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jcrollon Keycloak: Open-Source Identity and Access Management

Spring has an oauth2 authorization server that is currently in early release: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-authorization-serv...

I'm building something with it currently and it's quite nice, especially if you are already familiar with spring security. Documentation is quite sparse tho.

jcrollon Summary of Atomic Habits

There's a service I tried once called blinkist.com where they have a large library of books that they condense by summarizing them into a smaller package. As well, most books also come as audiobooks. I used it but found it was hard to come away feeling you had absorbed much from the books when they had been shortened the way they were. But yes, definitely other people feel the same way you do.

jcrollon Better.com CEO fires 900 employees on Zoom call

Is there a link to this?

jcrollon How I got wealthy without working too hard

> Work and self-actualisation can be rewarding and meaningful, but looking at the sea from an hammock and drinking too much beer with friends three times a week is also a completely respectable way of waiting for the gravitational swallowing of the planet.

Part of wants to accept this from the author and the other part of me is wary. I didn't have a child because I wanted to be happy, I did it because I wanted a more meaningful life. It was the greatest decision I ever made.

jcrollon There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada

jcrollon Ask HN: What is the best coding site to get hired?

Yeah, maybe I heard wrong

jcrollon Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

Audiobook meta search: https://www.audiobookmate.com

- Backend: Flask + SQLAlchemy + Celery

- Frontend: Angular + Bootstrap

- Database: MySQL + Elasticsearch + Redis

- Deployment: Kubernetes on GKE

jcrollon Ask HN: for senior positions is it advisable to list side projects on your CV?

I like your answer I just wonder: I used this project to teach myself kubernetes. If someone asks me how I know kubernetes what do I say? I suppose I say it was on a side project I did

jcrollon Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

you wanna have a goat debate on hn

jcrollon No Cookie for You

How do you do site analytics?

jcrollon Which Cities Have the Highest Risk of a Housing Bubble?

A condo? Houses are still insane

jcrollon Which Cities Have the Highest Risk of a Housing Bubble?

What can we learn from that bubble to help us tell whether this one is close to bursting?

jcrollon Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In. The Next Moves Will Be Crucial

Judging by covid I wonder if climate change will have to begin to affect every state, not just the coastal ones, before the U.S. has the political capital to take true action.

jcrollon Facebook's employees reckon with the social network they've built

My argument is you can't have it both ways. You want to collect $500k salaries you're going to have to live with your employer pursuing immense profits

jcrollon Facebook's employees reckon with the social network they've built

Facebook makes decisions on a profit basis and by that metric is meteorically successful. These Facebook employees that spent years collecting their $500k pay cheques might want to consider this before posting their videos criticizing the company's direction

jcrollon Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

https://www.hopupon.com

HopUpon is a Cheap Multi-City Flight Generator that allows you to explore new cities as you "hop" along to your destination. Our algorithm creates itineraries that are often cheaper than a direct flight.

jcrollon Variolation

It was also done in the HBO John Adams miniseries

jcrollon Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms

Democratic elections are supposed to be the failsafe for that no?

jcrollon Joe Rogan Is the New Mainstream Media

This is true but I think getting less so as Joe is getting more confident in opining his ideas, look no further than his latest takes on the covid response

jcrollon A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case

The only support for basic accounts is for billing

jcrollon Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M

The owners of giphy don't feel the same pangs I'm sure

jcrollon Ask HN: What are you reading to make sense of the economy?

Economics Explained on youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ4AMrDcNrfy3X6nsU8-rPg

jcrollon You Probably Should Be Wearing a Face Mask If You Can

Link for making a mask is broken. Anyone have a good link how to make your own?

jcrollon RFC: Let's Disrupt Dating Apps

I feel like that was the original point of having to login through Facebook to access Tinder, you could see whether your matches had shared friends. The idea being this was a potential indicator you might be a good match or not

jcrollon The Internet of Beefs

> Don't go looking for beefs.

You can't even post a question on StackOverflow without creating a beef (e.g. "Why would you want to do that?")

jcrollon Two Years of Vanlife: A Retrospective

Agreed, it's terribly cynical

jcrollon The plot thickens for a hypothetical “X17” particle

Good breakdown of why this is probably just noise https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/11/26/this...

jcrollon Isolation, anxiety, and depression in the remote workplace

I don't really see why people keep trying to "defend" remote working looking for optimizations in a practice which is fundamentally broken. At what point in our evolutionary history do you think the human animal, which evolved as a pack hunter in a highly socialized environment, was designed to work from home 40 hrs a week? We should be focusing on creating more flexible office environments for our workers where they can come in and work with their coworkers regularly