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jedahan

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I make stuff

http://jedahan.com http://jonathan.is

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jedahan··on Naomi Osaka faces default from Grand Slam for refusing to speak to media
Might be able to take a page out of Marshawn Lynch’s interview playbook https://youtu.be/CU1BuC1672U
jedahan··on A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES
I'd love to see a fork/branch that does the same as the linked repo, but using the cdk for comparison.
jedahan··on The Deno Company
Deno's response here seems to confirm that https://github.com/denoland/deploy_examples/issues/15
jedahan··on The Deno Company
Trying to signup for Deno Deploy, it asks for the 'Act on your behalf' github permission to make an account.

Clicking on 'Learn more about Deno Deploy' leads to https://github.com/apps/deno-deploy , which does not tell me more.

What does 'act on your behalf' mean for Deno Deploy?

jedahan··on Berty: Peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access
> Berty does not and will not need blockchain in its protocol

This is one of the first things I look for around decentralized communications+apps these days, and I am very happy to see no blockchain here.

jedahan··on Show HN: Meli, a Netlify-like platform for deploying static sites
Thought this was about the mail client https://meli.delivery/
jedahan··on Kiss Linux – A distribution with a focus on less is more
Compared to any other package manager source I've dug into, I haven't found simpler.
jedahan··on Kiss Linux – A distribution with a focus on less is more
I made my own 'autoremove' in about 15 minutes for kiss. Its up in my repo https://github.com/jedahan/kiss-repo , and relies on having a package with all your system targets (in my case, named after my hostname) as dependencies:

    while kiss orphans | grep -qv $HOSTNAME; do
        kiss remove `kiss orphans | grep -v $HOSTNAME | tr '\n' ' '`
    done
This was much easier to implement in kiss than other package manager extensions in previous distros I've maintained packges for (gentoo, exherbo, arch, debian).
jedahan··on Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003)
I want the inverse so badly. Call it 'Art for Beginners and Mathists'.
jedahan··on Show HN: Notational Velocity for Vim
skim [1] is a rust alternative that has an interactive mode [2] which makes it easy to drill down to more specific results.

[1] https://github.com/lotabout/skim [2] https://github.com/lotabout/skim#interactive-mode

jedahan··on Tim Berners-Lee: 'Stop web's downward plunge to dysfunctional future'
There are projects working to promote a better future for the web. Scuttlebutt and Dat to name two.
jedahan··on Firefox partners with ProtonVPN
I switched to ProtonMail about 6 weeks ago and have had nothing but prompt, positive experiences with their support team. Going so far as releasing new import-export tools which specifically address issues I came across when migrating my mail over.
jedahan··on NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection
Early (~3 years ago) NYCMesh used cjdns. I am not 100% sure of the reasons, but I think at the time cjdns had bad performance and was much harder to setup. I personally tried out cjdns recently and was pleasantly surprised with the ease of setup, though I still think hyperborea is having scaling issues and Guifi (the largest mesh) doesn't use it.

There is nothing stopping anyone on NYC Mesh to use cjdns, and some of us do run it for certain services.

jedahan··on NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection
I've been working a bit on https://baculus.co which has some overlap with that use case. Super early hacking, mainly built on scuttlebutt and other services on rpi3s, all in backpacks.
jedahan··on Smugmug Acquires Flickr
same. I tried connecting with yahoo support a few times and I can even see the public photos of one of my accounts but cannot login or download the originals, and they could not reconcile my yahoo login account with my flickr account.
jedahan··on “Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”
I'm doing research on the GRiD compass and ibm leapfrog and pintrest completely (and uselessly) saturates my search results.
jedahan··on Firefox Private Browsing vs. Chrome Incognito: Which Is Faster?
You might be interested in Firefox Multi-Account Containers[1], an addon by Mozilla, announced in https://medium.com/firefox-test-pilot/firefox-containers-are...

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

jedahan··on Playing action video games may be bad for your brain – loss of grey matter
I lot of single player campaign FPSs (with or without arena sections) are railroady, not requiring map knowledge.
jedahan··on Amazon Chime
If you are on OSX, that is a feature of OSX, not Slack. You can turn it off in Keyboard settings IIRC.
jedahan··on Show HN: Monocypher: a small, easy to use crypto library
The manual is absolutely amazing. It shows proper and improper use, and explains how and why to the lay person.

http://loup-vaillant.fr/projects/monocypher/manual

Example from crypto_chacha20_init (grammar aside):

"Warning: don't use the same nonce and key twice. You'd expose the XOR of subsequent encrypted messages, and destroying confidentiality."

jedahan··on Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
Can anyone point me to any acquisition that resulted in a net benefit to the customers of either company/product?

Or maybe I should not consider the users of a product the primary customers?

jedahan··on Rust vs C Pitfalls
I would love examples of writing about rust that didn't mention or assume any C/C++ knowledge before. So much of what I've run into assumes that knowledge.

I'd love to read tutorials or books that assume Rust is someone's first programming language, period. What would that look like?

jedahan··on Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data
The client is open source[1], we can at least define a limit to what information can be stored that is not end-to-end encrypted.

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android

jedahan··on Sublime Text as an Arduino IDE
The history of the UX of the arduino editor, came from wiring, which came from processing, which came from Design By Numbers ( http://dbn.media.mit.edu/whatisdbn.html ).

One of the surviving ideas was that this is an editor for beginners, to the point of having a smaller window was less intimidating, that it made the code seem like a sketch, and more encouraged playful experimentation.

This is my short, incomplete understanding of why the window is small when you open arduino/processing.

jedahan··on iOS 9.3 Preview
The pi installer NOOBS has an option that drops you right into a python interpreter on boot.

The other default, raspbian, has a game programming environment on the desktop.

Though hackernews usually just runs stories on the pi being used for 'smart mirrors' and emulation stations.

jedahan··on Signal Desktop
same, sigh
jedahan··on Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer
It's $5 at Adafruit. The starter pack has a whole bunch of stuff you might want for your first Pi, but probably can scrounge around for free or cheaper.
jedahan··on “I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon”
Why not go through the interview process (perhaps as practice for companies you actually care about) and then if you get to an offer stage, politely decline then cite the reasons. Your decline should be much more visible as many more people past the initial recruiter will have met with you, etc. Might make more of a difference.
jedahan··on Show HN: Artpacks.org – Archive of the ANSI and ASCII art scene (1990 to present)
ohh i wonder if theres any PETSCII in there :)
jedahan··on Show HN: Pangoly – Build your shiny new PC
Maybe the algorithm scores based on more than just cost and performance - perhaps review scores as well?
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