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stringtoint··on Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service
Love the depth of this post.

We were actually looking at it as well recently (we're using Drata). I was thinking "Cool, this looks like the next cool step forward". The claims didn't sound out of the world in my ears.

Every time an issue like this appears I wonder how many more undiscovered frauds are out there.

stringtoint··on Apple I Advertisement (1976)
Funny, I had this problem yesterday when I tried to login to Apple Business Manager. Thought I had messed up but worked fine in incognito.
stringtoint··on Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
Work related: The Culture Map - can strongly recommend! Non-work: the Alex Rider series. Both entertaining and serious when it needs to be without being super grim.
stringtoint··on Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year
Agreed. My 3 free apps, one with +100k downloads were also removed because of the EU ruling. Don't want my personal address and phone number to be more accessible to bad actors more than it already is. While I can somewhat follow the idea, the execution in practice has serious flaws.
stringtoint··on Render raises $80M in Series C financing
Agreeing with your points, especially regarding Cloudflare! For the record: we did pass ISO 27001 and we use Render.
stringtoint··on Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties
Where is the guy duck taped to the ceiling?
stringtoint··on Monolith – CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file
Nice! Reminds me of the time I was working on a browser extension to do this.
stringtoint··on Ask HN: Does your microwave interfere with Bluetooth? Mine does
My bluetooth headphones occasionally drop the connection for a moment when I'm standing to my microwave which is warming up food. 2.4GHz after all. Bluetooth and USB 3 don't play along that well either btw.
stringtoint··on The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed (2019)
Plenty of developers paste arbitrary bash commands posted on sites like GitHub without thinking because they look "legit", I suppose. I see it similarly as you do: StackOverflow (and Copilot) can be helpful to start but it's.

Had an exchange like this some time ago:

Me: Hey, I'm reviewing your PR. Looks pretty fine to me. Except for this function which looks like it was copy-pasted from SO: I literally found the same function in an answer on SO (it was written in pure JS while we were using TS in our project).

Dev: Yes, everyone copies from SO.

Me: Well, in that case I hope you always copy the right thing. Because this code might run but it is not good enough (e.g. the variable names are inexpressive, it creates DOM elements without removing them after they are not needed anymore).

stringtoint··on Insomnia REST client now requires an account
Curious to know what advantages Insomnia has/had over Postman beyond being MIT licensed.

Postman's initial startup time could be a bit faster but other than this I'm not missing much (yet). I used it for years occasionally before finally creating an account not so long to sync my requests across devices.

BTW: Jetbrains IDEs like WebStorm also have an integrated HTTP client.

stringtoint··on Google Podcasts is going away
Oh no, I actually liked Google Podcasts for its simplicity. First Google Music, now Podcasts - hope they don't kill this Play Store thingy next /s
stringtoint··on Outperforming larger language models with less training data and smaller models
You're correct, I confused it with LLAMA being more business-friendly (at least in theory) than some other models out there.
stringtoint··on Outperforming larger language models with less training data and smaller models
Curious to know why this is the case? I haven't played around with LLAMA yet but I figured it being open-source would make it more trustworthy than models provided by OpenAI.
stringtoint··on Google Drops Software Support for Pixel 4a Just 3 Years After Its Release
Unfortunate - I didn't know till today. I had been wondering why I hadn't receive an update for September yet.
stringtoint··on Ask HN: Where do you post your blog post?
So far I've used Medium.com but I rarely find the time to blog these days. I was considering dev.to as you can rather easily convert a Medium blog post to Markdown which dev supports.
stringtoint··on The joys of maintenance programming (2011)
Nice post. In the past I've had colleagues (also senior people) who disliked touching "legacy" parts (e.g. Java based microservices compared to newer Express.js or Kotlin based microservices which don't provide half the value that the legacy parts do). I also think that maintenance programming can be rewarding. However, I do believe that it does not make sense to throw entry-level engineers into the maintenance mess alone: they still need some guidance in my experience. Then you'll be able to reap the benefits such as getting better in debugging and understanding more about the business problems that the software is solving.
stringtoint··on Don't be afraid to be wrong
"Reserve direct assertions for things you are actually sure about." is something I keep saying as well. I wish more people would follow this approach.
stringtoint··on Don't be afraid to be wrong
I'm sure this is a part of why this fear exists. Middle Eastern countries are especially harsh in that sense imo: you're afraid of making mistakes or making your family "look bad"™.
stringtoint··on A Comprehensive Guide for Building Rag-Based LLM Applications
This is a neat post, thanks for sharing!
stringtoint··on Ask HN: What are your favorite iOS/macOS automations?
On my Pixel phone I'm doing this with the Macrodroid app.
stringtoint··on Show HN: A website chatbot that also uses APIs
Looking at the CSS using the browser dev tools, I see CSS variables like `--tw-border-spacing-x` which indicates to me that this is indeed using Tailwind. I've never tried Tailwind UI myself so I'm not sure if it's just Tailwind or Tailwind UI.
stringtoint··on My journey away from the JAMstack
Love Render and Netlify. I've been meaning to try Render's capabilities for static websites but Netlify has just worked so far that I haven't bothered yet.
stringtoint··on Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k online?
Here you go: https://ali-dev.medium.com
stringtoint··on On Becoming a VP of Engineering pt. 2
Nice article. As a software engineer who also specialized primarily in frontend before becoming a technical founder, I also feel like there are few people growing into these positions that have a more frontend background as well.
stringtoint··on Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k online?
Both (if I remember correctly): blogging on Medium.com. It started as (and still is a) personal blog about software development things but it started to get some traction through Google search at some point.
stringtoint··on Gping – ping, but with a graph
Very cool, thanks for sharing!
stringtoint··on Ask HN: Best search engine alternatives to Google?
I've been increasingly using Ecosia for a while. They use Bing under the hood.
stringtoint··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
Sunhat | Fullstack Engineer | Onsite / 100% Remote (within EU) | Cologne, Germany | Full time

Sunhat is a venture-backed German SaaS startup. For companies that want to meet the rising sustainability requirements, Sunhat is a sustainability software that uses the power of automation to govern their sustainability programs, verify related actions and share them with their customers. We are looking for a fullstack engineer to join our engineering team consisting of me and two software engineers.

What we work with:

- Nest.js & serverless functions written in TypeScript

- Angular with a design system

- PostgreSQL

- CI/CD

- GitHub, Linear, Snyk, Figma

See the complete job description: https://supersecretstartup.notion.site/Senior-Fullstack-Engi... Looking forward to talking to you!

stringtoint··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)
Sunhat | Software Engineer | Onsite/Remote (within EU) | Cologne, Germany | Full time

Sunhat is a venture-backed SaaS startup in stealth mode. We enable companies to streamline sustainability compliance in order to build trust and drive business in shorter time. We are hiring both specialists (frontend, backend) as well as generalists (fullstack) to join us on exciting journey.

What we work with:

- Nest.js & serverless functions written in TypeScript

- Angular with a design system

- PostgreSQL & MongoDB

- GitHub

See all our jobs: https://supersecretstartup.notion.site/Jobs-Super-duper-stea...