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ianwalter

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ianwalter··on 27-inch iMac gets a major update
I'm sorry, I know it's a minor cosmetic thing, but those bezels make it look so dated that I can't really see it as new. Not that it matters since I will probably never buy an iMac again after experiencing the issues with dust getting beneath the glass of my last iMac 5k.
ianwalter··on GitHub Public Roadmap
I think more-stuff-lower-quality is kind of inevitable, but I am happy with that general direction. I have run into a lot of annoying things like and including your example. This roadmap would be better if it had a simple way to submit and vote for feature requests like other public roadmaps.
ianwalter··on Next.js 9.5
Developing a Next.js app is a really nice experience. I admit when it first came out I didn't pay that much attention to it because I thought how it did routing was weird and I don't think the server was as extensible. Fast forward to 9.5 and there's pretty much no real reason for me to build a custom Webpack-based setup for my next project.
ianwalter··on Ask HN: What are some free software tools you want?
A really good, full-featured (Heroku-level) PaaS you can deploy to your own Kubernetes cluster.
ianwalter··on Saliva based Covid test: results in 45 minutes
Not sure how they can do that but my company's device can do it in 20: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johncumbers/2020/07/01/a-new-20...
ianwalter··on Launch HN: Reploy (YC S20) – Instant fullstack staging environments for web apps
Runnable did this and got acquired by MuleSoft. Heroku also has this feature. Vercel is less comparable since it's only for serverless. Can you link to your project?
ianwalter··on Launch HN: Reploy (YC S20) – Instant fullstack staging environments for web apps
Yea I had the same question. I'm interested in this but it doesn't make sense for me without the production piece or having it run on top of our own Kubernetes cluster.
ianwalter··on Cloudflare: Is anyone else seeing DNS outages?
Yea, this is what brought me here. It had to be right when I was trying to debug an action didn't it.
ianwalter··on Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo
Wow, I went to school with Fahim at Bentley University. Although we shared friends, I didn't know him personally. I did take computer science classes with him and it was clear he was one of the most talented students in the program. This is so unbelievably sad and shocking. My heart goes out to his friends and family.
ianwalter··on Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice
I love GitHub. It's probably my favorite platform in general but I have to agree. I would love to see a new platform that is a non-profit or public benefit corp, perhaps with a government charter or something. Software is too important not to have this sort of public infrastructure to support it. Private companies can still innovate to create better tools but public investment in software infrastructure/tools is an amazing opportunity to leverage a relatively small amount of pooled resources into a much larger benefit to society.
ianwalter··on How to track and display profile views on GitHub
Oh wow I wish I knew this sooner. They should bring back Bitdeli.
ianwalter··on Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine
Looks good and I'm going to try it as my default search engine for a bit. There are a handful of small UI issues that make me wish it were open source so I could fix them.
ianwalter··on SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs
I've used it and liked it. I hope they continue to develop it and get it to be production-ready, but I'm not betting on it.
ianwalter··on My dad got scammed for $3k worth of gift cards
I was thinking about #3 as well, but I was thinking that the scammers don't actually use the gift cards right? Don't they just re-sell them in order to launder them? I was also wondering, if you realize you've been scammed right afterwards, is there a process for reporting the numbers to the issuer so they can freeze them and try to refund the victim? I feel like that should be required somehow.
ianwalter··on Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections
I think some version of this idea has promise. It's kind of like social distancing and COVID-19.
ianwalter··on Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections
Yes, I remember joining KKK chatrooms on AOL as a kid and spamming them with "White Chowder! White Chowder!". Good times.
ianwalter··on 20yo Robinhood Customer Commits Suicide After Seeing $730K Negative Balance
Sure, but I would not necessarily blame the UI designer since the breakdown could have come from a number of places: requirement changes, implementation differences, miscommunication, etc. I mean who knows unless you're behind the scenes? Just blame the company.
ianwalter··on On Redis master-slave terminology (2018)
No charades, context matters. The context surrounding your question lets me know where you're coming from and that it's not a legitimate question. If I didn't have that context, I might try to learn more about the issue. I also might not since the two scenarios are not equivalent: posting a comment on HN is not the same as stewarding a large community-involved open source project. Again, context matters.
ianwalter··on On Redis master-slave terminology (2018)
This is a great example of my point about "one or two people who are trying to be provocative". It's pretty obvious to anyone reading it that you are just explicitly trying to manufacture an issue.
ianwalter··on On Redis master-slave terminology (2018)
No it doesn't. It just means you can't rely on a single (your) viewpoint when it comes to a large community-involved open source project. It's the equivalent of "works on my machine".
ianwalter··on On Redis master-slave terminology (2018)
It doesn't matter if YOU don't think it's offensive. It's about how others think and feel about it. Are people really so self-centered that they can't understand that? And the slippery slope argument doesn't hold water because it's very obvious when a good number of people have a problem with it vs one or two people who are trying to be provocative. People are reasonable and if they are telling you something bothers them, it most likely legitimately bothers them.
ianwalter··on Micro: Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
Yea I meant for me specifically. It's hard to learn new key bindings, but as someone who uses vim and VS Code, I'm willing to learn new ones if the editor solves my numerous issues with vim.
ianwalter··on Micro: Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
Steps to reproduce (MacOS):

1. > tab

2. type some JS

3. > save

4. (prompted by Filename:) test4.js

5. File doesn't get saved

6. > save test4.js

7. File does get saved but syntax highlighting doesn't kick in.

Seems easy enough to avoid (after figuring out step #6) but little issues like these really throw me off.

ianwalter··on Micro: Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
I don't see it (other than the color scheme). It doesn't come with a file manager or typeahead for the command interface. I've already hit a showstopping bug just trying to save a file. It's been a while since I was actively using Sublime but it doesn't feel like it at all.

It looks promising though. I would love for it to become feature-rich and replace the mess that is vim.

ianwalter··on Remote work means anyone can take your job
From what I've seen, European countries often require applicants to be in European time zones.
ianwalter··on Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
Yea, I actually offered to take over development of Kozmos, but wasn't taken up on the offer. I'm going to build my own solution one day, just because I am so interested in it, but until then I use Raindrop.
ianwalter··on Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
It's a shame that so many of the comments have to do with left-pad. Kozmos was a great piece of software and I will miss it even though I haven't used it in a while. It came very close to how I personally think a bookmarking service should work, which is pretty incredible for something made by a single person. Seems like a lot of people have been complaining about the Chrome extension store lately. I wonder what's going on behind the scenes there. Anyway, looking forward to your next project Azer.
ianwalter··on Launch HN: Satchel (YC S18) – Guides to the Best SaaS Tools
I love this. Every company I've worked for (mostly startups) have made at least a few terrible decisions when selecting b2b software because founders / decision makers have to make decisions quickly to get up and running and can't necessarily spend a lot of time exploring different services and thinking about future needs. Those tools become so integrated into business processes that it's hard to switch away when you come across another, better tool. Seems like this would be a big help.
ianwalter··on GitHub Codespaces
I just added my user settings and my custom theme via .vsix and everything seems to have worked fine. Not sure how I missed this, thanks Jan!
ianwalter··on GitHub Codespaces
I was just looking in to setting up "VS Code in the browser" with gitpod, code-server, and Visual Studio Codespaces last weekend. Gitpod looked nice but the fact that you can only customize the editor per-repository doesn't make sense to me. Looks like GitHub has solved this by using a `dotfiles` repo. code-server looked decent but I would much rather auth / secure the editor through GitHub. I tried to use Visual Studio Codespaces but I find Microsoft's account system and Azure's interface so infuriating. I'm really looking forward to this!
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