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The_Hoffon FastAPI 0.100.0 release notes

FastAPI is a joy to use. Tried using `bump-pydantic` and it worked flawlessly. Thankful for the work by this team.

The_Hoffon BitBar: Put the output of any script on your macOS menu bar

Used with oathtools to easily display my enterprise one-time password

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The_Hoffon Ask HN: What are some great personal blogs/portfolios?

https://blog.jessfraz.com/ is my favorite depiction of pure passion for software. Deep dives, home hacking, intros to topics… Jess is great

The_Hoffon Ask HN: Resumes that look good but professional too

You could include it in a hobbies section or something at the bottom. Most hiring managers would not view it as a relevant accomplishment.

The_Hoffon iOS 11 Horror Story: The Rise and Fall of iOS Security

I'm interested to know if you still think the title is great after you get the article to load. Of course it caught my attention, but after reading it I was left with a, "wait this is a horror story?" feeling. I suppose to many this seems like a huge vulnerability, but if we treat everything with these extreme sentiments, then nothing will actually be treated with special attention. Conversely, if no articles are given these sorts of titles, maybe no one will click them.

The_Hoffon The Best Monitor for Programming: A Cheap 40" 4K TV

I have the 55" TCL and it's great! Reminds me of the early Vizio days where they had to be priced closer to production cost in order to compete with bigger players. My one con is that the HDR doesn't seem perfect. The blacks don't seem "true black" and based on the comparison lower on the page I wonder if this is because it's not "Dolby Vision HDR"

The_Hoffon Stanford CS007: Personal Finance For Engineers

Go into it with a grain of salt, but https://reddit.com/r/personalfinance is a good resource. The sidebar and recurring themes in posts are really useful. Additionally https://bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page is a good starting place for putting together an investment portfolio.

The_Hoffon Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file system to macOS, Linux

Maybe we can make this the go to reply on these comments.

The_Hoffon Summer Reading List

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-summer-reading/ is the link to last year's. Anyone else sites would make their URLs consistent? It's always pleasant when you can go to the URL and change the 2017->2016 and it takes you where you want to go.

The_Hoffon Fake IDs in the age of the internet

> The options for payment were Bitcoin and Western Union; since I’m neither a Russian hacker nor a Dark Web impresario, I opted for the latter.

This is so frustrating for me to read. Western Union has its own set of problems and its users throw money away on fees, but why is cryptocurrency being thought of as a only being used by Russian Hackers and Dark Web impresarios?

The_Hoffon Robinhood stock trading app confirms $110M raise at $1.3B valuation

Still a lot, but TD dropped their fee to $6.95 https://www.tdameritrade.com/pricing.page

The_Hoffon Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks

Beat me to it! The light and dark themes are each so clean and minimal

The_Hoffon Explain Shell

I would love it if the site was encrypted so that I could input raw commands at work without modifying sensitive information. (Yes I understand the host can still record this sensitive information, and no I have not looked through the source code yet to see that this doesn't occur).

The_Hoffon Jess Frazelle

It could be because she's been outspoken about the issues surrounding women in tech https://twitter.com/jessfraz . She's dealt with workplace inequality as has been described as going on at Uber https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/business/uber-sexual-hara... . That isn't to say her portfolio isn't impressive enough on its own.

The_Hoffon Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8

If you're fine giving up caps lock, Sierra makes it easy to remap caps lock to esc in Systems Preferences (it even disables the little green light on the key)

The_Hoffon Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

Jessie Frazelle : https://blog.jessfraz.com - Funny, culturally aware, and works with a lot of things that are going to be shaping our world. Also, @jessfraz

The_Hoffon Ask HN: What are your favorite algorithms?

Yeah, I assume majewsky is wondering if you mean just the rolling checksum part because that's the most complex part. Rsync, as a whole, is certainly one of my favorites and the algorithm(s) it uses are some of the ones I most often call explicitly.

The_Hoffon What.CD is shutting down

I loved last.fm, but a few years ago they changed their interface and I guess my resistance to change turned me off of the site.

The_Hoffon Exponent – Build native apps in JS that work across both iOS and Android

I've been using https://www.decosoftware.com/ and like it a lot, but I really like the documentation on the Exponent website.

Part of the allure of writing React Native apps for me is that knowing React would make me a more valuable developer. I'm curious to see how comfortable I feel saying "I know React" after using these IDEs long-term.

The_Hoffon My Interviews with Amazon

No joke, I've heard of companies equating ask-salary to self-worth and that a modest request can cost you.

The_Hoffon Introduction to Scientific Python

I totally get that, and leading a class in a way that prepares them for the 'real world' is awesome. The examples I'm thinking of involve occasions such as when I used a package (NumPy) for matrix multiplication instead of writing my own function to perform the task. I didn't think matrix multiplication was the main learning objective of the assignment and was counted off for failing to demonstrate how to code that. I guess my original comment doesn't really make sense in this [ranting] context though because mine probably would have still satisfied an autograder. I digress...

The_Hoffon Introduction to Scientific Python

In classic fashion, I'm fascinated by [what I suspect is] a different aspect of this syllabus than OP.

> An autograder will be distributed with some of the homework. The autograder is there so you can tell if your work is correct.

This kind of thing makes me wish I had done better in high school and could have studied at a school of Stanford's caliber. I can think of many occasions in which I thought my code was satisfactory, but it failed to meet the professor's expectations (which were not clear in the assignment instructions).

The_Hoffon Book Piracy as Peer Preservation

One sees this kind of thing within niche P2P communities. For example, on a popular BitTorrent tracker dedicated to music, one often sees indie artists "leak" their content. Consequently, the artists receive more recognition and appreciation for their work. I'm not claiming that piracy is victimless, nor that P2P sharing is more beneficial to the preservation of arts/academia than it is harmful. There is, however, some degree of promotion and conservation that occurs through sharing.

The_Hoffon Show HN: Compress videos by up to 60%

Awesome product! Any plans to open it up to larger sized video files? (I'd pay for that!)

The_Hoffon HubPress.io: A web application to build your blog on GitHub

This seems great. When I created (and failed to keep up with) a Jekyll blog on GitHub last year, I had fun learning the in's and out's of the generator on my own, but I predict this will foster even more of an appreciation for GitHub Pages by giving users a way to spend more time customizing and tweaking than building a foundation from the ground up.

The_Hoffon The Fight for the “Right to Repair”

Haha, thank you for this :')

The_Hoffon The Fight for the “Right to Repair”

For me, Apple devices are always what come to mind when thinking about ability to repair and modify. I used to not mind when I couldn't open my iPod Classic to replace the battery, because failures like this rarely occurred and when they did Apple repaired them easily. Today however, when something as trivial as a computer memory upgrade is restricted, and the Genius Bar is overloaded with iPhone screen repairs, I find myself wanting some sort of standards with regards to repair rights.

The_Hoffon Show HN: Choosic – Tinder for new music

Cool idea but I wish it wasn't restricted to Facebook login.