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rectalogicon The Boring Part of Bell Labs

> I'd be surprised if the Bells lab offer didn't have similar clawbacks.

Bellcore inherited the year on campus program from Bell Labs. There were no clawbacks and no requirement to even return to work for Bellcore after graduation.

rectalogicon FDA approves eye drops that fix near vision without glasses

> I imagine this product would be used in just one eye at a time

The dosage instructions say to use it in both eyes

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2025/21...

rectalogicon Presentation Slides with Markdown

I use a small patch [1] to revealjs [2] hosted on GitHub pages [3], just point it to a markdown gist

[1] https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/compare/master...rectal...

[2] https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js

[3] https://gist-reveal.rectalogic.com/

rectalogicon Show HN: SkySearch – realtime browser-based semantic search of Bluesky jetstream

Live demo https://rectalogic.com/skysearch/

rectalogicon Stelvio: Serverless AWS for Python Devs

CDK has high level constructs like aws_ecs_patterns.ApplicationLoadBalancedFargateService etc. It seems like the above could be implemented as high level CDK constructs. So you could make common things simpler, but have the full CDK to change details if needed.

rectalogicon Ghost House – software for automatic inbetweens

Nice, Ted had a previous less complete version of this called LizardLadder [1] That inspired me to build something vaguely similar while learning Rust and Bevy - Terp [2]

[1] https://www.tedwiggin.com/LizardLadder/ [2] https://github.com/rectalogic/terp

rectalogicon Parsing JSON in 500 lines of Rust

I changed it to use Cow<str>, performance improved from 121.02 MB/s to 278.66 MB/s

https://github.com/rectalogic/jsonparser

rectalogicon Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living

Interesting. Back in 2007 my company Motionbox partnered with flipclips.com to sell themed flipbooks very similar to these. Both companies are defunct now. Demo at a trade show: https://youtu.be/FIiLsyeAM_I?si=BQHt5Q4Q80y3Il5f

rectalogicon Ask HN: Do you backup your Emails?

I use https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back for gmail

rectalogicon Transforming Colors with Matrices

You can apply color matrices to HTML elements by referencing an SVG feColorMatrix [1] from the filter [2] CSS property.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/feC...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/filter

rectalogicon Show HN: Vomitorium – all of your project in 1 text file

rectalogicon Ask HN: Any Recommendations Around Programming on an iPad?

Maybe a Raspberry Pi, and tailscale on the Pi and the iPad to connect. https://tailscale.com/download

rectalogicon USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update

14.4 seems to be breaking Docker desktop for some uses too https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/7220

rectalogicon Opt Out of Hulu's New Binding Arbitration Clause

Seems like something Permission Slip could do https://permissionslipcr.com/

rectalogicon Can ultraviolet lightbulbs end the next pandemic before it starts?

That’s what I did a few years ago. Drill a hole in the side of the air handler and mount it in there. https://mrscrappy.com/products/uv-c-air-sanitizer

rectalogicon Ask HN: Is Unlimited PTO a Scam

I used it to implement a 4 day work week. Just took every Friday off, plus a week here and there for vacation.

rectalogicon Polishing Cloth

Anyone figured out a way to hack this so it can be used on non-Apple hardware - hackincloth?

rectalogicon A tool to create slides using Markdown easily for you

You can create the entire presentation in markdown with reveal.js too https://github.com/rectalogic/gist-reveal

rectalogicon Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D

I built something similar using Twilio’s video SDK https://github.com/rectalogic/spatia

rectalogicon Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics

Welcome to the Internet of Dicks (IoD)

rectalogicon US House bill exempts employers with 500 employees from sick day requirement

Where in the bill does it say that? https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/democrats.appropriati...

rectalogicon I did not know jitsi existed

Hmm, they say they don't support Firefox or Safari, only chrome - although it seems to basically work in both Firefox and Safari https://web-cdn.jitsi.net/meetjitsi_3875.548/static/recommen...

rectalogicon Göttingen researchers identify existing drug with potential to treat Covid-19

They tested this drug in mice with SARS/MERS in 2016 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016635421...

rectalogicon Capital One Says Breach Hit 100M Individuals in U.S

If it's an instance role and you are on the EC2 instance, then "curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credent... will return the credentials.

rectalogicon Home is a small, engineless sailboat (2018)

50l storage, rain collection, inflatable solar still, dehumidifier and forward osmosis http://seandepagnier.users.sourceforge.net/AboutAlexandra.ht...

rectalogicon Nobody Cares About OAuth or OpenID Connect

You don't have to use a web-only flow for MFA. We use a tool that prompts for MFA the execs any CLI with the environment setup with the STS credentials e.g. https://gist.github.com/rectalogic/e99c10bd43a2a8f6542680953...

rectalogicon Using Slack through an IRC client

I use a Slack plugin [1] for Textual IRC I wrote. It uses SlackKit [2] which needs a bit of work.

[1] https://github.com/rectalogic/TextualSlack [2] https://github.com/SlackKit/SlackKit

rectalogicon Pipenv: promises a lot, delivers very little

I tried pipenv, then poetry, then pip-tools [1]. pip-tools worked best for me. I control my own virtualenvs, and can compose the requirements files pip-tools compiles. It's vendored in pipenv, so it's basically the dependency engine for pipenv.

[1] https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools