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jteppinetteon Piku: Allows git push deployments to your own servers

I developed security software in Python that ran on 100k+ production nodes covering dozens of operating systems. They all had Python.

jteppinetteon Lnav – An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale

Agree with logfmt. I wrote the logfmter python library: https://github.com/jteppinette/python-logfmter. You can quickly have all of your logs (including 3rd party) converted to this style.

jteppinetteon Make your database tables smaller

That’s not what denormalize means, how long have you been doing this again?

jteppinetteon Make your database tables smaller

Because you didn’t actually refute anything the GP said, and gave bad advice, all while being incredibly negative and arrogant.

> this mostly clueless advice

> strong opinions put forth by someone who doesn't have the necessary experience, or understanding of what's going on under the hood

> I'm tired of suchlike n00b advice strongly (and incorrectly and arrogantly) expressed on HN

You continue to just say it depends without giving any actual scenarios. You make it sound like magic, but it’s not: “under x and y, do z except when u” is better than “it depends, I’m sick of all these noobs”.

Also, your main points are against denormalization and avoiding large table joins which are 100% rational arguments under certain workloads.

jteppinetteon Make your database tables smaller

Wow, this comment comes across as being incredibly arrogant while providing zero value. nOOb lol

jteppinetteon January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all

I don’t mind at all. I am open sourcing it, and it is free lol.

jteppinetteon January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all

Copyright, Trademark, and Patent Law should not exist. Contract law and trade secrets cover all necessary use cases. Checkout Stephan Kinsela @NSKinsella for more info.

jteppinetteon Show HN: EasyPub.io

Thanks! Here are a few of the design principals that make it a better option than other offerings:

  1. No tracking
  2. No ads
  3. Completely anonymous
  4. 100% free forever
  5. Improved ux via wysiwyg editor
  6. Rendered simple readable html content.

Also, I will be fully open sourcing the code very soon.

Let me know if you have any other thoughts / suggestions.

jteppinetteon Fly.io Status – Deployments are broken

Out of curiosity, what are you replacing Consul/Nomad with?

jteppinetteon Fly.io Status – Deployments are broken

This is what is worrying me about moving over to Fly. I am surprised that it has been so heavily pushed here on HN. Perhaps this is just a relatively isolated event, we will see how it is handled moving forward.

jteppinetteon Fly.io Status – Deployments are broken

Fly deployments have been "down" (partially / fully) for a couple days per their status page.

After all of the recent talk about moving from Heroku to Fly, I was surprised to have all of these operational issues when doing my initial sniff test.

Can anyone testify to the production worthiness of Fly, or should I look somewhere else?

Edit: Before anyone says "editorialized title", when I posted this, the title of the linked page literally said "Deployments are broken".

jteppinetteon Do central banks’ mounting losses actually matter?

First, the money supply and price of money has been manipulated since before central banks existed.

I don’t exactly understand your thesis, because, of course the federal reserve existing more than a decade before the Great Depression and is a primary driver for the credit expansion that caused the Great Depression to be so large and long lasting. Artificial manipulation, as I described above, is what causes the natural movements of an economy to be so extreme.

jteppinetteon Do central banks’ mounting losses actually matter?

When discussing price, supply and demand is a natural way to reach the most efficient answer. Alternatively, price fixing, results in market failure.

jteppinetteon Do central banks’ mounting losses actually matter?

> it is extremely clear to me that some kind of control of the money supply is necessary, otherwise you get depressions

I disagree, and I will attempt to explain myself clearly.

Artificially modifying the money supply or interest rates (cost of money) breaks the market’s ability to self-regulate. Artificially low interest rates and money creation leads to an artificial boom period. This pushes investment into areas where it would otherwise not be directed (consumer goods vs producer goods / generally bad investments i.e. subprime mortgages, risky tech, etc..). This eventually results in a bust period as the system realizes its mistakes.

The real problem is the creation of an artificial boom, the bust is just a natural reaction to that boom.

jteppinetteon Ask HN: What are the ways you go about getting comfortable with a new codebase?

“Hopefully” … 0% chance

jteppinetteon Logging in Python like a pro

https://github.com/jteppinette/python-logfmter

I made this library to make global structured logging in Python super easy.

jteppinetteon The Twelve-Factor App (2011)

How does the system authenticate with the vault? Why not use that same system to authenticate the database connection? A vault is only useful at scale or with additional compliance requirements. Otherwise, keep it simple. Very few systems actually need that additional level of indirection.

jteppinetteon EU is building an $11B tunnel connecting Scandinavia to Italy

This is not true. It typically takes 10 years to develop new prescription drugs and fully complete regulatory approval.

Private companies are perfectly positioned to accomplish such tasks, because they are not beholden to re-election timelines or shifting voter demands.

Also, the efficiency for such a project’s necessary capital allocation can be adequately determined in the private sector by a profit analysis.

jteppinetteon Celery in production: Three more years of fixing bugs

Thoughts on Huey vs RQ?

jteppinetteon A new wave of Linux applications

> An example is Flathub, where new applications using the most modern toolkits and UX strategy appear every day, providing "just works" alternatives to complex older FOSS software

I go to Flathub. Click the first app I see. <App not found>

jteppinetteon Pure Bash Bible – A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes

But it is not a builtin. Someone else is going to have to maintain this one day.

> insert quote about writing your code as if the person who will have to maintain it next is a violent psychopath who knows where you live

jteppinetteon Pure Bash Bible – A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes

I’m sorry, but I almost spit my drink out at how unreadable the very first example is.

  trim_string() {
      # Usage: trim_string "   example   string    "
      : "${1#"${1%%[![:space:]]*}"}"
      : "${_%"${_##*[![:space:]]}"}"
      printf '%s\n' "$_"
  }

jteppinetteon A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design

This is awesome! We should definitely move in this direction.

jteppinetteon The goal of standards is to improve our future actions

I like this font.

jteppinetteon Write an SQL query builder in 150 lines of Python

How do you parametrize things like dynamic joins, where clauses, field selections, or aggregations without string manipulation or gross duplication?

jteppinetteon Show HN: Rebalance My Portfolio

I wrote this tool after spending too much time crunching numbers whenever I needed to add new funds to my investment portfolio.

ELI5: Rebalancing an investment portfolio allows the owner to “buy low and sell high” and is a proven method to decrease risk and increase profits.

All processing is client side, so no privacy or data collection issues. All code is open sourced. Hope it helps someone out.

You can check out the About or Guides section for more information. Here is a quick list of features: - calculate rebalance with new money - calculate rebalance with a withdrawal - calculate rebalance with only existing balances