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ehaughee··on Open Source Barware: free, local-first bar inventory software (GPLv3)
Another option in this space: https://barassistant.app/
ehaughee··on Run Docker containers natively in Proxmox 9.1 (OCI images)
My homelab upgrade from 8.x to 9.x was pretty smooth from following their upgrade guide[1]. I just upgraded from 9.0 to 9.1 this morning without any issues.

[1] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_8_to_9

ehaughee··on Libghostty is coming
Or lnav (https://lnav.org/).
ehaughee··on I ditched Docker for Podman
I also had issues with Podman on an M2 Mac. I'm currently using OrbStack as I had network performance issues with Colima (I have 10GbE between the Mac and a NAS). Outside that issue, Colima was awesome.
ehaughee··on I ditched Docker for Podman
I also had issues with Podman on an M2 Mac. I'm currently using OrbStack as I had network performance issues with Colima (I have 10GbE between the Mac and a NAS). Outside that issue, Colima was awesome.
ehaughee··on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion
Would you mind elaborating?
ehaughee··on Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out
I had the same issue but it turns out you can expand them to show the titles by clicking the "side bar" button that, for me, was left of my address bar. Odd default but this is in a nightly release and others have already provided feedback to them on this.
ehaughee··on Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later
This will definitely be subjective and I highly recommend using the subreddit search to find topics you enjoy, BUT here are a few of mine:

r/billiards r/boots r/frugalmalefashion (arguably small nowadays) r/hiphopheads r/mtb r/self hosted r/sffpc

ehaughee··on Execs who mandate a return to office admit that it doesn't improve productivity
As someone who had been listening, I've heard maybe one good faith justification (onboarding and mentoring of new hires) and a multitude of vague "synergy" excuses. Honestly asking and sincerely listening, are there others?
ehaughee··on Show HN: Built a self hosted clean status page and batteries
I've been looking for a good and ideally very simple place to host an Uptime Kuma container with persistent storage. Any suggestions?
ehaughee··on How I stay reasonably anonymous online (2022)
Firefox Relay offers "randomized" phone numbers along with its emails: https://relay.firefox.com
ehaughee··on Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
That is pretty interesting. Probably an solid blog post in and of itself.
ehaughee··on When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed
I would love to use Ripcord but I can't find any information on noise suppression/voice focus and that's a requirement for me as I play without push to talk and on mouse and keyboard so all those key presses get sent through to those in my channel. With the 1st party app, despite other issues, none of my key presses come through for people in my channel.
ehaughee··on Pirate Weather: A free, open, and documented forecast API
Same here. Tried a few hours apart. If you're looking for the API docs, as I was, they are here: https://docs.pirateweather.net/en/latest/
ehaughee··on Pirate Weather: A free, open, and documented forecast API
open-meteo.com looks awesome. I've been messing around writing a snow forecast app for skiing/snowboarding for a while now and the main thing I'm missing is historical snowfall data. Do these data sources exist in a machine readable format and I've just not been able to find them? If so, would you ever consider adding precip + kind of precip to your historical API?
ehaughee··on Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com, a parody of the email service Hey.com
On my phone at the moment but I've used it for over a year so it's been at least worth $240 to me. I'll update this comment with more info (both pros and cons) when I'm on a computer.
ehaughee··on Bing contract prohibits DuckDuckGo from completely blocking Microsoft tracking
I've been surprisingly pleased with Kagi, a paid search engine in private beta right now. I believe they also use bing results was well as their own indexes. I've found the search results to be on par with Google and no longer feel the "well maybe google would find something this missed" anxiety from trying previous search engines. That being said, I've not given DDG a fair try but I appreciate the paid service model of Kagi. I do miss the shopping results on Google but that's really the only search use case I go back for.
ehaughee··on Show HN: A Full-Stack Web Framework for Go
This looks cool. I know effectively nothing about Svelte so some of these questions may be coming from that ignorance....but can you talk more about the embedded V8 instance (what's it doing?) and also what gets sent across the wire? Is it the usual HTML and JS or is there any server-side rendering going on? How big is the binary for the HN demo? What's the story for static assets like video or images?

I've started using Go at work so definitely interested in using this for side-project web apps to keep me in the Go mindset.

ehaughee··on Is there a good “blog search” out there?
Maybe https://teclis.com/ from the makers of Kagi: https://kagi.com/.
ehaughee··on The Owen Wilson Wow API
I...I love it...
ehaughee··on Show HN: Calenday, real-time collaborative calendars for trip planning
A couple ideas come to mind solving slightly different problems

1. Flight discovery

It would be interesting to propose a date and (optional) arrival time and location and have the service look up like the top 5 cheapest flights or something and link to a purchasing site (affiliate link kickbacks might be a viable way to generate revenue here but I have effectively zero context/experience here).

The rest of the user story/flow (aka what happens when someone chooses to purchase a flight from the list) is interesting here but simpler is probably better (e.g. just have them follow the flow in point 2 below) unless there's some simple way for Calenday to know which flight you bought and surface that to collaborators.

2. Flight coordination

It would be nice if the trip "vanguard" or leader could put in their flight details and have that shown with some rich information from some flight tracker API. Might be able to simplify the flight details input portion with some kind of flight tracker API (e.g. Airline, flight number, date and then it would pull the departure/boarding times, terminals, gates, or whatever is available).

Going a bit more democractic, and maybe what you were talking about with showing availability, if people buy different flights from one another (e.g. coming from diverse origins, or differing availabilities or price sensitivities), having an easy way to see when each collaborator/co-traveler will land in the given destination would be very useful/cool.

ehaughee··on Medical student surgically implants Bluetooth into own ear to cheat in final
I had an elective class that was open notes/book so I collected all the notes and resources the professor provided, put them into a single PDF, and then just text-searched them in the class. Worked well but the class was a joke and it didn't matter if I left knowing any of the material. Just had to check the box.
ehaughee··on Ask HN: Has Amazon been hounding you?
There is a blind post on the new pay bands floating around somewhere.
ehaughee··on Show HN: Shortwave: Enjoy Your Inbox
Check out https://www.hey.com/. I've found once I categorized the majority of my regular senders to either go to paper trail or feed, I get so little actual mail. Then when I want to go see my feed for Patagonia's latest marketing mail, I can. No number says how many are there, nothing is bold. Just a click or two and I'm looking at my feed. It can even auto-delete after 30 days if you want.

Despite the fact that it may sound like it, I am not affiliated with Hey, just a happy user.

ehaughee··on Amazon more than doubles max base pay to $350k
Speaking only for my own org's stated goals, they try to hire within the same timezone or close-by. So South America, for a west coast team, would theoretically work but Europe would be a tougher sell. Amazon also hasn't historically done a lot of remote work (as far as I've seen anyway) so, pre-COVID, an office would likely need to exist in a given area.
ehaughee··on CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife
Something I run into a lot is a JSON-like blob of text I'd like to be formatted as JSON (new lines and indentation). Most JSON formatters choke on improper JSON (understandably). It would be great to have a tool that was more lax. Like browser support for terrible HTML lax haha. If I could paste JSON-like strings into a text area and have it fix and format it as best as can be, that would be great. Some examples of non-JSON syntax to handle would be like single quotes instead of double, arbitrary JSON nodes (not necessarily wrapped in `{}`), some pre or post text (some non-JSON text at the beginning or end), comments amongst the JSON, etc. Another JSON aspect that would be useful is something to escape/unescape JSON (specifically double quotes). I deal a lot with JSON that includes escaped JSON in values and it would be great to have some better way to visualize and process those blobs. Sublime Text has a nice plugin to handle some of the escaping/unescaping[1].

[1] https://github.com/Nadock/json_stringify

ehaughee··on On the evilness of feature branching
My team makes several commits locally, then rebases, squashes, and pushes the squashed commit to the trunk which has CI. This maintains a local, regular backup of your code and collects features into single commits for the trunk which are easily revertable if found to be problematic. This flow will not work for everyone, but it works very well for us (a team of 8 at a FAANG company).

Edit: Rereading your comment, I suspect you mean non-local backups. Our organization has a special remote only visible to you and those you allow for pushing code you'd like to backup off of your box.

ehaughee··on Amazon security staff reported its own tweets as “suspicious,” fearing hack
Sorry, I wasn't trying to dispute your statement on the Intercept's actions. I was just pointing out that the ticket wasn't any more secret or locked down than any normal ticket and thus a large swath of the company had access (although the ticket has since been made private), not a highly restricted distribution list.
ehaughee··on Amazon security staff reported its own tweets as “suspicious,” fearing hack
This ticket wasn't an encrypted ticket (and thus was not locked down). I'm looking at it right now and I have nothing to do with security nor PR. I don't find this surprising as it contains no proprietary, classified, or customer information.
ehaughee··on Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
Having a system/process is not about removing accountability, it's about reducing discretion/cognitive load where it's been identified as risky. In fact, having a system/process in place to point to and say "this individual did not follow the steps/process/rules" makes an unbiased conversation about their performance much more possible.
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