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moasdaon Modernizing the AntennaPod Code Structure

AntennaPod is a great open source podcast player. It's amazing to see a huge refactoring to reduce package dependency cycles over the past four years.

I'm delighted that I was mentioned twice in the blog post! :-)

moasdaon Show HN: Scara.io- a 2D robot programming game that you can play in the browser

Congratulations on this great online game! I enjoyed testing some levels.

moasdaon What is the best Reddit alternative?

I suggest https://join-lemmy.org/

moasdaon Ask HN: What productivity tools do you use?

For business, I use the Personal Kanban Task Organizer. It has an Outlook integration, so the tasks planned for today show up in my Outlook calendar.

I implemented it as a desktop software, it's available for Linux and Windows, it keeps your personal data on your local computer, no cloud communication, FLOSS.

https://gitlab.com/moasda/task-organizer

moasdaon Ask HN: What CAPTCHAs can beat GPT-4?

Could the web of trust approach be a solution?

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

Possibly, this will give it a boost again.

moasdaon Ask HN: Seeking a simple free blogging platform that works on old machines.

Would a self-hosted static website be an alternative?

You could use your HTML skills, rent a cheap virtual server with nginx, and buy a web domain. Advantage: You are not dependent on the existence of a free platform provider, so your blog will still exist in 10 years.

moasdaon Use the XDG Base Directory Specification

Lazarus (https://www.lazarus-ide.org/) has built-in support for the configuration folder ($XDG_CONFIG_HOME) in the user context and in the global context:

GetAppConfigDir() and GetAppConfigFile()

For more details see https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Multiplatform_Programmin...

moasdaon Ask HN: How do you find domain names for a new product?

https://smartynames.com/

https://domaingpt.billylo.ca/

moasdaon Ask HN: Any hobby ideas using an Android-based smartphone?

You could contribute to the OpenStreetMap project:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_to_contribute

I like to do that when I'm in a new environment and I see missing buildings or missing house numbers, for example.

moasdaon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)

financial.com FDC India | Kochi (Kerala, India) | ONSITE (up to 50% remote) | Full-time

We're hiring for roles in Kochi including:

- IT Team Leader (for an agile team with JavaScript and Java developers and QA)

- Java Backend Developer (microservice development)

Tech stack includes Java, Kafka, MariaDB, JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Git

financial.com provides web applications to visualize financial data for traders and investors. We develop and host tailor-made solutions for banks, exchanges and authorities.

More information and apply at https://www.financial.com/careers/

moasdaon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022)

financial.com | Kochi (Kerala, India) | ONSITE (up to 50% remote) | Full-time

Tech stack includes Java, Kafka, MariaDB, JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Git

financial.com provides web applications to visualize financial data for traders and investors. We develop and host tailor-made solutions for banks, exchanges and authorities.

We're hiring for roles in Kochi including:

- IT Team Leader (for an agile team with JavaScript and Java developers and QA)

- Java Backend Developer (microservice development)

More information and apply at https://www.financial.com/careers/

moasdaon Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe

The article isn't correct in all arguments:

> However, you won’t be getting the advanced features like automation or other integration...

Codeberg also has built-in CI support using Woodpecker (ci.codeberg.org). It works very well.

> However, if you are interested in a privacy-friendly GitHub alternative from Europe, I suggest you check out Codeberg.

Important to know that Codeberg only allows to host projects with a FLOSS license. So I wouldn't announce it as a GitHub alternative without a further note.

moasdaon Ask HN: Is Code Deletion Helpful?

I've had a lot of discussions with developers on this topic. It seems to be difficult for developers to delete code even if it is versioned in Git, so the code is not really lost.

I regularly encourage my teams to delete code that has no use in the near future. Because every line of code in the production environment leads to maintenance effort, so this would save their time.

moasdaon Ask HN: How do you solve bottleneck engineers?

I had to solve a similar issue in two teams. I'm not against documentation, but this wouldn't have solved the issue in my case. Documentation was available, but you couldn't clearly know if it's still up-to-date or which use case would be the right one.

The solution was to dissolve head monopolies. The best developer in the team was very supportive and tried to solve all problems himself instead of involving his colleagues to make them more independent from him. This was not malicious intent, but just helpfulness oriented to short-term solutions.

So it was a structural cause that could only be solved from outside the team.

moasdaon Dogs can detect if people are stressed, research finds

tl;dr: humans produce a different odour when under pressure – and dogs can sniff it out

Amazing result

moasdaon SaaS Pricing

What if you offered multiple (3?) user groups with different storage volumes?

moasdaon Ask HN: How to make a native GUI with a modern language?

Maybe not modern enough but I like to use Lazarus to create native desktop applications. It compiles to several platforms with a small footprint. It's based on Free Pascal.

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

moasdaon Thank You, Firebug (2017)

For me, Firebug was a game changer in web development. It has set a new standard.

moasdaon Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired? (August 2022)

:-D

moasdaon Sheldon Brown’s Bicycle Technical Info

I most like "Brown's Law Of Tire Sizing":

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/tire-sizing.html#brownslaw

moasdaon Ask HN: What cloud storage do you use/trust on sensitive data?

I use a self-hosted NextCloud instance. I wouldn't consider a commercial cloud for my sensitve data, even if it's encrypted.

moasdaon Ask HN: Why isn't GWT or Vaadin more popular among Java developers?

Exactly. The abstraction is good to have quick first results.

As soon as it comes to browser-specific issues or very detailed customer requirements you need the flexibility to look behind the abstraction layer. Then, if you do not have the necessary expertise, you are lost.

moasdaon Q and A: The difference between hard and soft links

Thank you for the link. Finally, I now got the difference between hard and soft links. Very interesting and easy to understand!

moasdaon Ask HN: CI in 2022

https://codeberg.org/ (git hosting for free and open source software) uses Woodpecker for its CI. It works quite well.

moasdaon Open Food Facts – a food products database made by everyone, for everyone

There is also an app available on F-Droid, see link below. I frequently use it to scan the food on my table and I am surprised sometimes about the good or bad food quality.

https://f-droid.org/packages/openfoodfacts.github.scrachx.op...

moasdaon Ask HN: How do I get notifications about my post on HN?

https://hnreplies.com/ works very well for me.

moasdaon Ask HN: How can E2E services like 1Password and Bitwarden offer password resets?

Technically, the vault key is stored in several copies, each copy is encrypted by the personal key of a user in the group, or a recovery user to reset the vault key.

> Then what is the entire purpose of such services, if their providers still need to be blindly trusted?

Even if the provider doesn't have direct access to the vault key, you have to trust the provider at the moment you access your vault, because the server is controlled by the provider.

moasdaon Can we think without using language?

Interesting question, thanks for sharing the link.

From article: "To test this claim, she and her team conducted a study in which they gave participants a word-free logic problem to solve, such as a sudoku puzzle or a bit of algebra. Then, the researchers scanned these folks' brains using an fMRI machine as they worked out the puzzle. The researchers found that the regions of the participants' brains associated with language did not light up as they solved the problems; in other words, they were reasoning without words."

moasdaon Ask HN: As a developer, what is cyber security?

You cannot guarantee 100% security, but you can cross-check with best practices if you've done your best. A good source is the OWASP top 10 list of most frequent security flaws:

https://owasp.org/Top10/