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macleodanon JITX – The Fastest Way to Design Circuit Boards

Your signup and contact forms are broken and tell me 405 not allowed.

macleodanon Show HN: Oldest Search – Search for the oldest result on internet

"You need to enable JavaScript to run this app."

This seems especially unappealing for people who like the old web.

macleodanon New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases

Cats like knocking stuff off tables.

macleodanon I have magnets implanted in my hands

PeerTube is a decentralised alternative which uses ActivityPub and can federate with Mastodon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube

macleodanon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2016)

SEEKING WORK

Location: Europe / Nomadic

Remote: Yes

Full stack and ops generalist. Have built first version of a startup from requirements / business analysis through front end, backend (Ruby on Rails), payment, email (AWS SES), sms integrations, infrastructure design and deployment on dedicated servers with Ansible. Interest in security and secure messaging.

Ruby, Rails, Java, Perl, Javascript, Ansible, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Ubuntu, DNS, NTP, SMTP,...

Homepage: https://mm0hai.net

Email: river @ above domain

Github: https://github.com/anm

macleodanon Show HN: Picky Pint – Scan beer lists with a photo

It would be good if you could flag which ones are vegan, or only show vegan results.

macleodanon The Fall Of Perl, The Web's Most Promising Language

It seems the perception of Perl 6 as a long delayed update to Perl 5 is a serious problem for the languages. Perl 6 is not really the next version of Perl 5, it is more like another language.

Perl 5 is still under active development. The latest stable release was version 18.2, made in January. Perl 5 will continue to exist even when more people start using Perl 6. Also, Perl 6 is available and usable already.

macleodanon Why I'm Learning Morse Code

Morse is not all in the past tense, as you write.

I have learnt it, a bit, for amateur radio, where it is still used. There are lots of wee applications for it too, like showing status messages on a small electronic device using a single LED.

There have been times I have wished more people know it, for example for communicating with light accross a mountain valley, or communicating underwater.

macleodanon The entrepreneurial adventures of a coder living in a tent in the forest

Why not? You could make a snowhole to live in. I know someone who knits coding gloves, too. :)

macleodanon The Case for Using Mad Lib Sign Up Forms

Looked at previously opened tab. Saw advert popup. Closed tab.

macleodanon How to land an airplane if you are not a pilot

He forgot to deploy landing gear.

macleodanon Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

Why would you use this tool to lookup common characters found on your keyboard? Maybe a better idea is to show uncommon characters first.

macleodanon Show HN: LaughMatch

I like the idea. It has the clever advantage of offering something of value before anyone else has signed up - funny videos. Maybe you should offer more videos before the signup page. Maybe even split the sign up fields between videos. Obviously this is a good candidate for testing.

One major thing I don't like though are the highly restrictive options for gender and orientation. In the case of a dating site, classifying gender does seem like a neccesary evil, but the options could at least allow more people to sign up. I would suggest, as one possibility, adding more options, such as none and other, and also making this a check box selection for people with more than one gender.

Additionally, why do you ask for orientation? You don't need to know this, and you fail to ask the necessary question of "which genders would you like to be matched with". These things are not the same. This section could also allow check box selection of desired matches.

macleodanon A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is very good, but not quite the best

They probably aren't up to their ratings.

Also, the USB cable may be too high resistance, causing a voltage drop.

macleodanon A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is very good, but not quite the best

I have looked at some cheap car USB power supplies.

Griffin: http://mm0hai.net/blog/2012/09/30/Griffin-USB-Car-Charger.ht...

Unbranded, common on ebay. http://mm0hai.net/blog/2012/08/01/Message-to-an-ebay-seller....

They were both awful. I would be interested to know about a known good one.

macleodanon Show HN: Our new property search website for London - Locatable

macleodanon DoubleRobotics: Telepresence gets sexy (and made in the USA)

I found the title misleading; I was expecting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics

macleodanon Ask HN: Post your GitHub punchcard - this is mine

All over the place: http://mm0hai.net/blog/2011/03/11/github-punchcard.html

macleodanon Why We Do Pushups

I put up a leader board in the office yesterday for stair climbing times. I've got one other person interested and the competition has started already. :) Current best time is 44s for 8 floors.