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rafaeleon The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode

But think of all the API calls you save if you curse at Claude

rafaeleon Stop Sloppypasta

Nice paraprosdokian there

rafaeleon The realities of being a pop star

Did we look at the same article? I counted 6 or 7 paragraphs

rafaeleon Realtime BART Arrival Display

Cool! Hey I have a feature request: Could you add the robotic voices?

https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2009/news20090309

rafaeleon Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal

Maybe? ESPN has an unofficial API: https://github.com/pseudo-r/Public-ESPN-API

rafaeleon Thirteen Years of Go

Caddy, Gotify, Photoprism

rafaeleon Good managers write good

  * Use
  * bullet
  * points
  * aggressively

Fixed that for you

rafaeleon Sugar – Candy Machine Rust CLI

the indirection in these crate names is too damn high

rafaeleon How to write a Git commit message (2014)

What do people think of this line?

> Use the imperative mood in the subject line

The only rationales I've seen for using imperative ("fix bug") over the indicative ("fixed bug") are that it's what git does by default anyways.

Is it really that big of a deal to use the indicative sometimes and imperative other times?

For what it's worth, I always write commit messages in the imperative, out of habit. When others write commit messages in the indicative tense, part of me notices, but I move on because I can still understand the message if it adheres to the other guidelines.

rafaeleon Building Password Purgatory with Cloudflare Pages and Workers

Password must contain at least one tab character. Good one :)

rafaeleon Phone is still the best way to order pizza

Who is in the pizza "Big Three" anyway? Domino's, Pizza Hut, Little Caesars?

rafaeleon Databases in 2021: A Year in Review

Seems like he's being serious and based on the linked tweet, I think he reveres Larry Ellison.

rafaeleon Goats became an unconventional weapon against wildfires

Can we call it Chewber? (because they eat grass). AirBleatNCleat? HerdWallet? Instagoat? GoatHub? how about Eweber? (okay, that's kind of a stretch)

rafaeleon Ask HN: What happened to twofactorauth.org?

It looks like it's now https://2fa.directory/

Some background: https://github.com/2factorauth/twofactorauth/issues/5238

rafaeleon Starfucker – A GitHub API exploration

aaaand it's gone

rafaeleon Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens

I wonder if they count staring at "n" screens for 1 hour as "n" hours.

rafaeleon Timeline of the Far Future

A prediction for 1.1 billion years in the future:

> The Sun's luminosity has risen by 10%, causing Earth's surface temperatures to reach an average of c. 320 K (47 °C; 116 °F). The atmosphere will become a "moist greenhouse", resulting in a runaway evaporation of the oceans.[65][70] This would cause plate tectonics to stop completely, if not already stopped before this time.[71]

Would somebody be able to ELI5 the connection the Earth's average temperature and plate tectonics?

rafaeleon Awk in 20 Minutes (2015)

Good tutorial. I like the concise survey of the language components. This is going to make working with awk a lot less awkward.

rafaeleon Ask HN: What do you know almost nobody else does?

> Is this quora now?

feels more like r/AskReddit to me

rafaeleon Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

I'm working on a small tool to reconcile resource associations that may be lost when exporting data out of one service and importing into another.

For example, if you want to transfer your stuff from Evernote into StandardNotes, you can export your note content as ENEX and use a conversion tool for it. https://dashboard.standardnotes.org/tools

Unfortunately neither export file nor the provided import tool handle Notebook info (StandardNotes doesn't have notebooks but it can approximated with tags).

So this tool creates some of that missing metadata that is extracted from the export service and is converted into a format that can understood by the import service.

rafaeleon 2020 Stock Market Crash

a recession is happening, let's hope it doesn't turn into a depression

rafaeleon In the 1970s, NYC Dabbled in Carpeted Subway Trains

I was hoping to read about that classic 70s shag carpet.

rafaeleon Time.gov was upgraded today

Considering what it [looked like 1 week ago](https://web.archive.org/web/20200129180342/https://time.gov/), I'd say this is an improvement.

My favorite part is "THE OFFICIAL U.S. TIME".

No messing around.

rafaeleon Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?

Hacker News will be orange

rafaeleon Little Alchemy 2

There appears to be a source file at https://littlealchemy2.com/js/chunk-vendors.1828b6b5.js with answers under the key: "2e77". I'm bored on a Saturday, might try this out =)

rafaeleon A Pissed-Off Tutorial for Google Wave (2010) [video]

I'd just type elsewhere and paste it in when it's ready if it concerned me.

rafaeleon Hundreds of people died over a millennium at “Skeleton Lake” in the Himalayas

I'd not heard of limnic eruptions until now. They seem interesting and terrifying.

rafaeleon I completed Ultimate Go, took good notes and commented directly on source code

The design guidelines (https://github.com/ardanlabs/gotraining/blob/master/topics/g...) are especially good. And it's not go-specific, it can be applied to any software crafting tool.

rafaeleon Thermanator Attack Steals Passwords by Reading Thermal Residue on Keyboards

Whenever possible I type in the PIN with a house key or car key. That way there's little, if not none at all, heat left behind and I don't have to contact a germ-laden touchpad. #germaphobe

rafaeleon Backdoored images downloaded 5M times removed from Docker Hub

https://kromtech.com/blog/security-center/cryptojacking-inva...

search for "Figure 7"