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jaden··on Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains
GitHub pages [0] gives you static sites with HTTPS and a custom domain without nearly as much complexity as this if you're looking for an alternative to Netlify.

[0] https://pages.github.com/

jaden··on Ask HN: Alternative to Google Services?
Here's FastMail's official statement regarding the Australian laws: https://fastmail.blog/2018/09/10/access-and-assistance-bill/

tl;dr They're fighting it, but they don't see this bill having any additional consequences for our customers.

jaden··on Ask HN: How Do You Sleep?
Here's what I did:

- Make your bedroom dark, quiet and cool

- Get a memory foam pillow

- Install blue-light filter on your phone, laptop or desktop (Twilight on Android, f.lux on Mac & Windows)

- Have your Vitamin D levels checked, take supplements if necessary

- Take 0.3 mg of Melatonin if you're having trouble sleeping

- Read Say Good Night to Insomnia [0]

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Say-Good-Night-Insomnia-Drug-Free/dp/...

jaden··on The Most Expensive Lesson of My Life: Details of SIM Port Hack
This is frightening. If you're using texts for 2-factor auth you're at the mercy of your phone service provider's customer service. And they're trying to balance being helpful with security, which can be in opposition. Losing $100,000 with no hope of recovery is the kind of thing that could sink many people's finances.

His summary of how to avoid having this happen to you:

  * Use a hardware wallet to secure your crypto
  * SMS-based 2FA is not enough
  * Reduce your online footprint
  * Use Google Voice for 2FA
  * Create a secondary email address
  * Use an offline password manager
jaden··on Technical Debt
One of the hardest challenges of paying off technical debt is that there's no visible improvement to the stakeholder. From a business perspective, they often think it's working now, why not leave it alone?

Also, the metaphor starts to fall apart if you consider good debt vs bad debt in terms of financial investments. No examples of good technical debt come to mind, other than the benefit of shipping quickly.

jaden··on Show HN: Link Drop – Daily newsletter of your bookmarks
You could generate a custom bookmarklet for users with their uid embedded in it.
jaden··on Show HN: Link Drop – Daily newsletter of your bookmarks
This is a great idea! Any plans for a bookmarklet to get multi-browser support?
jaden··on Guide to Deep Work
One of the biggest factors is having large chunks of uninterrupted time. If your manager and team value deep work, having no meetings days can be a huge help.

And once you have an uninterrupted time block, it's important to ignore potential interruptions. I find this extremely difficult.

jaden··on Americans can opt out of airport facial recognition
Is this true for all drivers? When I moved to California and got my driver's license I don't remember having my thumb print taken. I've even considered it a badge of honor that I've never given my fingerprints to the man.
jaden··on Exercises to craft an employer brand that makes engineers want to work for you
> we found that brand strength didn’t matter at all when it came to either whether the candidate wanted to move forward or how excited the candidate was to work at the company

This quote came as a surprise.

jaden··on IRS Tax Calendar for Businesses and Self-Employed
It looks okay in FF 66.0.5 on Windows 7
jaden··on The Mystery of the Millionaire Hermit
> Brown didn’t have a bed, just a foam bedroll tucked into the corner of one bedroom and a military duffel containing an old uniform and medals.

I understand being frugal and admire it, but this level of frugality is harder to understand. I would hope he was at least comfortable on his bedroll. Based on what I could gather from the article, he seemed like a wonderful man.

jaden··on How to Do Nothing (2017)
I half-expected this to be a link to http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/

It's harder than you think.

jaden··on Ask HN: What was your experience starting a tech consultancy?
+1 - I gave a reduced rate to a client who was tight on funds as a favor. They began referring friends (thinking they were returning the favor) but the new clients had the expectation of low cost. Clients attracted by low rates are rarely the kind you want to attract.
jaden··on How Old Are Successful Tech Entrepreneurs? (2018)
> successfully “exited” the market, either by getting acquired by another company or going public in an IPO

> ...twice as likely to have a one-in-1,000 fastest-growing company

Is fastest-growing or an IPO necessarily a good measure of success for a startup? For one, it excludes successful lifestyle businesses.

jaden··on Keepass.com spreading malware acting as the official password manager site
I don't know if it helps to have multiple reports, but Google's Report malicious software form is here:

https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/...

jaden··on When time became regular and universal, it changed history
I thought this article might bring it full circle and touch on the "time denier" theory, essentially claiming that a globally universal time does not exist. Carlo Rovelli's book The Order of Time goes into greater detail.
jaden··on Evergreen, highly scalable library software with GPL
My library uses this and it works well enough, but the library is not that large yet the performance is often laggy. Odd to see them touting its scalability.
jaden··on Ask HN: Litigating to remove false information on your credit report?
Paying them will make it that much harder to prove the information was false.
jaden··on Ask HN: Favorite ergonomic/mechanical keyboard for programming and typing?
Apparently there's not as much evidence as you'd think that ergonomic keyboards make a difference for wrist pain. I used to think I could only use an ergonomic one, but I've been I've been using a brown switch CODE keyboard for almost 3 years now and it's been no better or worse than my old ergonomic keyboards. As long as I don't overdo it, my wrists are fine.

https://codekeyboards.com/

jaden··on Ask HN: Personal Data Preservation Strategies
Be sure to take into account the retrieval costs https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/

$10 per 1,000 requests for expedited retrieval could result in a shocking bill if you're not careful.

jaden··on Tell HN: whatbrowser.org (Google) Is Down
https://supportdetails.com/ is another option that's been around for over 10 years
jaden··on Show HN: Full Help – Self-hosted help desk and knowledge base software
This looks great! One minor corner case I noticed: If you click "Need help?" on the lower right with a small viewport (I had Chrome dev tools open), the modal content and title bar gets cut off, even when scrolled to the top, meaning you can't close the modal.
jaden··on Cybersecurity Checklist for Political Campaigns
There's still a non-zero risk of Google arbitrarily locking the account, leaving you without access to your documents, spreadsheets and presentations in Google Docs.
jaden··on Lose and You’ll Win – How to Reflect on Failure
> But I keep going. Losing inspires me to do better next time.

There's a balance between continuing to lose versus trying something else. And survivorship bias makes it hard to know if you should be inspired by the quotes of those who won. It's possible for every success there are 100x more people who are failing in obscurity.

jaden··on ProtonMail is dropping support for Internet Explorer 11
The typical scenario is forced use by enterprises where the employees have no choice. But now that Windows 7 is on its last legs, this may be less of an issue.
jaden··on Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mainframe to AWS
A former employer had mainframes that weren't permitted to run at full capacity without paying even more. They were so entrenched they paid IBM thousands of dollars whenever they exceeded their allotment.
jaden··on The sour science driving James Harden's vexing genius
That's the first good reason I've heard for why he maintains such a long beard. I wonder if it was a calculated decision.
jaden··on WordPress 5.2: Mitigating Supply-Chain Attacks
Agreed, Wordpress has come a long way,along with PHP for that matter. Both deserve a little more praise and less criticism for the warts of bygone days.
jaden··on PowerToys – Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
There's a typo in the title. PoweToys --> PowerToys
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