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antonpirkeron Show HN: Maptoolkit.org – Free and beautiful vector maps

Nice! In the MapMaker (https://mapmaker.maptoolkit.org/) you can upload an image and it will create a color scheme derived from that image and style the map accordingly.

So you can try to upload your Logo to have a map matching your color scheme :-)

antonpirkeron Can you smuggle data in an ID card photo?

This reminds me of Nico Alm who was wearing a colander as hat on his picture of his passport. He argued that religious hats are allowed and he is a pastafari :-)

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Causes for increasing work in progress in software projects. Collected by almost a hundred senior software engineers.

antonpirkeron Show HN: Instantly visualize any codebase as an interactive diagram

This looks really nice!

I tried it with mine: https://gitdiagram.com/getsentry/sentry-python

A view things:

There are way more integrations in the integration layer, so maybe they should be either shown or a "..." somewhere should tell people that there is more.

The "Hub" is deprecated so it would be cool, that this fact is shown somewhere.

Otherwise really cool!

antonpirkeron Typesetting and printing a family memoir (2017)

This is just amazing! Really like the result, and also the other personal projects on the site!

antonpirkeron Ask HN: What type of Auth are you using on your side projects?

None or username/pwd

antonpirkeron DoorDash won't let you tip NYC drivers without the app

No app will prevent you giving the driver some cash..

antonpirkeron Sony and Apollo send letter expressing interest in $26B Paramount buyout

And the really messed up thing is that there are individuals on this planet who could afford this...

antonpirkeron Show HN: I hate online Lorem Ipsum Generator so I made my own

I use https://lorizzle.nl since forever ;-)

Snoop Dogg style lorem ipsum texts.

antonpirkeron Startup Idea: Reverse Amazon

Thanks for all the comments! Really cool!

I also got links to https://www.stuffle.com and https://www.circle-hand.com/ via the blog.

Some services mentioned really look promising, yet none offers the convenience that I would love (not thinking about anything) but I guess I will try some of the mentioned services!

antonpirkeron Ask HN: Do you also marvel at the complexity of everyday objects?

I once thought about a plastic spoon. You need to dig up stuff from the ground use losts of chemistry knowledge to make it into plastic, have machines to bring it into this great form that is very thind and delicate hence stable. Then you need someone to bag lots of them up and put into boxes and ship halfway around the world to bring them into a shop so one can buy them.

And because this spoon costs next to nothing all this is considered less valuable then using a reusable spoon and wash it after usage.

If you think about it, this feels just crazy.

antonpirkeron Ask HN: How do I stop overthinking personal project management?

Oh and i have a paper notebook where i sometimes sit in a coffeeshop and just do thinking by writing in the notebook. Thinking about the side project and its future. After the session i update the list of things to do.

antonpirkeron Ask HN: How do I stop overthinking personal project management?

For my side project i have a simple text note in a web notes app.

In that note i have a list of around 10 things i should do next, ordered by priority.

That's it. Either i work on one of the ten items or i do not. Only when i finish some items i add new ones. (Of course i also sometimes just reorder or delete stuff from the list.)

There are weeks where i do nothing and in those weeks i do not waste time with "busy work" but just look at the list from time to time and see that i am not motivated to work on the important stuff so i do not work on it at all.

antonpirkeron Ask HN: What do you carry in your backpack?

Don't know what EDC means. But my backpack for commuting has almost always: - bike lights (it gets dark early in winters) - rain pants than can we wore over normal pants (in case it rains) - some coins - some Bonbons that are good for the throat - still a COVID mask (too lazy to throw it away) - a roller pen - strangely I found a patch fo a fever blisters and a anti head ache pill - a adapter from micro USB to USB so I can connect my yubikey to my phone. Turns out the microusb is so mangled already that it is only good for charging and not for data transfer so the yubikey does not work with the phone. Also ok. - a small plastic bag (in case I come somewhere nice where garbage is lying around or where wild berries are found (or people selling berries or mushrooms on the side of the road) - on weekdays a work notebook and headphones

antonpirkeron It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027

My Smartphone still has a replaceable battery :-)

antonpirkeron Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use in 2022?

I also use feedly and love it. It is basically my startpage to the web. It also replaces all social media news feeds for me.

antonpirkeron Ask HN: Help me pick a front-end framework

"prototyping quickly" and "quick rampup" are for me a bit contradictory to "weak typing is a deal breaker". If I do not have to define types for everything, I am WAY faster with my prototypes.

Also given that it is frontend land, I am not sure any of the tools now available will be available (and compatible) in 10 years. And because it is a side project I would not spend one second worrying about 10 years from now.

HN will not tell you what you will like. Every now and then a question like this is asked and people just tell OP the tools they currently use.

I guess it would be best to create a mini app (reading a list of things from a backend and render it and maybe delete something from the list) in two or three frontend frameworks and then choose the one that felt the nicest for you.

As for design I guess Tailwind CSS is something for you. It is easy to make web sites that look nice. (All tailwind CSS sites look kind of the same, but this is OK)

Good luck with you project!

antonpirkeron Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?

Because there are a lot of incompetent engineers that think they need to reinvent the wheel because they are not able to use (yet improve) existing tooling.

antonpirkeron Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1.1-Ounce Battery

I am just flabbergasted that anyone would think of this process to change a battery as "ok". I mean batteries have a pretty short life time. And iPhones are really expensive. A LOT of resources are used to build an iPhone. And then this process for changing the battery.

The product, the battery changing process, the whole company, everything feels like it is the 1980s, it feels like a tech dinosaur.

If this is the way that most people think that things should work in 2022, than we are all doomed.

Sorry, but this makes me so sad... It is unbelievable...

antonpirkeron Ask HN: Why is there no Linux distro that “just works” like macOS?

I use the normal Ubuntu distribution for about 15 years now. Nothing else. I had not to change any config files in forever and every device i owned worked out of the box. So shrug

antonpirkeron Ask HN: What caused the Olympics to become so terrible?

The Olympics are the same. You (and the world around you) changed.

antonpirkeron Ask HN: Tiny Home for $5k USD?

I live in Austria and we do not have people living in tents on the sidewalk anywhere. (But we have some homeless people)

Part of this is probably due to the fact that I pay 48% of everything I earn in taxes and I am totally fine with it!

antonpirkeron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2021)

Location: Vienna / Austria / Europe (UTC+02:00)

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Methodologies: CTO work | team management | agile development | SCRUM | Kanban

CV: https://anton-pirker.at/

Email: anton@ignaz.at

I can be a fresh set of eyes for your team or a sparring partner for the CTO. I also can be your CTO until you find one.

Project based preferred.

antonpirkeron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2021)

Location: Vienna / Austria / Europe

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Methodologies: agile development | SCRUM | Kanban

Résumé/CV: http://anton-pirker.at/cv.html

Email: anton@ignaz.at

Very experiences software engineer. I can build/maintain/refactor "stuff", manage teams or mentor juniors.

"stuff" can be: code, features, CI/CD pipelines, test environments and other "stuff".

antonpirkeron Ask HN: How do you chill your mind after work?

What helped me:

At the end of the work day i write all the stiff currently in my mind down. Either on a notepad that is always laying on my desk or a fullscreen text editor window where i write it in the center. (It is basically like dumping the ram to disc)

The I rode my bike home for about 20-25 minutes. This really cleared my mind.

(Now since corona i am in home office and i just step out the home office. I miss the bike rides. But the suggestion of someone else in the thread about taking a shower before lunch sounds great)

antonpirkeron Ask HN: Handling customers that want feature previewing?

We create a separate branch for the customer and preview this branch with wunderpreview and give the customer the link to the preview.

Every once in a while we merge new stuff in the customers branch so she has always the latest stuff in her preview.

antonpirkeron Buy 1,427 items for $5 Regularly –$7,890

So itch.io is using the current racial protests in the USA for a marketing stunt.

Well done, now I know what itch.io is...

antonpirkeron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2020)

  Location: Vienna / Austria / Europe
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Python, Django, Docker, Postgresql, Redis, Gunicorn, Celery, 
  Others: Code Reviews, Scrum, Project management, Backlog grooming, communication, requirements engineering, hiring, ..
  Résumé/CV: https://bit.ly/3gIsWcr
  Email: apirker@gmail.com

antonpirkeron When Boris Yeltsin Went Grocery Shopping in Clear Lake

"451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons" - Sorry, this content is not available in your region.

Oh come on! Seriously?

antonpirkeron Giants of IT. The giants on whose shoulders we stand. One each day

The license of some of the Wikipedia pictures are preventing me to use them, sorry.