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holmberd··on AWS Ground Station
Without a doubt.
holmberd··on WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN
I've used IVPN for years and it works flawlessly.
holmberd··on GitHub Outage
Posting here isn't part of your break :)
holmberd··on Show HN: I published my first website – ShellMagic.xyz
Your disclaimer modal doesn't fit on mobile causing the viewport to extend outside expected bounds. Otherwise looks nice.
holmberd··on The first solar road has turned out to be a disappointing failure
Exactly, failure or not is a good thing, moving on.
holmberd··on Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software
This is not limited to Chrome extensions. If you build and publish any kind of software, there is a high chance that someone shady will come along and offer you money for it, or to become an "affiliate" partner.
holmberd··on Finding My Next Bootstrapped Business Idea
You are referring to sunk cost fallacy.
holmberd··on Google AdWords Exploit Seen in the Wild
They have some rules in place, try bidding on Fortnite.
holmberd··on The Route of a Text Message
Still common to call it BTS (GSM era) contra RBS in the states?
holmberd··on A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics
Ebook a tad too expensive for me.
holmberd··on SpaceX Isn't Planning to Reuse the Falcon 9 Rocket's second stage
well it is all fun and games until you put actual people in it.
holmberd··on System76 on US Manufacturing and Open Hardware
I hope they have a better battery this time around.
holmberd··on The Servers Are Burning
Indeed, but prototypes running in production or running without tests, is a symptom of other underlying problems in the organization. I feel that scope creep and lack of testing goes hand in hand for projects that are poorly managed.
holmberd··on The Servers Are Burning
Easy to say, but unfortunately rarely seen in the wild, depending on the experience of the project manager. Once that product is live and climbing, no owner wants to hear talks about slowing down for reasons of better test coverage or refactoring.
holmberd··on I was bored and made a Conway's Game of Life app in Elixir
Same here, but I ended up adding support for arbitrary world rules which is kind of nice to play around with.

https://github.com/holmberd/js-gameoflife

I also have a Haskell version laying around somewhere.

holmberd··on Javascript Fundamentals: ‘this’ keyword
Sums it up pretty good. 'this' was a minor problem when promises came out and bind got sort of sprinkled everywhere. Arrow notations can now take care of that by making it less verbose by binding 'this' behind the scenes.
holmberd··on A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages
And the editor "holy wars" rages on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war
holmberd··on Dropbear SSH, a lightweight alternative to OpenSSH
Love it, works like a charm.
holmberd··on ESLint compromised, may have stolen your credentials
If your npm is up-to-date it would have provided a critical warning about the use of eval in that code.
holmberd··on The “Giving free cash to the poor will make them lazy” theory
If you are on an island where a third of the population is struggling, e.g. bad crop yield, the whole population on the island will experience the negative effects as a whole.

Solutions? 1. Build a wall around the less fortunate and allow some of the more able ones to work for less than you would otherwise pay.

2. Share the resources of the more fortunate with the less fortunate until they are back on their feet and are able to prosper.

A persons good fortune isn't made in a vacuum.

holmberd··on Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can
Google is also removing inline install in September, together with some other chrome web store clean-ups.

All in all, this is nothing new and it seems to be a lot of huff about a simple mistake.

holmberd··on Ask HN: What are the best hacks to fight depression?
I generalized for the most common case, since there will always be special cases. But the tone of my statement could have been more understanding.
holmberd··on Ask HN: What are the best hacks to fight depression?
I agree seek professional help if you can. There could also be physiological reasons that triggers an episode of depression, especially lack of B12, iron or D-vitamin.

Developing good routine is not an easy thing for people that are deep inside a negative spiral, but it will help limit the episodes. Good routine is like a spell, it reestablishes your commitment to each day and provides you with energy. This is the same whether you have depression or a bout of sadness.

holmberd··on Ask HN: What are the best hacks to fight depression?
- Go to bed early and develop a regular sleep pattern, and don't fool yourself with the myth about being a "night person", you are not a cat, you have just offset your sleep/wake cycle from lacking proper routine.

- Exercise regularly. Aerobic exercise(whatever that means for you) that you can maintain without develop injury or over-training will be your baseline. Endorphin is what you are after, since it provides a boost of immune system, better sleep, less anxiety and increased overall health.

- Be outside in the sun everyday, take a walk or sit and read a book.

- Cut out any consumption of large amount of drugs: alcohol, sugar, nicotine...

- Talk to someone about your worries and sprinkle some Zen in your life.

- Help someone else for no personal gain, but don't let it consume all your time.

- Understand that all things are transient, nothing is static, and trying to be eternally happy is impossible and the quest for such a thing will make you unhappy.

holmberd··on Making Web Components Work
I've been using a similar approach for the last year, and I find that most problems are much easier to deal with because of less crud in the build flow. There is currently a W3C proposal for template instantiation that showcase some conveniences to deal with templates in components, could be good, could be bad. https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/proposals...

Most communication I solve by custom event dispatching or attribute callbacks, but there are the odd cases, especially regarding more advanced drag/drop, that still requires state at some level. Do you have any concrete example of inter-component communication to look at?

holmberd··on Chinese Border Police Install Software on My Android Device
It's been going on for awhile now, https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/china-force...
holmberd··on Spotify Form F-1
I've used Spotify for many years now, especially since growing up in Sweden where its been around for awhile, I currently live in North America.

There is a few things that bothers me though. One is that zero effort is spent on solving developer issues in regards to their public API. Some issues has been open far too long on github and the community is unhappy. The other is that they bought up EchoNest, which provided everything Spotify was lacking in terms of a music API, only to close the service and implement none of those features into their public API.

That's it.

holmberd··on Command Line Heroes Podcast
Added, looking forward to giving it a listen.
holmberd··on Full-Text Search in Django with PostgreSQL
Depends on the data right. I've seen good performance on larger tables after using GIN indexing with records that rarely needs to be updated and simple queries. I'm not a expert in PostgreSQL by any means, but reducing cost and learning something never hurts.
holmberd··on Full-Text Search in Django with PostgreSQL
Having implemented this for a client in the past I have to agree that it is a cheaper option than ElasticSearch, especially for smaller projects with a lower number of records to index.

ElastiSearch easily gets expensive and the search suggestion is pretty bad.

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