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cghendrixon Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur

Lol it would be hilarious if it turned out they were letting their is&t department work on OSX.

cghendrixon gping: Ping, but with a graph

Pretty sweet

cghendrixon How we designed Dropbox’s ATF – an async task framework

Woah. Haven’t used Dropbox in more than a decade but they got rid of the syncing? Wow.. that was the most useful part to me. Interesting.

cghendrixon Someone from the product team at Gitlab needs to look at issue 35054

Yeah they could at least comment on why they are not taking any action.

cghendrixon Someone from the product team at Gitlab needs to look at issue 35054

Always so cool when actual devs/stakeholders from mentioned org in the post listen to HN and take action (when appropriate of course)

cghendrixon Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a vicious circle

I like this. Definitely will aim for this between now and my next job.

cghendrixon Apple requests to remove WebAssembly support in a-Shell

most of us engineers just use our phones to talk, text, browse the web, and use the occasional social media or random app. We’re just regular people too, not always having the compulsion to hack and tinker with everything. I personally get enough of that from work and the occasional side project.

cghendrixon Using Alfred to open your GitHub repositories in the browser

Just want to say, I love your style of writing. Very well made visually to help convey your content. Nice job

cghendrixon Ask HN: Are you using Docker as a build environment vs. deployment system and how?

Disclaimer: I have been a regular dev for a few years and recently have worked the last 6 months in my new role as the "devops" guy. It's been interesting and quite a lot of learning.

Anyway, we are using it similarly. However we aren't necessarily targeting different Os's but rather different environments at the build level (ex. different versions of sencha CMD to build our frontend) as well as the deployment application server (ex. different version of tomcat or weblogic for our Java backend)

It really is hard to say what's the best or what's the worst but either way I think you are spot on in the problem you see with software longetivity. There was a recent post here (sorry can't find the link at the moment) about devops addressing that very issue and the proposed solution was to automate everything and think of the infrastructure as code itself that can be versioned just the same as your actual application code.

The techops at my job guys use Ansible to do specifically that. I think you can do it docker but it's not specifically for that.

Read this: http://devopscube.com/devops-tools-for-infrastructure-automa...

I've heard good things about chef and would like to learn more when I have a chance.

More experienced guys: please refute any bullshit you see in my comment. I truly would like to learn how to be better at devops. A lot is objective but a lot is so psychological in how people work together which is fascinating.

cghendrixon Firefox Hardware Report for Web Developers

Curious, why do you think this is so?

cghendrixon Show HN: CakeResume – Drag and drop resume snippets to build a unique resume

* I do feel that pdfs are far more professional

cghendrixon Show HN: CakeResume – Drag and drop resume snippets to build a unique resume

Honestly that's strange to me that you outright refuse. Feel like you have missed out on potentially good positions? Sorry not trying to be snarky, just curious (I personally have never applied to a place that didn't request a PDF or only requested word docs here in the US for tech jobs)

cghendrixon This Is What Happens When Millions of People Suddenly Get the Internet

Open-minded comments like this are why HN is my sanctuary in the general terrible attitude of the internet nowadays.

cghendrixon Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News

Interesting. Care to elaborate?

cghendrixon WOT Firefox Addon selling user data

In a similar vein, I had a negative experience with a chrome add-on regarding injected ads.

One day out of nowhere I started seeing obvious non Google ads in my Google searches. Took me forever to realize some QR generator I downloaded years ago was injected them after the page load.

Tried looking up the add-on within the chrome marketplace and the plugin was no longer listed.

Turns out the developers executed a common path of creating a legit plugin then after a large userbase has been established, push an update containing ad injecting code and de-list themselves from the marketplace. Very shady.

cghendrixon Eve: Programming designed for humans

How so? (Just genuinely curious as I always here this) I have asked the Java developers at my job if they have this common mindset and they don't seem to agree. I don't work with Java that much so I'm just honestly curious.

cghendrixon One does not simply become motivated

I like this a lot! Very good stuff.

cghendrixon Sergey Brin Resume (1996)

Check out the page source

cghendrixon Ask HN: Brainstorming project ideas around Bitcoins. Any ideas?

http://blog.roguecode.co.za/Netduino-Windows-Phone-Bitcoin-t...

Maybe you could extend that somehow?