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dzolvdon A Framework for Engineering Managers

in what industry does your previous salary not matter? (Not a snarky ask btw.) I have never entertained an offer blow my current salary, so personally find them highly correlated (sw eng).

dzolvdon GNU recutils – human readable, plain text databases

definitely, there are sqlite csv one-liners.

dzolvdon Not My Job

in software, this is where "catastrophic" data leaks and security vulnerabilities come from, an engineer or team deciding to roll their own version of a security or cryptography library without having the proper experience to even know what they don't know.

dzolvdon Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

I can't seem to find it, but I read a description for a game in development that seemed really similar to this, a farming/crafting simulator where you start in the basement of a house and can expand to the kitchen etc. You have to avoid the house cat etc.

dzolvdon Silicon Valley Runs on Saudi (2019)

I'm guessing the people downvoting don't know about "The Line"

dzolvdon Podman: A Daemonless Container Engine

this is an issue I have battled as well. Docker is great for normalizing the execution environment; which should be a huge boon for developer tooling but on MacOS having your laptop sound like a hovercraft just to have some files watched for hot rebuilds is no bueno.

dzolvdon CapRover: Build your own PaaS

Would love to see it!

dzolvdon Ask HN: Won’t emergency ventilator production destroy the ventilator business?

that was a tearable pun if intentional.

dzolvdon Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by strangling it

Even if you don't change the interface, by doing fun things like writing types in go that accept strings or ints as ints to strangle a perl server binary and proxying unimplemented handlers, you can still end up with problems. We started having issues with our db getting knocked over by callbacks from our server fleet on an endpoint we hadn't even rewritten yet. Turns out the slowness of perl handling the tls connections had shielded the db and forced retries, switching to go meant the db was hammered with the concurrent requests from perl workers, unhindered by the tls handshake.

dzolvdon Before He Spammed You, This Sly Prince Stalked Your Mailbox

USPIS was Benjamin Franklin's greatest achievement, and yes I know he popularized parmesan cheese in America.

dzolvdon Write good git commit messages

tl;dr: git gud

dzolvdon Show HN: Online challenge: Build a CPU from scratch

same! We actually built an 8-bit cpu, and while debugging some very strange, seemingly random bit flips, learned why you coil wires.

dzolvdon Building Your Own CDN for Fun and Profit

Makes sense, I am enjoying looking through the source as we are moving to an ansible and hopefully dockerized deployment model.

dzolvdon Building Your Own CDN for Fun and Profit

https://github.com/apache/incubator-trafficcontrol is an open source cache control layer (working with ATS) that has features for header rewrites, ssl, and custom urls (among others). It is built for video but can be used to cache any content. Probably a bit heavy for your use case infrastructure wise though.

dzolvdon Ask HN: Good examples of well written Rails code?

nope. I am sure there are but the ones I worked one were (non-os) mvps that kept getting new middleware and features bolted on until they were barely sustainable and got ported to another language.

dzolvdon Show HN: ConflictFormatter – Format diff3-style merge conflicts

Making the switch to diff3 revolutionized working with conflicts for me. This is a cool tool thanks for making and posting it.

dzolvdon Ask HN: Any programmers with long arms?

I use a convertible standing desk, and when standing I don't use arm rests. The key is to have the desk/keyboard at a height where your shoulders hang naturally. I used to have serious wrist issues and switching to the kinesis advantage was the magic bullet for me. Also a big plus for exercises to help, I do back flys to make sure to strengthen the muscles holding my shoulders from rolling forward.

My girlfriend has to use a chair with no arms because of her arm to torso height ratio makes arm rests force her shoulders up. Which I think is the same issue you are facing.

dzolvdon Show HN: Goof: Go object finder (runtime binary introspection)

Now I just need to come up with something horrendously risky to use this for...

dzolvdon Ask HN: What's up with the BillForward hiring post?

I tried a few different ciphers, including a vigenere and a columnar transposition cipher based on the columns part of the title...

dzolvdon Ask HN: What keyboard do you use to code?

Kinesis Advantage, I used to have pretty serious carpal tunnel issues and the kinesis took care of the problem. I love the usability of the thumb buttons.

dzolvdon The Need for a Digital Geneva Convention

EFF is what I immediately thought of as well.

dzolvdon Stupid hacks from stupidhackathon.se

Image Size Slayer is pretty awesome.

dzolvdon Save the Date by Google

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

not all the way there but it uses decimals in move representation.

dzolvdon Website Feedback Request

Knowing to close the about me window was the most unintuitive for me, I had clicked the three links along the bottom a few times before I saw the x, perhaps linking the achievements and stories text on the about me to their respective views could help, or include one or both along the links at the bottom? Some of it may be I am expecting to see it listed alongside those links from years of websites having essentially a resource list along the bottom? (not saying this is good practice necessarily...)

dzolvdon Website Feedback Request

I definitely recommend putting in the time to use https. If you use LetsEncrypt it is free and can be completely automated.

Closing the about me window to reach the achievements and stories links was unintuitive for me. (also perhaps consider having clicking outside one of the story events close the story (the same as clicking outside the about me and contact me panes), scrolling back up to the x wasn't that bad but my first instinct was to click on the background.)

I am also unsure why the achievements / stories buttons switch between the two as they don't overlap, I understand not wanting to have too much showing at once, put perhaps a pan on the background or something (not a fully fleshed out thought).

dzolvdon Ask HN: Does asking “Why am I being downvoted” get upvotes?

Related post: Does asking Ask HN 'Does asking “Why am I being downvoted” get upvotes?' get answers?

dzolvdon Lake Nyos suffocated over 1,700 people in one night

  His name is James, James Cameron
  The bravest pioneer
  No budget too steep, no sea too deep
  Who's that?
  It's him, James Cameron
  James, James Cameron explorer of the sea
  With a dying thirst to be the first
  Could it be? Yeah that's him!
  James Cameron

  --credit: South Park

dzolvdon Chasing Cats

Missed that there were specific culprits: "the neighbors' cats"

dzolvdon Chasing Cats

So he likes dogs doing their business in his yard but not cats?

dzolvdon Codemoji – A fun tool to learn about ciphers

read it as Cod-emoji... Fishing for the best way to express yourself.