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gymshoes··on Free public domain ebooks in PDf, ePub, mobi formats
Love the way the books are available to be browsed.

Sorted by downloads, viewable as collections and by series. It's a great experience for someone new to the classics.

Nice work

gymshoes··on MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
After switching a lot of programming fonts and using Fira Code for a long time, I've now ended up using whatever the default font is that comes preset on VS Code
gymshoes··on Building an iPod for 2022
By the time I could afford an iPod, they had discontinued the classic, so I got the Sony A50.

Doesn't feel as nostalgic but does the job. Also acts as a Bluetooth receiver and USB DAC

gymshoes··on Ask HN: How do I get fit and healthy as a software engineer?
I replaced my desk and chair with a standing desk and a walking treadmill. I get at least 2 hours of walking per day out of it and it's benefited me a lot.

No longer have back pain and it just keeps the mind fresh throughout the day.

It took a bit of getting used to, but I can now type without making many errors. I walk at 2 km/h

Due to getting a bit of activity at the beginning of the day also makes me motivated to go out for a run in the evening.

you also need to take care of that burnout. Take a break, spend some time to recover and then get into the habit of moving throughout the day. Use a pomodoro timer to remind you of taking breaks

gymshoes··on Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
I just use the mode that works better in different applications.

I prefer sepia background for reader mode and ebooks. Night themes always for text editors.

It also matters a lot on when the room is brightly lit or not.

gymshoes··on 10 years of Front end Development. I quit
I'd recommend freecodecamp. Starts from the basics and ends every section with a project
gymshoes··on Good reasons not to use TypeScript
This article looked like a deliberate sarcasm or the author's points were very weak.
gymshoes··on Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader
For Windows people, Edge also works as a great epub reader.
gymshoes··on Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction
Most non-fiction books that I've started and quit reading before 25% was because they felt like the content that could fit in a blog post had been stretched to over 300 pages.

I've found that summaries can give you quite a good idea of what the book is about in most cases. I read the full book if the summary interests me.

gymshoes··on Remote code execution vulnerability in apt/apt-get
Linux Mint was breached some time ago: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994
gymshoes··on Cancer Progress: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (2018)
This is one of my biggest pet peeves. Clickbait title with an unrelated story in the beginning.

This is also how most non-fiction books begin.

gymshoes··on PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold funds for 180 days
It probably is.

A few months ago I was making a news ticker with headlines sourced from hnrss. I had used 'security' as a keyword and posts with score above 100.

I was looking for other sources that provide security news and stumbled upon this one too. What I saw was all posts looked quite similar to the rss filter from hnrss, except all articles were re-written in a slightly different way.

It was all just redundant news from the hnrss feed and other popular security bloggers.

gymshoes··on Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?
I think Poweramp does this as well
gymshoes··on Quora User Data Compromised
They provide login with Google and Facebook too.

Would it be possible those logins are more secure?

gymshoes··on Quora User Data Compromised
Brian Krebs recently posted about this:https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/12/what-the-marriott-breach...
gymshoes··on Ansel Adams’ pictures of LA recall an era of war factories and 10-cent hot dogs
There's a video by NPR explaining how coke price was same for a long time:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/03/28/597302023/the-...

gymshoes··on Designing cities to counter loneliness? Let's explore the possibilities
In the locality where I lived, families had been living for years in the same house as they own the houses. Everybody in the neighbourhood knew each other.

Now most of those families have sold off their homes and they were turned into apartments by the builders.

Now people don't even know the people who live in the floor above theirs.

gymshoes··on Learn React for free
I'm agnostic towards the medium if instruction but if I'm a little familiar with something, I would take a reputed book or official docs over video courses.

However, if I get too perplexed by something and need hand-holding to understand something, I look for videos.

Also, videos help in cases with libraries whose documentations are lacking or don't have docs regarding integration with something.

gymshoes··on Building a company is fucking hard
The things the author mentions are very similar to the things a friend of mine said when he started his first business. He was 23 then and now 25. I showed him this blog post and he told me that was a very inexperienced age for him then and that was the phase when he used to have a lot of beliefs that are now changed.

He's from India too.

gymshoes··on No End in Sight for Crypto Sell-Off as Bitcoin Breaches $4,250
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gymshoes··on Web scraping case fails under Supreme Court's Dastar doctrine
Can anyone please ELI5?
gymshoes··on The State of JavaScript 2018
I felt that the average salary for India was very high. I was hoping to see somewhere near $20000 but it was $30600
gymshoes··on The State of JavaScript 2018
I suppose there are 2 reasons for it:

1. Popular languages would have lot more developers so lesser salary (Supply-Demand)

2. Since the newer devs have started their careers when the newer languages have started to get mainstream, more senior devs are the ones who remain with the niche languages.

gymshoes··on International System of Units overhauled in historic vote
Where I'm from, it's a hybrid system. kg, celcius, litres and inches
gymshoes··on Vue 3.0 Updates [slides]
http://jamesknelson.com/learn-raw-react-no-jsx-flux-es6-webp...
gymshoes··on How Google is slowing innovation
I read the article before reading the comments.

It feels like what is written in the comment above and then a section blaming Google for not supporting a feature yet.

gymshoes··on For back pain, the subtle moves of the Feldenkrais Method can help some people
I used to have a back pain and what fixed it for me was regular exercise.

I think a common cause of back pain is sitting long hours in chairs because of work. Any type of exercise should benefit here.

gymshoes··on List of 600 free online courses launched by 190 universities
Dhawal Shah (The founder of Class Central) releases this list every month. https://medium.freecodecamp.org/@dhawalhs
gymshoes··on Business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone trend
I love this design. All I want is a 4 inch e-Paper display with a browser that can open epub files.
gymshoes··on “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”
I think that is a better way to do it because it prevents long chains of comments that start looking like a conversation between two people.

Also, checking manually in peace is better than getting distracted by notifications.

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