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Need to contact me? my username @ my username .com. Or Google Tim Dorr. I'm all popular and stuff there.

You can also book time with me at tim.do/rr

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timdorr··on Toto’s “Africa” Played on Tesla Coils
Reminds me of [The User]'s Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers: https://vimeo.com/6868193
timdorr··on V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB
Here's a direct link: http://downloads.canon.com/webcam/EOSWebcamUtilityBeta-WIN0....
timdorr··on Oculus: Hand Tracking Updates
The inside-out tracking is done on the PC over USB. The Rift S is essentially just a basic I/O. Very little processing is done on-device.
timdorr··on Oculus: Hand Tracking Updates
Note that to get that functionality, you'll need to sideload a small .apk (Quest is built on Android). You can use plain adb to do this, or something like SideQuest if you want a GUI.
timdorr··on Google bans my events app for referencing Covid-19, or related terms
One of the most popular podcast apps, Podcast Addict, is dealing with this right now as well: https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/05/18/podcast-addict-pull...

https://twitter.com/PodcastAddict/status/1261651512947691520

timdorr··on A first look at Unreal Engine 5
Not really: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engines

Plenty of proprietary engines are in use today. And you've got FOSS options like Godot and Blender. UE's definitely the biggest, but other options aren't going away any time soon.

timdorr··on Update to L.A.'s stay-at-home orders
GA "opened up" salons on 4/24 and restaurants on 4/27. I say that with quotes since many places remain closed for dine-in service. Nonetheless, it's been 2 weeks and we've only seen a slight decrease in case rates: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/georgia-coronavi...

Meanwhile, our testing rates have shot up to the ~7500/day range and our positive test rate has gone from ~25% down to 13.2% today: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wrGsD3T_JIvKwsudQwVH...

timdorr··on Analysis of dev agencies with hourly rates, team size and tech stack
Because these are agencies. They're often called in to maintain legacy systems, which don't get to use shiny new tech. Hence low or missing numbers for things like Ruby or React, despite their prevalence otherwise.
timdorr··on No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body
Ah, I see what you mean. Yeah, that wouldn't apply here.

It's likely that simply setting a particular cookie with a dummy value would bypass this.

timdorr··on No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body
I think you mean position: fixed or sticky? Overflow controls what happens when the contents of a bounding box exceed it's allowed size, which is usually to hide or make the box scrollable.
timdorr··on No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body
This is run in your browser after the page content downloads and renders. It doesn't matter what tricks the server does.
timdorr··on Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1
Hangouts == WhatsApp. It's the older chat + video system. It's being split into Meet and Chat.

Meet == Zoom. It's video conferences for businesses.

Duo == FaceTime. It's video calling, with integrations into the Phone app on Android.

timdorr··on Ruby Concurrency Final Report
And thank you for addressing it, Samuel!

I converted the streaming and Autopark clients in the Tesla API gem from EM to Async and has been great: https://github.com/timdorr/tesla-api/blob/master/lib/tesla_a...

No more globals, which makes it much safer to use inside of threaded job runners like Sidekiq.

timdorr··on Zappy – Screen capture tool
Zappy is macOS only and Greenshot is Windows only, so they don't overlap in terms of audience.
timdorr··on Tell HN: GitHub Pages Down
Here's their incident page for it: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/f3xzj5fgfq5b
timdorr··on OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming
It's a frontend for OBS.

This is the Electron app: https://github.com/stream-labs/streamlabs-obs/

This is the wrapper library for Node: https://github.com/stream-labs/obs-studio-node

timdorr··on Dolt is Git for data
Any reason or history behind the name? It means "a stupid person", which seems like a bad choice IMHO: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dolt
timdorr··on CA governor projecting 25.5M COVID19 cases in CA in 8 weeks [pdf]
And when we deploy effective treatment plans, the fatility rate goes down.

Or the virus mutates with deletions, the fatility rate goes down.

Or when testing capacity finally reaches demand and lets us find infected folks sooner, the fatility rate goes down.

I'm not trying to be mean to you, just pointing out that there are potential positive outcomes ahead. We honestly don't know what's going to happen next, but there are plenty of reasons to have hope.

timdorr··on GitHub's new notifications: a case of regressive design
> Additionally, clicking on "Done" once you're in the notification-specific page will navigate you away from the current page back to the notifications list. This is pretty disruptive to me.

But if you're done with that notification, why would you want to stick around? You wouldn't yet be done by definition.

timdorr··on Google confirms microformats are still a supported metadata format for content
http://archive.is/8nhVQ
timdorr··on Consider a startup accountability email list
I was first introduced to this by Kyle Porter of SalesLoft when we rebooted the company in 2013. He has sent one of these emails without fail every Sunday evening for the past 8 years (with a few rare substitutions by others). It's sent to everyone at the company, investors, advisors, and interested third parties.

It's a fantastic tool for accountability and can be a huge driver for performance. Including some sort of metrics is really the key. You can see those grow and change over time, which can be a great motivator. And you can change them whenever they stop making sense, so they're more flexible than something like OKRs that might be locked to a quarter.

I recommend it even to solo bootstrapped founders. Just having this history of progress is great to look back on. And even sending it to yourself gives you something to work towards every week.

timdorr··on GitHub Collapsible Markdown
Dependabot (owned by GitHub) uses this to great effect on their automated PRs.

Example: https://github.com/timdorr/tesla-trip/pull/107

The show the recent release notes, changelogs, and recent commit history behind what you're about to upgrade. That's immensely helpful when deciding what you want to update in your dependency list, especially if there are breaking changes. Dependency management is much less of a pain this way.

timdorr··on Show HN: Monitoror – Unified monitoring wallboard
Funny thing, this is actually a feature in Teslas. You can set it to chime once the speed limit is exceeded (in areas where it knows the limit). Although, I've never seen anyone turn that on.
timdorr··on DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M
They're renting our resources, so there is an implied debt up front for that. Servers and datacenters are very expensive compared to the monthly revenue extracted from them. In order to expand to $1b ARR, you've got buy multiple billions of dollars worth of servers. Debt financing is how you do that.
timdorr··on Iota cryptocurrency shuts down entire network after wallet hack
Actually, it's way worse than that. They were directly loading code from someone's CDN: https://github.com/iotaledger/trinity-wallet/pull/2565/files...
timdorr··on Iota cryptocurrency shuts down entire network after wallet hack
This wasn't an npm vulnerability. It's a direct link to a CDN file that was compromised: https://github.com/iotaledger/trinity-wallet/pull/2565/files...
timdorr··on Markdeep – plain text documents with diagrams, equations, and Markdown syntax
I kind of want the opposite of this: A GUI tool I can draw some diagram stuff out in that renders down to ASCII art.

Bonus points if it renders to Markdeep (or an equivalent) to be re-rendered as SVGs or whatever later on.

Edit: Here we go - http://asciiflow.com/

timdorr··on Ask HN: What is the single top-priority software engineering problem?
We're working on this at Spaceship: https://spaceship.run

We've still got a lot to build, but the goal is zero config deployment for any app/service.

timdorr··on Vine founder launches TikTok competitor
It was Jacob Marttinen. He was an engineer on Byte.
timdorr··on Omnieq: Credit Spread Scanner
I really like and hate this site at the same time.

I like it because of its minimalism and function over form.

I hate it because I have no idea what any of it means.

That's not a critique. It should stay high on the SNR, as it clearly serves a purpose. I'm just jealous because I know other folks that have figured this stuff out and are likely far smarter than me are making a ton of money right now. PEBCAK.

Any idea where I should start so I can grok this site better?

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