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bkazezon Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

Very interesting! How does AirLab coverage compare to FlightStats? Does it know about delays and gate changes even for international flights?

bkazezon Ruby 3.3's YJIT Runs Shopify's Production Code 15% Faster

15% faster - and how much faster would Java, Rust, or Python be?

bkazezon North American English Dialects

I think it’s just a retroflex R, but when it’s preceded by tongue-forward th in “either,” it comes out almost like a flap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcrVeMYnOS4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_dental_and_alveolar_tap...

bkazezon Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it

Yes, the post I linked describes how to do that. It took time to learn. Nowadays I’d just do it with GPT!

bkazezon Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it

This is why people should just run a small managed k8s cluster on GCP. This has worked super well for us. https://www.vmii.org/blog/2023/03/12/kubernetes/

bkazezon Betterfox: User.js to harden Firefox and optimize privacy, security, and speed

On a Mac, command-tabbing to FF takes easily half a second when you have a few tabs open. Any fixes for that?

bkazezon Ask HN: Best way to “donate” dev hours to charity?

If anyone likes classical music, I run a site that 20,000 people per month use to find baroque music to perform, and we’d be happy to have help. Elasticsearch, Rails, Postgres, K8s. Interesting problems as we move from Google Sheets to proper SQL persistence, while still maintaining good search latency. https://www.vmii.org

bkazezon MRSK vs. Fly.io

50 USD/mo was for 1 production Heroku app dyno (no db!), with no Redis or Sidekiq. On GKE we added Redis and Sidekiq, all duplicated for staging (on Spot VMs), for 58 USD/mo. (One single-zone cluster is free on GCP.)

bkazezon MRSK vs. Fly.io

I recently migrated a small Rails project (16,000 monthly users) from Heroku to Helm/Kubernetes, after having tried Fly.io and everything else. It was easy, and I like the peace of mind of zero-downtime deploys and non-beta infrastructure. Cost is comparable to Heroku.

My writeup, in case it helps others: https://www.vmii.org/blog/2023/03/12/kubernetes/

bkazezon Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator

Ohhh, I missed that "->" was the operator. I was typing "to" as in Google searches.

Re dateless times, yes, I think the Soulver way is unambiguous but still human-friendly.

bkazezon Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator

Very cool! Some ideas:

1. Doesn't seem to support area conversions (tried 400 square meters, 400 m^2, and abbreviations in between).

2. If I only give a time, it would be more useful if it gave a time-only result rather than defaulting to the current date - unless it rolls over to a different date. (E.g. in Soulver, "2:30pm + 20hr" gives "Tomorrow at 10:30".)

3. It would be nice to support multiple abbreviations for minutes (mn/min are both used in various countries).