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jaquerson Show HN: Royalty-Free SVG Illustrations and Animations

omg, thank you for this

jaquerson When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015)

Get around "sign up if you wanna read" modal w/ window.bc.jQuery.fancybox.close(); jQuery('.fancybox-lock,body,html').css({overflow:'scroll'})

jaquerson Smokers quit in record numbers amid Covid fears

https://www.futurederm.com/beauty-myth-busting-do-women-actu...

:shrug:

jaquerson Do Not Follow JavaScript Trends

Didn't read. Follow JavaScript trends that make sense for you and your team. Ignore the noise, get shit done.

You know what I hate more than "JS fatigue" - it's ppl complaining about "JS fatigue". Software evolves, and I'm always looking to bring a better experience for my users - and then means replacing components sometimes when there are clearly better alternatives, whether that is for developer experience, smaller bundle sizes, etc.

jaquerson Honda's global operations hit by cyber-attack

Indeed. I ended up turning off home network, starting it up and removing all remote connection profiles. :shrug:

jaquerson Honda's global operations hit by cyber-attack

Hope it doesn't infect the thinly papered over Android based "OS" on my car's dashboard.

I authorized the car to my home's WiFi in hopes that there would be updates. Instantly regret. :/

Do I dare even turn it on now?

jaquerson Julia as a CLI Calculator

Nice job!

jaquerson Julia as a CLI Calculator

Here's the typeface https://typeof.net/Iosevka/

What struck me was the [ t a b ] stuff as well as the Latex reference, which looks to be embedded img in src, so there must be some sort of preprocessor?

jaquerson Julia as a CLI Calculator

The typography in this post is beautiful (as well as the content), anybody know where this comes from? Did the author do it by hand or is it something off the shelf?

Asking for a friend...

jaquerson Everything you should know about certificates and PKI but are too afraid to ask

Pretty detailed write-up with lots of supplemental reading and enough sass/style to keep it interesting. I learned quite a bit.

jaquerson Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?

Ohh, that's a good idea. I roughly do the same, but maybe the thought that something important might be lost would cause me to be more thoughtful about organization on the front end rather than sorting through it after the fact.

jaquerson Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?

That's exactly it, I just use it as a visual working directory for pdfs, memes, text files w/ credentials, you know...

jaquerson Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?

Save files to my desktop. When it gets too messy, I throw everything in a folder called "Cleanup". Repeat. When it gets messy again, I rename the Cleanup folder to Cleanup_<date>, then throw that and everything else in a new folder called "Cleanup".

I'm about 7 deep at the moment.

jaquerson Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is hurting independent developers

I can certainly empathize with the author. How many executions are we talking about though? 10, 100, 1000?

Seems like a dev w/ a new certificate could post a build of said application to a dev-friendly space to "bootstrap" the process.

Certainly not practical in many scenarios, but that's why I was curious about how many it takes.

jaquerson Climb Mount Improbable: Evolvable Critters in JavaScript

thanks for the thoughtful response.

jaquerson Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

I think Dr. Dre is a sensible human being who's able to distinguish between art that he made 30 years ago and his current hypothetical circumstance, in which he would presumably act w/ the the dignity, prestige and responsibility of the office.

jaquerson The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms (2018)

Depends on how hard you wanna go. I dunno about any prebuilt console/control panels, but this guy built a whole A-10 cockpit by himself w/ RasbPI's ;) Pretty neat. I too want a control panel for my apps!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJq3cq9N6xYF0fAvTgpwoBg/vid...

Edit: here's the build breakdown video: https://youtu.be/gDy10Wy4vw4?t=57

jaquerson Climb Mount Improbable: Evolvable Critters in JavaScript

Also, I don't see him comparing eugenics to evolution. He's went on to say, 'just because it's morally wrong, doesn't mean it's not possible', which was the point he was making.

jaquerson MasterClass is seizing its moment

can confirm #1, fell for it... edit: not that I don't know what a shallot is X-)

jaquerson Show HN: Chartss.css – accessible HTML/CSS charts with markdown support

Functionality looks decent, but the 3 different names for this project are a bit too "cute" for my taste.

Url is https://rbitr.github.io/ChartS.css/

It refers to itself as C:greenheart:SS.css (what?)

Aka ChartSS.css - clever, but neither descriptive or memorable.

Edit: The fact that I can't even rag on the name in the comments due to the emoji makes me feel more justified in my original assessment. :P

jaquerson An introduction to RabbitMQ

> I was considering it for something recently, but got overwhelmed by the documentation on setting up a fault-tolerant production deployment, so have been avoiding it. Was this an overreaction?

In general the defaults are pretty good I think. There is a one page production deployment guide: https://www.rabbitmq.com/production-checklist.html that I followed to replace our handbuilt cluster w/ a new automated deployment, plus a few other niceties like docker logs & rmq metrics to cloudwatch and then auto clustering via autoscaling groups lookup.

I thoroughness of the docs can perhaps seem daunting, but I see it as a badge of quality and especially if you are growing it's usage organically it should "just work".

jaquerson John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code

Also id ran software on NeXTSTEP, itself a precursor of OSX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP#Legacy

jaquerson A fast 100% spec compliant, self-hosted JavaScript parser

Fair point, though I read it like this, which doesn't make the claim _so_ bold :)

> Twice as fast as other Javascript parsers (sic) written in JavaScript.

jaquerson Show HN: Pattern.css – CSS-only library to fill empty background with patterns

Thanks for the patterns, they look great! Some have commented about the usability of the sidebar / js autoscroll, which could be improved—but it is functional and am I gonna use this as my homepage or am I gonna configure this into my project one time when I need it?! ... jeesh, lighten up.

jaquerson Ask HN: A major USA bank is storing passwords in cleartext – what to do?

random holidays > federal holidays

jaquerson Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore

Lots of comments (bitching) here about not showing street names. Can confirm, there are definitely bugs regarding street names being off-screen / not showing at the right zoom levels.

But are we technologists, or what? Figure out the behavior and suggest a solution.

I find that it happens to throw street names close to major intersections, which happen to be offscreen due to panning. Seems to me that there could be a change to detect when a street name is not present on the screen and make an adjustment to do the same. In other words tweak the heuristic for showing names +- zoom level. They do have _a lot_ of data.

I think it's really popular to hate on Google right now for a myriad of reasons—but I also think that people who work on Gmaps want to improve their product.

Y'all know how to file bug reports. Expected behavior, current behavior, steps to reproduce, etc. Stop complaining about a service that is free, or else—don't use it.

BTW; agree w/ the majority of OP's points regarding contacting humans & lack of features / price etc for API. That's valid feedback.

jaquerson A Personal API

Also breaks back / forward gestures on Mac.

jaquerson E Ink just unveiled a new type of color e-paper

I don't think so. It's easy to "paint" over white because that's the base color of the medium, but "painting" over another color means you have to clear it first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsbiO8EAsGw

jaquerson GitHub satanically messing with Markdown – changes 666 to DCLXVI

I've got it. We'll create a _new_ spec and design it right this time. It'll support split ordered lists, and table colspan, image size attributes, and definitely templating - cause what we really wanna do is programmatically generate this stuff, amiright!?

jaquerson Build Your Own React

> When really all I want to do is in the business function, directly trigger the redirect and maybe some other logic without any indirection.

Heh, didn't see this comment before I left a novel up the tree. Seems we have similar ideas about state management.

I think the default RR API is straight React, and that is by design.