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beilabs

1,148 karma · joined July 22, 2009

Focusing on physical and mental health

Former Director of Engineering @ Houzz

Co-founder / CTO at conx.co (acquired)

hi@jonathanclarke.ie

https://mastodon.ie/@jonathanclarke

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beilabs··on Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux
Thanks for this. Been with Proton a while and they're not great at letting their customers know of new products. Either that or they are too successful at filtering their own marketing email.

To the OP: Proton is privacy first. I use their tools for a reason, trusting file transfer to a third party would never happen even with an open code base.

It's fine if the tool is for yourself, great for your CV and well done for shipping something. HN can at times be a cruel place, think of this as a learning experience.

beilabs··on It is time to build a new internet
> There are tiny safe zones, like secret closed invite-only forums

How can a non cool clueless child of the 80's join these secret clubs?

beilabs··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
I desperately need this in Nepal. There are so many street dogs and some really need urgent care.
beilabs··on RSS.Social – the latest and best from small sites across the web
Would be lovely to have a RSS feed for all the posts from RSS.social but it doesn't seem to exist? I don't see it in the source code.
beilabs··on Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
Picked it up in a Nepalese book shop. Was a good read.
beilabs··on Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
I really enjoyed Leaders Eat Last and Careless People.

2025 brought me to:

The Mom Test - Rob Fitzpatrick

Leaders Eat Last - Simon Sinek

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

The Time Machine - H.G. Wells

What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School - Mark McCormack

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change - Adam Braun

Neuromancer - William Gibson

Blood of Elves - Andrzej Sapkowski

We Were Eight Years In Power - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Mort - Terry Pratchett

I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - Stephen King

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

The Boy’s in the Boat - Daniel James Brown

Can’t Hurt Me - David Goggins

Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business - Gino Wickman

Source Code - Bill Gates

Mythos - Stephen Fry

Educated - Tara Westover

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World - John Wood

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism is a memoir - Sarah Wynn-Williams

Hail Mary - Andy Weir

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phipip K. Dick

The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie

beilabs··on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
Back to Buildkite I go.
beilabs··on Early Europeans ate seaweed for thousands of years
My family have been using carrageen for as I can remember for cold and flu remedies; at least 3 generations.

https://irishseaweeds.com/shop-2/carrageen-irish-moss-recipe...

The recipe above is almost accurate; they also added poitín to the mix.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poit%C3%ADn

beilabs··on Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more
Is the matte screen by default on 13"? Don't see any option to select when purchasing.
beilabs··on Lemon-derived nanoparticles block the progression of kidney stones
This is timely. I'm in hospital having just removed a 9.4mm stone from one kidney and some stones from the other. I don't want to go though this again.
beilabs··on Using HDMI radio interference for high-speed data transfer
I have vague memories back in 1990 of a superman arcade game in a pub broadcasting the games image to my black and white tv with an antenna in a different room. Not HDMI but the concept is there.

There's a reason the FCC has RF standards otherwise there would be anarchy...anarchy I say!

beilabs··on CNET Has Been Quietly Publishing AI-Written Articles for Months
It's one thing doing this for sport; but guarantee AP don't do this for editorial stories.

source: shared an office with them

beilabs··on Emacs User Survey (2022)
GUI mode; Help -> About Emacs
beilabs··on Watching 'Spirited Away' again, and again
Was through friends and family...you've got to see this video...baby shark doo doo do do...and then years of pain.
beilabs··on Watching 'Spirited Away' again, and again
Thankfully my kids are devouring my Studio Ghibli collection. Ny Neighbor Totoro and Ponyo are played multiple times in the day. They've not yet gotten to Spirited Away, waiting until they are a little older. I dread the day they turn on Grave of the Fireflies. I thank the stars they have outgrown baby shark and cocomelon.
beilabs··on Ask HN: Pitfalls in jumping ship to a client company?
While there may not be a clause in your employment contract there may certainly be a clause in the contract between your employer and the client that could possibly be more hassle than it's worth for the client.

The only way to know is to go through the process with the client, declare the possible conflict early on and let them research it on their side to see if it's worth going through with. Best of luck.

beilabs··on DJI Drone Flies over the Top of Mount Everest
The people making the laws are usually not climbing the mountain.

It doesn't change that the mountain range is a holy place for the people of Nepal.

beilabs··on DJI Drone Flies over the Top of Mount Everest
I have to wonder if they had a permit for this. In Nepal drone flying is illegal; they confiscate drones. The mountain range is a holy place.
beilabs··on Overrun by influencers, historic sites are banning TikTok creators in Nepal
I live in Nepal. The country has some really wonderful regulations across all sectors, very few of them ever enforced.
beilabs··on USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)
I went a different way and purchased a 24" monitor which has the hub built in. Support for the standard display ports, USB / USBC and ethernet. I have one single USBC cable connecting to the laptop for power, ethernet and everything else. Seems like this is the way forward for me at least.
beilabs··on Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone
Send me through your CV if you're looking for an internship after you finish your studies. My company is based in Jwagal, Kathmandu. Check my profile for my contact details. jonathan @ domain name in profile.
beilabs··on Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone
Hey everyone. I'm the author of the tweet above, I came across it on one of the Nepalese Facebook Groups I'm a member of.

The original source post is here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shubham-sharma-34bbab18b_webd...

beilabs··on Stripe Tax
Wouldn't most online businesses just need to collect the taxes for the customers that their business operates in?

Posting this on the basis that there should be no stupid questions when it comes to tax.

For example; an Australian business needs to collect GST for Australian customers only. Americans accessing the Australian service would not be obligated to pay GST and as the Australian business doesn't have a US entity wouldn't have to collect US state taxes.

beilabs··on I Still Use RSS
I set up my own rss server using Fresh RSS; got it running in a docker environment on my kubernetes cluster (buzzword bingo). I was an avid google reader fan but only came back to RSS when I abandoned Facebook, Reddit and slowly off Twitter. I don't follow feeds that don't give me the full RSS content (quickly unsubscribe). It's really brought back a joy to reading and I avoid doom scrolling; wonderful really. Oh and there's plenty of open source apps that interact with Fresh RSS, really a great tool.
beilabs··on LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative
I think I'm able to answer this myself. Supports Nextcloud for storage; not sure I'm happy with just that.
beilabs··on LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative
Can someone enlighten me on storage? Is it stored on the docker container (locally) or does it allow for storage within say Google Storage or S3, even Backblaze perhaps?

I tried the demo on Firefox but I couldn't actually figure out how to upload an image to test it out. Firefox / Linux user.

beilabs··on 7k MS-DOS Games playable in the browser
Wonderful. Doesn't look like the mute button is working in Firefox though. I currently have the eggceptional midi sounds through my speakers and I can't turn it down or off. (Magicland Dizzy)
beilabs··on How to Improve Bluetooth Audio Quality on Linux
My Bose QC35's thank the OP. Now if I can only figure out how to improve HFP. It sounds so horrendous on zoom when using the microphone.
beilabs··on Ask HN: I want to praise an employee to an employer. Any tips?
Write a letter by hand and address it to the CEO of the company. It'll have much more of an impact and will definitely reach the ears of the employee you recommend as well. I heard of this happening a number of times in Royal Caribbean where a staff member went above and beyond, a family member was working there and received a number of these types of letters; apparently they went straight into the employee's file and definitely impacted their promotion opportunities (in a good way).
beilabs··on Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
Does not have my first name of my wife. No, you may not know her name....she goes to another school.

Aside, not that exhaustive though her name is a combination of two first letters from her dad and from her moms names. It is in the wild though, have heard others with her name.

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