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ericcholis

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Director of Web Technologies at Dave and Adam's Card World. Passionate about UX, web design, and emerging web technologies.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/ericcholis; my proof: https://keybase.io/ericcholis/sigs/FGKmoXJrEyUFX5rfUYiIWtEhA67gdjpklziAce31r7o ]

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ericcholis··on Americans are on the move, but their stuff doesn’t always follow
A bit out of left field, but what about Buffalo, NY?
ericcholis··on The Economist's excess deaths model
Flu? That's my completely uneducated guess
ericcholis··on Complexities of e-mail validation logic
In addition to a very simple regex, you can do some light verification on DNS and SMTP

- nslookup –type=mx email.com

- pick the highest priority MX server

- telnet mx1.email.com 25

- validate SMTP handshake

- Start a connection: EHLO email.com

- mail from:<sender@youremail.com>

- rcpt to:<recipient@email.com>

Obviously, this might be outside the capabilities of some hosts or users. There's a bunch of services that expose this workflow for you as an api. (https://trumail.io/, for example)

ericcholis··on Monday.com Files IPO
I think Flexibility, UX and Marketing.
ericcholis··on Show HN: Csvbox.io – CSV import button for a web app, SaaS or API
Another typo in the javascript in "Code" tab when editing a sheet

"There was a porblem uploading the sheet"

ericcholis··on Simple bank shutdown goes awry, leaving customers without account access
I've considered building the envelope budgeting system from simple using Plaid's free APIs. "Safe to Spend" and Expense budgeting are really what I enjoyed most out of Simple
ericcholis··on Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic
Also, I wonder if there is correlation of at-risk people getting more flu shots?
ericcholis··on More sleep or more exercise: the best time trade-offs for children’s health
This is how my experience was after about age 10. I was close enough to school that I could choose to ride my bike or take the bus. I would get myself out the door every morning and usually make it home before any parents.

I've recently read that the erosion of free-roaming children has increased exponentially in the years that I've since graduated highschool.

ericcholis··on A top audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound (2015)
I was always impressed with how crisp remote guests or hosts often sound. Rather than sounding like they've called in, they sound like they're in-studio. Not terribly difficult to achieve, the remote person likely has a good audio setup and sends that recording to the engineer to mix together. Still, a nice touch.
ericcholis··on Inside PayPal (2010)
And now, eBay is moving to accept more payments outside of PayPal.
ericcholis··on Show HN: A Twitter crawler for app ideas
I feel like Shortcuts automation in iOS could do this.
ericcholis··on Show HN: Mail Studio – IDE for designing responsive emails
Curious, is this an in internal product?
ericcholis··on Sublime Text 4 [video]
I basically use Sublime in place of notepad on Windows at this point. If I need anything beyond advanced text editing; I'm using an IDE.
ericcholis··on PayPal launches crypto checkout service
I've found that OpenNode is a pretty reasonable hosted-checkout bitcoin processor. They support Lightning, and BTC to Fiat at time of purchase.
ericcholis··on The true villain of Disney’s Frozen (2019)
Frozen 2, in my opinion, takes a calculated risk in world building for a young audience. They literally force the characters into a larger world to learn new cultures and how these natural forces effect the larger world. Ahtohallan is a giant abstract metaphor for self improvement, confidence, and self actualization. Again, it's in the lyrics of the song.

I'm all for these nuanced layers of messaging that tweak the standard tropes.

ericcholis··on Out of prison after 30 years and people telling him to find forms on the web
This seems like an area that the USDS might be able to contribute to.
ericcholis··on Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
I think retool is so much more than Baserow. You could conceivably build an entire CRM in retool. Or, flesh out a headless API with an interface in retool.
ericcholis··on netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Go
"But then I thought of something gross. Or awesome."

The programmer's mantra.

ericcholis··on Pipe – Instant access to your annual cash flow
This raises a wild thought exercise for me. Barring any similarities to a Pay Day loan. Would you use a service like this for your own annual salary? What could you do with the lump sum that you would otherwise have trouble accomplishing?
ericcholis··on ClickHouse as an alternative to Elasticsearch for log storage and analysis
https://typesense.org/ comes to mind. Has support for Algolia's instantsearch.js as well.
ericcholis··on Chartio acquired by Atlassian, shutting down March 1, 2022
The migration guide basically consists of "Dump it to PDF".
ericcholis··on Chartio acquired by Atlassian, shutting down March 1, 2022
The value prop for me was the easy report builder. I'm in the process of looking at similar alternatives: https://www.holistics.io/ is the first one that seems 1 to 1.

I'd also like more options for working with reports outside of chartio. The only option at the moment is to email a link to a CSV. No API for exporting data existed.

ericcholis··on Chartio acquired by Atlassian, shutting down March 1, 2022
It doesn't seem immediately clear, but it looks like this is a talent and technology acquisition. I don't see a BI/Analytics offering from Atlassian, and no mention of integrating Chartio into their existing product suite.

All signs in the Chartio migration guide point to downloading and exporting existing reports.

ericcholis··on Yandex said it caught an employee selling access to users' inboxes
- eBay employees stalk and harass bloggers https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/technology/ebay-cockroach...
ericcholis··on Microsoft's FoxPro 2.5 Is Fast and Easy to Use (1993)
I still use Visual FoxPro almost daily for a number of things. It really does have charm in it's simplicity and some very robust out of the box support in it's GUI and DB engines.

One thing that maybe a more technical person can explain is how exactly FoxPro accesses it's (free) tables over a network share. Given that there's no central server component, I have the impression that the whole table is loaded over the wire when it's first opened.

ericcholis··on IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing – sources
Agriculture Supply chain?
ericcholis··on Mysterious helicopters have been circling Los Angeles
Similarly, there's been an increase in helicopter traffic in Western New York. But, we do know why. It's Canadian snowbirds trying to skip the border shutdown to head to Florida https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/canadians-buzz-throu...
ericcholis··on Nissan code leaked after bitbucket repo set-up with defaults admin/admin
Even routers these days have a random password assigned to them.
ericcholis··on How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2
Developers who don't have regular physical access to a Mac.

My use case might be too specific. But, at home I have a Windows Desktop and Laptop. In the office I use a Mac Mini. Currently, I need to test Apple Pay for Safari. This requires test iCloud credentials. On a mac, this is difficult or prohibitive to swap between live iCloud and test iCloud logins. On Windows, testing via browser emulation is shaky at best.

Also, easily sharing access to a "cloud" (read: remote) instance of macOS with other developer staff is beneficial.

ericcholis··on Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain
Reminds me of the three(?) times CCLeaner was been compromised.
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