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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 Show HN: Convert blog articles to high-quality audio
There is a large 'try it now' button above the fold.
lukeholder··on Run Perl in the browser with WebPerl
Also related, PHP in the browser using webassembly: https://github.com/oraoto/pib
lukeholder··on Poor Man’s Bose – Open Office and on the Go Noise Control
I use mack's ultra soft ear plugs (correctly inserted, which most people don't do) and Bose QC35's with sound cancelling on playing non-lyrical electronic music loud enough to only hear faintly.

You will not hear a 747 land in your back yard.

Edit: How to insert correctly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF1CjCugD_M

lukeholder··on Ferret – Declarative web scraping
It is also a library for the Go language.
lukeholder··on The annoying habits of highly effective people
That's great and I am in no way diminishing your achievements; but a work of caution for others reading too:

It's most likely that you were severely underpaid in the first place, the raises have just slowly brought you up to industry standard, just spread over 3 years.

Your title increase is also great, but keep in mind, having you feel like you are a leader is also a great retention tool for you to keep working for them, producing good work.

I recommend looking in the marketplace for a new job to really see where you can be in your 4+ years. Don't feel like they have been so good to you that you couldn't increase your salary again by 30% by switching employers.

lukeholder··on Ask HN: Were you happy moving your API from REST to GraphQL?
I assume he means like a red-headed step-child.

PC police might be on to terms like this nowadays, but by using the term I understood them to mean:

- A less loved resource - A potentially ugly resource - A resource that causes trouble

lukeholder··on MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros
It's only got a max 16GB ram though???
lukeholder··on My home lab setup for highly-available Internet
In australia I just got the new Telstra "Smart" modem. Has a built in 4G sim as a fall back when ADSL is down. Doesn't cost any extra. Pretty sweet.
lukeholder··on My account is sending spam emails
My father and I have been getting these all evening.
lukeholder··on 3 years in the making and 3X faster. Introducing Craft 3
If anyone has any questions about the release, I'm happy to answer them.
lukeholder··on My new favorite book of all time
> Sometimes I feel like one of the few people who tries to act consistently

most people think they do.

lukeholder··on This is not a new year’s resolution
Nicer syntax (Subjective).

Suuuuper fast! (Not that it matters but likely faster than Go[0]).

Single binary builds/deployments (Just like Go).

[0] http://blog.seraum.com/crystal-lang-vs-nodejs-vs-golang-vs-h...

lukeholder··on This is not a new year’s resolution
Really loving Crystal, although not using it for any commercial applications (yet). It's really nice for building small command line apps. It has stolen my heart from Go TBH.
lukeholder··on Face ID Stinks [video]
Disagree with a lot of his thoughts.

I live in Perth Western Australia, arguably more sun than the Gold Coast. Wear fully polarised sunglasses also, and it unlocks flawlessly outside.

Most of his attempts in the sun worked.

Also, he notes

> Oh - incidentally, I'm conscious that the final attempt I made in the car which failed is likely due to too many biometric fails and it wouldn't have passed under even ideal scenarios. That doesn't change all the failed attempts leading up to that, but it deserved a mention anyway.

Also mentions needing to look at the 'thing' to unlock. He could turn off the attention unlock feature to get unlock scanning without needing to look at the iPhone.

Lastly, he keeps swiping up from the middle of the phone which only brings up notifications, to get into the home screen you need to swipe from the bottom.

lukeholder··on Apple at Its Best
https://github.com/apple/swift
lukeholder··on Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security
not use faceID?
lukeholder··on Apple Watch 3
You only need the iphone for the initial setup and configuration. It doesn't need to be connected to make calls.
lukeholder··on What We Get Wrong About Technology
When I was younger I worked in a supermarket warehouse and picked items into a pallet for shipping to a store with a system just like this. (Woolworths Supermarkets, Western Australia)

The voice had 4 speeds, and all the experienced pickers would have it turned up to the top speed.

Once you were experienced enough though, you would learn the confirm codes for the different bays, and speak though the pick to the voice system 5 steps ahead just so it didn't slow down your pick.

Workers that came from a paper sheet pick list in the previous factory prefered the paper as they could memorize the pick sheet with a single reading, and thus pick faster - and if they did want to double check at the end they had the sheet in front of them to do so.

lukeholder··on Is Amazon's cloud service too big to fail?
Except you can't containerize the huge amounts of data you are storing can you?
lukeholder··on Apple to discontinue iPod Nano and Shuffle
What do you use them for?
lukeholder··on Ask HN: What habits make a programmer great?
Read other peoples (good) code.
lukeholder··on Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M
Looks interesting, thanks for the link.
lukeholder··on Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M
Algolia is a fantastic service. I wish Elastic Search just as easy to populate and then to search with a front end javascript lib.
lukeholder··on A Study That Bolsters the Lead-Crime Hypothesis
Maybe this is why everyone is so angry at the airport. /s
lukeholder··on For Hotels, There’s No Room Left for Online Travel Agencies
mods, please delete this spam
lukeholder··on U.S. top court tightens patent suit rules in blow to ‘patent trolls’
haha! Take a look at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG9UMMq2dz4
lukeholder··on Uber hit by legal setback in Europe
Business models need to be "social" now?
lukeholder··on Why Juicero’s Press Is So Expensive
That's why the aluminium unibody design has been the standard now.
lukeholder··on Apple Store currently down
If they release new Macs without a keynote, it shows how much they don't care about the Mac anymore.
lukeholder··on What happens when you dump the App Store?
That icon means 'app' not app store.
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