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thelonelygod··on The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit
Not sure if you'll see this, but I work for an internal tooling startup and I'm trying to mess around with your API. Our tool has support for REST and python/js support with a limited set of libraries. I've been trying to figure out how to connect to the API via CURL so I can write some blogposts about building with y'all and I've been struggling.

I can get com.atproto.server.createSession to return me a token, but then when I try to transition into another endpoint (such as app.bsky.richtext.facet) I only get 404s. Is their any examples of using y'all with rest? Happy to take my question elsewhere if y'all have any places for folks to ask questions?

thelonelygod··on Astral
Does anyone have recommendations for a good jinja linter?
thelonelygod··on Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022?
Check out scheduled jobs feature of Superblocks (https://www.superblocks.com/product/scheduled-jobs). We've got a robust free tier (https://www.superblocks.com/pricing) and support Python, NodeJS, REST, GraphQL and a heck ton of DB integrations.
thelonelygod··on Raspberry Pi hired an ex-cop and people are pissed
That is so drastically out of touch with the situation it's absurd.
thelonelygod··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022)
Superblocks | Software Engineers | New York City | Full- Time | https://www.superblocks.com/careers Superblocks is the all in one platform that helps developers build custom, internal software fast. We're looking for both Backend & Frontend Engineers to help build our founding engineering team. For our backend engineering team, you'll be scaling and securing our distributed code execution engine from the ground up. For our front end engineering team, you'll be planning and building features that will save hours of development time for our users, such as live collaboration, autocomplete and debugging. Stack is Go, Node.js, React.js, Kubernetes.
thelonelygod··on Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks
This is nifty, but I don't really see why this beats using a case. I've been switching laptop cases for a while (actually need to get a new one) and I put them up on my wall when I'm done.

Checkout a photo - https://imgur.com/a/nWz95Ex

They're like $15 on Amazon and I honestly don't mind that people can see them since the laptop is going to be covered in stickers and won't be looking like something off the shelf anyway.'

thelonelygod··on Shutdown Will Be Worse for Economy Than First Thought, White House Says
I think your hugely underestimating the impact of a single paycheck. Some huge percentage of American's live paycheck to paycheck (78% according to career builder http://press.careerbuilder.com/2017-08-24-Living-Paycheck-to...).

Missing that paycheck means potentially missing rent (which could get you evicted), having to decide between keeping the lights on or buying food. The more paychecks people miss the worse this is going to get for some people.

thelonelygod··on Ask HN: Which games are you playing in free time?
Technically the full name of Dwarf Fortress is Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress so their not too far off.
thelonelygod··on Ask HN: Is 170k a good salary for a software developer in Seattle?
Ben Horowitz's The Hard Thing About Hard Things talks about this. Zuckerberg contributes to the management chapter.
thelonelygod··on Business travellers have all but abandoned taxis
Biggest reason I switched is filling receipts is so much easier with Uber/Lyft than versus a taxi. I only use them for business travel so I have a gmail rule to forward them to expensify versus having to manually scan in some taxi drivers handwriting (half the time who is pissed at you for asking for a receipt).
thelonelygod··on Boxed.com paying for employee weddings
How much is that going to cost? A quick google search is telling me that an avg american wedding is $26,444.

Is a one time bonus of 26k for everyone you hire sustainable?

thelonelygod··on What Dwarf Fortress Taught Me About Startups
Duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11520407
thelonelygod··on Show HN: GitHub Stats in the Mac OS X Menu Bar
Screenshot?
thelonelygod··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?
Pretty terrible data viz of everything I read this year: http://ruparel.co/book-viz/

TL:DR is I read too many comic books.

thelonelygod··on Chairs of SFO
We had two. Wouldn't have been as fun of a project though if we'd included them.
thelonelygod··on Chairs of SFO
Glad you've found it useful!
thelonelygod··on Chairs of SFO
I mainly fly out of LGA but, next time I fly through SFO I'll hit you up on the offer!

The lady at the desk said if we applied right there she would have let us in. I'm more of a cash back person though. Can't be bothered with points or fees.

thelonelygod··on Chairs of SFO
I was seriously considering applying for an American Express platinum card so Kurt and I could get in and try the various varieties of seating they had in the lounge. . .
thelonelygod··on Ask HN: What makes a good hackathon?
Check out guide.mlh.io for a really detailed walkthrough of everything you need to run an awesome hackathon.

The MLH guide is student focused but you should still be able to get a ton of great advice out of it!

If you're planning on being more business oriented startup weekend has a similar guide.

thelonelygod··on Hackathon Survival Guide
You're thinking of the security hacker which isn't what this article is about. Good guide for security stuff though.
thelonelygod··on List of April Fools' Day Announcements
Today, we're pivoting. Major League Hacking is now Major League Packing: http://news.mlh.io/major-league-hacking-now-major-league-pac...
thelonelygod··on My Second Hackathon Changed My Life
I love reading stories like these. I hope more people in the community share first (or second) hackathon stories.
thelonelygod··on Let's Help Hackathons Change More Lives for the Better
I love the focus on Diversity and Inclusion during this hackathon season.

Sam Altman said in a blogpost "People who are not white males will start many of the best companies of the future, and we’d like to fund them," and I think that's true of people making and accomplishing incredible things in the hacker community too.

Everyone has the potential to become a fantastic hacker/potential founder given the opportunity and I'm really proud of MLH for focusing on this.

http://blog.ycombinator.com/diversity-and-startups

thelonelygod··on Picturing the Future of Messaging: Twilio MMS Now Available on All US Numbers
You can't use facebook messenger programmatically anymore. Also my parents still don't have smart phones and don't want ones. They use mms pretty heavily.
thelonelygod··on Live Stream – MHacks Fall 2014 Final Demos
These are awesome. Love watching these demos live.
thelonelygod··on Ask HN: Did you go to a 3 month coding school? Did it work?
Hackerschool is a bit different than what the OP is asking for though.

"I don't know how to program. Can I do Hacker School? No, sorry. Hacker School is currently only for people who already know how to code. Think of it like a writers workshop. We're here to help people become great novelists, but you have to already know English and be comfortable writing essays." - https://www.hackerschool.com/faq

Sounds like the op doesn't have any experience and wants to learn to code for the first time.

thelonelygod··on Getting started with drones
For higher than 30 minutes you really want to look into planes instead of quadcopters. Running 4/6/8 heavy duty motors forces battery life to be an issue.

A plane has significantly less than that which lets them go for longer.

thelonelygod··on Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?
Mobile Suit Gundam the origin and the new Bryan lee o'malley novel Seconds.

I'm mainly just reading for pleasure right now. But reading these 2 volumes makes me want more hardback comic books.

thelonelygod··on We Experiment On Human Beings
I'm pretty sure they didn't implement it because it was an extremely impractical solution.

Edit:

"We evaluated some of the new methods offline but the additional accuracy gains that we measured did not seem to justify the engineering effort needed to bring them into a production environment." - https://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20120409/0...

thelonelygod··on Show HN: A different way to follow xkcd – xkcd Filr stream
I actually really don't like this. I took a look at the source and the images are being loaded from the original sites.

For the content creators that pay for hosting with ad revenue you're still hitting their servers and depriving them of the way that they support themselves.

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