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silasb··on The state of netbooting Raspberry Pis
Never knew about this board. Might make for a pretty nice home router.
silasb··on Ask HN: How do you brew your coffee?
Which Bunn coffee maker do you have? I'm looking to get one and they have many different versions.
silasb··on Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3
Wow that is awesome. Good work!
silasb··on S3 was down
Maybe minio.
silasb··on Show HN: 3D Packing for 3D Printing
You are referring to FDM printers. The OP is talking about SLS printers which don't have this issue.
silasb··on Ask HN: Best Self-Hosted, Server-Side Image Optimization Tools?
https://github.com/h2non/imaginary appears to support quality/compression settings.
silasb··on Europeana Collections, a Portal of 48M Free Artworks, Books, Videos, Artifacts
Source here: https://github.com/europeana/europeana-portal-collections
silasb··on Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks
Curious what it is. No CSRF token?
silasb··on Tesla Model S P100DL Motor Trend all-time world record 60mph in 2.27s
I know they have Formula E, but I'd love to see a all-electric Tesla in Le Mans.
silasb··on Ask HN: What new development technology in the last 3 years is worth learning?
React Native, Tensorflow, ESP8266, Elixir/Phoenix, Discord, Docker/Kubernetes.
silasb··on Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native
Nice little blog you have.

I'll be doing some similar. Couple things that I'll likely do different is push to InflexDB host in my homelab and using Pandas to help me analysis data.

Keep up the good work, it's inspiring.

silasb··on Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native
I'm pretty much doing the exact same.

Home Assistant

Custom TX board to transmit to the Etekcity sockets

https://www.amazon.com/Etekcity-Wireless-Electrical-Househol...

Using Alexa to control those outlets via Home Assistant Emulated Hue component. Then I have a couple groups defined in Home Assistant for my living room lights, so I can say "Alexa, turn off living room lights" and it'll turn off my three outlets. I can also do "Alexa, turn off living room light one" to just turn off a particular light. One thing that I've noticed with Alexa and Home Assistant is that I have an outlet labeled "Xmas Light" and I can either say "Alexa, turn on Xmas Light" or "Alexa, turn on Christmas tree light" and it seems to discern between the two.

Overall I love this combo and is working pretty dang good.

Next goal is to use PIR sensors so when I go to the basement it'll automatically turn on the basement lights.

silasb··on Ask HN: What manual processes would you automate in your company?
I've been using ledger-cli [1] for this. It takes time to reconcile accounts, but I've been going strong for the last couple months.

[1]: http://www.ledger-cli.org/

silasb··on 33rd Chaos Communication Congress Livestreams
My favorite talk is always the behind the scenes talk:

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events...

silasb··on RethinkDB is shutting down
Wow, I've always used RethinkDB for toy DB stuff here and there, but nothing serious. I loved how well everything was put together, from the documentation to the homepage. Hopefully the project can live with OSS contributions.
silasb··on BeagleBone Black Wireless
Nope. Would be awesome if they did though.
silasb··on React Server
The company that I was consulting for tried to get Spring and React to play nice via Nashorn, but ended up scraping the idea 6 weeks in because of performance issues and not enough developers knowing the stack. Nashorn was missing a lot of essentials to make this easy out of the box. So looking at this is a breath of fresh air.
silasb··on Create React Apps with No Configuration
Very very awesome. This is very much needed. I work with a lot of older Java people and showing them the ins/outs of webpack/eslint/React is killing productivity. Thanks FB.
silasb··on LGTM is a simple pull request approval system for GitHub
Hmm, I mostly work with Stash nowadays and they have the approve/disapprove buttons which I like better than LGTM comment.
silasb··on Stripe now supports ACH payments
Writing files in plaintext and SFTPing them is still a r equirement when working in the insurance world :(
silasb··on Day One with the Amazon API Gateway
I've started messing with API Gateway and Lambda there a couple errors.

If you create a lambda function and add a gateway inside the lambda function configuration screen, it will give you a bad API gateway URL. Going into the API gateway page and looking at your stages URL and trying that works.

This just proves that it was rushed out. I do like the idea though and want to use it, but I don't think it'll be ready until Q4.

silasb··on Accounting for Developers
This is essentially the format the http://www.ledger-cli.org/ uses.
silasb··on Pragmatic Bare Metal Rust
I was just looking for a solution to get Rust on the esp8266 this weekend. Neat little devices.

Rust can emit to LLVM-IR via `--emit llvm-ir` when compiling your Rust program, but I think the IR that gets produced isn't platform agnostic.

silasb··on The CHIP Is a $9 Computer That Can Almost Do It All
No one here is talking about the PocketChip, which I think is the coolest thing. If it's hackable it will be really interesting to see what people do with it.
silasb··on Tesla Energy
When the power outages lasts more than a couple hours.
silasb··on Ask HN: What are the most useful Chrome extensions?
Google Cast

LiveReload

Vimium

Pocket

Chrome UA Spoofer

OneTab (now trying after I heard about it from another HNer)

Momentum

Postman

React Developer Tools

Reddit Enhancement Suite

Authy

silasb··on Ask HN: Should I get a mechanical keyboard?
Also this for more bling:

http://www.reddit.com/r/mechanicalkeyboards

There is science in there also.

silasb··on A tiling window manager written in Rust
I'm still using Hyrda with some simple commands, like moving window to the left half, right half, full screen, center.

Haven't tried the new version of Hyrda yet.

silasb··on Pgweb: Web-based PostgreSQL database browser written in Go
My solution is to use Adminer [1] and running it via `php -S localhost:8080 adminer.php` works beautifully. Many other databases supported also. Not affiliated, just a happy user.

[1]: http://www.adminer.org/

silasb··on Facebook is down
developer site is down also.
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