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Comment by mikeryan | Hacker News Reader

It’s a bit strange hitting the google redirect notice when linking from the site.

You also might want to put your .idea directory and secrets in a .gitignore

I wish IDEs (with collaboration from git) made it clear what should and shouldn’t be checked in to source control (or rather they had a way to do both) - where I want to store per-person level settings as well as shareable settings.

In this particular case though - IntelliJ itself would have prompted him to add these files - so those are in fact shareable files

Note: I do know IntellJ purposely excludes workspace.xml , but these things should be handled much more explicitly and IDE should provide better conventions and guidance.

The .ignore plugin and the GitHub repo it is built around I think do the job well enough by having a list of suggestions. I may actually have a private repo and have all the settings on both computers that I use.

If I were to fork his code I'd fix that the first thing, I'd hate to annoy my users like that.

Reminds me of this jwz post (you have to copy and paste manually since he doesn't like HN as a referrer: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2008/02/looking-forward-into-the-pa... ).

This feels like such a weirdly specific block... You have a blog that you want people to read, but not people who come from a specific source

This is why browsers are working to remove user-agent and referer. Almost all real world use is tracking and nonsensical blocks.

I was familiar with removing user-agent work, but what's this about removing referrer? Can you give a link?

Firefox removed the path in 2018 while in private browsing, now their tracking protection is in normal mode too so I imagine it will happen there as well. I'm guessing the only thing stopping them from removing it totally is some sites break if they cant see the domain you came from.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/31/preventing-data...

If one place is a source of much more annoyance than delight, then why not block people coming from there?

Right-click -> Open in Private Tab/Window also strips the referrer, FYI.

Hah fortunately those secrets were never actually in use. I just did the unspeakable and quickly rebased master to update that though so thanks for that!

I wasn't planning on sharing the code at first so I probably didn't give it as critical an eye as I should have. This was also a learning project for me to try out Kotlin so I'm sure there are a million things others would do far better.

It is soooooo easy for something that was just an experiment to get published somewhere, that I have learned (the hard way, multiple times) to never commit any secrets to a git repo. Well, intentionally that is... but if I do it by mistake, I treat them as compromised and change them.

Instead I just create a .env file and put them there. It's a bit more boilerplate but it is worth it when I don't need to decide between keeping secrets and having code history before publishing. And env vars are supported everywhere afaik.

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