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bdibs··on Zotonic: An Erlang Web Framework
Looks interesting, since it seems to focus on performance, are there any benchmarks compared to Phoenix/Elixir?
bdibs··on Restic – Backups Done Right
Restic has that option with “restic check”, I have it run weekly and email me the results.
bdibs··on Stripe to move to South San Francisco
It’s sort of late, I’m sure we’ll hear from them eventually.
bdibs··on Don't Use VPN Services
https://thatoneprivacysite.net/detailed-vpn-comparison-chart...
bdibs··on Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project
What's the alternative?
bdibs··on Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments
While I agree they’re spot on, it’s not like this is a new issue.
bdibs··on Application Layering – A Pattern for Extensible Elixir Application Design
I would love to see a real world use for this, maybe I’m underestimating the scale of an application that would need this.

I think Phoenix contexts are plenty and I’m not sure adding more layers of abstraction is a great idea.

bdibs··on Ask HN: Which email software do you use on Linux?
I disabled that feature entirely.
bdibs··on Ask HN: Which email software do you use on Linux?
I use Mailspring mostly for aesthetic reasons.
bdibs··on Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
My current venture (https://www.podalong.com) is using Elixir/Phoenix Framework/Vue.js for the front end, a couple various Golang services for background stuff, and Elasticsearch for search.

This was my first project using Elixir/Phoenix and it’s been really fantastic, I couldn’t recommend it enough for being very productive and it’s fairly performant to boot.

The mobile app was built using Flutter (again my first project with Flutter), and it has honestly been great. I come from a Java background and Dart is extremely similar so it took no time at all to get acclimated.

bdibs··on Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?
Dune was released in 1965.
bdibs··on CDC says stop vaping as mystery lung condition spreads
There have been 5 confirmed deaths so it seems fairly serious.
bdibs··on Investigators who know you’ve faked your death
Given they hire them as a consultant or contractor, I'm sure there's plenty of plausible deniability on their end.
bdibs··on [dead]
That’s doubtful, they need the user to be there (and sleeping) for it to work.
bdibs··on Apple Card restrictions include no jailbreaking or cryptocurrency purchases
I’m thinking about getting it for online purchases with Apple Pay and Apple purchases (maybe).

It’d be a replacement for my Citi Double Cash, but even then the only real difference would be daily rewards vs monthly.

bdibs··on Apple Plans to Bankroll Original Podcasts to Fend Off Rivals
If they’re exclusive to Apple, there isn’t much of a reason to have a RSS feed.
bdibs··on Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server
Probably to not allow it to run if the users didn't update Zoom.
bdibs··on Bug bounties and NDAs are an option, not the standard
You could check if they have a security.txt[1]. I don’t think it’s terribly common, but I know there are some out there.

[1] https://securitytxt.org/

bdibs··on Personal Kanban 101
Would anyone recommend this for a solo developer?

Personally I'm a fan of a mix of physical sticky notes and Trello, but I'm always open to new ideas. I could see this being more of a hassle than I'd like, but I could be wrong.

bdibs··on How I encrypt my data in the cloud
Restic is a great choice also.

You can store files/backups/whatever encrypted with support for many popular endpoints (local filesystem, S3, Backblaze B2).

bdibs··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
Thanks for asking!

I’m working on a podcast community site to give a place for listeners to get together and connect.

It’s not too far along but the basics are there, feel free to check it out/give me feedback:

https://www.podalong.com/

bdibs··on A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft's Answer to “What Do You Think about ReactOS?”
In the U.S. it is perfectly legal to reverse anything that you obtained legally.
bdibs··on An Open Letter to the Go Team About Try
The full proposal is here: https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/32437-...
bdibs··on Cloudflare outage caused by bad software deploy
Seems like a terrible idea to deploy changes to such a vital piece of their software GLOBALLY without some sort of rollout procedure.
bdibs··on The Cost of JavaScript in 2019
What’s wrong with the hash approach?
bdibs··on Announcing Startup School 2019
There's a whole signup just for auditing!

https://www.startupschool.org/register

bdibs··on Announcing Startup School 2019
How are the group sessions handled? Video conference, Slack, something else?
bdibs··on Elixir 1.9
Are releases supposed to replace Distillery? If so, are there any particular reasons to switch?
bdibs··on Ask HN: Do you keep an engineering notebook?
I use Boostnote[0] (not affiliated, just a happy user), it's a simple to use note keeping application that supports Markdown.

Keeping an (almost) daily journal of stuff that hangs me up has helped me immensely. You know the type of problems that take 12 hours of debugging just to find out it's something trivial? Write that down, it's sure to come up in the future and our memory isn't great at all.

[0]: https://github.com/BoostIO/Boostnote

bdibs··on Texas Is Latest State to Pump the Brakes on Red-Light Cameras
My understanding is that it's fully automated.
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