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iDemonixon What are those grids of glass in the sidewalk and why are they purple?

And many other parts of the UK. I've seen a fair amount in both Oxford and Nottingham.

I'd not heard of FF Send before this comment, and will now make use of it, so I think your comment is a bit misguided.

iDemonixon Ask HN: Is it too late to make a side income by creating Udemy courses/similar?

Whenever I think of Udemy I always just think of learning a subject from scratch, I hadn't really thought about making a programming course in the way you'd described, good food for thought - thanks.

iDemonixon Ask HN: Is it too late to make a side income by creating Udemy courses/similar?

They're small SaaS apps that need more work, or small projects for clients (like a JS driven animated scoreboard that a client puts up at corporate events - they take games to corporate parties)

iDemonixon Ask HN: Is it too late to make a side income by creating Udemy courses/similar?

I remember seeing the bingo card software, sometimes it's nice to have a subtle reminder that if you just start you've already beaten 90% of everyone else that's had the idea.

I'll check that book out, thanks.

iDemonixon Ask HN: Is it too late to make a side income by creating Udemy courses/similar?

Thanks for the extra motivation!

iDemonixon Ask HN: Is it too late to make a side income by creating Udemy courses/similar?

I suppose it would be easier to write about DevOps subjects, it's not that I don't enjoy programming, I just enjoy the 'ops-y' tasks more (who doesn't love a graph). Thanks.

iDemonixon Ask HN: Is it too late to make a side income by creating Udemy courses/similar?

Thanks for the input. That was kind of my thinking, I'm not expecting to start making courses and leave my job in 12 months time, this is more something to keep me occupied, give me a reason to keep learning new skills, and a definitely portfolio/cv padder.

I've been sat doing some research on Udemy for a couple of hours and it really seems things like Python are heavily covered, and even though I'm not aiming to do this purely to make money, it would be disheartening to put effort in to a course that's buried amongst 10,000 others. Maybe niche subjects like monitoring, where most won't bother due to low viewer counts, are where it's at nowadays.

iDemonixon Show HN: Custom-Build Factorio Server Hosting Serivce

https://clients.mcprohosting.com/order/factorio

https://www.gameserverkings.com/games/factorio-server-hostin...

iDemonixon Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

Whilst it looks good, I love that I don't even need an account to use draw.io. We use it at work and integrates with Confluence perfectly.

iDemonixon Ask HN: What is the best way to pass links between phone/desktop?

pastebin.com or similar

iDemonixon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

Just FYI, do you know that your site is missing a <title> tag?

iDemonixon Ask HN: I don’t have a company, how can I be paid on the internet?

DON'T. USE. PAYPAL.

iDemonixon Ask HN: Do you have these pain points when consuming/building APIs?

Without going too deep, as a provider, Swagger has been a godsend for help with documentation, request examples, and a nice web UI for front-end developers to test against.

iDemonixon Ask HN: I can never learn coding

It doesn't sound like programming is the problem, do you have this problem with learning anything else in life?

iDemonixon Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

I work for a UK based ISP. We have millions of unused addresses, largely because back in the 90s they were practically giving them away. We're still expanding and using up new IPs daily, but we often sell blocks when the department needs a boost...

iDemonixon Ask HN: How do VPS providers issue dedicated IPv4 IPs?

Exhaustion refers to allocation. For example, my company has several very large subnets (we're a UK ISP), that are entirely unused, as we bought them by the million when they were cheap back in the 90s.

We could sell smaller subnets (we often do...), or we could use them for things like VPS hosting. Digital Ocean will own several blocks/subnets, and allocate from those pools.

iDemonixon Ask HN: Investments on Vinyl Records?

Sounds like a nice idea, but as someone that does buy a fair bit of vinyl (both for listening, and sampling), I find that part of the fun is just browsing through and taking a chance on some obscure records, and seeing what you found when you get home. If you don't like them, you can sell them on.

iDemonixon Setting Up an Ad-Blocking VPN with WireGuard and Pihole

There's no Android devices in my house to test with.

iDemonixon Name one thing in this photo

There's not much point linking to 4chan images, they disappear fairly quickly.

iDemonixon Setting Up an Ad-Blocking VPN with WireGuard and Pihole

I did. I should point out I work for an ISP, so my day job is managing proxy farms, DNS, and so on. It just didn't seem to stop ads on the Smart TV with any variation of whitelist/blacklist.

iDemonixon Setting Up an Ad-Blocking VPN with WireGuard and Pihole

I setup PiHole and removed it about 2-3 days later. UBlock Origin is perfect for laptops, but I wanted to see if it'd block YouTube ads and similar on my Smart TV and mobile devices - it didn't. If anything it just caused me grief by interfering with non-ad web services, so I canned it and everything started working again.

I need UBlock Origin as a remote proxy.

iDemonixon Ask HN: Tools for building high performance REST API in 2019

It might help to mention what skills you already have, or languages you already know?

iDemonixon Implementing API Billing with Stripe

I know it's not specific to Stripe, but it seems there are products out there like ChargeBee that cover a lot of the use case.

iDemonixon NameCheap and .cloud Domain

That was some time ago now, but I remember it. Specifically because I wrote some scripts to just continuously ask for garbage domains, thousands per day.

iDemonixon Ask HN: What’s your laptop?

2015 MacBook Pro Retina.

I'd love a new machine but every MBP made by Apple since 2015 has been an absolute sack of shit. I'm guessing I'll just cling on to this one until it dies, then buy another reconditioned 2015 model from eBay with a years warranty or something.

If someone offered to modify my MBP to give it a worse keyboard, emoji bar, and take away all the useful ports, I'd wonder what they'd been smoking.

iDemonixon Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy

I'm a full time DevOps engineer and would consider myself highly technical. I'd never do what you described because looking at the list of steps gave me a headache.

My solution: Download torrents, SCP them to my Plex box, done.

iDemonixon Ask HN: How do you make a profitable business out of an open-source project?

Offer a hosted version.

iDemonixon PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold funds for 180 days

https://hackernoon.com/paypal-is-still-one-of-the-worst-onli...

I wrote this article on Hacker Noon 18 months ago or so, nothing has changed. The only good thing was the article going viral, which spawned a new golden level of PayPal customer service - they also had to disable account deletion for 48h, which was nice to know.

I've moved away entirely to Stripe and other services and it's been bliss.