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jimvdv··on The computer science degree isn’t dead
I guess it depends on what you want out of life too. I did not go to Uni, started my career early and had a very comfortable income my entire 20’s. No debt, travelled all over the world, relaxed freelance contracts. I had a lot of free time and low stress.

Later I joined one of my freelance clients as a co-founder (early 30s), more risky than the FAANG path but we’re on the right path to a comfortable pension.

I wouldn’t trade my life for that of some of my FAANG friends.

jimvdv··on Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev
Podman supports just the pod spec also used by kubernetes. How much orchestration do you need on a local machine?
jimvdv··on Unsealed court documents show teen addiction was big tech's "top priority"
I started using an extension called “social focus”. Allows me to hide all kinds of distractions on social media and YouTube, can highly recommend
jimvdv··on CSS Grid Lanes
Not updating your browser will net you tons of exploitable vulnerabilities.

How do you expect things to ever change if no one ever updates? Certainly even if you decide to lean towards maximum support it’s still a positive these features are being introduced so you can use them in 10 years.

jimvdv··on Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
Back in the day I believe I just installed the OS on a USB stick and used the SD card only to boot of that.
jimvdv··on WebTransport is almost here to allow UDP-like exchange in the browser
You can get a free cert from letsencrypt using their dns challenge. No need to expose to the internet. Add a DNS record that points to the address of your LAN and it’ll make things even easier for your guests.
jimvdv··on Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster
I like using Vercel v0 for frontend
jimvdv··on US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report
Even if it is intended as a hint to human observers, during a big scandal in my country a few years ago turned out all the gov officials where blindly following the computer advise. Many where falsely accused of fraud by tax authorities, almost all where from ethnic minorities.
jimvdv··on Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch (2022)
I agree with you on the subjects are boring rich people, if we judge it with today standards. For the time it was actually quite unique that (upper) middle class people could get their portrait done, and not just nobles.

I like to think of it as part of a period of history where the merchants start to gain power from the aristocracy and that shows in what gets passed down to us.

jimvdv··on Gentle Guide to Self-Hosting
Additionally you can use Tailscale for added convenience. Tailscale is a payed service, for a simple home server you can get away with the free plan and their mobile apps work rather well.

Not affiliated with Tailscale at all just shouting them out because they do make things very easy and I often recommend them to hobbyist.

jimvdv··on Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript
Fair enough
jimvdv··on Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript
Thank you for bringing this up, I almost ignored this project since I assumed it had something to do with TypeScript + JSX.

The JS ecosystem sure struggles with naming things.

jimvdv··on Button Stealer
If chrome permissions made sense a user could choose to activate the extension when they visit a site.

Also the extension could have no network access and have read-only access to the DOM to name a few improvements.

jimvdv··on Advanced Shell Scripting Techniques: Automating Complex Tasks with Bash
If you start to think about optimising the performance of your bash scripts it might be time to rewrite in another language
jimvdv··on Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3
I just mount a case sensitive Apple File System disk image at ~/code, works well
jimvdv··on Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language
HN is so full of negative comments like these. OP I’m very impressed you learned all of this at 17! I started coding when I was a teenager but still haven’t released something like this 10 years later.
jimvdv··on Portugal's democracy turns 50
I would love some reading recommendations on the history of Indonesia after Dutch colonialism
jimvdv··on FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal
I think this is antithetical to most people’s view of privacy on this platform :)
jimvdv··on Ask HN: What are some communities like HN?
I really enjoy reading /r/askHistorians. It’s a strongly moderated community with high quality content. Truly and example for what the internet can be.
jimvdv··on Add extra stuff to a “standard” encoding? Sure, why not
Ah I was just experimenting with what was possible, essentially I wanted to intercept notifications from an app to use for an automation.
jimvdv··on Add extra stuff to a “standard” encoding? Sure, why not
From my experimentation with writing my own push notification client for android, this is exactly what Google does with their push messages.
jimvdv··on I am afraid to inform you that you have built a compiler (2022)
You are right most developers are not very good at that. I think it’s important to stress that this goes both ways. You should not cut your margins if you take longer, but I also think it is a little unethical to bill more hours than one spends no? At least if you have a clear agreement to bill by the hour.
jimvdv··on Why Darwin admired the earthworm
That links returns 404 for me :(
jimvdv··on I made a smooth shadows generator
This is very cool! One suggestion: I would like to be able to see the generated CSS live so I can learn how the effect is actually created and how playing with options modify the output (could not find an option on mobile).
jimvdv··on Show HN: MrScraper AI – Dead simple web scraper (powered by AI)
It sends our request over a lot of proxies so your scraper does not get rate limited or blocked by ip address.
jimvdv··on A rant on bus stops
To be fair Buenos Aires queueing is on another level, neatest I’ve ever seen.
jimvdv··on Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words
If I enter a shopping mall in my country I expect it to be American the same way I expect a McDonald’s to be American. I mean, the very concept is foreign.
jimvdv··on There was nothing “wasted” about my youth spent clubbing on ecstasy (2021)
Mind altering drugs allows one to glimpse what kind of person one could be if they where e.g more empathetic or less anxious. It can help people better understand such feelings.

I can understand the “true self” narrative, when one loses their constant anxiety for on a trip for example, those feeling suddenly start to feel different in sober life, as if they are no longer a part of you but instead are with you. Hence why you discover your “true self”, who does not have such negative feelings.

jimvdv··on macOS keeps a huge wallpapers cache
I once found 15gb+ of Spotify cache from my 256gb MacBook. Deleted the app and use the web player now.
jimvdv··on Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus
> pay or lose months or years of history.

You can download all your workspace data now, includes chat history.

Chat history on free plan was already limited, so I don’t think anyone who was aware of that was using it as an archive.

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