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askedrelicon Zed 1.0

I use Sublime as a scratchpad and never save anything, so this is an important feature for me. It's worked flawlessly for years.

I've tried Zed several times like this and it continues to lose data.

askedrelicon Anthropic acquires Bun

This matches some previous comments around LLMs driving adoption of programming languages or frameworks. If you ask Claude to write a web app, why not have it use your own framework, that it was trained on, by default?

askedrelicon Kairos: Immutable Distro for K8s at the Edge

It's an opinionated vertical platform; if you run into an edge case, bug, or functionality you don't like, you are have to open a discussion Github and wait for a new release to fix or change things. The devs are very responsive, but the same as any open source tool, it's their project. It perhaps depends on how much customization you want to do - GPUs and drivers, custom CNI, very specific disk settings. I've had more trouble with bare metal systems with varied hardware vs their supported cloud platforms, which are approved and tested.

I'm pretty positive toward Talos but if you stray from the happy path, by choice or accident, it can become challenging technically. And then you have sunk costs around choosing this platform and how hard it would be to restart from scratch.

askedrelicon Ask HN: Any good resources for finding software jobs abroad?

Yelp is hiring backend/fullstack engineers in Hamburg, Germany. https://www.yelp.com/careers/job-openings?location=Hamburg%2...

I moved here last year, as an internal transfer. It's been pretty good overall.

askedrelicon Show HN: LogDNA – Easy logging in the cloud

Looks promising! I was able to get it installed and delivering logs in 5 mins.

I really like the high volumes you offer; I really agree that volume should be cheaper. What Papertrail charges per GB seems really high IMO.

That said, I'm just a hobbyist doing under 1GB month of traffic. I will try to stick with the free plan for as long as possible. If you could offer some nice features for $5-10/month, I would upgrade for that.

askedrelicon Running costs for running a web app

Papertrail is pretty great. I've used them for years without a hiccup.

askedrelicon Cmus – A Small Terminal Music Player

Thanks for restarting development and having good releases, with easy to read changelogs! Cmus has been very useful to me.

askedrelicon Show HN: Portal - Run apps on your own easy to use cloud server

I'm interested for managed email. Signed up!

askedrelicon Write the Docs

I went to the first Write the Docs conference in Portland and had a great time. It was a well organized conference with plenty of fun events and useful knowledge. Highly recommended! Thanks again.

askedrelicon Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack

ArsTechnica just did a great 4 part series doing most of that: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-to...

askedrelicon Introducing StandDesk [video]

http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-standing-desk-mat/

I have the $60 one from Amazon, a step down from what Wirecutter recommends, but I think I will upgrade. I can generally do 4-5 hours standing with this: http://www.amazon.com/Imprint-Comfort-Nantucket-20-Inch-Cinn...

askedrelicon Show HN: Pagesnap – Take monthly screenshots of any webpage automatically

Love the simple site and focus. I've been working on a similar project focusing more on visual diffing, but haven't been able to launch yet. Still building the server infrastructure, product focus, and working out the billing.

Thanks for sharing!

askedrelicon Tesla Model E Reveal Slated For 2015 Detroit Auto Show

Great word, I like that classification.

askedrelicon Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.

Digging this. Great organization, photo layouts, filters: great presentation overall.

askedrelicon Why Vagrant?

Should I upgrade to VirtualBox 4.3 yet or stick with 4.2? I remember you cautioning about new things not being as stable in 4.3.

askedrelicon 1Password 4 for Mac is here

I have been using the beta since they started. This is good upgrade that brings a much more polished UI from 1password 3.

The auto-fill functionality seems greatly improved: there are many JS based lightbox or hidden-until-you-click logins that 1pass3 couldnt autofill. 1pass4 just works.

askedrelicon Skip the Post Office, Use Shyp

I'm still waiting on my invite. I saw some ads on FB advertising it and decided to try, but have been waiting since. I hate the Post Office and would love to this us.

askedrelicon Outbox – A beautiful inbox for postal mail

I've been using it for several months in SF and it's pretty great. iPhone app and pretty website let me see my mail from anywhere. They pickup my mail Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. Coolest thing to me being able to mark magazines or letters as spam and they will send unsubscribe messages for me.

Some flaws are how they handle anything more complex than just picking up mail addressed to you. Living in a rental apartment, I get plenty of previous residents that they ignore; I love would love to be able to get them to unsubscribe me from all mail that isn't addressed to me. But that gets more complex with my roommate, who doesn't use the service.

Otherwise, for $5/month, I like not having to check my mailbox and I haven't had any issues.

askedrelicon What really happened at PyCon 2013

Hear hear. I learned a great deal about the IPython Notebook and Python 3 this year. Pycon was a great time.

askedrelicon Django 1.5 released

Howdy! I have a branch with all the tests working, just haven't made an official release yet. Hopefully very soon...

askedrelicon Django 1.5 released

Anecdotal: I wrote a Google Reader API library in Python 2 that I'm working on porting to Python 3 and it really hasn't been that bad. I had some HTTP dependancies on urllib/urllib2 but requests (with a py3 compatibility class) made it easy.

The port was requested by someone looking to build an RSS feed reader or checker in Sublime Text 3, which using Python 3.3. Things are moving forward.

askedrelicon Automattic Buys Simperium (YC S10), Maker of Simplenote

Congrats! I've been using SimpleNote (iPhone) for years with Notational Velocity and quite happy with the sync.

askedrelicon Causes Acquires Votizen To Democratize Democracy

Congrats to the Votizen team! Great group of engineers who have contributed a great deal to Django and Python.

askedrelicon Richard Hamming: You and Your Research (1986)

I do love this talk and this bit is a really good explanation for why I blog and contribute to open source:

You should do your job in such a fashion that others can build on top of it, so they will indeed say, "Yes, I've stood on so and so's shoulders and I saw further." The essence of science is cumulative.

askedrelicon Slate: Tiling window management for OS X

Divvy has seems pretty dead to me, I haven't seen any new features in months? maybe years? It works well, but after seeing the new crop of window managers, it's too simple. The configuration isn't the most flexible and not easy to sync configurations between computers.

askedrelicon Postmates Debuts ‘Get It Now’ On-Demand Courier Service To The Public

I've used the beta for several months and it's been great. I just ordered lunch with it, minutes ago actually. You can track my order live https://postmat.es/97MJQ6Is

It makes great use of smartphone gps technology and the estimates have been pretty accurate. I like things that are organized and predictable, very much like Uber.

askedrelicon How I Open Source

I've definitely had this hesitation before and, like with programming, the more I publish and open source things, the easier it becomes. It might not be perfect, but good programmers can figure it out without help or novice ones can ask questions and show you where you need to explain things in more detail.

I've always wanted the organized README file, the detailed CHANGELOG file, the pretty bootstraped github page, and the polished docs, but it takes effort to get there. The little details along the way have tripped me up. After creating 3-4 active projects now on Github, I've worked through most minor details, cleaned up my older projects, and raised the overall quality of all my projects.

askedrelicon Tig 1.0 released - ncurses text-mode interface for git

Fugitive is pretty great once figure out most of it.

Extradite is a wrapper around fugitive to provide a log view similar to tig's log view, but seemed a bit clunky to me last time I tried it.

https://github.com/int3/vim-extradite

askedrelicon Tig 1.0 released - ncurses text-mode interface for git

Sweet! I use tig daily as my main git viewer.

Here are some bindings my in .tigrc, which I use in the log viewer window, to make it more vim like:

bind generic g move-first-line

bind generic G move-last-line

bind generic n next

bind generic p previous

I generally use n/p to flip between commits in log view, hit enter to view a specific commit, and then j/k to move lines on the commit view.