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iammileson How much oil-market buffer is left?

I replaced my old Forester with the new Trailseeker. Stsrting price (and interest rate) is much better than the R2.

I can slide in an 8’ board no problem when I’m too lazy to use the roof rack.

I haven’t upgraded the wheels or tires yet but the stock ones have had no problem going up and down the old logging and forest service roads of NW Oregon and SW Washington.

iammileson Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

Appreciate the tip. Just ordered the 24GB/1TB M5 Pro at $50 below the old price point.

iammileson Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series

The framing here gives some good insight into other controversial Amazon adaptations.

iammileson iPhone 16 Best-Selling Smartphone in 2025; Apple Takes 7 Spots in Top Models

Apple makes a sizeable sum through the App store and accessories. I don't think low churn on their flagship hardware is keeping their executives awake at night.

iammileson JRR Tolkien reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952)

While we’re at it, Christopher Lee’s narration of Children of Húrin deserves a mention.

iammileson Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?

I'm rereading the Lord of the Rings after about ~15 years since my last one. For this read through I've been thoroughly delighted by the interlude of poems and songs whereas before I'd just gloss over them. I wonder if this is an effect of getting older.

iammileson A Library for Fish Sounds

For anyone interested, the musical artist Cosmo Sheldrake has an album entitled Wild Wet World [0] where he samples sounds from the ocean. He often incorporates a lot from nature in his music and is a real treat to see live.

[0] - https://www.cosmosheldrake.com/music/wildwetworld

iammileson What a crab sees before it gets eaten by a cuttlefish

I appreciate the gift but I suspect sleep tonight will be less than appreciative.

iammileson Bald eagles are thriving again after near extinction

Adding to this thread: I see them a ton around Cathedral Park in St Johns.

iammileson Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

My number one wish for this iteration is more reliability out of the joycons.

iammileson ABC News hacks into popular robot vacuum, watches owner through camera

This sounds like the Roborock S series. I went with lidar over camera because it can run in any lighting condition and I don’t have a need for poop detection.

iammileson The Second Golden Age of Emacs

Clojure for the Brave and True[0] is what introduced me to Emacs. Getting a job writing Clojure(script) cemented my use of it.

[0] - https://www.braveclojure.com/basic-emacs/

iammileson How Netflix really uses Java

…let's say, your TV, or your iOS device will just do 10 network calls to these different microservices. It will just not scale at all. You would have a very bad customer experience. It would feel like using the Disney app. It's just not ideal.

That’s some shade.

iammileson Ruby's exceptional creatures

This is absolutely delightful! The Ruby community seems to punch above its weight when it comes to producing fun, joyful documentation.

iammileson Who makes the most reliable new cars?

Sounds a lot like my 2013 Subaru Forester. I often fantasize about getting a newer car but then I remember my car is paid off and has never let me down. It doesn't deserve me.

iammileson Roku filed an 8-K saying that of its $1.9B of cash, $487M is stuck at SVB

To save people a quick search, here is part of the Wikipedia definition of Form 8-K: "...a very broad form used to notify investors in United States public companies of specified events that may be important to shareholders or the United States Securities and Exchange Commission."

iammileson Apple's Popularity with Gen Z Poses Challenges for Android

Differentiating messages between iPhone and non-iPhone (i.e. blue text vs green text) has to be one of the greatest ploys in business history.

iammileson Show HN: I finished v5 of a JVM framework I've spent spent half a decade making

Similar to other use cases mentioned already, it was a way for us to create a privacy-focused site to manage guests and give guests the opportunity to update their RSVP, dietary needs, and requested song for the DJ. Additionally there were a few sections of the site where my fiancée could update content as she saw fit by logging in and hitting save. We found the database useful to keep track of RSVPs, gifts, and who we still needed to send thank you's to after the event.

The main drawbacks were people who are not comfortable using the web and people remembering their unique adjective-noun passphrase. Also, I'm not very savvy when it comes to CSS or design so my giddiness was crushed demoing what I thought was the MVP to the "project manager".

I don't want to detract this from being about Javalin though. It's fantastic. I would recommend it and use it again for projects.

iammileson Show HN: I finished v5 of a JVM framework I've spent spent half a decade making

Yep! At least they didn't mind when I was drinking on the job.

iammileson Show HN: I finished v5 of a JVM framework I've spent spent half a decade making

I just wanted to say thank you for your work. The straightforward docs are some the best in my opinion when you want to go from "How do I do ..." to answer.

I ended up using Javalin with Kotlin and SQLite to build my wedding website.

Most of my projects are lucky to see the light of day, but with a very persistent project manager and a simple lightweight framework, I was able to ship a fantastic product with very little fuss.

iammileson Triple-dip La Niña confirmed as BoM makes declaration

Was great in the PNW

iammileson Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)

Not the person you're responding to, but it appears broken on Chrome and Safari on macOS (Firefox is fine) with a correctly set date. On further inspection it looks like there's a problem with the R3 certificate being expired. After a little Googling and I found this: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/help-thread-for-dst-root...

Hopefully that helps!

iammileson Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic

I strongly agree with your last paragraph. I used Heroku for my wedding website and I would 100% use it again on a project site.

In about 15 minutes I was able to take my site from localhost to a custom domain with SSL with just a little more than a git push. I can't think of many solutions that are simpler than that.

iammileson Remote Work and WFH companies hiring now

Scala and scalable always gets me.

iammileson Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic

For anyone who hasn't read it, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, by Alfred Lansing is a well-written account of the expedition story.

iammileson First confirmed hatchings of two California condor chicks from unfertilized eggs

There is, but if I remember correctly this was due to using frog DNA to fill in missing DNA gaps.

iammileson Why are our brains shrinking?

Shrinking brain strikes again

iammileson Klimaticket: All public transport in Austria with a single ticket for 1095 EUR/y

If you're referring to Fareless Square that was discontinued in 2012.

With the way the MAX stops are designed, it's still very possible to just hop on without paying.

iammileson PHP 3.0 Final is out (1998)

This is the same story for me. Moving from PHP to Python was really difficult conceptually for me. For years fiddling with Apache configs and uploading files via FTP was web development.

I sometimes find myself thinking about teenagers getting started nowadays and the accessibility of development, but I suppose there are a lot more resources now than the early 2000s for some enterprising kids to get started.

iammileson Utah bill would require activated porn filter software on new phones, tablets

This was my first thought. Assuming this bill even becomes law, it seems like this might hurt local retailers.