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rocketpastsix

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rocketpastsix··on Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes
Agreed, hopefully someone finds a fun index that they like and it leads them to a new blog or site
rocketpastsix··on Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes
Hey thank you! That’s awesome, I’ll take a look at Wander this afternoon
rocketpastsix··on Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes
Thanks for the heads up! I’ll check it out when I’m back from running errands
rocketpastsix··on OpenAI breaks free of Microsoft's cloud
discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921248
rocketpastsix··on Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta
seriously? a single word is going to prevent you from reading an article that is well informed and well articulated?
rocketpastsix··on Ask HN: How are you using AI code assistants on large messy legacy code bases?
Start small with it. Pick a contained area and have Claude run through it with you. Have it ask you questions and collab with it. Then have it save any output to a document that can be referenced later.
rocketpastsix··on Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex
how many of those "active" users are just bots?
rocketpastsix··on Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
yea Im not in this "us" you speak of.
rocketpastsix··on South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots
maybe in some areas, but in the suburbs? they will get plenty of light covering the parking lot of a wal mart or target.
rocketpastsix··on South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots
it seems wildly efficient to use the massive amount of dead space we cede to cars. Without cars, parking lots are just massive heat sinks that trap and hold heat. Might as well do something with them to make it a little bit better. It also has the added benefit of creating shade for people in the summer and cover during rain.
rocketpastsix··on South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots
I really want America to get on board with this. Getting people to not drive is a nearly impossible task given how slow cities move to change the codes, so if we have to have parking lots, put them to use.
rocketpastsix··on Robert Mueller Has Died
"rules for thee but not for me". People who said _anything_ they deemed disrespected after Kirk died was basically crucified but when it's against someone they deem an enemy they dont care at all.
rocketpastsix··on Show HN: I made an email app inspired by Arc browser
I'd give it a try for sure.
rocketpastsix··on Whisker – Self hosted e-commerce cart, pure PHP, zero dependencies
Im definitely not the target here, but if someone I knew wanted a store and wanted this I would have a few things I would be critical of.

1. no tests, no static analysis.

2. avoiding composer. Why write your own autoloader when Composer can do it, and keep things up to date pretty easily.

3. associative arrays being passed around. There is no type safety on those arrays, and you aren't using a package like PHPStan or Psalm to at least try and enforce _something_ at run time.

4. I find it odd you are anti-composer (one of the best things to happen to PHP) yet tell people to configure a web server with various extensions, permissions, etc.

If I was going to install this, I'd want composer support and tests.

rocketpastsix··on Add llms.txt and fix robots.txt for AI agent discoverability
why does an LLM need to know about my silly little blog?
rocketpastsix··on AWS UAE suffers AZ outage after "objects strike data center", amid Iran attacks
AWS UAE suffers AZ outage after "objects strike data center" and cause fire, amid Iran attacks
rocketpastsix··on Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona
As far as I can tell, Discord doesn't delete history so you can join an older discord and scroll back. 99.99% of slacks that are free lose history after some arbitrary timeframe (used to be 10,000 messages, now I think its 90 days). Plus you can connect Discord to your Steam/Playstation/Xbox account, which gamers like.
rocketpastsix··on Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona
"I don't know how anyone can trust any statement from these guys."

this is the fun part, you can't!

rocketpastsix··on Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona
the damage is already done though. Discord just burned years of goodwill and trust. Im in a few discord communities and while they aren't moving Im not looking to join any more right now because of this whole thing.
rocketpastsix··on Should I add this acknowledgement/shoutout by xAI/Grok to my resume?
because Grok is incredibly toxic. If I saw that on a resume I'd be weary.
rocketpastsix··on Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
I dont know what Salesforce or SAP was when it started, but Im guessing it grew to what it is today over years, not out of the gate.
rocketpastsix··on Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
I checked out HomeChart, and boy howdy it feels like its doing way too much.
rocketpastsix··on Ask HN: Have we confused efficiency with "100% utilization"?
its like the c-suite and level below them lost all empathy and now its on the line managers to pick it up, among everything else they do.
rocketpastsix··on The Go-Between
it really isn't
rocketpastsix··on Ask HN: Where did the tech people on Twitter go?
I am in the same boat, however I dont go on X at all. I deleted my account last year for good and dont miss it. BlueSky for me is a mix of people who are trying their hardest in my city to make improvements but also creating a very insular community and people who are perpetually upset (maybe rightfully so) at just about everything. I have a mastodon account but never go on it. I basically read books, play call of duty (or something else low stakes and easy to put down), and watch youtube videos of DIY stuff I need to learn so I can fix things around the house.

I deleted Reddit, Instagram, and Bluesky off my phone last weekend (coming up on day 9 I think) and its been nice trying to readjust myself to being bored and not grabbing my phone.

rocketpastsix··on Ask HN: Is anybody running a successful non-subscription business?
if its dying, its dying a very slow death.
rocketpastsix··on Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
those rockets use a lot of those same fossil fuels. And he can't even complete a project in Las Vegas, so lets not think he knows how to build on the moon. I live in Nashville, the site of his next little Tesla tunnel. I promise you none of us are holding our breath on that one.
rocketpastsix··on Subway Builder: A realistic subway simulation game
that doesn't help people who aren't on twitter.
rocketpastsix··on Say Goodbye
Theres no good way to do a layoff, but there are tons of bad ways to do them and it seems like we keep finding new ways to make it worse.
rocketpastsix··on U.S. Lost 32,000 Private-Sector Jobs in September, Says Payroll Processor
It's common knowledge he doesn't drink.
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