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gpmcadam··on WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system
You'd have been mocked as a tinfoil hat wearer for saying this more than 18 months ago
gpmcadam··on GitHub is down again
> Monday

Beyond a meme at this point

gpmcadam··on Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
The idea here is great and I think it has a lot of legs but I think inherently people will have initial concerns with security.

Do you have plans to only allow reading mail from specific senders, and giving fine-grained control on the API side?

I would like to give this to an AI agent but only initially where I and my team can forward mail to the agent, and not give it the ability to draft and send emails on its own.

gpmcadam··on Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
Where do you configure the allowlists?
gpmcadam··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://gary.mcad.am
gpmcadam··on Nano Banana Pro
None of it was accurate.

But boy was it beautiful.

gpmcadam··on Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? (2024)
The title of the post isn't asking HN users a question
gpmcadam··on Trying to Recreate iOS on the Web
The biggest contributor to this was jQuery Mobile. Surprisingly, the "ThemeRoller" is still up, despite the project being discontinued. Quite a fun trip down memory lane.

https://themeroller.jquerymobile.com

gpmcadam··on IMG_0416
Isn't that exactly what he did when live-streaming on X last year?

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1653608284606312448

"This is 2015 Periscope code. Yeah, seems like we just need to improve it a bit."

gpmcadam··on Unit tests as documentation
In TDD spec is converted to behaviours that can be ran as automated tests so if the logic of the code changes, it breaks the spec and in turn the tests

Whereas documentation can (inevitably) go stale with no feedback or build failures

gpmcadam··on Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today
Grok did OK? (Grok 2 Mini Beta)

https://i.imgur.com/mvnusFd.jpeg

gpmcadam··on Wayback Machine Is Down
Interestingly, this HN post is currently 3rd on Google for the query "wayback machine".
gpmcadam··on GPT-4o
I think also very US-culture-specific.
gpmcadam··on Original Pirate Material
You're listening to The Streets, lock down your aerial
gpmcadam··on Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?
Don't feel bad about taking time to give yourself more energy in the long run. Go for a walk or jog. Do something you enjoy to help recharge your batteries.

If you plan to continue spending time on personal projects or CV, maybe change your scenery and go to a nice cafe or similar. Maybe coworking spaces or new environments will unlock opportunities to network in ways you haven't thought of.

Keep your mind focused on the end goal and consider each step a learning opportunity.

Also, take this time to do things you might not have had the time to do before: learn a new programming language or tech stack or write that blog post you've been sitting on; you never know what doors this type of thing could open for you.

Best of luck!

gpmcadam··on Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute
I waited around 30 seconds for this page to load before I gave up.

I can't say it improved my focus but I did appreciate the 30s of calm. Good work!

gpmcadam··on Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
Ah the answer to everyone’s problems, endless legislation
gpmcadam··on Gemini AI
This is a product marketing video, not a demo.
gpmcadam··on Insomnia REST client updated to require signup to use
Not affiliated but would highly recommend https://httpie.io/app if you’re looking for an alternative
gpmcadam··on Vim Boss
I understand your metaphor but I think it's probably a stretch.

Maybe it's better to say the tool has sharp edges that if you aren't familiar with it, can bite you. But with a bit of practise and some knowledge you can master it.

gpmcadam··on MDN Playground
One of the strangest things to infect the web development community was that separation of concerns somehow meant separation of HTML/JS/CSS, which to me always felt like the opposite since very often the HTML, the JS and the CSS were all very much concerned with one another e.g. a React component where the rendered HTML, the logic behind it and how it's styled make sense to live next to one another.

I think it's for this reason you often see those languages split out in code playgrounds. And I also think it's a big part of the initial pushback against css-in-JS libraries such as styled-components or Emotion.

gpmcadam··on Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
First of all thanks for sharing this!

Secondly, not sure if anyone has mentioned this before but in Safari on macOS there's something odd happening. On the page I see a small '1Password' popup and when I click it, it asks me to to unlock 1Password.

However I don't see any login form on the page and I don't see any other text input fields so I'm not sure why this would be.

I'm sure it's a perfectly innocent bug but it's probably something you want to address otherwise maybe it might put some people off.

See screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/3CcDFcg

Best of luck with the app!

gpmcadam··on Bees can learn, remember, think and make decisions
> However, bees can see hidden ultraviolet floral patterns that are invisible to us, and those patterns lead the bees to flowers’ nectar.

The article mentions this hidden ultraviolet floral pattern that is invisible to us; but is there a way we can reveal that using UV cameras or similar? I'd love to see this pattern.

It's fascinating to think that flowers might have evolve to optimise themselves to the vision of bees in a way we are completely unaware of with the naked eye.

gpmcadam··on Show HN: A simple echo server for testing HTTP clients
There’s no need to be harsh. It takes a lot of bravery for people to put things here under the Show HN tag and for all you know this was something that took a lot of effort and hard work to achieve. Maybe you don’t find it useful but others might. If not I’d suggest keep scrolling or give positive or constructive feedback to the OP.
gpmcadam··on Can Rust Beat JavaScript in 2023?
no
gpmcadam··on Rice fuels diabetes and climate crises
let me guess, “eat insects”?
gpmcadam··on Apple HomePod 2nd Generation
I wonder if it needs an update because I've just asked one for both temperature and humidity and it was able to tell me.

Also see the comparison table at the bottom of this page: https://www.apple.com/uk/homepod-2nd-generation/

gpmcadam··on Apple HomePod 2nd Generation
fyi HomePod Mini also has those sensors
gpmcadam··on Password Requirements: Myths and Madness
yep this is the way forward, ideally with something like the proposed passwordrules attribute

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3518

gpmcadam··on Complete Rewrite of ESLint
I believe reddit was rewritten in Python (formerly Lisp?)
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