HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

jdnordy

45 karma · joined March 2, 2020

jdnordstrom.com
submissionscomments
jdnordy··on Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock
I love this. Any advice how to get involved in my local community in a similar way? I'd be so into doing some community project during my free time.
jdnordy··on It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
Anyone else suspicious this might be satire ironically written by an LLM?
jdnordy··on Ask HN: Random black bar above HN header?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11335903 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644954

> It's an online version of the black arm band that's often worn to acknowledge the passing of a great figure in a community.

jdnordy··on Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook?
> That would explain why messaging, which is mostly based on phone contacts and therefore more in the user’s control, would be the place people now trust for their social graph.

This is the reason the I wouldn't be interested in an new old Facebook. I'd add that Messaging Apps have significantly improved since the time old Facebook was relevant. They allow Group Chats that function like a "feed" and include images, videos, memes. You can even search your chat history.

Group chats are basically old Facebook feeds with a select part of the social graph. I never thought about it this way, but they totally are. This is actually where Messaging Apps improve upon the old model. A Facebook feed was your entire social graph and your "posts" went out to that entire graph. I don't want this. I never did, really. I like the scoped social graph my "posts" reach in a Group Chat.

jdnordy··on Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
github link now show a warning at the top of the page:

> This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository.

Is this new? Perhaps Twitter already removed the code from their main branch? Or was this just a joke from the beginning?

jdnordy··on After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
> We are all experiencing what happened when politicians regulated the web. I hope you are enjoying your cookie modals; browsing the web in 2022 is an absolute hell.

This. Just This.

Seriously though, as someone fairly uneducated in the space of how standards, protocols, and regulations get set in place, how can the ship be moved on this issue? Tech companies will likely only move / allocate resources if there is financial incentive. So what do we do?

jdnordy··on U.S. News pulls Columbia University from its 2022 rankings
Just when you think it's time to count hire education out because of bloated administrative spending, overwhelming student debt, and poor technical training for real world jobs, a light shines in the darkness.

I guess there's still hope if higher education can learn from Professors of the likes of Michael Thaddeus. He and others like him make pursing a degree valuable. The administration can go...

Note: read the original document: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~thaddeus/ranking/investigation...

jdnordy··on Gmail accepts forged YouTube emails
I received the same email, just from a different domain:

ARC-Authentication-Results: i=2; mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@seiroowebizexpo.com header.s=jb54 header.b="l0E4c/Ut"; dkim=pass header.i=@youtube.com header.s=20210112 header.b=xGMHx3cn; arc=pass (i=1 spf=pass spfdomain=scoutcamp.bounces.google.com dkim=pass dkdomain=youtube.com dmarc=pass fromdomain=youtube.com); spf=pass (google.com: domain of support@seiroowebizexpo.com designates 2a01:7c8:aab3:2dc::8 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=support@seiroowebizexpo.com; dmarc=pass (p=REJECT sp=REJECT dis=NONE) header.from=youtube.com Return-Path: <support@seiroowebizexpo.com> Received: from 8j.seiroowebizexpo.com (8j.seiroowebizexpo.com. [2a01:7c8:aab3:2dc::8])

jdnordy··on I Trained My TikTok
ahh, this is such a refreshing article. Social media is not the evil of all evils. What matters is how you use it. "The Algorithm" can be really good if you use it well. I benefit a lot from my engagement with these platforms from staying up-to-date on the news to blowing of steam after work to thinking about new and interesting thing.

Instead of shouting, "Boo!" Why not talk about how to engage well?

jdnordy··on Would You Take Out a Loan for a Pair of Jeans? (2017)
How do credit card companies stay in business? If you just use a credit card like a debit card, it's just free money from the credit card companies. Or am I benefiting from others bad spending habits?

Affirm (and other installment type companies) offer a different benefit, I guess? No rewards, but you don't have to have all money on hand. I love this for my iPhone, but these installments could easily stack up.

jdnordy··on Unix command line conventions over time
I thoroughly enjoyed this post. The history of software is interesting... the process is so iterative. Often, I take for granted the current state of software I use. The refinements came through many years, many engineers, and many decisions.

I wonder where I can find more posts / articles like this. short, punchy, well written histories of software I use.

jdnordy··on My First Impressions of Web3
This is the best article I've found to help me understand what Web3 is and how it actually works. Thanks op!
jdnordy··on Bitcoin has few attributes of money but all the attributes of a collectible
A key difference between collectibles and bitcoin/cryptocurrency is that collectibles don't claim to be money nor are they trying to replace current money systems. I'm no expert on money, how it works and how it gets value, but I would be interested to find an article discussing whether cryptocurrency has enough of the qualities of "money" to replace any current money system.
jdnordy··on Shake window to minimize all other windows
Did anyone actually know about this? I discovered it because it kept happening to me by accident when I would be moving a window. Still don't know if this is a desirable feature or not...
jdnordy··on DMCA goes after Twitch streamers’ clips
I don’t really understand why DMCA thinks this is necessary. Twitch streamers playing an artists’ music while they stream can only help an artist in my mind.
jdnordy··on Most tech content is bullshit
> Articles have plenty of conceptual mistakes. And people are not perfect, either! Senior developers are not always good developers.

I think this point is well made. It is a good caution when consuming content on the internet to always be assessing. I seek to understand how something works before I use it.

Yet here's my question: Does this mean I should not be writing for my personal blog?

Writing helps me work out, articulate and understand better the tech that I am working with. And it might help others to work it out as well, even if it's not perfect.

jdnordy··on Big data and the Roman census approach (2014)
This is crazy; 2000 years later and the Romans are still shaping our society. I think this goes in the face of modern intellectual elitism that says we're the smartest generation to have ever lived. NO, we're just have the most tech to work with because of the all the genius that came before us. We're just iterating. I really tilts when people would rather say aliens built the pyramids than to accept the Egyptians were as intelligent, if not more so than our generation.

Sorry for that rant, but this is pretty cool.

jdnordy··on Show HN: A lightning fast personal website built with Next.js
Also, I want to look more into Brian Kernighan. I've heard this quote thrown around quite a bit and I want to do more reading up on him. I always love learning more.
jdnordy··on Show HN: A lightning fast personal website built with Next.js
The rendering process happens at build time, so the extra step on rendering isn't affecting performance in production (https://nextjs.org/docs/basic-features/pages#static-generati...).

And it allows me to dynamically "fetch" my writings as I add more. I don't have to create a whole new html file. I simply write a markdown file, add it into the repo on github (I use slackedit which syncs directly to the github repo), then the website gets rebuilt with HTML, and then deployed.

Making the code base more maintainable and better suited for my purposes.

On the other hand, I do agree with you. React is a bit heavy weight for a static website. Next.js still ships the whole react bundle in production. So, while time to first paint is the same speed as a simple html, js site, the time to interaction is much slower and the network load higher.

Trade-offs for sure.

jdnordy··on Show HN: A lightning fast personal website built with Next.js
Great point. I actually wrote about this as I reflect on building the website. Next.js pre-renders the static files at build time, so JavaScript isn’t building the site on the client side or even on the server side. You get the benefit of writing in React (DRY, modular, and JavaScript focused) over just writing HTML.
jdnordy··on Show HN: A lightning fast personal website built with Next.js
Job hunting during a global pandemic is not easy. I send out 5 applications a day with a custom cover letter and hear back on 1 out of 10, usually a rejection, not even a phone screen. Available, qualified candidates are on the rise and hiring freezes abound.

But amidst all this craziness, the last thing I wanted to avoid distraction. I needed a project to continue growing as an engineer and doing what I love--coding.

I recently spoke with a friend from undergrad, Jared Gorski. We talked about web development, his work at Liferay, my work on Nautilus (a dev tool that visualizes Docker Compose instances). He also started sharing with my how he recently updated his website to improve speed. After our conversation, I checked it out and was inspired. I had already been thinking about SSR (server side rendering) and how to leverage it. Thus, the mission to build this website was born.

I would love any feedback from the Hack News community on the site. Thanks!

jdnordy··on When bad UX is good
I'm working with nextjs... mostly out of a desire to learn it because I've heard so much about it.
jdnordy··on When bad UX is good
This is a good post and it came at a perfect time. I am currently developing my own personal website. The aesthetic of this one is in the ballpark of what I am shooting for. I am also planning on including a section for writing.

I am curious thought, how do people suggest I create new articles and upload them to the webpage? Do I just write the article in html? Or should I create a form that I can submit posts through? Also, how should I store them? Should I store them as an html file or txt file in s3? I'm not too familiar with storage for blog posts. If anyone has some good site recommendations or references, I would appreciate it!

jdnordy··on Show HN: Nautilus: A Docker Compose Charting Tool
the application runs entirely on your local system. no information is uploaded. No network requests are made. if you are concerned about security, Nautilus is open source. You can check out the code on github. You can even clone the repo and package the application yourself.
jdnordy··on Show HN: Nautilus: A Docker Compose Charting Tool
Yeah, you'll have to bypass all those securities if you want to download. We are working on getting our application certified with Apple, Microsoft, linux and all the browsers. If you're worried about security issues, the whole product is open source. You can check it out on our github. But, I promise, everything stays on your system.

If you want to be extra safe, you can clone/fork the repo and compile/build the dmg yourself. First, run `yarn` and then run `yarn package-mac`

jdnordy··on Show HN: Nautilus: A Docker Compose Charting Tool
thanks for the input! should be fixed now.
jdnordy··on Show HN: Nautilus: A Docker Compose Charting Tool
Thanks for letting us know. Just released a more optimized mobile site!
jdnordy··on What business or industries will come out ahead of Covid-19?
I'm thinking that businesses that are cloud based will benefit the most. First, with more people spending time cloistered inside, web applications, video streaming platforms and eCommerce sites are for sure getting a boost in traffic. And second, these web based companies like facebook, google and amazon are set up well for remote work. It is not hard for software engineers to work remotely. While no doubt, there is some loss with no being in person. The impact is relatively low.
jdnordy··on How coronavirus infected my brain: anxiety, the internet, and keeping up to date
it's been pretty rough. I'm currently part of a software engineering immersive program for the sake of a career change. In three weeks, I'll be job hunting to get a job to support my wife and I. The job market has my feeling pretty anxious right now.
jdnordy··on Ask HN: How do I get started with developing an app from scratch?
If you are looking to build a web application, create-react-app is a great way to get started if you're willing to learn React. It's an open source project from facebook. Here is the link the github: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app. It's good quick start to building the front end of an application.