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jrnkntl

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jeroen, works on apps & ops.

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jrnkntl··on Does Postgres Scale?
autobase[1] is the one I can think of

[1] https://github.com/autobase-tech/autobase

jrnkntl··on TrustTunnel: Open-source VPN protocol by AdGuard
Just found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708601
jrnkntl··on Self-Employed, Self-Exhausted
https://maalvika.substack.com/p/compression-culture-is-makin...
jrnkntl··on Show HN: Pgs.sh – A zero-install static site hosting service for hackers
Is this fronted by a CDN? Or where is the content served from? I can't find any mention of it in the FAQ or the services description.
jrnkntl··on Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site
The link at the bottom to the source code is incorrect, correct link is https://git.sr.ht/~mlb/linkhut
jrnkntl··on Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine
Nice work and pleasant to use. One improvement idea I have after getting to the exercise list is to add a warmup routine for the chosen muscle groups. Before beginning the exercices.
jrnkntl··on Sorted 3: Tasks and calendar events in a unified timeline
Things[1] has had this feature as long as I can remember. Just mentioning it since Sorted seems to be Mac/iOS only too and the title mentions this as its main feature.

[1] https://culturedcode.com/things/

jrnkntl··on Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubar
Not sure if this is on other Bose headphones, but my QC35's can cycle through known devices with the power button

[edit] removed assumption about functionality presence on all Bose headphones

jrnkntl··on Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubar
I have trouble with the value proposition. If I understand correctly only the noise-cancelling toggle is a proprietary Bluetooth feature of the Bose? Since f.e. Toothfairy[1] also handles the connection of -all- BT devices for your mac (not only Bose headphones), shows battery info and is $ 5.99.

[1] https://c-command.com/toothfairy/

jrnkntl··on RIP Flynn.io
I'm happily using Dokku[1] and another one in this host your own PaaS space is CapRover[2]

[1] https://dokku.com/

[2] https://caprover.com

jrnkntl··on Nomad v1.0 release – workload orchestration
Ah, I've submitted this as soon as I saw the notification of the new release on Github, maybe the blog post was indeed more relevant.

Congratulations on this milestone release, we're using Nomad since March this year on a single 'bare-metal' server and it serves our needs perfectly. We set it up with a simple gorilla/mux API in front and use the Nomad API to submit jobs from all our other applications and it works flawlessly.

With regards to 1.0's features:

HCL2 is a welcome addition for us since we had a lot of repetition in our job files using artifacts for tasks.

Also the addition of the PostStop lifecycle couldn't come at a better time, we were discussing workarounds for this recently.

One area of potential improvement would be the behaviour of file/directory permissions through different task drivers, I know this is totally dependent of the different drivers we can use with Nomad but more than once we bumped into this while setting up our jobs (and others too [1][2])

[1] https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/2625 [2] https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/8892

Thanks for all the work your team did. I am a big fan of the Hashicorp ecosystem.

jrnkntl··on TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream
They even name their annual event this way[1]

[1] https://reinvent.awsevents.com

jrnkntl··on My Hunt for the Original McDonald’s French-Fry Recipe
Unfortunately, there are still a lot of shitty "frituurs" in Belgium that just fry bought frozen fries instead of the double fried freshly cut ones. Problem is, they get taken over by new owners very quickly (also the the barrier to entry the market is very low).

Although checking out the Google Reviews before a visit filtering by the Belgian names of the reviewers' is generally a good enough measure to go by.

But please, do try them with mayo!

jrnkntl··on Ask HN: Which domain registrar do you recommend?
I've been using Cloudflare Registrar[1] for a year now for all .com domains. No nonsense or extra fees. Gandhi[2] for exotic TLDs (best price). For EU domain TLDs I stick to Vimexx[3] (in Dutch).

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/

[2] https://www.gandi.net/

[2] https://vimexx.eu/

jrnkntl··on How Do Computers Generate Random Numbers?
Cloudflare has a fun solution to this involving lava lamps[0][1]

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/randomness-101-lavarand-in-produ...

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty...

jrnkntl··on AppleBot – Automate Things in Apple Dev Portal
Maybe I am missing the explained distinction ("Think Fastlane but for the dev portal"), but fastlane also supports the listed examples in the dev portal[1][2].

[1]https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/register_devices/ [2]https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/#code-signing

jrnkntl··on InvoiceNet: Neural network to extract information from invoice documents
Most invoicing software can generate a UBL[1] document (XML) and send this alongside a PDF. But this can (as far as I know) unfortunately not be embedded into the PDF.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Business_Language

jrnkntl··on LinkedIn Legal's Response to Their 2012 Breach
What irked me the most about this email was the lack of ANY sort of excuse/word of sorry.
jrnkntl··on Leftpad-rs
Is there a special reason the tests are all asserting inequality? To me this only indicates if it doesn't do stuff it's not supposed to do, instead of working as intended: https://github.com/hfiguiere/leftpad-rs/blob/master/src/lib....

[edit] thanks for the explanation, I'm not familiar with rust and just assumed the bang would mean !=

jrnkntl··on Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta
Just tried a couple of images with digits to test out the OCR w/ the TEXT_DETECTION setting, unfortunately it assumes what it reads is a defined language with words. I am looking into using this for digit-recognition and only digits, but that doesn't seem to be a use case (as it is now). Does anybody know of another service/API that can do reliable digits-only OCR on (not the finest clear quality) images?
jrnkntl··on Netflix cracks down on proxy streaming
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10902323
jrnkntl··on Netflix to block proxy access to content not available locally
"... to access Netflix's popular shows such as "House of cards" and "Orange is the new black" ..."

Well, these series should be the ones that you should NOT need to resort to proxies for, since they're Netflix owned content.

I wonder if Smart DNS proxy servers[1] will also be affected...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_DNS_proxy_server

jrnkntl··on GoPro cutting 7 percent of its workforce
You mean Shred Video?

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/21/shred-video-turns-hours-of-...

jrnkntl··on Flirting with Elixir
I can highly recommend David Thomas' book Programming Elixir, I found it complete to get a good grip and also a great introduction into functional programming overall

https://pragprog.com/book/elixir/programming-elixir

jrnkntl··on Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
cmd+f redundancy, availability, durability, 99: 0 results.

Only on https://www.backblaze.com/b2/why-b2.html it is that I can cite the following: "the B2 Cloud Storage service has layers of redundancy to ensure data is durable and available". What that exactly is or what it translates to is nowhere to be found. If you want corporations or developers to use your storage services for their precious data, I'd be a bit more specific.

jrnkntl··on Netflix Releases Falcor Developer Preview
This makes so much sense, after learning about Relay/GraphQL I was wondering who else was working on something like it, it appears Netflix is one of them :)
jrnkntl··on The Focal Camera – An open-source modular camera prototyping system
Album with examples: http://imgur.com/a/XzVBq
jrnkntl··on Pixate (YC S12) and Google
CSS for iOS / Android elements Renamed to Pixate Freestyle http://www.freestyle.org/
jrnkntl··on Blendle: A radical experiment with micropayments in journalism, 365 days later
Elinea* (also in the Netherlands) offers a Spotify subscription style model for readers (next to a pay-per-article model) but they seem to be more focused on magazines than newspapers. I figure this has to do with the reasoning mentioned by alexandernl.

* http://www.elinea.nl/

jrnkntl··on Sublime Text 3 Build 3080
FYI For the people running dev-builds (like myself) and are wondering why they don't get an update notification from 3079:

  If you're already using dev build 3079, then there's no need to update
  - 3080 is identical, except it will give update
  notifications for beta builds only, rather than dev builds.[1]
[1] http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17796
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