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ldthorne··on MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server
Does anyone know of a similar tool for catching SMS messages in local/development environment? My company uses mailtrap[0] in our development environments to give engineers and product managers a tool to preview emails that would otherwise be sent to users and we're looking for a similar tool for the SMS messages that we send via Twilio. I'd love to have a shared "inbox" per-development environment where PMs can see all the SMS messages that would have been sent (namely to whom the message was sent + the content of the SMS). Ideally it'd hook into whatever Twilio SDK your app is using to send messages (Python, in our case) to intercept calls and route them to the sandbox instead.

It seems like Twilio played with this idea with the Twilio Dev Phone project[1] but that project doesn't seem to be actively maintained.

[0] https://mailtrap.io [1] https://github.com/twilio-labs/dev-phone

ldthorne··on Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees
That is a false equivalency.

We (theoretically) have control to improve and enhance workers' rights, and can make legislative changes to increase job security, or decouple the ability to live and subsist with employment.

ldthorne··on Former Facebook, WhatsApp employees lead new push to fix social media
"almost" was written intentionally.
ldthorne··on Show HN: GA Insights – Never Log into Google Analytics Again
I don't see Chrome going anywhere for a long time, and I don't see Google blocking its own analytics service within its own browser on its own volition.
ldthorne··on Launch HN: Datree (YC W20) – Best practices and security policies on each commit
Agreed that it's too late in that the key is compromised at that point, but a notification before you release to production that you've accidentally committed it allows you to roll the key (hopefully) before any bad actors find it.
ldthorne··on Next.js 7
Fair, but my confidence in it stems from the giant community around Next.js. Zeit, a company with a good reputation among developers, works on it full time. It has contributions from other big-name OSS contributors and big companies (Netflix, Hulu, Nike, Ticketmaster, Jet, Auth0, Marvel, etc.). It's definitely a liability if it were truly just one individual developing it, but I suppose it's more that there's a small core of facilitators, with a giant OSS community around it.
ldthorne··on Next.js 7
Time and time again, the Next.js (and Zeit) team blow me away. The rate at which they release new, high-quality versions of their products is astounding, especially given how few people are working on this full time -- it's basically just Tim Neutkens, who's insane: he's constantly pushing updates, reviewing PRs, and finds time to be very active on the support channel.

We use a bunch of Zeit's tools (particularly Next.js and its static export feature) at Common (https://www.common.com -- we're hiring!), and they're consistently such good and reliable products (doesn't hurt that they have a sharp focus on developer experience).

Congrats to Tim and to the entire Zeit team!