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abahloon Bluesky Social Dataset (235M posts from 4M users)

If you just want to play around with the data, check out the bsky dataset on Axiom https://play.axiom.co/axiom-play-qf1k/stream/bsky (700M+ events and counting)

abahloon Dysfunctional Options Pattern in Go

Isn’t this just the builder pattern without Build()?

abahloon Ask HN: Do you use a feature flag system? What does it look like?

The mess is what I‘m concerned about—I don’t want to introduce new complexity if I can avoid it.

abahloon Ask HN: Do you use a feature flag system? What does it look like?

Thanks!

abahloon Bits of Advice for 30 Years

Love it!

abahloon Bits of Advice for 30 Years

I’d argue that this is mostly a collection of other people’s live advice.

abahloon Ask HN: What tech newsletters are you currently subscribing to?

Shameless plug: https://arne.me/weekly

abahloon Static OG (Open Graph) Images in Astro

A guide to set up build-time Open Graph images in Astro using Satori, sharp and Astro endpoints.

abahloon Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://arne.me

The color scheme is derived from the current commit sha. It's built using Zola [0] and Nix. See GitHub [1].

[0] https://www.getzola.org

[1] https://github.com/bahlo/arne.me

abahloon Using email wrong

No, it‘s not perfect — but if something slips through, I‘ll sort it out manually.

abahloon HN titles containing the words “written in rust”

Alternative representation as a graph: https://play.axiom.co/axiom-play-qf1k/explorer?qid=RoNz1jZ9Q...

abahloon Show HN: Easy split-horizon DNS with mapdns

I have Tailscale set up for my home server and a public domain for internal services (to make SSL easy). The domain points to the local IP address (192.168.178.X) and mapdns to the Tailscale IP (100.78.X.X). I then configured Tailscale to search for <my domain> using the mapdns server.

Now I can resolve my local network device with the same SSL-protected domain, no matter if I'm out and about using VPN or at home.

abahloon Show HN: Most active bots commenting on GitHub in the past 30 days

Wow, dependabot opened 2.7 Million PRs in the last 30 days https://play.axiom.co/axiom-play-qf1k/explorer?qid=blX8pIiTb...

abahloon Effective Go

Yeah I actually agree, will make them sound less like a must. In early Go times people would use one-letter variables everywhere which was horrible.

abahloon Effective Go

Good points, thank you!

abahloon Effective Go

Shameless plug on my opinionated [Go Styleguide](https://github.com/bahlo/go-styleguide) – let me know what you think!

abahloon Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?

Do you happen to know what models these are?

abahloon Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

That would me amazing

abahloon Lemonade says website security flaw is ‘by design’

Even if it‘s by design that you can share a page, you shouldn‘t be able to change account data should you? And it sounds like the author didn‘t share their page and it was still accessible.

MW made a video: https://youtu.be/ILcjmnFCID8

abahloon CXX - Safe interop between Rust and C++

Looks super great! Someone write this for Go please.

abahloon HTTPWTF

I think they mean requests from a browser.

abahloon All 104 amendments to the Constitution of India as Git commits

Shouldn‘t it be one commit if they were amended? /s

abahloon Ask HN: Is Signal Down?

https://status.signal.org says "Up and running"

Edit: Downdetector says its down https://downdetector.com/status/signal/, Twitter also has issues.

abahloon Show HN: Sonyflake – distributed unique ID generator implemented in Rust

Is it? Not sure private ips are so sensitive, esp. the lower parts.

abahloon Show HN: Sonyflake – distributed unique ID generator implemented in Rust

A Sonyflake ID is composed of

  39 bits for time in units of 10 msec
  8 bits for a sequence number
  16 bits for a machine id

abahloon Show HN: Sonyflake – distributed unique ID generator implemented in Rust

I already use UUIDs for various fields and didn't want the id to be confused with other fields. More of a clarity/style decision than technical.

abahloon Show HN: Sonyflake – distributed unique ID generator implemented in Rust

Sonyflakes are generally more useful in massive scale environments as you won't run into conflicts due to the "machine-id" part (which defaults to the lower 16 bits of the private IP address).

There are more differences (128bit vs 64bit, rng vs time-based), I think they have different use cases.

abahloon Show HN: Sonyflake – distributed unique ID generator implemented in Rust

Thanks and I don't mind at all!

To be honest for the application I didn't want to expose a database serial (otherwise you'd know you're user #100, for example) or use UUIDs, so it's less about scale and more about obscuring ids. The library is well suited for huge scale scenarios nonetheless.

abahloon Show HN: Sonyflake – distributed unique ID generator implemented in Rust

Needed this functionality in a Rust application I'm writing so I ported the Go code to Rust.