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sparkywolf

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Senior Software Engineer
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sparkywolf··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (May 2023)
For the past 2+ years I've been working on this project on and off (mostly off as of late, but I'd love to get back into it again)

MusicLink - a third party music app that does song matchup across streaming services. You can message a friend a link to a song and the app will automatically translate the link to their preferred streaming service. No more getting links to songs on services you don't have and manually looking up music.

That's the core functionality but I'm also building in generative playlists & music discovery tools.

sparkywolf··on Shottr – macOS Screenshot Utility
Would you mind telling me how you enabled it? I just downloaded specifically for this feature and I haven't been able to figure it out just yet
sparkywolf··on Apple Cash
Why is this on the front page..? Apple Cash has been around for years. It doesn't even look like they've added anything new unless I'm missing something?
sparkywolf··on Snapchat’s product is booming
I swear the discover pane content makes tabloids look like respectable news outlets
sparkywolf··on Ask HN: What is the best privacy-focused video doorbell?
I don't have one myself but I do like Eufy. I have a few security cameras by them and they store everything locally + still work fine when I block them from communicating outside the local network
sparkywolf··on Show HN: TapeX – Draw, Annotate and Record on your desktop screen
Can I ask why it's free? Seems like a great tool but I don't see any obvious monetization (which raises privacy concerns)
sparkywolf··on A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed for Human Children
The 'dog' is Jerry. We all know it.
sparkywolf··on Selling to unicorns from my parents basement
I also found that very unclear. It kind of sounds like another...Slack? Maybe?
sparkywolf··on Netflix CEO explains why he pays technologists huge salaries
I loved Designated Survivor but HoC is still better imo. Would love to find some new political dramas!
sparkywolf··on Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
Hey Ted, I currently use google domains and while I'm pretty happy with that one service I would like to switch away from Google entirely and that is one of the last services of theirs I use. What case can you make for why I should switch to namecheap?
sparkywolf··on Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Blacklivesmatter.com
That is not at all what is happening here. They are not 'remotely editing' your hardware any more than a corporate website who puts a support banner on their website for some cause. Siri, much like websites, is a service. Like a website, you are free to not use it if you so choose. Nothing has changed on your device, and if anything this is less of a feature than a banner on a website because you have to specifically invoke these actions.
sparkywolf··on Some coronavirus patients haven't gotten their senses of smell or taste back yet
Nasal Polypectomy as well as severe deviated septum
sparkywolf··on Some coronavirus patients haven't gotten their senses of smell or taste back yet
For a medical reason not related to Covid in any way, I've lived my entire life not being able to smell anything, whatsoever. I'm getting a surgery in two days that should give me a sense of smell. While I'm over the moon excited to be able to smell... I didn't even think about how it would affect taste...
sparkywolf··on Working from home? switch off Alexa, say lawyers
I would love to get rid of my Echos and lock down my network, but I can't find a self-hosted & open source smart home voice solution that can match the Alexa ecosystem. I do have my smart home on a separate network that's highly monitored, but I really wish I could completely lock it down so it couldn't talk to the outside world at all. I would be totally willing to pay for a self-hosted solution to Alexa just for smart home automation/control
sparkywolf··on Intuit plans to buy Credit Karma for $7B
I used Credit Karma tax this year and was pleasantly surprised to find how great and frictionless the experience was.

figures.

sparkywolf··on Things I wish I knew about state management when I started writing React apps
https://imgur.com/gallery/91sn32Q

On a serious note, I do agree with you. oftentimes things are overcomplicated just for the sake of 'javascript'. Once you get used to setting up a project a certain way you may not stop to consider whether or not it's the best for the specific project.

sparkywolf··on My fridge has an RFID chip in the water filter, so a generic filter doesn't work
Wonder if you can get one official one and cut out the rfid chip, install it permanently in the fridge
sparkywolf··on Ask HN: How to deal with big existing code base when you are new to the team
Phoenix project irl
sparkywolf··on When good ideas make bad business
Hacker News hug of death... Anyone have a mirror or text?
sparkywolf··on No to Chrome
Still holding out hope. I'll have to look into the suggestions again then! Maybe I could figure out a way to migrate keychain
sparkywolf··on No to Chrome
Literally the day Firefox finds the way to be able to use all my passwords in keychain/suggest and generate new ones, I'm switching to it full time. I loved safari, but killing extensions is crossing a line.
sparkywolf··on No to Chrome
The dev tools available in the Firefox developer edition are honestly way better than chrome's in every possible way (as far as I'm concerned) recently switched myself and couldn't be happier!
sparkywolf··on Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak
I found a vulnerability in linkedIn a few years back that allowed anyone to access a private profile (because client side validation was enough for them I guess..?)

They didn't take my report seriously (still not completely patched) and I feel like that told me all I needed to know about their security practices.

sparkywolf··on Apple Antitrust Probe – Responses to Congress [pdf]
How can they so blatantly not answer the question even a little and get away with it?
sparkywolf··on Developers mentoring other developers: practices I've seen work well
I was also noticing that - it almost seemed like an intentional plug. If anyone has experience with it I would love to hear about it!
sparkywolf··on Show HN: DevShop, the Game of Kanban
I love it! Reminds me a little of the paperclip game.
sparkywolf··on Apple's New Privacy Page
Apple protects the message in transit. What you are talking about is the equivalent of letting someone borrow your phone, then getting mad when your carrier delivers sms messages to your phone number while someone else was holding your phone. Apple has done their part, it's up to the users to enforce security of their endpoints as well.
sparkywolf··on NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies
Yeah, gonna need a source on Proton and Credit Karma