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I'm into the making of things. A developer at Charity Map.
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rebyn··on Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B
Is it me or so far all the current HN replies to this particular “why” ask seem not even remotely answering it?
rebyn··on Isgithubdown.net – the most reliable GitHub status page
Is everyone out watching the eclipse? I thought more people would report that Github is down.
rebyn··on Winamp Skin Museum
Yesterday someone put a Winamp-vibe radio player on a Waveshare ESP32-S3 1.54 LCD. Now if only these skins can be ported to that too. I’m in awe!
rebyn··on I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
“Sign in with Apple” allows me to use a random “Hide My Email” address for services that I can’t bother with so it’s absolutely a godsend for me.
rebyn··on So Long, Gitpod
In January they laid off 28% (21 employees) which meant they had 54 left after the January layoff round.

Last week they laid off ~43 (as per the laid-off employee’s blog post above).

Does that mean they now have only 9 employees left? Did I do the maths right?

Update: my bad. The last layoff around was January 2023. It has been 1 year 4 months since.

rebyn··on Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket
I got the Deutschlandticket for May and am tempted to travel from Berlin to Stralsund. Using RE/RB for this journeh takes more or less three hours without any train change (so not having to deal with the possible delay(s) and missing connecting rides), however I do hope the operator supports reserving a seat in advance with this subscription, cause otherwise showing up at the station not knowing for sure I'd have a seat would deter me from using this offer and instead just book ICE/IC (if any).
rebyn··on Act: Run your GitHub Actions locally
Yeah, 60GB (“big”) and there is a “large” act’s Docker image whose size is 16GB: https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/107#issuecomment-760376...
rebyn··on Launch HN: Unthread (YC S22) – Customer support, entirely within Slack
Silly ask but is this similar to Atlassian Assist? https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1220442/atlassian-ass...
rebyn··on Procrastination is flight, deadline is fight, freeze is staring at the screen
Same for me. Extending an internal API with simple queries took me half a day to get my mind around to. Learning about a warehouse system with a bazillion schemas, toggles and cogs and endless conditionals can while a few days of mine and I came out feeling happy and content, and wanted to do more, nonstop.
rebyn··on Procrastination is flight, deadline is fight, freeze is staring at the screen
I am in a similar situation. Lately I repeat to myself: "do not what you can, do what you must" to fight off my fight/flight response. It works about 40% of those situations that I was in.
rebyn··on I followed my dreams to get demoted to software developer
Being a Distinguished Engineer is the highest there is for an engineer. He moved away from management and max'd out on the engineering track.

https://college.lclark.edu/programs/entrepreneurship/firesid...

rebyn··on Many use cases don’t require Kafka (2019)
I once looked into authen/authorization with Kafka topics and whether one can only be allowed to subscribe to specific ones and came up short with any solution to how to do it with Kafka. From my POV, points: 1 to 4 listed above now have been moved to one single point (Kafka) and its capabilities are a lot limited than those other tools/entrypoints (of data access) mentioned. Have there been new development to Kafka's IAM?
rebyn··on Launch HN: Manara (YC W21) – Connect Middle East engineers with global companies
I appreciate these public comments on logistics issues like exchange rate and the sharing of service providers very much. As a freelancer in Viet Nam, this came up multiple times whilst I started out and even though my rate delta was only about 20-25%, that was already something.

Best of luck to you two.

rebyn··on When AWS Autoscale Doesn’t
> Scaling the underlining EC2 instances is slow.

Do you mind if I ask how long this takes right now with you and how long you expect it to take to be fast?

rebyn··on Gatwick airport trial for valet-parking robots
I found a VR video (which needs dragging around quite a bit on my computer to find the desired angle): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIaxPa2aUDI that showed the car being put into its slot. Looks pretty neat.
rebyn··on Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data
The default iOS weather app uses data from IBM’s Weather Channel. Your previous comment (re: app) is misleading.
rebyn··on CenturyLink 911 outage was caused by a single network card sending bad packets
I think he/she uses Docker as a development tool on his machine, with volumes and everything.
rebyn··on AWS Outposts: Run AWS infrastructure on-premises
Second half of 2019, they clarified somewhere.
rebyn··on AWS Global Accelerator for Availability and Performance
I'm having a hard time trying to wrap my head around this. What are the differences between this and CloudFront?
rebyn··on Rain ruins one of Norway’s richest men
Mind if I ask who? Honest question :).
rebyn··on Two Years Ago, India Lacked Fast, Cheap Internet – One Billionaire Changed That
Have to disagree. Viettel (Vietnam) does offer 1GB a day for a monthly cost of $7. I have 3 bars minimum with LTE/4G on mountains (remote ones even) and islands.
rebyn··on Asking members to support journalism, The Guardian raises more revenue than ads
I’m one of these new subscribers (from Viet Nam) that this campaign appeals to. The offer was too good to ignore ($1 for first 6 weeks, $4 each week after for the Guardian Weekly). There’s a bit of adjustment from my side because stories and writings in the print edition are different from my usually top-HN, popular-Twitter articles, but I’ve grown to it. Local expats in my place have no idea of this free int’l delivery, so for a long time they have been paying local importers/newstands a heft ton of money for these papers.
rebyn··on Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing
I've just uploaded a 140MB file from my mountain cabin (in Viet Nam) and it was lightning fast. I then gave the link to a friend of mine residing in Melbourne, Australia and his download speed was blazing fast as well. Would be keen to learn more about the infrastructure setup behind this service to achieve such a good performance.
rebyn··on I'm Begging for Work
Hey brokedev,

I can help with your CV. That's something you can improve right now (besides active Twitter account/Github/Blog) to start shooting for jobs. I haven't been in your situation before but have dealt with such management, so I understand the feeling. Let me know if I can help. My contact is in my profile, or you can reach out to me via Twitter @rebyn.

Cheers, T.

rebyn··on When the Boss Says, 'Don't Tell Your Coworkers How Much You Get Paid'
Still better than nothing :).
rebyn··on Show HN: Distraction Free Facebook Messenger, a Chrome Extension
Why would what seems like some CSS tweaks need to have access to my FB and browsing data?
rebyn··on Stripe and Apple Pay
Looking at the documentation I think it's fairly easy.
rebyn··on Rubygems.org AWS bill for Feb 2014 [pdf]
How can I donate to Ruby Central? Checked out their "Support" page yet it didn't help much. Any easier ways like donating via Paypal?
rebyn··on Show HN: Issuepost – Submit GitHub Issues from your Mac, effortlessly
Have the majority of devs upgraded to 10.8? I thought most of us still stays with 10.7 :(.
rebyn··on Booting Up: Zuck’s First Website Was Just as Embarrassing as Yours
The logo, or what it seems, to me is a really 'bad' graphic.
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