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mwakerman··on LubeLogger: Self-hosted, open-source vehicle service records and tracker
Would you be willing to share your spreadsheet template?
mwakerman··on Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
I always loved Todoist but wanted a Kanban board to organise my day and week. So I created https://kanban.ist as an alternative client that lets me do this. It’s stateless and talks to the Todoist API directly, meaning tasks stay secret. Todoist released their “Boards” feature a few years after this but they only allow you to create a Kanban board for a single project, which didn’t work for me.
mwakerman··on AWS Aurora Serverless v2: architecture, features, pricing, comparison with Fauna
I’ve really enjoy writing queries in RethinkDB’s [REQL language](https://rethinkdb.com/docs/introduction-to-reql/)

> ‘r.table(“users”).filter(u => u(“email”).match(“.*@gmail.com$”)).run(conn)’

mwakerman··on Designing Up Banking
I just checked and Up is 1.5%, Volt is 1.45%, and Macquarie is 1.5% for the first 4 months before dropping to 1.35%.

Edit: Up is actually at 1.6% when you activate the bonus rate by completing 5 card transactions in a month.

mwakerman··on Over 54,000 scanned Australian driver's licences found in open cloud storage
Australia has strict KYC and AML laws that means many financial institutions and fintech businesses will request drivers licences and passports as a part of user registration. This may well be common all over the world but I’ve had to upload a photo of my drivers licence to one service or another twice in the last month.
mwakerman··on Show HN: Tunshell – Remote shell into ephemeral environments behind NAT/firewall
Correct. It’s not always this simple though, you also need an IAM profile that the EC2 instance can assume with the required permissions. Depending on how you configure your NAT Instance/Gateway, you may also need to whitelist the ssm service.
mwakerman··on I Got Milk.com
It might be unrelated but this page was mentioned in a fairly highly upvoted comment on a recent top story here. Dan Bornstein is also a relatively well known engineer.
mwakerman··on AWS’s Share of Amazon’s Profit
I agree and just want to add IAM to the list of AWS Lock In services. We provisions environments almost entirely using Config-as-code tools (packer, ansible, terraform) and generally have a good blueprint for what an environment looks like and the parts I’ve had the hardest time thinking about migrating to another cloud provider is all the IAM rules that magically give hosts/services the ability to talk to other services.