro optimizations. I feel like I'm betraying my old self, hah.

alexmorenodevon 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

He even reviewed one of my favorites albums launched recently: https://www.scaruffi.com/vol8/bentknee.html

alexmorenodevon Thank HN: You helped me get a new job

I kinda have a mental map of brazilian people here. Everytime I see some nick which resembles anything in portuguese, I check if the person is brazilian. From time to time, I'm here scrolling and then... Oh, the soneca guy again. Same with the atum one, and some others.

alexmorenodevon Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?

Some mnemonics about the subject. Mnemonics made me learn hiragana in 2 hours. Cyrilic in less. http://ryanestrada.com/russian/index.html

Sure, I wasn't able to write and read fluently in 2 hours, but I least I didn't need to take a look on a table anymore.

I started to write my personal notes in cyrilic. It's very fun and kinda cryptographic.

alexmorenodevon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2019)

Location: Brazil

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (would need visa sponsoring)

Technologies: Vue (electron, vuetify, SASS/stylus, nuxt, dexie), cypress, jest, git, node (express, hapi, mongodb), PHP (slimPHP, MySQL)

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-moreno-95713a58/

Email: alexmorenodealmeida@gmail.com

Focus on developing front-end system from small to large ones, with special attention to componentization and architecture. Recently developing a taste for functional javascript.

Looking to work with open-minded people and able to relocate if VISA sponsored.

alexmorenodevon Ask HN: How much do you work at your job?

I share the same feeling. Since Deep Work, I work less and do more. I'm supposed to be 8 hours on my company, but since I do everything in much less time than anybody else (due to make an effort to don't get distracted), I usually spend 7, 7.5 hours at company and nobody complained yet.

alexmorenodevon Phones Should Be Like Toothbrushes

There are 2 things to take into consideration. One, phone apps (the problematic ones) are extremely more addictive than TV. Two, once you make a little effort to resist the urge of entertain yourself with mindless stuff (which is considerably harder when we're talking about phone apps), your dopamine resets and it becomes easier and easier to do whatever you really want to do instead of distract yourself.

alexmorenodevon Y Combinator Resources for Developers

https://www.laarc.io/ uses it. It's a HN clone created by an ex-employee from S2 (which develops Heroes of Newerth, a Dota clone). It's available on github as well. https://github.com/laarc/laarc

alexmorenodevon Ask HN: What to do after $8M (all cash, post tax) exit?

Congratulations! You've finished the hardest game of life. Now you can never do anything you do not want it again, if that's your wish.

Now you can do whatever you want. This includes: Spend how much time you want with your family and important people to you; Work on something you really want, or some significant project for you; dedicate your life to arts or an hobby; Have time to know wherever you want; Take maximum care of your health; Take some risks in general, but not so much, or you might end up dying or being broke again; etc;

You have three resources to manage now: Time, Health and (assuming you won't spend all your money at once) your stocks/bonds [EDIT: or any other passive income of your wish.].

alexmorenodevon Pwning eBay – How I Dumped eBay Japan's Website Source Code

I see what you did there.

alexmorenodevon A History of the Sentence "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo." (1999-2015)

There's an entire subreddit dedicated to these things.

Definitely worth a check.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WordAvalanches/

EDIT: Adding some good examples:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WordAvalanches/comments/3ogese/a_sw...

https://www.reddit.com/r/WordAvalanches/comments/6so5w4/the_...

alexmorenodevon Ask HN: Dealing with a competitor who is scraping my content and ranking higher

"If you're reading this, you should probably read its article on its original source (your link). This entry is scrapped from site (your link)."

alexmorenodevon If monads are the solution, what is the problem?

As a "never touched any functional language but always hear about how monads are extremely complex", I feel enlighted.

alexmorenodevon Ask HN: Does SEO still work in 2018?

https://www.w3fools.com/

alexmorenodevon Git log – The good parts

Mine is only `gl`, but I edited my .zshrc for that.

alexmorenodevon Show HN: A Chrome extension that tracks front-end JavaScript at runtime

Awesome. This could (and I hope it will) save some dozen of hours debugging.

alexmorenodevon Depixelizing Pixel Art (2011)

If you're out of imagination you can copy and paste some comments from here and watch the results.

http://www.translationparty.com/bizarrely-the-pixelated-stuf...

alexmorenodevon Bitcoin: I am a time-traveler from the future, here to beg you to stop (2013)

Will bitcoin worths $100.000 on 2019? I mean, seriously.

alexmorenodevon Clicker Heroes 2 is abandoning free-to-play

I love how paperclips is extremely addicting, but short. These games can eat up all your free time for months easily. Paperclips takes one day or two.