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pgib··on Eternal Terminal
I use tmux on the other side of mosh, and _that_ gives me scroll back plus all of the other great things about tmux.
pgib··on Eternal Terminal
Hmmm, I'll give it a try, though I'm quite happy with mosh. Having to open up only one extra port is nice. I use remote tmux sessions, and so I've never had a scrolling issue before.
pgib··on Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
I feel like they grossly underestimated how many users regularly use back ticks in their Slack messages – the rest of the formatting stuff seems to work fine, but the back tick handling is just horrible.
pgib··on How to run your own mail server (2017)
Not a perfect solution, but you _could_ relay through a provider like Sendgrid. For personal use, the cost would be very minimal if not free.
pgib··on Local Linux User Tries FreeBSD
Though one would generally write a shell script starting with:

`#!/bin/sh`

So it doesn't really matter what the login shell is. (As a long-time FreeBSD user, the first thing I always do is install a different shell; I'm not sure who actually likes tcsh.)

pgib··on Local Linux User Tries FreeBSD
Note that if you do this, you should either `pkg install bash-static` or build bash from the ports using STATIC option (I don't _believe_ it's the default, though it really should be). Without that static option, you could potentially break your shell by upgrading related packages.
pgib··on Clubhouse announces new collaboration tool, free project management platform
We've been using Clubhouse for a few years. It's been rock-solid, has a really polished interface, good integrations (Github, Slack), and is not Jira. (shudders)
pgib··on Autocompletion with Deep Learning
I have been using regular TabNine with vim since January. It is considerably better than anything else I've used, and it saves me a ton of time. Sometimes the suggestions are eerily exactly what I wanted. O_o
pgib··on A problem worse than Zoom?
The author points out Safari's handling of this, but in reality, I think you'd need to address this on a per-browser basis. Zoom said they added this behaviour _because_ Safari added a confirmation which Chrome (and presumable others?) did not have.
pgib··on A problem worse than Zoom?
Zoom got around the CORS restriction by requesting an _image_ which is not subject to CORS. So there are some limitations of what can be done and how you can access things. But you could certainly use this technique to do some simple IP/port scanning on a user's local network.
pgib··on Apple Pro Display XDR
I really hope they introduce a Semi-Pro display for those of us with existing MacBook Pros (I think my 2016 can only push a 5K) who just want a successor to the Thunderbolt Display. I'm currently using a Thunderbolt Display as well as an LG 4K display. While I like the high resolution of the LG, the quality of it is garbage compared to my Thunderbolt Display. The USB-C port works at best 5% of the time, and of course it stopped working after the warranty period.
pgib··on Aroma: Using machine learning for code recommendation
Perhaps not as fancy, but I have been loving TabNine with Vim. (works with most editors) Its suggestions are scary good some of the time.

https://tabnine.com/

pgib··on Signing Your Apps for Gatekeeper
> Give users even more confidence in your software by submitting it to Apple to be notarized. The service automatically scans your Developer ID-signed software and performs security checks.

Looks like it uploads a bundle to them for all that to happen on their side.

pgib··on Google is discontinuing Inbox
I was just about to say basically the same thing. This move only reinforces the same thing that really the only consumer products that are safe are Gmail and Docs (G Suite, essentially). Anything else is basically a psychological experiment into how humans deal with loss of a beloved technology.
pgib··on AWS Application Load Balancer
The Amazon Certificate Manager uses SNI, and you can request certificates with multiple hosts and even wildcard domains. I would imagine if you upload your own multi-domain certificate that it would work in the same way, but I have never tested that.
pgib··on Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
Much better than the last attempt at mobile, and much better than no mobile styles at all. Please keep!
pgib··on Introducing Our New Canadian Datacenter: TOR1
Is it possible to be billed in CAD?
pgib··on Moving to FreeBSD
Really nice summary! If you really want to make your life with ports easier, I highly recommend Poudriere (https://github.com/freebsd/poudriere). Poudriere can build your ports collection for one or more machines running any version of FreeBSD that's <= of the Poudriere hosts. After you configure your ports, you can easily archive all of the options you've set (e.g. should want/need to move your Poudriere setup elsewhere).

I run Poudriere on my home server, and then I point pkg to a local Nginx server. Every night, it builds the latest versions of all of the ports I use, and I can simply type "pkg upgrade" any time I want. For work, I run a Poudriere server on an EC2 instance to build packages for a variety of configurations. Depending on your needs, you could pretty easily have an EC2 instance that remains shutdown most of the time, and then on some sort of schedule you spin it up, build the latest, publish your packages, and shut down again.

pgib··on Announcing Apple IIgs System 6.0.2
Wow! I _loved_ HyperStudio. We learned so much using it in my school, and I still actually have a floppy disc in my collection with my HyperStudio stack. It's an honour to be able to tip my hat and raise a glass for your contribution. :)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31250/gifs/kudos.gif

pgib··on Jake Dyson Lighting
I'm really surprised that there are no technical specifications that would include, say, colour temperature. I've yet to see an LED bulb that produces light anywhere close to the warmth and spectrum spread as a halogen bulb. At $649, I'd definitely need to see that in person.

I'd also be in favour of a 37 year payment plan at $17.54/year.

pgib··on Lookup by Twilio
My telco was charging $8/month for visual voicemail, so I opted to buy a Twilio number for $1/month, and set my phone to forward no answer/busy/unavailable to a simple Twilio app I wrote that handles voicemail.

When someone leaves me a message, I get an SMS with the message and caller details. I've been using OpenCNAM (https://www.opencnam.com) for the caller ID look-up.

I implemented something similar for our office so that each person has a proxy number that can be given out to clients. Voicemail is handled by a similar app, and each person also receives a Slack notification for an incoming call or voice message.

Lookup by Twilio is a bit different than OpenCNAM, but also pretty similar. They're both pretty affordable, though in the end, I'll likely create our own lookup database that we can customize.

For me, the most immediately useful info is the state/province as well as country of the incoming call. It appears that with Twilio Local, on the latter comes through. I did some tests of Lookup with a bunch of numbers, and the additional info that comes through for the paid portion of things doesn't seem that particularly useful. The (free) "national_format" is nice, but I'd say the most valuable part of the service is quickly identifying invalid and VoIP-based numbers.

pgib··on Google sends reporter a GIF instead of a 'no comment'
I, for one, fully support our gif-replying internet overlords.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31250/gifs/thumbs_up.gif

pgib··on MySQL to PostgreSQL converter
When I saw this was a PHP project: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31250/gifs/no-thanks.gif
pgib··on Apple has lost the functional high ground
It's just brutal in Yosemite. This is the first release to which I regret upgrading. I've never had so many issues on my laptop, and it has never been so slow. My FileVault encryption has been stuck at 99% since I upgraded and enabled, and Apple marked my radar report as a duplicate. They can't/won't tell me if I'm forever hooped or if it will ever be fixed. At this point, I'm looking to spend a day rebuilding my whole system.
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