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rynop··on A new PNG spec
This is a false claim in the PR:

> Many of the programs you use already support the new PNG spec: ... Photoshop, ...

Photoshop does NOT support APNGs. The PR calls out APNg recognition as the 2nd bullet point of "What's new?"

Am I missing something? Seems like a pretty big mistake. I was excited that an art tool with some marketshare finally supported it.

rynop··on AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses
Why does cloudfront not support connecting to an ELB on a private subnet?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/74397920/563420

Seems like a big blindspot with no work-around.

rynop··on Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus
guilded.gg is a great alternative for this use case (and many others). Transparency: I work there.
rynop··on Show HN: I created a class to teach my 8&12YO kids software/inet basics (OSS)
Thanks and you are very welcome! LMK how it goes / how I can improve.
rynop··on Show HN: I created a class to teach my 8&12YO kids software/inet basics (OSS)
OP here - my hope is other software engineers/devs can use this as a tool to get knowledge out of their heads and into the hands of kids. Took a few days off during winter break and made/went through this with my kids.

Feedback/PRs appreciated.

rynop··on UPI: India's Unified Payments Interface
Yea until they don't. Exhibit A: StubHub [1]

[1]: https://www.wkbw.com/rebound/coronavirus-money-help/stubhub-...

rynop··on GitHub is now free for teams
Are you grandfathered into the 10,000 free Action minutes for paid Teams? 10k -> 3k drop is pretty substantial.
rynop··on A National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books
Thank you Justin!
rynop··on A National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books
How do you "check out" one of these to a kindle? I see you can download a kindle file, but dunno how to get that to sync to my kindle devices.

My goal is to show my 5th grader how to checkout a book to his kindle eReader by himself..

rynop··on Tesla Q4 2019 Vehicle Production and Deliveries
This is the way my friend. Hold tight.
rynop··on Making S3 More Resilient Using Lambda Edge
My concern is you (contentful) are leading folks down a bad path. Adding complexity, code, cost and a larger surface area of services that need to be up.
rynop··on Making S3 More Resilient Using Lambda Edge
Confused - why not use CloudFront Origin Groups? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...

Full disclosure, I've never used, but pretty sure this feature was created for the scenario you are trying to solve.

rynop··on We 30x'd our Node parallelism
Agreed. This is the second scratch my head moment from the Plaid engineering team blog recently.
rynop··on We 30x'd our Node parallelism
I’d be curious to hear your reevaluation of moving this to Lambda after some of the major announcements during re:invent. My guess is some of the reasons you went ECS have been addressed with these announcements. Obviously some of the new features are still preview, but would be interested to hear your analysis none the less.
rynop··on Using Makefile(s) for Go
I think the example discussed in this blog is selling Make short. A more complete example with: protoc(protobuf), Docker, DynamoDB local, go modules (and vendoring), and testing can be found at https://github.com/rynop/abp-sam-twirp/blob/master/Makefile
rynop··on AWS Launches HTTP APIs for API Gateway
You should really change the title as your selling the significance of this short. A feature I (and many others) that have been hoping for is a DRASTIC price drop in APIG. This IS it.
rynop··on Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To Combat Robocalls
Agree, "most" was a bad word choice, "some" is probably better.
rynop··on Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To Combat Robocalls
I have a simple low tech solution that is practical for m̶o̶s̶t̶ some.

Change your number to an area code that is outside of where you live - ideally a different state altogether.

If you get a call from an area code outside of where you live it’s probably Robo. If you get a call from area code of where you actually live, it’s probably legit. Ex: kids school, daycare, healthcare provider etc.

rynop··on How Far Out Is AWS Fargate?
I have a CI/CD driven AWS Blueprint for Fargate - with a bunch of other production grade best practices built in. Should get you up and running in under an hour (much less if your experienced with AWS). https://github.com/rynop/aws-blueprint
rynop··on Chris Hughes, a Facebook Founder, Is Working With the Government to Break It Up
Totally read it the same way. Was let down a bit
rynop··on Gist Is Down
`git push` failing as well
rynop··on Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests
How does this impact CloudFront origin domain names? I have an s3 bucket as a CF origin and the format the AWS CF Console auto-completes to is:

<bucket>.s3.amazonaws.com

Do I need to change my origin to be, Origin domain name: s3.amazonaws.com, Origin Path: <bucket>

This is a sneaky one that will bite lots of folks as it is NOT clear.

rynop··on CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust
Wonderful talk. Thank you for sharing this.
rynop··on Show HN: ClipGuard – App to Protect and Authenticate Video Interviews
Creator here. Admittedly this app is only useful for a handful of people. I wanted to tackle an unsolved problem for my 1st app. Thought this was a nerdy yet novel solution.

Open to feedback and suggestions. My current line of thinking is maybe I should donate it to an org like https://github.com/guardian . Thoughts?

rynop··on First .dev Domains Go Live
Same experience, huge turn-off. I was hoping for `.dev` to be free and along the lines of letsencrypt.org. Very disappointed
rynop··on Vanlife: Build your own van to live on the road
https://www.vanlifeprep.com is another good related site
rynop··on “Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)
I made the OSS https://github.com/rynop/aws-blueprint partially to address this problem. Easily migrate from Lambda to ECS (remove lambda lock-in). It abstracts all the difficult & time consuming to learn aws idiosyncrasies in to a best-practice production ready harness.

You could argue that if you have lots of lambdas, this is non-trival. I would argue that tons of lambda is a poor architecture. What you gain with isolation you lose management, complexity, nimbleness, attack vector surface.

You could also argue my harness locks you into AWS as it is aws specific. However I'd argue that it is the other aws services locking you in (ex: Dynamo) or your code/architecture.

rynop··on Show HN: ShiftCals – get any shift worker's schedule into fav calendar app
OP/creator here. My wife is a CNA, and her shifts are delivered via a printed out piece of paper. She then has to manually put them into our shared family Google Calendar. I'm a software engineer, so it drives me crazy every time I see her spending time doing this :)

I decided to make a tool that enables her to quickly get shifts into an online calendar from her phone.

If your employer already has a digital calendar that integrates with Google/Yahoo/Apple/Outlook, awesome. If not hopefully this can save you some time. Just open the following (it's free, no login, no catch):

If you have any comments/suggestions/feedback I'd love to hear them. There are other tools out there (ex: NurseGrid), but I challenge you to find one that gets this job done faster. Other apps/websites require you to create a login or divulge personal information (like location where you work).

If you like it, best thing you can do for me is tell your co-workers. Thanks!

rynop··on XSStrike: XSS detection suite
If you’re going to use this against a site that runs in AWS, make sure to request permission first @ https://aws.amazon.com/security/penetration-testing

Thx for the oss contribution-Looking forward to trying this out

rynop··on How SSH port became 22
Nice read. Helped me take a moment to reflect how wonderful of a tool ssh is. Simple to use, yet powerful. Thanks Tatu!!
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