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djbusby··on Ask HN: Was HN just down for anyone else?
Mostly a dupe of this Tell HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301921
djbusby··on The Headlight Brightness Wars
Make and Model of bike is included.
djbusby··on The Headlight Brightness Wars
Loud bikes are not safer. 50+ years of crash data shows this.
djbusby··on Inside the War Against Headlight Brightness
To all windshields?
djbusby··on Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup Buzee – A file search application
Anyone have suggestions for an app to search across all my stuff? That is, Google Drive, GitHub, GitLab, Box.com and local files?
djbusby··on Should programming languages be safe or powerful?
> brutally test them

I cut my teeth in the industry on the test side at MS; it was a bit adversarial with the dev side. And there was a third side to get us both on documentation.

It was frustrating but, I think we made Good Stuff (NT4, Win2k).

I have not seen that rigor since.

djbusby··on Doctor Who theme: Ron Grainer (composer) Delia Derbyshire (musician, arranger)
Thought I was the only one.
djbusby··on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion
If the relationship is demonstrated to be as close as the Jones-Trump-Judge in this one, sure.

Recusal is evaluated case-by-case so an all-for-everything situation, like you've described, is unwarranted.

djbusby··on Show HN: Don't let your billion-dollar ideas die
^^ Metallica!
djbusby··on Show HN: Don't let your billion-dollar ideas die
Or Dunkin
djbusby··on Show HN: Don't let your billion-dollar ideas die
SADM = Special Atomic Demolition Munition

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Atomic_Demolition_Mu...

djbusby··on Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner
Well, direnv isn't a python specific tool.
djbusby··on Show HN: Grow Bluesky – A curated collection of the best tools for Bluesky users
> detecting these rings is doable

You've just done it.

Flag an account negative, chase the loop (spiral?).

To my other point about API to these systems, it's rad because you can build your own accept/reject groups.

Don't even need AI to detect your "out group" - FastText is good enough to filter.

djbusby··on Show HN: Grow Bluesky – A curated collection of the best tools for Bluesky users
Not a service but I'm just happy to have a "noise machine" (aka Social Network) that has great API access.

All of these things are so Loud, so API is like the only way to get what I want out of the Game.

djbusby··on Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals
For reference elder care facility in CA Metro Area is like $20k/MO and in MA suburb is like $11k/mo.

At $15k/mo you can get like 65 months of service.

Not counting income from savings or SSI

djbusby··on House panel concludes that Covid-19 pandemic came from a lab leak
Sure! You don't have to ask to ask here, you can just post.
djbusby··on Dependency management fatigue, or why I ditched React for Go+HTMX+Templ
> inherent inefficiency of the virtual DOM

I was around when vDOM was being called optimized.

I was also around when they called it DHTML.

Get off my lawn!

djbusby··on Stephen King to shut down his 3 radio stations in Maine
I love them, discovered when I lived in Seattle. Now I've got a crazy little one WJOP-LP but some of the DJs play local little bands and more obscure artists. Must be a teaching/training type thing.
djbusby··on The Curse of Markdown
On HTTP one can use the Accept header to indicate desired response type.
djbusby··on Webhooks Are Harder Than They Seem
We had this problem at work too. And didn't want yet another service provider. Built our own, in Go, for incoming and outgoing. Has some routing features too. Client Webhooks configs stored in that service and our main app API to that thing to configure.

Not optimized for scale, likely only a few thousand per second capable.

djbusby··on Kagi Search API
Closed Beta, of course it's simple and missing features users might expect.
djbusby··on Y Combinator and Power in Silicon Valley
IME the earlier a company is in their lifecycle the more the team matters than the idea. So, choosing founders seems The Right Way
djbusby··on What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch
Bild your own electric in an old style body? Fun, if nothing else.
djbusby··on Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA
*you're
djbusby··on Spotify has shut down several API endpoints
Charles, it's been there for a decade or more.
djbusby··on Hetzner raises prices while significantly lowering bandwidth (US)
It's a fire extinguisher feature; for when the thread has too many, too fast replies.
djbusby··on In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse
I frequently hear there are more lies and they spread even faster in 2024 than 2014 and for sure faster than 1994.
djbusby··on Show HN: Minimal, customizable new tab for Chrome/Firefox
I love these things. I have a custom NTP for my Chrome and FF profiles. It's my productivity hack.

I put all my super frequent bookmarks there, big buttons are easy to click, keyboard shortcut.

Doesn't sync tho :(

djbusby··on Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)
The buildx/build and docker-compose vs 'docker compose' are recent updates.
djbusby··on When did estimates turn into deadlines?
This is especially problematic in early business when the team is small and manager act with same policy/process as when at BigCo.

In this case don't estimate the time to build a poorly defined $something - invert the problem to estimate the value of $somethig.

It's amazing how many of those managers asking for estimates push back when they have to put one out. With all the same reasoning that engineers have when estimating.

A good manager should start with the Value first and allocate time-budget that makes that Value payoff.

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