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slice-beanson Backblaze S3 API is having some downtime

It doesn't reflect well on their monitoring/on-call setup that everyone else was paged before them, assuming they are indeed unaware.

Perhaps the first they'll know of the problem is when they read it on HN

slice-beanson I wandered off and built an IDE

https://makebook.io/

It's pretty good so far

slice-beanson Ask HN: Does anyone use an alternative to a password manager?

I also use pass and sync it with my android phone using OpenKeychain to manage GPG keys and PasswordStore as the actual password browser. Copy/pasting randomised passwords on both desktop and mobile is easy once these are set up.

slice-beanson Ask HN: I'm a generalist developer I'd like to specialise. What should I choose?

Now that you've mentioned this I think it may become a theme, and rightly so. Perhaps a change in focus and a bit of reflection on the different business domains that I have experience in is in order.

slice-beanson Ask HN: I'm a generalist developer I'd like to specialise. What should I choose?

Thanks for the input, really good points. The machine learning angle is interesting and something I'll look further into as I do have some undergrad maths experience.

slice-beanson Show HN: ShowList – Share Bands You've Seen Live, Discover New Bands

Looking forward to it. I'm on twitter @slice_beans or you can find an email address on https://slicebeans.com/contact

slice-beanson Show HN: ShowList – Share Bands You've Seen Live, Discover New Bands

Looks cool. Very similar to a service I built a few years ago: https://lanyard.fm which has setlist integration and even generated Spotify playlists of the setlist using live versions of tracks at one point. If you'd like to chat about any of the problems we faced let me know.

The site was never monetized, it was a side project between me and a couple of other guys. We struggled with data until it eventually dried up completely last year. To remedy that I've been working on a live music version of musicbrainz.org in my spare time although progress is slow. If anyone is interested in getting involved in that hit me up

slice-beanson Two tools for quick and easy web application load testing during development

Locust is really good, allows custom scripts for user behaviour, and works well spun up on multiple cloud instances http://locust.io/

slice-beanson This JPEG is also a webpage

It was shifty eyes. But good imagination skills +1

slice-beanson This JPEG is also a webpage

I visited some other black listed sites <.< >.> and discovered the pattern, then dug around in the router settings to see what had changed. Disabling parental controls sorted it and I can now see the squirrel/chipmunk/unidentified rodent.

Lesson learned: just use a VPN.

slice-beanson This JPEG is also a webpage

BT Home Hub 5 (Type A) Software version 4.7.5.1.83.8.204.1.11

But, false alarm anyway, nothing interesting is happening. The firmware had updated and reset parental control settings on the router. The domain is on some blacklist apparently so it was redirecting to a page to finalise parental control preferences.

Sorry it wasn't any more interesting than that.

Edit: the reason it took me a while to figure this out was that the settings page it was redirecting to was nothing to do with parental controls!

slice-beanson This JPEG is also a webpage

Here's the request and response from router: http://pastebin.com/e7rxLsGJ

The router itself is a BT Internet (UK) branded one. Not sure of the exact model but I'll try to find out...

slice-beanson This JPEG is also a webpage

Interestingly, this page is intercepted by my router which then just sends me a redirect to one of its settings pages. Odd.