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somecoder

1,086 karma · joined November 8, 2015

hi, i make useless things people find useful, I guess.
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somecoder··on Ask HN: Is Vagrant dead or dated? Do people still use it?
Otto was decommissioned.

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/decommissioning-otto/

somecoder··on Code Everywhere: Why We Built Cloudflare Workers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Electric
somecoder··on Cops Cuffed Me for Selling My Own Mac
Unfortunate. And scary.

What's a C-number?

somecoder··on [dead]
Their blog post on WebSockets: https://blog.cloudflare.com/everybody-gets-websockets/
somecoder··on Select a document and have it certified in the Bitcoin blockchain
I feel like I used this years ago...

Oh, I did. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6809929

somecoder··on Show HN: Windows 98 in browser
Best part, it comes with scmpoo.
somecoder··on Show HN: A simple todo list manager
Heroku! I can assist if you like, email is in profile.
somecoder··on Show HN: A simple todo list manager
Setting it up now, a demo would be sweet!

Setup was easy. Basic functionality seems to be good.

Attaching a file to a task causes issues though: https://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks/issues/8

somecoder··on Download Google webfonts on the Linux desktop
I was unaware Typecatcher was available on GitHub until just recently. I wrote a blog post about it in 2014, wasn't on GitHub then:

https://longren.io/install-all-google-web-fonts-on-ubuntu-ea...

I've always found it very useful and is not widely known about, apparently.

somecoder··on Soundcloud for the Desktop
On GitHub here: https://github.com/Soundnode/soundnode-app
somecoder··on Ask HN: Why WordPress is still using SVN?
I'd guess they'll switch to something eventually, something after git probably.

Making such a change would be a massive undertaking for WordPress due to its deep integration into theme and plugin repositories.

somecoder··on Test if your site runs on HTTP/2
Cool! Would love to see the source. Would you be willing to post it to GitHub or somewhere else?
somecoder··on Devmag.io: A network for software developers
It is pretty impressive.
somecoder··on Show HN: A cleaner alternative to the “Fork Me on GitHub” ribbon
Made by Tim Holman: http://tholman.com/
somecoder··on Show HN: Lightweight linux server monitoring service
No updates from these folks since 2014. Anyone know what's going on over there?

Service still works quite well.

I used Show HN prefix because I've recently spoken with many people who had never heard of it. These people use New Relic, as do I.