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marshallford··on Ask HN: Do you have a personal website?
https://marshallford.me - Built with Hugo and deployed with Terraform to GCP Cloud Run
marshallford··on Victor Hugo, a SEO tool for Hugo based sites (opinions pls)
FYI: There is another hugo related project under the same name. https://github.com/netlify-templates/victor-hugo
marshallford··on Taking over Azure DevOps accounts with one click
Does the $3000 (USD?) bounty seem low to anyone else? Prior to reading the timeline section at the bottom of the post I would have guessed a range of 25k to 50k as a bounty for such a severe vulnerability.
marshallford··on How to Make Your Organization Attractive to Engineering Talent
I often see Imposter Syndrome being discussed on HN and in other software development circles. While I have yet to face the feeling of being an imposter; this particular quote from the article strikes a bit of a nerve,

"Sturgeon’s law says “ninety percent of everything is crap”. I’ve found this to be true of developers. Nine out of ten developers are not just bad but incompetent."

I'm not a mathematician, but if this statement is true, chances are I am an awful developer. Knowing this, how do I and others proceed? Can we be useful on a team?

marshallford··on Web app that generates a cozy and realistic window view
I'm seeing a templating issue on the timer option in the menu. Great sounds!
marshallford··on React Router v4 FAQ
I'm curious, did you replace react-router with something else or are you managing the url "manually"?
marshallford··on React Router v4 FAQ
I too am confused by this. I found this GitHub issue [1] when searching for a withRouter HOC replacement.

1. https://github.com/ReactTraining/react-router/issues/3847

marshallford··on Show HN: Reverse Geocode REST API
Hmmm you bring up a good point, having a file based provider type might be useful as the last fallback.

Also, the tool already supports fallbacks, so if a provider is offline or what have you it will try the next provider in line and so on.

marshallford··on Docker Official Images Are Moving to Alpine Linux
I agree, if that is the case those using Alpine in production should be wary.
marshallford··on People labeled “smart” at a young age don’t deal well with being wrong
Shocker.
marshallford··on Show HN: My web framework and deployment tool
Hello All! I realize this is yet another framework, however the main reason I posted this is to hopefully get more people involved with the project, not self promotion. At the very least I would like to see a couple issues on Github complaining or booing my work so far.

Thanks!

marshallford··on Show HN: New OpenLoopz Landing Page Based on HN Feedback
Wow great improvement. I actually understand what your product is now. I really like that you made it clear it was for both teams and single users as this answered my first question of "Who is this made for?" after understanding your product's purpose.

As for the web design side of things I would look at maybe changing out the images with all those arrows at low screen sizes as the normal body text in those images gets too small to read. Lastly, from 770px to 795px wide I get a horizontal scroll bar in Chrome 40 on Windows.

Good Luck!

marshallford··on Does Windows 10 as a service, not a product frighten you?
Maybe this is the paranoid me talking, but the idea that you won't really even own your operating system scares me a bit. I don't want to depend on a company that much, even Microsoft. Not to mention privacy, if it is a service, are we the products? Thoughts?
marshallford··on Skeleton 2.0 CSS Framework
Thanks for the 2.0 update Dave! I having been using Skeleton as a starting point for side-projects for a couple of years now. I really like how light it is compared to Bootstrap.

Happy Holidays!

marshallford··on Ask HN: How do I get people interested in my open source project?
thanks, I am in the process of writing documentation right now.
marshallford··on Ask HN: How do I get people interested in my open source project?
Clickable: https://github.com/marshallford/www-start
marshallford··on Ask HN: Opinions on putting stickers on a laptop?
Update: I am a college student studying Computer Science. I am just going to put stickers on the lid, not on the inside/keyboard.

Thanks for all of the comments.

marshallford··on Ask HN: I am looking for a server monitoring tool featured on HN
Thanks for the ideas, but unfortunately they are not what I am looking for.
marshallford··on Ask HN: I am looking for a server monitoring tool featured on HN
Trust me, I have tried. All I can find is this post (must be real-time).
marshallford··on Nginx 1.6.0 stable released
oh right, that makes more sense.
marshallford··on Nginx 1.6.0 stable released
I am designing this Ngnix conf for use on small vanilla sites and static generated sites like Jekyll. Otherwise, yes I would rely on my CMS's index file.
marshallford··on Nginx 1.6.0 stable released
This is yet another concern of mine. Most of my solutions involve at least 3 if statements. But I need them in order to check if a requested url is a directory or a file and such.
marshallford··on Nginx 1.6.0 stable released
Even the word "odesk" leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I have heard a lot of bad things about these kinds of freelance sites.
marshallford··on Nginx 1.6.0 stable released
I understand the redirecting to non-www is subjective, however I find less characters in the URL is cleaner. Also for a majority of my projects cookies are not used, so it is not a big deal to use a non-www base url.(Static blogs and simple vanilla sites for various school projects, etc).

Also as far as foo.com/ -> foo.com, I was referring to the URL, not the acutal path.

example: https://www.google.com/ redirects to https://www.google.com correct? Maybe I am missing something...

marshallford··on Nginx 1.6.0 stable released
I am designing this Ngnix conf for use on small vanilla sites and static generated sites like Jekyll. (Yes I know Jekyll puts all blog posts in separate folders to solve the URL issue, but I don't want that).
marshallford··on Nginx 1.6.0 stable released
It is a lot to get into now, but here is a taste.

foo.com/index > foo.com foo.com/ > foo.com foo.com/folder/index > foo.com/folder/ foo.com/bar.html > foo.com/bar foo.com/bar.htm > foo.com/bar foo.com/bar.php > foo.com/bar www.foo.com/ANY OF THE ABOVE TESTS > foo.com/*

other rules: Never add trailing slash unless it is an index file of a directory. Order: .PHP,.HTML,.HTM. Use h5bp/server-configs-nginx as a base. PHP-FPM should be fully supported and not exploitable by the foo.com/random.gif.php bug. 403 and 404 send to /404.html.

I am sure I am forgetting something, but that is a start.

marshallford··on Nginx 1.6.0 stable released
not a bad idea. Does either have an official way to offer a bounty? If not, any sites that do? Also, what would you say is a fair price range for this kind of request?
marshallford··on Nginx 1.6.0 stable released
Yes I have, however I always find it very challenging to modify it to support clean urls and PHP-FPM in an OCD fashion.
marshallford··on Nginx 1.6.0 stable released
I wish, I have tried multiple times and no one wants/can do it.
marshallford··on Nginx 1.6.0 stable released
I figure this is as good of place as any to ask my question: Where can I find someone to hire that is able to write Nginx cofigs well. I have spent literally 40ish hours trying to create a Nginx conf that holds up to my OCD. I have been told numerous times on IRC that I am too picky and clean urls are a challenge to write. I am college student and System Administration isn't even my job! Help!
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