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bertrandom

1,023 karma · joined November 27, 2011

Hi, I’m Bertrand Fan, but my friends call me bert.

I’m an engineer on the Platform team at Slack where I spend a lot of time thinking about how people can build apps on top of Slack.

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bertrandom··on Vanishing phone customer support is driving us all insane
I've used Fancy Hands for this to resolve something with the DMV: https://www.fancyhands.com/
bertrandom··on Burning a NeXTCube (1993)
This may be a better link: https://simson.net/ref/1993/cubefire.html as it has links to the actual photos on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nitroba/albums/721575944354804...
bertrandom··on Show HN: Justyourip.com
I'm a big fan of https://httpbin.org/ip

or

dig @ns1.google.com o-o.myaddr.l.google.com TXT +short | tr -d \"

or

https://github.com/Snawoot/myip

bertrandom··on The code worked differently when the moon was full
+1, I had this issue as well and went through a bunch of futile efforts to block the sun and the angle and wish I had replaced the transmitter a lot sooner instead of trying to move trash cans because that worked 50% of the time. I think this is the kit I bought: https://www.chamberlain.com/safety-sensor-kit/p/041A5034
bertrandom··on Pressing YubiKeys
It's a WASD v2 TKL, I have two!
bertrandom··on Pressing YubiKeys
I've made one of those, too! https://www.flickr.com/photos/bertrandom/4975638961/
bertrandom··on Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop
I took some creative liberties there.
bertrandom··on Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop
Yikes, thanks, I'll submit that for re-review.
bertrandom··on Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop
Sorry for everyone who couldn't open this, I tuned some apache settings and the site should load much faster now!
bertrandom··on Downloading All of Hacker News Posts and Comments
I uploaded it to Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/HackerNewsStoriesAndCommentsDump

Not sure two giant JSON files is the best format for this, but I used jp: http://www.paulhammond.org/jp/ to browse through it.

bertrandom··on Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant
I use Monosnap (https://www.monosnap.com/welcome), it does SFTP and has some basic annotation tools.
bertrandom··on Hackers expose 453,000 credentials allegedly taken from Yahoo service
I built this website to help you easily check if your credentials have been compromised: http://voices.thatsaspicymeatball.com/