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reffaelwallen··on The Real Luxuries In Life
because having money isn't the ultimate goal imho. it's what money enables - like a slow morning, a quiet mind, and good health. If money can't provide those or similar things, it loses its value more or less
reffaelwallen··on Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
I am surprised no one mentioned Carrot as a replacement! I have been using it for years. they don't have their own source of data, they are mostly a good UI, and you need to select a data source like Apple Weather or others.
reffaelwallen··on Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres
At my company we only use UUIDs as PKs.

Main reason I use it is the German Tank problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem

(tl;dr; prevent someone from counting how many records you have in that table)

reffaelwallen··on Plain – a web framework for building products with Python
How come Plain looks so much like Django?
reffaelwallen··on Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging
Logo reminds me of the old slack logo
reffaelwallen··on A16Z AI Voice Update 2025
We use https://www.lindy.ai/. I wonder why it's not on the map; I thought it was widely used.
reffaelwallen··on The Cloud Computer
maybe its about allowing you to create your own cloud, not using a third party vendor's software? its not a computer you hook up to a cloud, it is its own cloud? i only know about aws outpost tho, so I might be wrong
reffaelwallen··on Show HN: RoboPianist, a piano playing robot simulation in the browser
Please add sustain pedal as well, you will get 10x positive reactions
reffaelwallen··on Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone
Impactful to Square?
reffaelwallen··on Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
Title is misleading? Could be that the podcast owner removed them?
reffaelwallen··on MuseScore 3.6
They need to fix their iOS app also
reffaelwallen··on Quitting a New Job
holy, what industry?
reffaelwallen··on Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?
Checkout https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25553772
reffaelwallen··on Ask HN: What podcasts do you like listening to?
Oh Criminal and History of English are great!
reffaelwallen··on UX Issues with Notion
(Notion give me table grouping please!!)
reffaelwallen··on UX Issues with Notion
I have been using Notion for 3-4 years now. There is nothing better IMO. It is slow at times, it has a lot of its power hidden behind the "/", and it's not very helpful of you need advanced governance (like locking multiple pages easily). But it is great in any other way, personally I am waiting for the API and table grouping features to make it really great, and I could stop using aitrable.
reffaelwallen··on Amazon AppFlow
Is this a Segment type thing?
reffaelwallen··on Show HN: Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes
Is it different from https://www.colourlovers.com/ ?
reffaelwallen··on Studio Ghibli suddenly makes 38 albums of anime music available for streaming
Seems like not available in the US yet
reffaelwallen··on Ask HN: What agenda do you have for 1:1 meetings with your supervisor?
This is the opposite why to have a 1:1.

It's like going to therapy and trying to analyze the therapist. Save your money.

Edit: grammer

reffaelwallen··on You’re better off using Exceptions
I love using exceptions as control-flow, Python makes it very easy, and it's really helpful.

edit: grammer

reffaelwallen··on Keybase: Public, Signed Files
It's good if you want to share secrets (files or msgs)
reffaelwallen··on Unsolicited messages on Keybase
Hmm, I just had people contact me out of the blue. I wonder if someone is taking advantage.
reffaelwallen··on Show HN: HTTP Mock – Intercept, debug and mock HTTP(S) with zero setup
I think it is opensource no?

https://github.com/httptoolkit

reffaelwallen··on An error message, still found in Windows 10, is a mistake from 1974
Is this it? https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/master/v2.0/source/...
reffaelwallen··on Ask HN: Why shouldn't I leave Google?
Leave Google, and travel wherever you want.

It will be harder later in life assuming you plan on being in a serious relationship and/or have children. When you are done, and realize that you have an idea- open a business. if you realize you don't have an idea, join a different place of work.

After traveling, you might not even want to do SWEing anymore, who know. you might want to go into permaculture! or a open a parking garage in Tokyo after meeting a nice person over there.

If you were 32 I would have a different opinion.

With all the crisis with millennias having to find meaning, not having a steady job and not saving for the future. I write these words and think "is my suggestion helpful?". in general, I hope saying to someone "go search where you think you will find yourself" is the healthiest thing. regret is a bitch later.

Here is a bonus new word to learn "Onism" it was coined by youtube channel called "Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows". you should take a look at it, it has a good sense if explaining how I feel about your question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrBlmpqh8T0

Good luck! being 26 will look a more naive time later in life, but don't only take my advice. i'm only 28.

reffaelwallen··on Why I don't like smartcards, HSMs, YubiKeys, etc.
Do you also not like CSS?