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jhinds

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email: jhinds2010@gmail.com
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jhinds··on Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life
Tody (https://todyapp.com/) an app for household chores. It makes it easy to create chores to do, tune the cadence to do them at, and divide them up by room and by person. It keeps chores more fair and balanced between my wife and I and helps out with those chores that need to happen every few weeks or months and you forget about them. I also am the type of person that needs a clean inbox or 0 unread messages so it definitely works for my brain. I'm sure there are alternatives or systems that work just as well or better but it works well for us so sticking with it until it doesn't.
jhinds··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
The main reason was I had 2 filing cabinet drawers filled with paper and wanted something that could be relatively hands off. I was able to do double sided paper and load multiple pages at a time (24 pages before it didn't work well) so it was easy to burn through the them. I've tried a scanner app before for one off things and have had okay success with them. I guess now the backlog is burned down I can compare the two for things that are just a couple of pages.
jhinds··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
I ended up getting the Canon imageFORMULA R10 off of amazon but there are a few similar options. Does double sided scanning and I was able to load 24 pages at a time.
jhinds··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
A small portable scanner. I don't take it anywhere I just got a portable one due to it's size so I can stick it in a drawer.

I've been able to save a bunch of space and get rid of 99% of documents in my filing cabinet by making a digital copy and getting rid of the physical ones. Now when I get an important document I scan it save it to a few places and get rid of it.

jhinds··on AWS Session Manager: less infrastructure, more features
We've been using the Session Manager with instances in private subnets without issue, works like a charm.
jhinds··on Ask HN: Tell me why this auth system is a bad idea
As others have mentioned there are apps in the wild that do this. I use a notes app Notion.so which does auth like this.

To be honest I didn't/don't like it because it's an extra step and I use a password manager anyway that makes it easy to fill in my passwords.

As I'm reflecting on it though, it's not that big of deal as I use the mobile and desktop apps which I'm signed into all the time. I would imagine if it were an app I had to log into again all the time or frequently I would be pretty annoyed with it.

jhinds··on Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics of Open Source (2014)
I think there can be different types of documentation (tutorials, reference, explanation, how-to guides). I came across this article a while back that goes over different categories and always re-read it when I know I'm going to have to write a bunch of documentation for something and always find it helpful to really think about the type that I need to write. In regards to the poster you replied to I think Oreilly books are in the explanation category of documentation instead of the traditional reference kind found online.

The article I'm referring to: https://www.divio.com/blog/documentation/

jhinds··on Airtable gets $52M in funding
I was actually looking for something like this, good to know a product like this exists.

I use a combination of Trello and Google Drive for most things, everything from my personal life, to hobbies, to side projects, and work items. I love Trello but sometimes I want something a little bit more. I think I'll to duplicate things I'm working on for a few weeks or so in here to see how I like it. Maybe I'll replace Trello or maybe there are some integrations out there already to sync somehow, or maybe If I'm bored and have time on my hands I'll try writing something myself.

The app looks great but hopefully they add Kanban support for iPhone soon.

jhinds··on Jaeger – A Distributed Tracing System
Neat! I was looking into tracing solutions for our k8s cluster the other day and was going to look into setting up Zipkin. Now I'll this to my list of tools to evaluate. I found this blog post by uber informative https://eng.uber.com/distributed-tracing/ so maybe there is no need to even setting up Zipkin and just start with Jaegar?