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I recently also wanted to play around with some itunes podcast data. But it seemed Apple removed the scrapable catalogue index of their podcast library. How did you build up your database, if i may ask?

Thanks for the link. This illustrates my concern pretty well. Instead of having one highly relevant index we now have a multitude of smaller services that hold information about the podcast universe. And afaik they dont confederate in any way. So one would need to query all of them...

These guys came up a with a "preprompt" for ChatGPT that does a decent job in refining your initial prompt and asking questions for clarification. Seems they mix some of the best practices like chain of thought, etc.

https://github.com/ProfSynapse/Synapse_CoR

Thanks! Already looking into it.

cool, thx! will check them out!

Hi, just double checked myself. The results that pocketcasts is delivering are from single episodes. Podbear currently only knows about the shows themselves, not single episodes. But thats a good point! Thanks for mentioning it.

Agree, some search magic going on. Though I would expect a different ranking when I sort by "Popularity". And searching for "infoq.com" [1] gives even worse results imo. But ok, results expectations can be highly subjective :)

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=infoq.com

Ah! Now thats interesting. When I use the Algolia powered HN search eg https://hn.algolia.com/?q=infoq it sorts by default by "Stories"->"Popularity"->"All Time". Highest scoring post there has 34 points. I would expect that at least the two posts that you dug up would appear there on the top. Or do I misunderstand how HN search should work?

The sentiment is probably not abou GCP as a whole, but about its trigger happiness when it comes to deprecating services.

Fun read:

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...

Paulina24 | Senior Software Developer Frontend/Fullstack | Typescript, React, Remix | Startup | REMOTE within Germany (with some occasional traveling to meet up together)

Hi, CTO here :) Im currently building up the core tech team for our newly founded company Paulina24. We are tackling the problem of finding affordable elder care (in Germany).

We are pre-revenue, but well-funded by a reputable PE fund. Go-to-market MVP is in the final stages of development but everything is still very rough.

What we currently lack is an experienced Frontend/Fullstack developer, preferably well-versed in React or similar frameworks.

Read all about it here: https://paulinahilft.notion.site/Senior-Software-Developer-F...

So if you enjoy working in an (mostly!) crunch-free environment with high ownership, trust and collaboration ... I would love to hear from you!

USB-C is required by law in the EU by the end of 2024. That is probably their reason to switch.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/24/tech/eu-law-charging-stan...

You call "less than 100M revenue" small?? Has to be A LOT less to be considered small in my book :)

honest question: sounds like a cool architecture! care to give some insights how you achieve this?

There is a good visualization of Googles income statement here

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/xjbpfo/oc_...

looks you are about right

> It's the McDonalds of processes

LMAO :) Im going to steal that!

Make that 99%

They removed their free tier plan.

Years after reading it first the thought came to me (probably read it somewhere) that the library is equal to π (pi) - never ending (somehow), never repeating. Its all in there. Strangely comforting: We have it already written out, just need to discover the important bits.

Oh, and of course somebody made a website https://libraryofbabel.info/

Well, somehow Borges apologized to Gibson (and to all of us) for coming up with all of it first. In a way. At least in this world. In this book.

"If in the following pages there is some successful verse or other, may the reader forgive me the audacity of having written it before him. We are all one; our inconsequential minds are much alike, and circumstances so influence us that it is something of an accident that you are the reader and I the writer"

I think its the from the foreword of "Ficciones". Found it here again: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/68427/it-is-someth...

Took me some time to find the quote again, but I keenly remembered William Gibson talking about Borges as his favourite writer. Here you go:

Q: If you had a chance to meet the author of your favorite book, who would it be and what would you ask them?

A: Jorge Luis Borges. "How is this possible?"

https://web.archive.org/web/20100418124053/http://www.willia...

Borges blew my brain first when I was 18. To this day I re-read at least "The Library of Babel" once a year. Still in awe of how his mind worked.

As far as side projects go:

I was a 100%-RSS-news guy a few years ago, but found myself more and more looking at twitter for a certain kind of news content (mostly rants about how bad agile has become). But I kind of hated needing to use two apps to get my daily content fix. Strangely Twitter didnt provide an RSS feed for the raw timeline feed. So I build myself an Twitter2RSS thingie.

https://twissr.herokuapp.com/

Go / Postgress / Heroku For RSS generation: https://github.com/gorilla/feeds (looks stale now)

Was a great learning experience as I was teaching myself Go back then. Dont use it much these days anymore, but its still working, which I find incredible, since I basically havent touched the thing for over 6 years!

I am really, really, REALLY surprised so few people talk about Quasar https://quasar.dev/

Quoting from their website [1]:

"Quasar [...] is an MIT licensed open-source Vue.js based framework, which allows you as a web developer to quickly create responsive++ websites/apps in many flavours:

SPAs (Single Page App)

SSR (Server-side Rendered App) (+ optional PWA client takeover)

PWAs (Progressive Web App)

BEX (Browser Extension)

Mobile Apps (Android, iOS, …) through Cordova or Capacitor

Multi-platform Desktop Apps (using Electron)

Quasar’s motto is: write code once and simultaneously deploy it as a website, a Mobile App and/or an Electron App. Yes, one codebase for all of them, helping you develop an app in record time by using a state-of-the-art CLI and backed by best-practice, blazing fast Quasar web components."

Using it for a few years now I must say that it always impresses me with its completeness and high quality documentation. Cannot recommend it enough.

[1] https://quasar.dev/introduction-to-quasar

If there is no sunlight Im afraid no plant will last very long :/

I work from our basement and have more or less the same problem. What helped me the most was some good lighting conditions. I use a bunch of big LED panels from Ikea [1] on my walls to create the illusion of windows. They have settings for brightness and color temperature so you can gradually switch them from "daylight bright white" to "mellow sunset orange" depending on the time of the day. To upgrade that you could use an actual full spectrum lamp [2] to make your brain believe that its actually in real sunlight.

To get some basic exercise in I have a standing desk and a small treadmill which I can put underneath.

For greens I just used some middle-priced fake plants all over the place. Good enough.

And of course some personal touch with my posters. Mostly Sci-Fi nerd shit :)

[1] https://www.ikea.com/us/en/search/products/?q=floalt

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-light-therap...

What will be the differentiation to https://www.mightyapp.com/ ?

Everybody who gets forced to work in an open office plan should get a pair of really good and comfortable ANC cans from the company by default.

I like the idea! Coming from the IT world where remote teams always have the challenge of getting together online to do fun stuff (not everybody loves video games) it definitely has potential. Maybe provide some more out-of-the-box ready questions sets. A lot of stuff is freely available e.g. https://opentdb.com/

From what I read between the lines you work as an external contractor bidding on one-off client projects/tasks. In that case estimation is even harder, because you often dont know the quality of the code base that you have to work on.

I would always try to get a "times and material" agreement, where you are just paid by the hour and estimations are only necessary for rough scheduling and are not bound to your paycheck. This of course implies a certain level of trust that you need to have with your clients. Often this is the case on longer term /regular engagements.

If you need to bid / pitch to a new client you might be forced into a "fixed price" offer for a certain scope. Best to avoid but if you cant I would try to explicitly have some form agreement that allows for some form of re-estimation, e.g. if some explicit (or implicit) assumptions dont hold to be true.

On the matter of estimations: I would try to avoid single-person, one-point estimations (e.g. "3.5 days!") and would try to aim for a three-point or range estimation with some confidence levels (e.g. "best case 1.5 days if all assumptions hold; 3-5 days if we encounter some unknown unknowns, 6-12 days if we totally missed something in the requirements and spec"). Best try to partner up with somebody to get a second opinion about assumptions and risk.

The most solid projections (not estimations) I have seen, were by stable teams who just counted their work-item throughput and learned to be good at item sizing.

Hi, you probably want to do a "Show HN" post to get feedback. There are some rules for that: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Great basic introduction imo. When I was starting out I was blindly copy pasting CLI commands from tutorial pages without any idea what was happening. Even if you limit yourself to "Frontend Development" only it is super useful to have some degree of mastery of you shell of choice. Would recommend to start out with the native terminal that comes with your OS instead of something rather heavy than electron powered Hyper.

Also recommended https://explainshell.com/ to find out whats actually going on.