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blzaugg··on Street knowledge game, Back of Your Hand
How well do you know your area? Test your knowledge by locating streets.
blzaugg··on EFF Call to Action: Tell Congress to Stop 'Kids Online Safety Act'
The parental controls on Nintendo Switch are a joke. Barely any options to be useful.

For example, try blocking a specific app, like YouTube.

I think that's one a the biggest problems, when a company adds parental controls. It's usually minimal effort. Just enough so they can say "see, we give parents control". It's a PR move.

blzaugg··on Ask HN: What companies have blown you away with their customer support?
Two game controller companies. Garvis (1998) & Mad Catz (2004)

My Gravis Xterminator's cable was coming out of the controller body. They shipped me a new one, and the box came with a return label. All free of charge.

My Mad Catz PS2 controller's tumbsticks had some stick-drift. They wouldn't replace the whole unit (out of warranty?) but did send me replacement parts for free. The rep. said they'd sent almost any replacement part for free.

blzaugg··on Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box instead of a Sony A1
> differently-housed

Can you explain what you mean?

blzaugg··on Let's do AWS whiteboard sessions – I'll review your architecture, live
This is great
blzaugg··on Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font
I've always found it oxymoronic that "adult words" or "mature humor" are established when we are in our [pre]teens. These things typically don't have origins after coming-of-age.
blzaugg··on Let's do AWS whiteboard sessions – I'll review your architecture, live
I'd like to see some general best practices/architecture. Something that would fit a large range of web applications, not just the one I'm making.

For context, below are some details of what I plan to make.

This web application will have: - user provided content - login/sign-up - email notifications (sign-up, user comments, etc) - limited number of users at the beginning (less than 100 per day). But I want it architected in a way that allows me to scale up when the time comes. - Standard web application security patterns - Standard web application performance patterns (load balancers, containers, CDNs, etc) - Secrets will be stored in Vault (or similar)

My planned full-stack is: - Vue - Vuetify - PWA - SSR - Apollo GraphQL + Hasura + PostgreSQL - Node or Python

blzaugg··on Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
Would you be willing to chat privately with a colleague of mine going through a similar lost of sight transition?
blzaugg··on Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
Would you be willing to chat privately with a colleague of mine going through a similar lost of sight transition?
blzaugg··on Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
Would you be willing to chat privately with a colleague of mine going through a similar lost of sight transition?
blzaugg··on Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
Would you be willing to chat privately with a colleague of mine going through a similar lost of sight transition?
blzaugg··on Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
Would you be willing to chat privately with a colleague of mine going through a similar lost of sight transition?
blzaugg··on The most relaxing vacation you can take is going nowhere
Absolutely. Parenthood and child medicine are very different things.
blzaugg··on The most relaxing vacation you can take is going nowhere
But taking care of children IS very difficult. And, yes, being a parent is the only way to be enlightened in that way. Nothing else will give you the same experience.
blzaugg··on Making an emperor bed
> I have no write-up, so probably not a terribly interesting comment.

That would require a write-up.

blzaugg··on Ask HN: Who are some unsung heroes in open source that need more support?
Jon Neal[0]

You can thank him for: normalize.css[1], sanitize.css, SVG4Everybody, HTML5 Shiv[4], and the yayQuery Podcast theme music[5]. And many more[6][7].

[0] http://jonathantneal.github.io/ [1] http://nicolasgallagher.com/about-normalize-css/#overview [2] https://github.com/csstools/sanitize.css [3] https://github.com/jonathantneal/svg4everybody [4] https://github.com/aFarkas/html5shiv#who-can-i-get-mad-at-no... [5] https://jonneal.bandcamp.com/track/yayquery [6] https://github.com/himynameisdave/postcss-plugins/blob/maste... [7] https://www.npmjs.com/~jonathantneal

blzaugg··on A photographer edits out smartphones to show our strange and lonely new world
These are not edited out mobile device. These are posed shots with empty hands.