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lukeholder

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Software Engineer from Perth, Australia. @lukeholder on Twitter. Currently working remotely for Pixel & Tonic on Craft CMS and Craft Commerce.
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lukeholder··on Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
There are many of us on HN.
lukeholder··on Show HN: IndigoStack – a new native macOS app for local web development
I work on a PHP project that is installed an any number of environments - so exactly duplicating production is impossible. Of course we have a CI/Test system that tests various combinations of PHP version and DB engines, but we can't replicate every possible production environment. Using Docker to match production is therefore moot in our case.

All the PHP development frameworks these days have moved to Docker or VMs but nothing beats native. Indigo looks promising.

lukeholder··on Show HN: IndigoStack – a new native macOS app for local web development
It doesn't use docker or a VM
lukeholder··on Show HN: IndigoStack – a new native macOS app for local web development
I think we get that, the question is how do you isolate everything without a VM or docker?
lukeholder··on Is everything falling apart?
>But aside from Rachel Maddow

Ha, is that a joke? One person?

lukeholder··on Hacking attractiveness biases in hiring? The role of beautifying photo-filters
I suppose it could also be a evolutionary signal. People have gotten taller over the centuries as nutrition has improved. So a tall, healthy looking person could be attractive evolutionary speaking.
lukeholder··on Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?
With linux?
lukeholder··on I decided to move away from big tech for my children and myself
Voice to text most often yes. Doesn't need to navigate much, send a message with voice, and tap on notifications.
lukeholder··on I decided to move away from big tech for my children and myself
I got my 13yo son an Apple Watch with an eSim that is set up under my iPhone. It allows us to call and text together as family, and for him to communicate with friends via imessage and other authorized chat apps. He doesn't miss the social inclusion (invites to a birthday party etc) but also it has minimal addictive apps like tiktok, snapchat, insta. I can set access controls for it with Apples' parental tools.

Oh and the eSim plan is super cheap $79/year for unlimited calls and text.

lukeholder··on On Being Disappeared
If the government is the instrument that directs/coerces the private corporations. Is it really the private corporations doing the de-platforming?
lukeholder··on I'm Too Risk-Averse for Index Investing
Both adverse and averse are used to indicate opposition. Adverse, usually applied to things, often means "harmful" or "unfavorable" and is used in instances like "adverse effects from the medication." Averse usually applies to people and means "having a feeling of distaste or dislike." It is often used with to or from to describe someone having an aversion to something specific, such as "he is averse to taking risks" or "he is risk averse."
lukeholder··on Ragingbull.com to pay $2.4M for bogus earnings claims, subscription charges
This is why I try to move all my subscriptions inside of apples app store management system. Easy management of subscriptions in a central location. One click unsubscribe.

I would love a central 3rd party service that could manage subscriptions across the web - ping me if you want to build it with me.

lukeholder··on Nearly a third of TV ads play to empty rooms
I have always felt that legacy media; the TV, Magazines, Newspapers had massively over-stated eyeball numbers.
lukeholder··on Starlink Premium
I ordered mine and got it 6 months later. I am in Perth Australia.
lukeholder··on Tailwind CSS v3.0
This is FUD, it is being used very widely. I'm sure it has bugs but what doesn't.
lukeholder··on Ubiquiti developer charged with extortion, causing 2020 “breach”
The funny thing is that krebsonsecurity.com are the ones that published the false information in the first place.

Good summary of the whole saga by Crosstalk youtube channel which covers mostly Ubiquiti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paLm0tP5GbI

lukeholder··on Tips on adding JSON output to your CLI app
MacOS Monterey added a CLI tool for speedtesting, and I noticed they have a

  -c: Produce computer-readable output
So I tried it out:

  ~ networkquality -c | jq '{dl: (.dl_throughput / 1000000), ul: (.ul_throughput / 1000000)}'
awesome!

  {
    "dl": 176.861488,
    "ul": 6.742952
  }
(Starlink in Perth, Western Australia)
lukeholder··on How the Rosetta Stone yielded its secrets
Not all religious people see sacred texts as infallible or perfect.

The same "context-specific and region-specific and time-specific" criticism could be said for science, statistics, and academics.

Both scripture and science are done by humans, but that doesn't mean there isn't truth in both of them.

lukeholder··on Willingness to look stupid
>So this story does not come off as an example of "I don't mind being seen as stupid", it comes off as a very strong example of "I'm holier than you"-attitude which is the entire opposite than the article author's is trying to make.

Exactly my thoughts.

Even the way the story is told to the reader with: "which I had a good reason to want at the time", has the same sentiment towards us.

"My reasoning is even above explaining to you, my reader."

lukeholder··on Willingness to look stupid
Yeah but if that is true, why cause so much trouble and just said why you want the smallest box.
lukeholder··on The Physics Pushing Moore’s Law to the Next Level [video] (2019)
Has any consumer chip come to market with this tech?
lukeholder··on Tell HN: Consider listing your contact details
So someone can scrape the site and build a huge DB of developers contact details to recruit/spam?
lukeholder··on How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory
You can do both. If a plane crashes, you find out the cause. During that evaluation, if you also find that the pilots response to the engine failure was also wrong, you fix that too.
lukeholder··on A desktop Laravel admin panel app (similar to Invoker)
What is Invoker? Google-fu failing me.

edit: Ah, I think they are referring to this: https://invoker.dev/ which is another tool for Laravel. I thought they had made a tool similar for another platform like ruby or python.

lukeholder··on At Home with Down Syndrome (2008)
What a fantastic read. Tears in my eyes.
lukeholder··on Rust Koans
:) I am currently working through https://github.com/ratfactor/ziglings for Zig.
lukeholder··on TransferWise changes name to Wise
> If you get their eftpos card and never wire remaining balance to aussie then it can remain untaxed?

This is what I want to know

lukeholder··on Mathematician Solves Sensitivity Conjecture in Two Pages (2019)
And here is the paper: http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~hhuan30/papers/sensitivity_1.pd...
lukeholder··on Windows 10 is now nagging users with full screen Microsoft Edge ads
True, so many people on HN give google a pass on too much. Apple and MS are fav targets, google not so much. Subjective yes, but I am not going to spend time doing the analysis.
lukeholder··on macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
Not every time, just the first time an untrusted app wants to run. And there is no information in it but a hash.
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