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pseudobryon Marie Kondo and the Life-Changing Magic of Japanese Soft Power

wife to me this morning: "I got a babysitter for next Saturday, how about we use the time to Marie Kondo the house?"

pseudobryon Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?

Couple things I've tried and never looked back on:

I quit caffeine and sleep so much better now.

Got a 144hz g-sync monitor, wondered where it had been all my life. Spent 15 minutes opening and closing the start menu and moving the mouse cursor around it was so beautiful.

Now paying for house cleaners twice a month, the extra time and reduced stress are well worth the money.

pseudobryon McMansion envy spreads as Americans demand more bedrooms and baths

I pay $150/month for a crew of two to clean my 2200sqft house every other week. It's so worth it, even just so I don't have to clean the shower anymore. But really, the better benefit is more time to spend with my kids and work on other things.

pseudobryon Serverless: Cold Start War

GCF support for Python 3 is in beta: https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/concepts/python-runt...

pseudobryon A satellite engineer explains the basics of space electronics

I have not been designing semiconductors for 20 years and I thought I would learn something...and I did!

pseudobryon Universal Now: Now, on Every Cloud

> Most cloud providers have created different proprietary APIs to expose lightweight services to the cloud.

True. However, in the case of Google Cloud Platform, the Protocol Buffer definitions for their services have been open-sourced here: https://github.com/googleapis/googleapis

There are two immediate benefits/possibilities: you can generate your own gRPC client libraries for GCP services and you can re-implement GCP services using their open-sourced interface definition. One example would be the Google Cloud Functions Emulator [1], which implements the service defined in the Cloud Functions service' Protocol Buffer [2]. You could deploy that Emulator somewhere for a sort-of "dev" version of the production Cloud Functions service, and the Gcloud SDK could talk to it.

[1]: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-functions-emula... [2]: https://github.com/googleapis/googleapis/blob/master/google/...

pseudobryon Ask HN: Does your company have an open source release policy?

Google's policy: https://opensource.google.com/docs/

pseudobryon Deep Photo Style Transfer

For anyone interested in a sci-fi book about how a society filled with this kind of technology might work, I recommend reading Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End

pseudobryon LastPass: Security done wrong

I signed my family up for 1Password a month ago and love it so far.

Here's the 1Password Security Design Whitepaper: https://1password.com/files/1Password%20for%20Teams%20White%...

pseudobryon Announcing Free Orgs at npm

I'd switch to scoped packages, if not for https://github.com/npm/registry/issues/59

pseudobryon White House Bars Times, CNN and BBC from Briefing

bought mine last week

pseudobryon Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (November 2016)

JSData (http://js-data.io)

JSData is an open-source JavaScript ORM for Node.js and the browser. It's adapter-based, with adapters currently available for HTTP, Firebase, localStorage, MySql/Postgres/SQLite, RethinkDB, MongoDB, Google Cloud DataStore, Microsoft Azure DocumentDB, and more.

Currently working on finishing up a 3.0.0 release (currently at 3.0.0-rc.6). With so many adapters and integrations that need to be written (and current ones that need maintenance), there are lots of contributing opportunities.

We need help with everything from documentation, tests, and benchmarking, to taking ownership of a current adapter and building new adapters/integrations.

MIT license

Get started contributing at: http://www.js-data.io/v3.0/docs/contributing

We're also on Slack: http://slack.js-data.io

Thanks!

pseudobryon Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (October 2016)

JSData (http://js-data.io)

Currently working on finishing up a 3.0.0 release (currently at 3.0.0-rc.5). With so many adapters and integrations that need to be written (and current ones that need maintenance), there are lots of contributing opportunities.

We need help with everything from documentation, tests, and benchmarking, to taking ownership of a current adapter and building new adapters/integrations.

MIT license

Get started contributing at: http://www.js-data.io/v3.0/docs/contributing

We're also on Slack: http://slack.js-data.io

Thanks!

pseudobryon The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do

> Multi Level Marketing coughpyramidschemecough company similar to Herbalife

Definitely could be Utah county, but

> one of the better tech opportunities in an area with very few

Probably not Utah county. The greater than 4000 tech companies[1] in and around Utah County cannot hire software engineers fast enough.

[1]: http://siliconslopes.com/about/utah-economy/

pseudobryon Why Google App Engine Rocks: A Google Engineer’s Take

You should take another look, as we literally rewrote most of the documentation in the last few weeks.

pseudobryon Node.js v6.0 Released

And now available on Google App Engine (Flexible Environment).

Example app running v6.0.0: http://nodejs600.appspot.com/

pseudobryon Glot.io: Open Source pastebin with runnable snippets and API

This is really cool to see, but also somewhat depressing because it reminds me that I spent about 500 hours of my free time building the same thing, and even had it deployed at codetrain.io for a while, but then lost interest and now my code's wasting away in a private bitbucket repo.

Before I shut mine down it could run 13 or so different languages, spin up collaborative REPLs for Node.js/Python/Ruby, and organize snippets into tutorials/lessions, etc. It was awesome, but now sits in my side project graveyard. It's a shame really.

Glad to see glot.io getting more attention.

pseudobryon Google Cloud Speech API

Access to this API is currently invite-only. Sign up for the limited preview: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/speech-api-alpha/

pseudobryon Machine Learning in the Cloud, with TensorFlow

Access to this API (and docs) is currently invite-only. Sign up for the limited preview: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/machinelearningpreview/

pseudobryon Node.js on Google App Engine Goes Beta

In that example we don't need to run the webpack build inside the Docker image when the container is started. There are multiple points in the application deployment lifecycle where a webpack build could be performed.

When you deploy with the gcloud cli a Docker image will be packaged for you and and deployed. You could easily run a webpack build before the image is packaged so the built files get packaged as well, or extend the image with your own Dockerfile to customize the Docker steps, or build the image yourself locally and deploy your already built image, etc...

pseudobryon Facebook is closing Parse

https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/resources/frameworks/parse-s...

pseudobryon Facebook is closing Parse

I put together that tutorial. Ping me @jmdobry (GitHub/Twitter) with questions. Also, https://gcp-slack.appspot.com/

pseudobryon Ask HN: Guide to becoming a dad?

Before my daughter was born, I spent of lot of my free time coding—open source, side projects, etc. After she was born, that other stuff just didn't seem as important anymore. There's no perfect README for perfect parenting—we figure that out as we go along and it's all okay in the end. But absolutely, remember that there is no substitute for your time. Give her/him that. The rest will work out.

pseudobryon Can we talk about the copilot's depression now? HELL YES

Except the book is free, probably a good resource for people who need help, and it's in the footer, not tied any particular blog post.

pseudobryon The US government's web traffic

So did I, months ago. No reply.

pseudobryon ReadMe (YC W15) Creates Crisp Documentation for Developers Using Your APIs

Few apps have impressed me as much as Readme.io. The attention to detail and beautiful yet functional UI are superb! It was a delight to create the docs for http://www.js-data.io with Readme.io.

pseudobryon Show HN: Xr – A modern ES6 Promise-based XMLHttpRequest wrapper

Have you seen https://github.com/mzabriskie/axios?

pseudobryon CodingGround – Code in almost all popular languages online

Am I supposed to be able to get root access in the ssh terminal?

pseudobryon Show HN: I Hate Angular

https://github.com/jmdobry/angular-data

pseudobryon State of Utah Open Data

http://opensaltlake.org/

The Code for America chapter is the biggest civic hacking group that I know of in SLC.