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alpyne··on Can jank beat Clojure's error reporting?
Nice work!
alpyne··on Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics
Wild guess: it’s a word starting with “u” as a hat tip to the original Urchin (the “u” in utm)
alpyne··on Rama: The 100x programming platform with functional programming at its core
Recent talk by Nathan Marz (founder of RedPlanetLabs, creator of Apache Storm) given at FunctionalConf 25
alpyne··on Niantic announces “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data
Brian Maclendon (Niantic) presented some interesting details about this in his recent Bellingfest presentation:

https://www.youtube.com/live/0ZKl70Ka5sg?feature=shared&t=12...

alpyne··on Spreadsheets are all you need
Does this work for you? https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC7_zl2l...
alpyne··on Reflect – Multiplayer web app framework with game-style synchronization
Any thoughts on this approach? (From the Local-First Berlin meetup in June) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pBvGeU7bL5A
alpyne··on The Loss of Humanity through Consumerism in WALL-E (2019) [pdf]
axiomatic

I see what you did there

https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Axiom

alpyne··on State of Clojure 2022 Results
Shoutout to Vijay and Ray[0] - keep it up lads!

[0] https://soundcloud.com/defn-771544745

alpyne··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)
LiveEO (https://live-eo.com) | Berlin, Germany | FULL-TIME | ONSITE (post-covid)

LiveEO turns satellite imagery into ready-to-use insights about your infrastructure grid. We're a Series A funded B2B SaaS based in Kreuzberg, Berlin and we are hiring for the following positions:

- Software Engineer Mobile (f/m/x) - React Native

- Senior Full-Stack Developer (f/m/x) for Map & Satellite Data Applications

For all open positions and applications: https://www.live-eo.com/company/jobs/

alpyne··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2021)
LiveEO (https://live-eo.com) | Berlin, Germany | FULL-TIME | ONSITE (post-covid)

LiveEO turns satellite imagery into ready-to-use insights about your infrastructure grid. We're a Series A funded B2B SaaS based in Kreuzberg, Berlin and we are hiring for the following positions:

- Software Engineer Mobile (f/m/x) - React Native

- Senior Full-Stack Developer (f/m/x) for Map & Satellite Data Applications

For all open positions and applications: https://live-eo.com/company/jobs/

alpyne··on Open source collaborative text editors
From the introduction:

"After over a decade, however, CRDT solutions are rarely found in working co- editors or industry co-editing products, but OT solutions remain the choice for building the vast majority of co-editors. In addition, the scope of nearly all CRDT solutions for co-editing are confined to resolving issues in plain-text editing, while the scope of OT has been extended from plain-text editing to rich text word processors, and 3D digital media designs, etc."

alpyne··on Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States
Here's a paper by the Sunlight Foundation that goes into this a bit:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/263776138/The-Social-Impact-of-Op...

alpyne··on Hyperledger Fabric: A Distributed Operating System for Permissioned Blockchains
Byzantine Fault Tolerant Distributed Ledger
alpyne··on Paul Allen's new rocket-launching plane
"by 65 feet"
alpyne··on Make for hipsters
Making Make Make Sense from @izs is great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsqBSgdQz_8

alpyne··on Toward a URL for every function
Sourcegraph folk, are you aware of Rich Hickey's codeq [0][1] for clojure:

codeq allows you to track change at the program unit level (e.g. function and method definitions) and query your programs and libraries declaratively, with the same cognitive units and names you use while programming

[0] http://blog.datomic.com/2012/10/codeq.html

[1] https://github.com/Datomic/codeq#codeq

alpyne··on TMSU: a tool born out of frustration with the hierarchical nature of filesystems
I'd argue that tags provide a more graph-like structure, of which a hierarchy (tree)[1] is just a subset. Symlinks provide an "escape-hatch" to hierarchical systems allowing objects to appear to be in more than one directory.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_(graph_theory)

alpyne··on Over $700k selling a premium mobile game
In-App Purchase
alpyne··on The Fire Last Time: The Bronze Age Apocalypse
The most recent edition[1] of the Long Now Monthly Seminar series[2] focuses on this:

  Eric Cline: 1177 B.C.: When Civilization Collapsed
  Released: Jan 12, 2016

  Consider this, optimists. All the societies in the world can 
  collapse simultaneously. It has happened before. In the 12th 
  century BCE the great Bronze Age civilizations of the 
  Mediterranean —all of them— suddenly fell apart. Their 
  empires evaporated, their cities emptied out, their 
  technologies disappeared, and famine ruled. Mycenae, Minos, 
  Assyria, Hittites, Canaan, Cyprus — all gone. Even Egypt fell 
  into a steep decline. The Bronze Age was over. The event 
  should live in history as one of the great cautionary tales, 
  but it hasn’t because its causes were considered a mystery. 
  How can we know what to be cautious of? Eric Cline has taken 
  on on the mystery. An archaeologist-historian at George 
  Washington University, he is the author of 1177 B.C.: The 
  Year Civilization Collapsed. The failure, he suggests, was 
  systemic. The highly complex, richly interconnected system of 
  the world tipped all at once into chaos.
[1] https://overcast.fm/+lWf-Pr7g

[2] http://longnow.org/seminars/podcast/

alpyne··on Statsbot: Google Analytics Bot for Slack
Looks good! Update the screenshot (still references @brobot)
alpyne··on Unity 5 released with upgrades, full-featured free version
Unity does support Clojure (sorta) https://youtube.com/watch?v=tJr_TD1BtF0
alpyne··on My experience with FastMail as a Gmail replacement
Con: No labels. Saved searches go some of the way, but not as convenient. Folder-based storage feels old. Whatever the UI terminology (labels, playlists, tags), its clear that the trend is to embrace the non-physicality of information and allow it to "live" in many "places" simultaneously.
alpyne··on What really happened aboard Air France 447
It can't give you the relative speed of the air around the aircraft.
alpyne··on Le Chal: Shoe for visually impaired
A white cane also alerts people in the vicinity - I wonder what the designer's thoughts are on this aspect of the problem. When I saw (what I assume are) the proximity detector LEDs on the front of the shoe, it made me think about some kind of flashing (visible) light-based solution.