HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

iimblack

138 karma · joined January 25, 2019

submissionscomments
iimblack··on Firebase Firestore down or high latency
We're seeing logins fail and trying to use the google meet and google drive APIs fail.
iimblack··on Microsoft Dependency Has Risks
How do you separate the good from the bad? What do you do when Microsoft changes the good things into bad things?

My take is that Microsoft consistently makes bad things and makes "good" things into "bad" things; so, I don't have much expectation or faith that anything that I currently think is "good" will stay that way.

iimblack··on Cloudflare was down
So weird to argue when google themselves listed these as having an outage.
iimblack··on Cloudflare was down
They updated the incident noting that it's not just authentication affected.
iimblack··on Ask HN: Is Firebase Down?
Yep, seeing SSO and auth errors from firebase.
iimblack··on The Continuing Crisis, Part IX: Inside the NIH Now
What blows my mind is how short sighted it is. Even the oligarchs benefit from scientific research. Even the oligarchs lose money when our industries move to other countries.
iimblack··on Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux
Lenses can be setup with bang notation. So a research lens could use !r your-query-here
iimblack··on Paper Apps
Onirim is good but the phone app is better since there’s so much shuffling. Cursed?! is one of my favorites. Galdors Grip is really cool in that you can play it in hand, you don’t need a table, so you can play it anywhere.
iimblack··on Oh Shit, Git?
Since you brought it up, I personally switched to jujutsu and prefer it greatly. I regularly help coworkers deal with issues in git and keep dropping hints like `in jujutsu this would've been done way easier like this!`. Nobody bites yet since I think most of them don't want to use the CLI but maybe someday if enough people keep talking about it the inertia will get to the point that we can get some really slick GUIs for jj.
iimblack··on The NBA's Problem Is Economics, Not Basketball
> If a player just delivers a nasty dunk and then even so much as looks at the guy they just dunked on, that’s a foul.

On the other hand we get players like Draymond Green getting away with yelling at refs and trying to injure other players like nothing happened.

iimblack··on The NBA's Problem Is Economics, Not Basketball
Basketball is also the problem, refereeing specifically. Refs are humans and make mistakes but it’s hard to watch and not feel like there’s blatant favoritism to star players or certain teams.

There are the L2M reports that detail all the mistakes they make in the end of the game and way too often they’re game altering.

Then there’s the inconsistent approach to the rules. They’ll suddenly decide they want to push a rule, call every tiny infraction on it, then 10 games later it’s like the refs collectively forgot the rule exists at all.

It all makes for an extremely frustrating experience for the players and the fans.

iimblack··on Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript
Rescript?
iimblack··on Three ways to think about Go channels
Might have simplified this with errgroup [0].

[0] https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/sync/errgroup

iimblack··on Show HN: Qq: like jq, but can transcode between many formats
This is the beauty of open source. I love that you’re being so collaborative here instead of seeing another tool as competition.
iimblack··on Biodiversity enhances immune regulation among daycare children (2020)
Anecdotally having lived in both types of houses, sweeping and mopping is much more frequent in the house that allows shoes inside.
iimblack··on What makes a great contribution to a codebase?
IME hard disagree. Projects with any longevity and/or turnover will have code that doesn’t seem to make sense but was put there for a reason. Commit messages are key to giving the context because even though there might be descriptions people will put the relevant slack messages and jira tickets in the pr or commit.

At this point I almost weekly have to review the full context on a pr to make sure my fix won’t break some historical use case that isn’t immediately obvious.

iimblack··on Weekly 1:1s are a staple of management. I hated it and found it useless
Are you the IC or the manager?
iimblack··on Weekly 1:1s are a staple of management. I hated it and found it useless
Having worked in both sides I’ve always liked monthly.
iimblack··on [dead]
I’d hate having 30 edits to a ticket description polluting my git log.
iimblack··on Design docs at Google (2020)
Couldn’t you just reference a recent doc and say this is mostly the same with these x differences leading to y alterations for z reasons?
iimblack··on 00Key a 75% Keyboard
Since you’re ok with diy have you looked at boards you can add a pimoroni trackball to? I haven’t used it personally but have seen a few of them.
iimblack··on From a lorry driver to Ruby on rails developer at 38
In my job search for remote USA roles it seems a little less popular than Django just bolstered by the GitHub and Shopify postings. Node, dotnet, go, and Java all seem more popular.
iimblack··on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers
I mean sure but that means nothing to the average user. You have to appeal to your audience, unfortunately, and the audience of mass users has shown time and again that ux is extremely important over anything else.
iimblack··on Using ClickHouse to scale an events engine
That’s cool. Clickhouse and Alloy’s performances are impressive.
iimblack··on The UX of UUIDs
This is amazing thank you for sharing.
iimblack··on Ask HN: Who's getting their job applications rejected?
Yeah going thru the process of 5-7 interviews just to get lowballed or ghosted is pretty draining. I’m guessing it’s just a tough market and I’m getting edged out by other candidates or companies have so many applicants they can offer less than I asked for during screening.
iimblack··on Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity
Yes I’d love to hear if anybody found any good note taking apps that do good ocr and that lets the notes be organized and tagged afterwards zettelkasten style.
iimblack··on Show HN: Linen.team – A lightweight, thread-first Slack alternative
Any tests done on scaling? How’s the search? Maybe because of the nature of slack but I use advanced filters very frequently to find old messages.
iimblack··on Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret
I do use azure a bit so I know what you mean. Googles ui is significantly more buggy in Firefox which I use. On chrome/edge it’s a bit better.
iimblack··on Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret
I don’t have as much experience with aws but I do hate gcp. The ui is slow and buggy. The way they want things to authenticate is half baked and only implemented in some libraries and it isn’t always clear what library supports it. The gcloud command line tool regularly just doesn’t work; it just hangs and never times out forcing you to kill it manually wondering if it did anything and you’ll mess something up running it again. The way they update client libraries by running code generation means there’s tons of commits that aren’t relevant to the library you’re actually using. Features are not available across all client libraries. Documentation contradicts itself or contradicts support recommendations. Core services like bigquery lack any emulator or Docker image to facilitate CI or testing without having to setup a separate project you have to pay for.
Page 1 of 4Next →