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qgadrianon Something special is happening in Barcelona

People who live in the city live it, people (specially rich people) who drives from outside the city hate it.

qgadrianon Don’t use environment variables for configuration

"This is the way we have always done it so it must be correct!" != "This is the way we have always done and it works perfect for everybody!"

I want to use env vars because:

* I want to reuse builds and my systems have different behavior on different environments.

* I want to override the default config sometimes

* I don't want to expose sensitive configurations, and yet have them explicitly configure in my project configuration

The post it's very opinionated and lacking any valuable point IMO.

qgadrianon Show HN: Smokex, automatic scheduled HTTP requests

Smokex is a new tool to created automated smoke tests to validate and ensure the correctness of your applications.

It's perfect to avoid deploying broken releases and downtime, but it also can be also used to automate any HTTP requests you might need.

Send an email to `launch@smokex.io` from your registered account to get a 2-month premium subscription for free!

qgadrianon Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

Did the hackers remove all tweets from Apple? Wtf

qgadrianon Show HN: I made a tool to copy music library from Apple Music to Spotify

This the first iteration of a simple tool to move Apple Music library to Spotify.

Some features are missing, but feedback is highly appreciated.

As off topic:

After thousands of unfinished side projects, and although a lot of them were close to being finished, I was able to finish the first one and make it real.

qgadrianon Ask HN: Who regrets choosing Elixir?

I don’t, I’ve being pushing everywhere I go to use it.

The main question is always the same, “how much effort it will take me to find Febe if I need them”.

And my answer is always the same, “make them come and work with you, and focus people excited and open to learn a new technology”.

qgadrianon A half-hour to learn Rust

Loved the approach, no time wasting and you can dig on things are not clear for you.

qgadrianon Open-Source Code for Hand Gesture Recognition – Sign Language Translation

What amazes me it’s that a relatively new language easy to use (no voice, no accent distortion) it’s not a global standard and we need tools like this to translate the different language signs.

This situation feels very stupid IMO.

qgadrianon Camera vs. Lidar

Having a redundant system is the key here.

Also provides a reliable source of data, if humans have a LiDAR in their system then we would use it to improve our decisions.

I don’t see why we should limit the AV.

qgadrianon Clear is better than clever [pdf]

The message is clear, and clever