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joelhaasnoot

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Head of Engineering at Apollo Agriculture - bringing financing to smallholder farmers in Africa.
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joelhaasnoot··on Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward
I think we're talking about 500 updated apps here. You could've done it manually, didnt need a kubernetes cluster
joelhaasnoot··on Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector
Time for the META Down Detector - detecting which of the three is down
joelhaasnoot··on Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward
There is also weather and voice recognition services. If implemented with third party APIs those costs can add up.
joelhaasnoot··on I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)
No one would ever hack my app!
joelhaasnoot··on Gumroad’s source is available
The license is also not front and center
joelhaasnoot··on Pgroll – Zero-downtime, reversible, schema changes for PostgreSQL (new website)
Lol, it's funny you need a higher level language and choose... JSON.
joelhaasnoot··on Missing open-source contributor presents a dilemma when accepting their PR
Time for an "open source contributor"-by proxy service ;)
joelhaasnoot··on Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos
Well, and there being feeds of videos?
joelhaasnoot··on Ask HN: Why is there not more concern about the physical security of Cloudflare?
cough https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/ovhcloud-fire... (physical security isn't just access control)
joelhaasnoot··on A $1k Wheelchair
Would rather have 5 episodes with a 5 min sponsor section than one 25 min episode about your way too expensive cooling mattress
joelhaasnoot··on A $1k Wheelchair
How many wheelchairs are actually truely customized? I hear a lot of complaints from wheelchair manufacturers that this isn't really customized
joelhaasnoot··on Satellite Imagery of Every Outdoor Basketball Court in the USA
Also saw a bunch of tennis courts
joelhaasnoot··on Tech failure nearly caused massive flood in Amsterdam
The final report looking into it was published yesterday
joelhaasnoot··on OpenRailRouting
There's also a lot of other use cases! For example, if you have a train schedule with stations and times, you often aren't told how the train will navigate between those stations. In some countries it's straightforward but for instance SNCF TGV services in France sometimes go hours without stopping at a station, crossing a lot of distance. In that case a solution like this can help you find an educated best guess to show users on a map.
joelhaasnoot··on OpenRailRouting
Fun to see someone productionize this - I've done this for years to get segments between two stations to accurately be able to render individual train services. I'll let you know that at least on national rail provider in Europe used those results for a long time...
joelhaasnoot··on Show HN: SQL Explorer – Open-source reporting tool that Just Works
Don't worry I was downvoted to oblivion for it! It wasn't meant snarky but I get that that's what it reads like.
joelhaasnoot··on Show HN: SQL Explorer – Open-source reporting tool that Just Works
Hey look, its Redash! https://github.com/getredash/redash
joelhaasnoot··on Beeper acquired by Automattic
I just hope they don't kill Beepberry/beepy
joelhaasnoot··on Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
Created the first version of an app that took large long PDFs of train driver/conductor schedules in my country and presented them in an nice way in an app. The previous sources were all hard to navigate and had ads. I spent a weekend parsing PDFs into SQLite, and shipped the app with a preloaded database. Then kept updating and tweaking and added some fun intersections of the data ("who else is operating this train").

8 years later my source of data stopped providing data because of data protection concerns and the company introduced their own app/functionality for the same. Never earned me a dime directly but did get me my next job - it was a great sample for the interview

joelhaasnoot··on Pacemaker powered by light: new research
"Dont turn off the light, I might die!"
joelhaasnoot··on Deej: An open-source hardware volume mixer for Windows and Linux
I need this for Mac!
joelhaasnoot··on Judge blocks JetBlue from acquiring Spirit Airlines
I think the sticking point was city pairs served - significant overlap there
joelhaasnoot··on YouTube begins new wave of slowdowns for users with ad blockers enabled
On Android TV that's not always true - you sometimes get a batch of unskippable ads for 15 seconds or so
joelhaasnoot··on YouTube begins new wave of slowdowns for users with ad blockers enabled
Not when Google is just doing a money grab and is doing a terrible job at filtering ads. They have some ads that are 1.5 hours long. That shouldn't be possible. I also recently reported an ad that was clearly AI generated content of Elon Musk doing a crypto scam. Report was ignored.
joelhaasnoot··on Uber and Lyft paid SFO about $50M last year
If only there was public transit...
joelhaasnoot··on Beeper Mini is now open-source
To be honest this is mainly a US thing, and only because iPhone penetration is such a high percentage. Outside of US, Whatsapp and other apps are king
joelhaasnoot··on Beeper Mini is now open-source
While true, at least there isn't a hardware lock-in.
joelhaasnoot··on German court prohibits LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals
Except for Home Depot and many regional news syndicates
joelhaasnoot··on We Built a Streaming SQL Engine
And only the owner can then refresh it - there are some annoying gotchas to them
joelhaasnoot··on Mitigating the Hetzner/Linode XMPP.ru MitM interception incident
If you care enough to pin, purchasing actual certificates isn't that hard is it?
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