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codingkevon Mealie – a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI back end

People who are interested in this may also be interested in Cooklang, a simple plain-text markdown format for recipes: https://cooklang.org/ -- doesn't get much easier than that.

codingkevon Tell HN: If You Are in Russia

It assume it depends on how things are structured. If you are effectively running everything from Russia and are just using a EU corporate entity on the "frontend" with no actual business operations within the EU, that type of setup would likely be illegal in most countries.

But if you have two separate entities with clear split responsibilities things should work just fine. For example the EU-based company takes care of running the the product and contracts development services from a Russian company.

codingkevon NYSE, Nasdaq halt trading in stocks of Russia-based companies

Without paywall https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fbusi...

codingkevon Ask HN: Moscow Exchange

Not sure what is going on there, but several Russian stocks (including ADRs and GDRs listed on the NYSE/LSE) have been suspended from trading.

codingkevon Compromising Angular via expired NPM publisher email domains

What do you suggest as an alternative to password reset based on the account email?

codingkevon This needs some heavy checking... (line 1029)

You can link directly to a line by appending #<line_number>

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/f4bc5bbb5fef3cf421ba3...

codingkevon Django: Reformatted code with Black

A little shoutout to a alternative Python formating tool https://github.com/google/yapf (developed by Google).

The built in "facebook style" formating felt by far the most natural to me with the out of the box settings and no extra config.

codingkevon Jolie: A drop-in replacement of Django Admin

I agree. With the current state of Django admin, it is better not to build complex stuff on top of it. A few tweaks and customization here and there are fine, but anything more will likely break on Django and/or third-party package updates.

I'd like to see Django gradually redesigning parts of the Admin to allow for more modular extensibility in future versions.

codingkevon Django Ninja – Fast Django REST Framework for Building APIs

Whats the deal with they large number of open issues an pull requests on FastAPI and SQLModel?

SQLModel 100 issues, 54 open PRs

FastAPI 903 issues, 448(!!) open PRs

I recently had to choose between Flask and FastAPI for a fresh project and went with Flask in the end, partly due to long term maintenance concerns with FastAPI.

codingkevon Meta shares drop 20% on Q4 earnings miss, weak outlook

The last paragraph hits hard, very true.

codingkevon Long-term visa for remote workers

Cyprus is probably the best overall deal out there right now, but it isn't the cheapest option.

codingkevon Long-term visa for remote workers

I guess they just want well off people who leave their $$$ in the local economy for half a year. Fair enough, but not a very impressive deal.

For comparison: Georgia (the country) offers a 360 day visa free entry for almost every country out there, no paperwork required. While the standard of living in Georgia is certainly lower, the nature there is much more diverse and just many more things to do.

codingkevon The Big Mac index: Our interactive currency comparison tool

True. In parts of Eastern Europe and in Asia, McDonalds is still considered a American premium-brand. Same goes for Starbucks and some other American chains.

codingkevon Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution

Early adopters got life long free access... until eventually even the 99 cents was dropped.

codingkevon Meta shares drop 20% on Q4 earnings miss, weak outlook

Facebook is dying slowly in the developed world, that is true. However it is still growing in emerging markets. And most importantly: FB is still generating tons of cash to fund the other assets.

WhatsApp has basically zero monetization right now but billions of users. Huge potential cash cow.

Instagram still has a ton of potential for further optimized monetization. Think fully embedded 1-click buying for things like fashion, gadgets, accessories. They could take a decent cut of Shopifys business if executed right.

codingkevon Tell HN: GitHub is down (Update: Back online now)

Yep, down since ~10mins here in central europe.

codingkevon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2022)

SEEKING WORK | Europe | Remote only

Senior Architect and Developer with 8+ years of experience. Mainly focused on backend development and system architecture. Worked with many startups in the past, vast experience running web applications in production.

Available for: general consulting for web applications, system architecture, backend development, anything Python-related. Flexible working hours, EU time zones preferred.

Technologies: Python, Django, Flask, web application architectures, SQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Celery, Linux, Unix

Contract work only, B2B invoicing via a EU-based company.

kevin [at] kennell [dot] de

CV available upon request

codingkevon Why can't you reverse a string with a flag emoji?

Yes, this allows for easy building of flag emojis as long as you know the ISO 3166 two-letter country code.

Example: https://github.com/kennell/flagz/blob/master/flagz.py

codingkevon Nova by Panic

What plugin(s) exactly are you using in VSCode for Python support?