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tillcarlos

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Senior ruby dev from Germany, living in Asia. You can google my name.

meet.hn/city/vn-Ho-Chi-Minh-City

Join our indie hacking group: hackaigon.com

Socials: - instagram.com/tillcarlos - linkedin.com/in/tillcarlos - x.com/till_carlos

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tillcarlos··on First Person Tetris
Wow - there went my last 30 minutes. Amazing mod!
tillcarlos··on 1k True Fans (2008)
This is beautifully written - thanks so much!

This story reminds me of (how I imagine) the career of Connor Price looks like. Check him out on youtube. He makes so many tracks with so many people - and eventually things pick up. He could very well be the next Sheridan.

tillcarlos··on Show HN: A GitHub business card generator
… have you ever had a business card with someone else’s name on it then?
tillcarlos··on Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?
I had a candidate like this. 7 years of Ruby, but didn’t know keyword parameters.

On the CV there were some companies with dubious consulting websites, super generic. I emailed them, no reply.

If I wouldn’t have given him a live coding test I wouldn’t have known.

tillcarlos··on Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
Yes. The idea is great: hide some of the screens when in focus mode.

Problems: cannot totally disable apps like in the app usage settings. And there you cannot really schedule blocks where you can access them. Also: the allowed apps list has a bug which makes it unusable.

I have no idea why these two features are distinct. (mean thought: maybe apple doesn’t actually want us to use it properly?)

tillcarlos··on macOS Ventura Preview
I actually had something similar made in a small shop in vietnam in 2016. Back then I had to record the video and merge it later.

I should dig it out again. It was a simple bent plastic plate. Worked like a charm for my 7 plus.

tillcarlos··on Using a "proper" camera as a webcam
After failing with an EOS M50, a HDMI capture card, and the USB EOS connector I gave up on the DSLR idea and went to camo with my iPhone13 Pro.

It’s waay better.

I only use default settings. Quality trumps anything I tried before.

Added bonus: I cannot use the phone when in a call.

https://youtu.be/U4j88uwoKZw

tillcarlos··on Ask HN: What should I use instead of Heroku?
Good in theory but in practice their web interface was often not responsive and I had to patch a lot of services together to make it work. interesting approach though, and a super savvy founder.

Now I use hatchbox.io with a digital ocean box. 15+10 usd month. Works incredibly well. Installs in minutes. Does auto backups. Work best for Rails apps. Haven’t tried other stacks yet.

tillcarlos··on Inhalable textile microplastic fibers impair lung repair
Same experience here. Bought a couple for 60 usd each at amazon. Way more comfortable and keep fresh longer than synthetic/cotton t-shirts.
tillcarlos··on Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers
I was eager to register, but reading the TOS - I'm not sure any more.

> You acknowledge and agree that any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback, or other information regarding the Site ("Submissions") provided by you to us are non-confidential and shall become our sole property.

Is this normal? To be honest: I haven't read the facebook TOS - but at the same time I don't post on facebook. If slowsocial owns all the stuff I'm sending out to my friends - I'd rather stay with my email newsletter.

What do you think about this?

tillcarlos··on WeekToDo – Free Minimalist Weekly Planner App
I like the concept. I plan my week in a similar manner with Notion: just add headlines for every week day.

My issue is that the tasks often overflow and I rarely clean them up consistently.

How does this app solve the problem of overwhelm?

tillcarlos··on Food Packaging
That’s a lot of effort being put into this website (not to speak of the scans themselves).

Does anyone know how they monetize this page? Or is it just a hobby project?

tillcarlos··on Minimal English (2018)
If I would have “Minimal Vietnamese” - it would be a blessing.

There are so many different words for the same thing (just like in English). learning vocabulary is the most difficult thing for me.

tillcarlos··on Show HN: Free and open-source illustrations for your projects
Yeah - that's the guy I am working with. He has made the avatars of our website https://Pairing.dev

Here's his updated website: https://ekfos.com

Can recommend 100%

tillcarlos··on A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people
I started a year ago to shoot random videos throughout my week and then edit them on sunday (takes 1h with luma fusion). I limited each video to 3 minutes and added voice over.

Then I sent the videos out via whatsapp and to 100 friends in a telegram channel.

The effects of this were really great. People said it’s now part of their Sunday. And they get to know me quite well, without scheduling calls or such.

tillcarlos··on A different approach to note-taking and research
I learned a lot from this post. it’s humble, gives compliments and addresses key points the product falls short of.

I upvoted the first harsher comment but then saw how you. framed it. I’ll try to give criticism more like yours in the future. thanks.

tillcarlos··on Apple Watch Series 7
Autosleep app. The best sleep tracking I've used so far.

By using it for around 3 months I figured out patterns that lead to better sleep. Highly recommended.

tillcarlos··on Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people
5 years ago we scraped the itunes podcast database to do exactly that. matching was a PITA though.

Then we emailed the creators and got some interesting answers out.

punchline: creators wanted better opportunities for appearing on other high-value podcasts.

Your approach is different. I hope you find success in it. It’s definitely great product development!

tillcarlos··on Gravity Energy Storage: Alternative to batteries for grid storage
Just noticed that sthnblllII https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25654918 has already posted the same answer.
tillcarlos··on Gravity Energy Storage: Alternative to batteries for grid storage
Youtuber Thunderf00t has a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmrwdTGZxGk

Apparently storing energy in concrete blocks has no advantage over water, but brings in a lot of drawbacks (mostly the whole structure being exposed to weather).

tillcarlos··on How I stay motivated working on my long-term project
Not sure I can agree to this. Not everything that you commit to for 3 years will turn out a success.

The quoted Matt D'avela video featured 2 Austrailian podcasters who committed to 5 years. They just released their 800th episode, and the average view count is in the hundreds: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDailyTalkShow

I'd rather follow Noah Kagan. I forgot the source but I think he said you should place much more effort into deciding _what_ to work on.

In our hustle culture this is underrated. It's mostly deciding on what, and related to that: timing.

tillcarlos··on Show HN: Pingr – Uptime Monitoring
I saw this product earlier on HN. I use uptimerobot but it always looked a bit too simple to me.

So I just subscribed to the trial of pingr.io. It looks very complete. Also the early bird option is appealing.

There was a small bug and the founder already shipped a fix, on a Sunday. He definitely knows the hustle.

What's cool: it can also check for keywords and headers. I guess I could also use basic auth with it. Perfect to check on my backups, which are a behind a basic auth.

tillcarlos··on More than 1k people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts
I cannot find fault in that analogy.

Maybe only add that the whole city starts to run on your keys and you have been seeing this for years already.

tillcarlos··on Show HN: Help Me Decide Please
after reading yesterday’s posts here:

that’d be a nice play project for phoenix and liveview!

tillcarlos··on Bose QC 35 Firmware 4.5.2 Noise Cancellation Investigation Report
A year after the Sonys came out they made the NCH 700, which beat the sonys in microphone performance.

I could even chew or wash my hands or sit in a noisy cafe without the other people in the call hearing it.

The audio quality might be better with the Sonys, but at least they answered to the Sonys in a timely way. I had no bad experience with those yet and used them for almost a year already. No idea about customer support.

I know this thread is about the QC model, but I wanted to throw this in here. IMHO bose is not behind at all.

tillcarlos··on Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?
There’s a video from athlean x “the perfect home workout” [0], which I tried a couple of times now. I didn’t expect me to be that sore even after months of regular gym.

[0](https://youtu.be/vc1E5CfRfos)

tillcarlos··on Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?
Is it like readlang or different? Do you have anything online I can check out? email me if you want.

(Background: made a rails6 app for learning vietnamese and it looks similar. my main problem was to nail down the text to match the student’s level).

tillcarlos··on Lessons from six years as a solo consultant
Exactly. Great lesson here. Never take a lesser offer without getting a benefit in return.
tillcarlos··on One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swine fever in China
Exactly. You have no insights in where the meat comes from and how long it was cooled before preparation etc.

Fortunately, here in Vietnam the vegetarian options are plenty and also really good.

tillcarlos··on Remote working – Bringing sanity to mind and lessons worth learning
> But, we have great flexibility - we can work from home on demand from day 1

Is there a policy that defines it? Is there a limit?

Would love to hear your experience as I'm doing some research into this right now.

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