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be_erik··on JavaScript Temporal is coming
You must be lucky. Anything the relies on their floating ABI breaks on every update (C dependencies are very common for certain tasks)
be_erik··on Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace
I too ran a pre-IPM for years. I still would. Why would I waste an entire team’s time when I can just collaborate with 2 people first?
be_erik··on Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace
It’s no different than using IMAP or POP3 to download your messages. This is the beauty and curse of email. It’s sometimes too transparent. I prefer it.
be_erik··on Tactility: OS for the ESP32 Microcontroller Family
Do you have proof of these claims that you can link here on HN? While I’m not surprised, maybe you can provide proof of which brands are working with the CCP and the kinds of backdoors being installed?
be_erik··on So you want to write Java in Neovim
Java’s debug tools are first class and even this stubborn vim user knows to hand over the keys to Idea anytime I have to do anything in Java.

With that said I’m still a sout, puts, Printf, cout << developer.

be_erik··on Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app
I use it exactly that way and publish an RSS feed of my archives: https://enlace.space/~erik/rss.xml
be_erik··on Is stuff online worth saving?
Some might say, that years of spammy emails drove the creation of the llms we know today. It's easy to forget how fast some things have moved: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naive_Bayes_spam_filtering
be_erik··on Ergo Chat – A modern IRC server written in Go
Just in time for taking my chatops onprem. Clear text orchestration with a chat log is pretty nice. !docker-restart :)
be_erik··on MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown
Oh thank god. I can finally retire my docx to pandoc to markdown tool chain. I can’t believe M$ was the big one to go first. Good on ya.
be_erik··on ChatGPT Pro
SSO and enforceable privacy and IP protections would be a start. RBAC, queues, caching results, and workflow management would open a lot of doors very quickly.
be_erik··on Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI
I am! It works great and it’s reasonably easy to snapshot sites without RSS on a cron.
be_erik··on Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI
I do exactly this with hoarder. I passively build tagged knowledge bases with the archived pages and then feed it to a RAG setup.
be_erik··on Fearless SSH: Short-lived certificates bring Zero Trust to infrastructure
Keyloggers are absolutely used for audit logging. I've implemented these MiTM patterns specifically so we could log all keystrokes. The addition of a keylogger is only an issue if you don't trust Cloudflare, but usually a checklist item for these kinds of bastion hosts in certain compliance environments.
be_erik··on The Origins of DS_store (2006)
ResEdit and using it to modify Escape Velocity is 100% the reason I’m still in this industry.
be_erik··on Show HN: Use Go's HTML/template to write React-like code
HTMX + React style server rendered components would solve 80% of the use cases for a modern SPA. Keep going! This is a breath of fresh air for many simpler applications.
be_erik··on Quill v2 – Rich text editor
Quill is already over 10 years old! I've deployed it in multiple applications with a lot of success.
be_erik··on Weather.gov 2.0
Stupid order of operations bug. A refresh should do it. Thanks for the nudge to fix this up.
be_erik··on Weather.gov 2.0
This new API coupled with their old API makes creating a DarkSky clone pretty simple. Here's mine: https://wthr.cloud/

I'll definitely end up using the broadcasting/eventing API for push notifications.

be_erik··on Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI
Using an archive link, normally works: https://archive.is/ouoE5
be_erik··on Experts fear crooks are cracking keys stolen in LastPass breach
The warning that displays when bringing up a JavaScript console on their homepage was always enough to steer me clear of that product.

Stop!

reqaccts_js_bundle_jquery_3_6_1?1693888551:2732 This is a feature for developers and researchers! If you are not a developer or researcher, pasting something here could cause your account to be compromised

be_erik··on Amsterdam to use “noise cameras” against too loud cars
Older two stroke scooters are obnoxious, but modern 4 stroke engines are very common now. They're quiet and run pretty clean.
be_erik··on LazyVim
For me it’s plug. It just works.
be_erik··on A Look at Bluesky
I’m looking for an invite too ebenoist AT gmail
be_erik··on D2: A new declarative language to turn text into diagrams
It can be a bit clunky setting up the jar (or hosting it yourself), but it's still the best worst option. It scales pretty well and can draw some very complex flows, while still giving you the best in just plain ole text editing.

I could have never maintained the diagrams I used for other developers on my teams or folks on the audit/regulation side of thing without it.

The default styles are really unprofessional looking and I think a lot of folks look the other way once they see that. C4 diagraming with PlantUML is also a breeze for systems diagrams.

https://github.com/plantuml-stdlib/C4-PlantUML

be_erik··on gRPC on Node.js with Buf and TypeScript
We have a two services in production that use node/grpc, both as clients and as servers and have seen very few issues. We have seen some library issues related to old versions of the now "legacy" protobuf implementation, but my understanding is that is being replaced with this implementation: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-node/tree/master/packages/proto...
be_erik··on Google OAuth API Is Down
Yup, seeing 500s on some internal products that use Google as an auth wall. Mostly for users that are logged out.
be_erik··on Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
Search gets less attention these days, but mostly because the current tools work so well. Scaling Elastic is still a bit of a dark art, but our company likely wouldn't exist without lucene/elastic. They take a bit to learn and use correctly, but they are incredibly powerful.
be_erik··on Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
To get this to install on osx

1. git clone https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/scdoc

2. Edit Makefile and remove -static flag from ldflags

3. make install

4. git clone https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc

5. make install

You will need Go 1.12

be_erik··on Vim.wasm
This is absolutely incredible. I never thought this would be possible-- wasm opens a new phase of software development and deployment.
be_erik··on Flair: A simple framework for natural language processing
Markov chains can be used to do type ahead prediction. It's likely what the iOS uses for their predictive keyboard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain

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