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bart3r··on Show HN: Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup
I wanted to try it out, so i fired it up on my laptop and my phone. The laptop experience was pleasant, but on the mobile, the ads seemed to be covering the nearby devices, and it felt like full scam-ware.

So close, yet, so far.

bart3r··on Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
Am i the only one who still uses Pgpool ?
bart3r··on A Trampoline
haha. this made me laugh.

I didn't want a trampoline either and later realised that it was the best investment of my life. Do not buy the play-frame though - that's a waste of money.

bart3r··on Cloudflare Drop
So, if I need a company website, can i do the following:

- drop my html into Cloudflare drop

- setup a CNAME DNS for my domain to point at cloudflare URL

- profit

?

bart3r··on PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you
We are still using Pgpool-II and it's been very solid, but would be interested in moving to PgDog.

Would love to hear the advantages of moving to PgDog.

bart3r··on Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres
Don't tell DHH
bart3r··on Genie: Text to 3D in Seconds
Using discord would save you a lot on hosting costs, especially when dealing with huge quantities of assets like images and videos.
bart3r··on Genie: Text to 3D in Seconds
Yes, lots of people don't like using Discord, but I can't even get it to work. Discord just tells me 'Unable to accept invite'
bart3r··on Show HN: Invoice Dragon – An open source app to create PDF invoices
My only suggestion would be to make it obvious that you need to preview before you can download the PDF. I thought it was broken.

Even just a tooltip would help

bart3r··on Chrome ships WebGPU
Does model-viewer support WebGPU ?
bart3r··on Chrome ships WebGPU
Does model-viewer support WebGPU?
bart3r··on Show HN: I stripped DALL·E Mini to its bare essentials and converted it to Torch
I have a 2019 MacBook Pro 2.4Ghz Quad-core i5, 8GB RAM with Intel graphics card

  python3 image_from_text.py --text='a happy giraffe eating the world' --seed=7  154.61s user 22.18s system 262% cpu 1:07.40 total

  WARNING:absl:No GPU/TPU found, falling back to CPU. (Set TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL=0 and rerun for more info.)
As you can see, it took 1min 7seconds to complete.

I assume it would be much faster with a grunty graphics card

bart3r··on Show HN: I stripped DALL·E Mini to its bare essentials and converted it to Torch
I had exactly the same issue
bart3r··on Change your MAC address with a shell script (2019)
I just found out that you can hold option key while clicking on the wireless icon in OSX to get more details. * mind blown *
bart3r··on What distinguishes great software engineers? (2019) [pdf]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZYSapFCg4A
bart3r··on What distinguishes great software engineers? (2019) [pdf]
I'm surprised there is no reference to time estimation. An important part of their role is estimating how long a task will take to complete, and I've found many people, even engineers with a lot of experience, are terrible at this.
bart3r··on Chrome to get lazy load below-the-fold images and iframes
How will this affect analytics with tracking pixels, etc?
bart3r··on Dbeaver – Multi-platform database tool
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=beaver
bart3r··on Dbeaver – Multi-platform database tool
I would feel uncomfortable saying the word 'beaver' at work.
bart3r··on Bill Gates: The Best Investment I’ve Ever Made
no paywall version?
bart3r··on Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 iOS app
If you install this on iOS, you'll see a little 'VPN' icon in the top bar of your phone. Not sure if you can hide that though.
bart3r··on Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?
Mackenzie Child is good https://www.youtube.com/user/mackenziechild

He does dev & design, specialising in Ruby on Rails

bart3r··on Twitter's Bootstrap hit 100,000 stars on GitHub
https://github.com/search?q=stars:%3E1&s=stars&type=Reposito...
bart3r··on Show HN: Expounder – A small JavaScript library for more engaging tutorials
My advice would be to somehow indicate exactly the text that was expounded - maybe with a faint underline or something. When it expands out, it's sometimes difficult to track the exact words that suddenly appear.
bart3r··on Update on Azure Storage Service Interruption
404 - Article Not Found
bart3r··on Sikuli Script
What are it's capabilities with OCR?
bart3r··on Depixelizing Pixel Art
Are there any ruby libraries that would depixel an image in a similar fashion?