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james_dev_123on Show HN: I added public H-1B data to my automated job board

End-to-end it takes ~10 hours. The biggest bottleneck is the actual scraping itself. The GPT part is relatively quick.

james_dev_123on I found a 1-click exploit in South Korea's biggest mobile chat app

Fun fact: western ride sharing apps don't work in South Korea, and this company also makes the leading rideshare app in the country.

I was forced to make an account on the mobile chat app in order to log into their rideshare app, on a recent trip to Seoul. The UX was not great... not to mention that it was mostly in Korean. I had a lot of trouble. They didn't strike me as the most professional operation..

james_dev_123on The case for not sanitising fairy tales

If I’m not mistaken, society used to be structured quite differently. Kids were not grouped so much by age in school, and with so much intermixing of ages in society, young kids were forced to grow up quite quickly.

For example, Alexander Hamilton began working full-time at the age of 11.

Nowadays, we try very hard to shield children from the realities of the world, sanitize their fairy tales, etc. but that’s a relatively recent practice.

james_dev_123on Ratatui – a Rust crate for cooking up Terminal User Interfaces

The design looks beautiful. Nice work on the UI widgets.