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hobo_mark··on Konsta UI – Mobile UI Components Built with TailwindCSS
What product though? There is nothing for sale.
hobo_mark··on Konsta UI – Mobile UI Components Built with TailwindCSS
It's definitely not an isolated case either https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33529742
hobo_mark··on IKEA made a smart air quality sensor to track indoor pollution
You literally connect four wires and `pip install bme680`.
hobo_mark··on The art of the shadow: How painters have gotten it wrong for centuries
It still blows my mind that midjourney & co. can get decent illumination, shadows and even reflections. Just... how?!
hobo_mark··on Lessons Learned from 1 Year of Intermittent Fasting
> I’ve found the science behind fasting to not be compelling, or to be conflicting, however, fasting is working well for me at the moment.

Precisely, do what works for you. I have one big dinner every 48 hours after working out, and either an egg, a piece of fruit, a cereal bar or a yogurt for all other meals.

This works well for me, yet colleagues think I am crazy, and here on HN I have been accused of having an eating disorder [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31266709

hobo_mark··on Lessons Learned from 1 Year of Intermittent Fasting
> I try to eat only in a 11-12 hour window each days, which for me means only between 8am-7pm.

As opposed to...? That's not very different from everybody's eating window.

hobo_mark··on [dead]
As they should. Code written on the job must be understandable to your coworkers.
hobo_mark··on No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health
Nobody claimed alcohol stops procreation, hell if anything it does the opposite.
hobo_mark··on I wish Asciidoc was more popular
Having to download a JRE is not any better than having to pull Ruby from the RH Software Collections, meanwhile Python is already there...
hobo_mark··on I wish Asciidoc was more popular
I write all my professional docs in AsciiDoc (even made a tool to pull AsciiDoc comments out of the code and into various documents), but always disliked having to pull ruby into my toolchain.

Is the Python3 asciidoc (any of the several that have sprung up) good enough to replace asciidoctor nowadays?

hobo_mark··on Ask HN: Did anyone else lose their marbles?
> For instance, one CEO would periodically grab me, walk me a few blocks away from the office and proceed to scream in my face for 20 minutes on the sidewalk. There are many, many other examples, but honestly, it's all too familiar and boring to recount.

Wh..why did you even stay long enough for this to have happened more than once?

hobo_mark··on Showering at the South Pole
Not a single mention of recirculating showers? In the van-curious phase of my life I have watched and read about several such setups and, albeit a bit gross, it certainly beats showering once a week? Of course if shower stalls are shared among many people, you'd have to bring your own filter (and cleaning your filter takes, well, water, but I assume relatively little of it), but it sounds at least doable and worth the quality of life improvement?
hobo_mark··on Show HN: Webapp.io - Free firecracker-based full-stack hosting
This application will be able to:

- Access the authenticated user's API Grants complete read/write access to the API, including all groups and projects, the container registry, and the package registry

Why is write access necessary?

hobo_mark··on “They wanted my Instagram handle, and somehow they've now got it.”
Ok sure, but how do you get the person's phone number in the first place?
hobo_mark··on Microsoft Azure Outage
You pay for the resources you use above the free tier limits. My bill for this month so far is 30 cents because I deployed frequently and my docker artifact storage size (with several years worth of deployments) dipped above the limit. Then I added a periodic job to clear out unused docker images older than one year and I'm running for free again.
hobo_mark··on Microsoft Azure Outage
I have to wonder what you were doing, I've been continuously hosting my own projects there for years and with the free tier they cost pennies per month to run.
hobo_mark··on Show HN: Timeretain – Track, visualize, and export your hours
When you start doing something, you type `/do something`, when you are done, you type `/done` followed by an optional comment about what you did. Things are added to different calendars depending on what `something` is. I already have a separate database with sleep information, I am going to export it into the same google calendars when I get the chance.

Typing the command (or clicking a shortcut) are a bit of extra work, but I have been logging my working hours for over half a decade already and it's not a huge change to log everything else. It also means being mindful of what you are supposed to be doing at any given time which I find to be useful in practice.

hobo_mark··on The first new build of Circle, a new C++20 compiler, since April 2022 is online
Absolutely, also Sean made enough money in his previous life to be able to work on Circle full-time (while living in NYC), truly living the dream.
hobo_mark··on Show HN: Timeretain – Track, visualize, and export your hours
Ha, I just built something similar for myself over the winter holidays. It's just a Google Chat bot duct taped to Google Calendar with a bit of Apps Script, but seeing how I spend my days visually has been extremely motivating in adjusting my routine and habits. Best of luck to you.
hobo_mark··on U-config – A new, lean pkg-config clone
Why anything else? It is a very small tool that is needed to bootstrap a build, C is the lowest common denominator.

Similarly, few things infuriate me more than the installation of some random Python package having to pull an entire Rust toolchain with it.

hobo_mark··on The 10 year old indie mobile app: what worked for the long haul
What do you mean with running App Engine locally? There used to be a local development server, but that did not survive the 2to3 transition. GCP does ship a Datastore and a PubSub emulator, but no Cloud Storage for example (someone wrote this one [1], which sort-of works but it does not behave 1:1 like GCS, so ironically my tests have to work around bugs in the emulator...).

[1] https://github.com/oittaa/gcp-storage-emulator

hobo_mark··on Ask HN: What's on your home server?
You do not even need to run a dedicated server if for example you already have an owncloud/nextcloud setup, since all clients (desktop and mobile) can sync from a WebDAV folder (among other backends).
hobo_mark··on Revue will shut down and all data will be deleted
Sounds like a good time to ask: alternatives to Substack that people actually use?
hobo_mark··on Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in more than 4 years
That course-correction came five hours after the original tweet.
hobo_mark··on Ménage Problem
And this improves the problem statement how exactly? You are just doing the "parent 1" "parent 2" gymnastics that get (deservedly) mocked and (unfortunately) weaponized at any possible occasion.
hobo_mark··on It's time for an RSS revival (2018)
Feeds are definitely still enabled on YouTube at

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC<xyz>

The only complicated part is finding the channel id, which is not always presented directly (sometimes you have a username, sometimes a channel "shortname", now you also have handles... even the YouTube data API itself can only resolve some of them).

hobo_mark··on Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative
Absolutely doable and it's a fun exercise. Mastodon is probably overkill for a single-user instance, there are other ActivityPub services that do not need Postgres+Redis+Ruby etc (pleroma, microblog...).

ps: as I found out while setting up my own server, diaspora is its own thing, it can't federate with ActivityPub services.

hobo_mark··on Tell HN: Doing a chargeback against Google will get your account banned
And you can still create a (free) Google Account without GMail: https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail
hobo_mark··on Vivaldi integrates Mastodon in its desktop browser
I know pinned tabs, I pin the music tab, it plays in the background, I never have to look at it, cool.

The point of having slack/mattermost/discord/whatever always on the side is that one does not have to switch away from the main tab just to see what's going on.

hobo_mark··on Vivaldi integrates Mastodon in its desktop browser
The source is incomplete, you cannot build the browser from it, it's just there for licence compliance.

Anyhow, it's just chrome with extra stuff you can disable (email client? rss reader?) and extra stuff I cannot imagine living without (side panels).

https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/panels/web-panels/

I do not understand why no other browser has the ability to keep a predefined list of pages always open to the side, especially for real-time communication.

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