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spikejon Big company tale: six months for a list and a button

Buy a COTS product that fits the criteria rather than try to build own buggy/hard to use product.

spikejon Big company tale: six months for a list and a button

You've clearly played the game

spikejon Ask HN: Why don’t you use Linux as your daily driver OS?

Lack of proper remote desktop and a subpar experience with substitutes is what does it for me. My home network is full of Windows machines, and it's simply easier to be on the same ecosystem.

I have a Linux VM for dev work where Windows won't do (certain Ruby gems for example)

spikejon How I Experience Web Today

Sometimes you need the content and for that I use browser reader mode or if the content is really good, subscribe via rss. If they don't have rss, use a service to build one for the site

spikejon New carnivorous plant discovered in Pacific Northwest

Wonder how these would do as companion plants in vegetable gardens

spikejon Kind Engineering [video]

"I put myself through the process and I expect others to as well". Resonates with me. I expect people to at least process things to a degree on their own so that we can have an intelligible conversation.

spikejon Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?

Same here! I use it with feedme on android. It does everything I need and I always recommend it to everyone!

spikejon Ask HN: Former software engineers, what are you doing now?

Or try a different role in the field... Instead of developing, try your hand at a BA role or BI role or a PM role

spikejon Hugelkultur: Raised Garden Beds

Subscribed! I am currently working on my own backyard conversion journey.

Can you add what part of the world your garden is in the YouTube about?

It would help me see what things would be relevant vs not in my area.

spikejon GitHub isn't fun anymore

How would this happen if you kept the repo private? Private repos are free now and most of my toy stuff is private (maybe shared with a friend I happen to be working on it with)

spikejon Ask HN: What's your website test automation solution?

Cypress. Takes a bit of time to code but a joy to work with and not flakey.

spikejon 1.1.1.1 for Families

You don't need a raspberry pi to run pihole...

I have it running in a vm on a machine that is on 24/7 anyways.

I installed dietpi as the OS and selected pihole in its install options. 10 min later it's up and running. No issues!

spikejon Not all young people are ‘digital natives’

Also, you can pick up an old computer from a thrift store or craigslist for really cheap -- much cheaper than a pi.

spikejon Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic

Winforms with C#?

spikejon Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?

I'm familiar with the web dev tools, but no clue about mobile. Can you point me in the right direction on how to do the same?

Were you using an android emulator on desktop or there's some way to easily do this on android?

spikejon Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?

Check out https://www.cypress.io Been super happy with it!

spikejon Hacked from a lightbulb

So what's a "best practice" if you ARE going to have these things in your home? Keep them on a guest network that doesn't have access to your private network? (with a separate device to control things)

spikejon iPhones are hard to use

On the other hand, there's Huawei that went with Advanced and Simple mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcalxGyLE1w

And for aging parents, the simple mode works fantastically!

spikejon The case for pair programming

Along the same lines, this doesn't work if one person is used to working rapidly and the other person takes their time to think things through. I found it only really worked best when I worked with another who worked at a similar pace to mine and we took time to bounce ideas off of each other. We both learned a LOT from each other since we both had strengths in opposing areas

spikejon The Rise and Contentious Fork of RSS

https://bazqux.com/

That's the closest I've found to the cleanliness and speed of Google Reader, with additional features

spikejon How to Name a Baby (2013)

OK, gotta know. What did you settle on?

spikejon How NoSQL forced the evolution of a scalable relational database

Its been mentioned here before, but check out Rezoom.SQL https://github.com/rspeele/Rezoom.SQL

All the power with static typing

spikejon It's time to head back to RSS?

One of the best parts is the ability to add any FB, Instagram, Twitter users as a feed. BazQux automatically converts the user's feed into RSS and serves it up.

No more having to go to FB for updates from various organizations that don't have any other mechanism for publishing announcements! :)

spikejon I miss Windows Phone

I missed not having Google Drive

spikejon I miss Windows Phone

What about the fact that even the cheapest windows phone ran almost as smooth/fast as a flagship Android phone?

spikejon It's time to head back to RSS?

After Google Reader, I tried a bunch of different ones. Feedly was the best I could find but there were a number of things that just annoyed me. I had an issue with one of my feeds and got very little help from their support.

That was the last straw and I decided to revisit alternatives. I somehow stumbled upon BazQux, and I noticed the same issue with the one feed on that platform as well. The developer was incredibly helpful in pointing out an issue with the way I was generating the feed. That level of support instantly had me hooked (along with how much it functioned like Google Reader). I bought a life time subscription then and there.

You should check it out!

spikejon It's time to head back to RSS?

BazQux coupled with FeedMe on Android is fantastic!

spikejon Ask HN: Show yours database backup scripts/strategies

https://dbatools.io/

spikejon In an Era of ‘Smart’ Things, Sometimes Dumb Stuff Is Better

One of my favourite examples: resetting the router using a timer instead of scripting it

https://www.howtogeek.com/289178/how-to-automatically-reboot...

spikejon My Forgotten Language: the brain can lose and reclaim an abandoned mother tongue

For me it's a different angle: it's so I can understand what my toddler wants!

We've been teaching ASL (and thus English) since she was 6 months old. This is not our native tongue. But even at 2 now, it's very difficult to understand a lot of what she's saying. Having her sign along makes it somewhat easier, but it's still a guessing game. At this age, her speech and signs aren't always very clear.

Having an even larger vocabulary in another language would make it even harder to guess what she wants! We'll start teaching her our native tongue as she gets a little bit older.