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logicalmike

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mike [at] logicalmike [dot] com
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logicalmike··on RediSearch – Redis Powered Search Engine
I'm just getting ready to push instant search as a major feature on a client's web application, as both public-facing & admin-side. The MeiliSearch team has been great in terms of communication regarding issues, new features, the roadmap, etc. They're also moving quickly, constantly adding new functionality that has been useful as I've been working on the integration.

Depending on what you're planning on using it for, make sure to review the documentation, and check the GitHub issues/discussions. For example, I've had to use workarounds to handle some lacking auth/permissions support, but they're currently working on improving it.

Best part by far is the performance. And memory requirements is completely reasonable, depending on the size of the database.

logicalmike··on Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
I second this.
logicalmike··on A Guide to Intermittent Fasting
It's hard to know without seeing what you eat, but are you sure it's enough? Have you tried tracking a few days to see if you're hitting high enough calories? I'm really stuffing myself at night.. and from others I've talked to, it's very easy for them to under-eat.
logicalmike··on A Guide to Intermittent Fasting
I've cycled through many methods of eating, trying to find an optimal diet to pair with heavy weight training for 6-7 days a week.. while at the same time keeping my weight more or less the same (with only slight fluctuations).

Intermittent fasting (or more specifically, following a loose version of the Renegade Diet) is where I landed.. and have been able to keep my weight steady while still making strength gains. In my opinion, it's a good choice who have a hard time controlling their food intake without the hassle of counting calories and/or macros. This way, rules are set, and then can look forward to ~4 hours of eating without restriction. I've pushed this feeding window to the limit, and to gain significant amounts of weight week over week, I basically had to eat until I physically sick for multiple days.

I've also had blood work done, with everything being normal since I started over a year ago.

logicalmike··on Take Naps at Work
In my opinion, napping becomes more essential with hard training. Even with sleeping well every night, I still find myself napping almost daily.
logicalmike··on Show HN: A new way to diff websites
I personally use the Page Monitor chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/page-monitor/pemhg...

It also has Selector functionality (in addition to full-page monitoring), which let's you explicitly choose which elements on the page to monitor for changes.

logicalmike··on SlideMail – an email app that can think
Just a small issue I noticed on the landing page, you're including the "bootstrap.js" file twice.
logicalmike··on Battle-ready Nginx – an optimization guide
https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-apache
logicalmike··on Particle effects in JavaScript
It's working fine for me on the beta channel without any experimental flags enabled.
logicalmike··on Show HN (again): Web-based Link Checker with Blacklist Lookup
Works very well. And nice touch on the auto-updating pagination.
logicalmike··on Ask HN: What music do you like to listen to while you program?
I usually stream AH.FM. Lots of live progressive/trance sets.
logicalmike··on IdeaPad U300s matches MacBook Air -- for $100 less
Sounded like a great replacement for my X201, until I saw that there's no TrackPoint. Disappointing. After some reading, it sounds like they're only included on the ThinkPad series. I've been quite dependent on the precision, and don't bother with a mouse or touchpad anymore.
logicalmike··on Top 20 Android Apps in US according to new Nielsen Report
Quickoffice Pro isn't free.
logicalmike··on Network Connectivity Problems in AWS US-West Region
I hope this doesn't get worse, because I'm seeing quite a few connection failures between various instances set up in this region.
logicalmike··on Ask HN: What's your favorite UI Mockup tool?
I'll second this. I've been a paid user for years now.
logicalmike··on Casual Contracting - our contract work website
The "Your Skills" field on the "My Settings" page is showing my password.

Site looks great otherwise. Looking forward to seeing what pops up.

logicalmike··on Poll: What Web Application Framework do you use?
Lithium
logicalmike··on Forrst now uses GitHub auth to let developers skip the invite queue
Anyone else getting an error page during app authorization? Here is the broken URL it's taking me to:

http://timber.devel:3003/?error=redirect_uri_mismatch

logicalmike··on [dead]
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." Fans being stupid isn't an interesting new phenomenon.
logicalmike··on Focusing on the next Linux client
Balsamiq Mockups has worked perfectly fine for over two years on my Ubuntu install.
logicalmike··on Ask HN: What personal projects/goals are people working on for this summer?
I've done this a few times in other countries, such as Mexico, Argentina, and Colombia. I'm interested in Guatamala as a future possibility, but I don't know much about it.

If you have some free time, can you give a run-down of your experience so far?

mike [at] logicalmike [dot] com

logicalmike··on Ask HN: Review my weekend project, testist.com
If fezzi is as immature as myself, then it has nothing to do with being too generic.
logicalmike··on Poll: What language/framework do you hack in?
PHP/Lithium

Previously PHP/CakePHP, but really feeling the 5.3+ focus in Lithium.

logicalmike··on Poll: What language do you use primarily?
I started with PHP however many years ago and I feel that it hasn't gone stale yet. Each new major version is enough to keep me excited about continuing to use it.

It's important to stay open to other languages of course, but I think that you should use what keeps your excited about development.

logicalmike··on Vox.io - skype in the cloud
Might be a general issue. It says that my phone # is already taken as well.
logicalmike··on What Tool Do You Use For Reading Technical Ebooks?
PRS-505 here. You don't find the 5" screen too small? For books with proper zoom text re-formatting, not an issue at all. But otherwise, I find myself complaining even with the larger screen.
logicalmike··on Phono - JQuery plugin to create a phone in your browser
It worked for my Canadian cell number.