mcrider

Looks great -- putting it on the list!

Seveneves and the Dark Forest series are literally the last two (sets of) books I read and they are so wonderful. The last book in the Dark Forest series in particular has some of the most mind-blowing concepts I've encountered in SciFi.

That was it! There was nothing around the area other than cows and some shanty houses. It was really cool to stumble upon.

I don't believe so. I know there is one on the island of Molokai in Hawaii, which I always wanted to visit when I used to live in Honolulu, but otherwise its not a super tourist-friendly place to visit and I opted to visit other islands instead. The Corn Islands, however I highly recommend to anyone!

This reminds me of a discovery I made while vacationing in the Corn Islands, Nicaragua -- There was a giant cube buried in the middle of nowhere with one corner poking out of the earth. A plaque nearby said it was the 'soul of the world' and I looked it up to find this funny old organization (http://www.souloftheworld.com) had planted the cubes around the planet, saying that their positions were the vertexes of a cube that was positioned in such a way (and only possible in this way) that every corner touched land. Apparently it has a certain spiritual significance, which is funny to me, but I thought it was really interesting that someone went through the trouble to create them.

Yes, this is my only fault with Firefox. I'll open a tab and start typing, then (when I guess the tab is ready) the url bar resets and I've lost everything I've typed. This is super frustrating!

SEEKING FREELANCER | Toronto or Remote

Hi all, I'm looking for a freelance web developer to assist me with overflow work.

Project types include static websites (sometimes hooked up to a cloud-based CMS like Dato CMS), Vue.js clients, and Wordpress sites (if that sounds like a red flag I don't blame you but using Timber with WP is actually pretty great and some clients demand WP because they're so familiar with it). The bulk of my work is with reputable design firms so there is a very high standard WRT front-end implementation.

Project ownership depends on what we're both comfortable with, either giving you full ownership with my oversight or tag-teaming and you keep track of hours.

Ideally looking for someone in Toronto for the occasional meetup, but open to folks from other locations. Send me your resume, portfolio, and standard rate and I'll be in touch!

matt@typewriter.software

Joplin would be great if it just had some organization of todos approaching GTD (inbox, views based on due date). I really want an app that combines my notes and todos together but anything that does that (which i've tried) treats todos as notes with a checkbox next to it.

In Toronto I think we'd love this idea for the same exact reasons. Our city was amalgamated from several different cities in the 90s and most people regret the decision because citizens/politicians from the more suburban areas have different motivations than those that live downtown (especially WRT driving vs transit). The infighting over the years has caused many delays/cancellations in our infrastructure to the point that transit has become possibly the #1 problem for our city. I can't compare the situation to Sydney but aren't smaller jurisdictions generally more nimble?

Basically this is a publishing platform for IPFS objects where you can configure document types and enforce posted objects to a schema. It has PGP encryption built-in to make it easy to encrypt and decrypt objects on IPFS.

I started this by wanting to build a todo/notes app built on IPFS after realizing that if I want the perfect productivity app I should build it :) Then I thought of other apps I could make using IPFS as storage and decided to create a platform to facilitate them before jumping into client-side work. With this sitting on a server, its easy to make REST queries to it from any app/website and everything is pinned by dcap so its always accessible.

The HP Envy is another great 4k monitor with USB-C and much cheaper the LG models. Getting it working with a macbook can be extremely frustrating but once you got it configured you can plug/unplug at will.

I'm just excited to see the full-width bluetooth keyboard with numpad. Unfortunately it doesn't look like you can order it on its own in spacegray color (call me vain but it looks fantastic!)

Off-topic question for you. What language do you recommend developers build IPFS-backed apps with? I started building an app in Go (which is your reference language) but Javascript seems to have a lot more APIs available for it.

I’m sure their PR department gave their approval, but I’ve never seen a total takeover of a site like this for a political message. I’m pretty impressed.

Hey I tried to export my OPML file from Pocketcasts but Echo doesn't show up in the 'share to' app list or in the More... list. Any tips?

I like the idea of an app with integrated notes and todos, and love that its open source, but this is really lacking in the todo department. No drag-and-drop reordering and no deadlines/grouping by date makes it pretty useless for anything approaching a decent workflow.

I've tried pretty much everything and still haven't found anything with the features/ease-of-use/good design of Wunderlist (which is still lacking in features, and has a fast approaching EOL). Considering todo apps are the modern version of hello world I would think we'd have a lot of good options (or does that reasoning actually mean there are a lot of half-baked options?)

If you like this article, the author (Gabrielle Hamilton) has a great book called Blood, Bones and Butter that I highly recommend (though it gets a bit dull at the end).

Lets say a method to store arbitrary content in a distributed fashion that is permanent and optionally private (encrypted, with the ability to share). I think all of them have this, but the encryption/sharing abilities vary (i.e. you may have to roll your own).

I'll be the one to agree with you, but scummy isn't necessarily the right adjective -- Soulless would be better. I rarely have any reason to go south of Queen Street unless I'm going to Toronto Islands (which I love dearly). A project like this, plus the rail deck park they want to build over the train tracks might help sway me, but what they really need is to tear down/bury the expressway so that everything south of it doesn't feel so divided from the rest of the city.

SEEKING WORK - Remote, Toronto

I'm a full stack web developer with 11+ years experience building interactive web apps and marketing sites for organizations large and small. I spent the last two years working for one of Canada's leading brand agencies as their sole developer, after years of work in the agency world and in academia. I have a love (and good eye) for design, and can work in a large variety of development environments. Currently I tend toward Node.js/Vue.js/AWS in my projects but choice of stack is always an open discussion.

I consult through my company Typewriter Software (https://typewriter.software/). More background on me personally can be found at http://matthewcrider.com/.

At least it can serve to distribute the cost of living to multiple cities. Philly is incredibly cheap in comparison to NYC -- As mentioned in this article (and others) people are already commuting daily from their homes in Philly to their office in New York.

SEEKING WORK - Remote, Toronto

I'm a full stack web developer with 11+ years experience building interactive web apps and marketing sites for organizations large and small. I spent the last two years working for one of Canada's leading brand agencies as their sole developer, after years of work in the agency world and in academia. I have a love (and good eye) for design, and can work in a large variety of development environments. Currently I tend toward Node.js/Vue.js/AWS in my projects but choice of stack is always an open discussion.

I consult through my company Typewriter Software (https://typewriter.software/). More background on me personally can be found at http://matthewcrider.com/.

For those using Serverless, being able to upload just the code (not a full Cloudformation stack) is built in, and will save you tons of time. Also, do what you can to limit/optimize your npm modules (if you're using node) since it has to be uploaded every time.

I'm pretty sure VS Code's window management does not match up. For instance, VS code doesn't allow nested horizontal window panes inside vertical window panes, which is super useful for large displays.

This is incredibly useful for performance. If the user is requesting an image or other static asset, your reverse proxy can detect this and skip making a request to the actual application. Likewise if you want to go to some sort of cache based on the type of request.

Testing. I'm a very experienced programmer, and I have written plenty of unit tests -- but I've never worked in a place with a good testing culture and I've always struggled to develop a high level mentality of how and why I should be testing my software. When should I write a test for something and what is the best way to go about it? Does my code have to be more 'test friendly'? TDD seems very appealing to me as a way to outline my software before I 'dive in' but its hard for me to rationalize spending the extra time on building out the testing framework.

If you want to learn the ins and outs of AWS i would recommend using the real thing. You can always create a new account when you have something in production and want to take advantage of free-tier pricing.

Sounds like an opportunity for machine learning. Anyone want to write an AI BOFH?

I did when bush was in office. Not regretting that move today.

Into BC? That seems counterintuitive.

I had a friend who worked at the Canadian border in BC a few years back. According to him, the main reason the border exists is to control goods coming from the states so that they can be taxed. A lot of people go south of the border to go shopping and don't accurately declare what they're bringing back.