styfle

Yeah, I have a love-hate relationship with Medium.

The fact that every comment is another "article" is bizarre. Also, comments have become increasingly hidden behind suggested articles and require a click to load.

But I like that you can highlight a word or sentence and comment on that. The clapping thing is kind of interesting because you can give more "internet points" to better articles.

The one thing that Medium is great at is getting an article into the eyes of the people who want to read it, which is something that my personal blog will not do.

Also, there is something nice about consistent look n' feel with the same font when reading blog posts, so someone who is used to medium might be more likely to click on a medium.com link than a ceriously.com link.

My oh shit moment is that `git add .` doesn't stage deleted files. I almost always use `git add -A` because that is typically what I meant, especially for someone coming from another Version Control system.

Yes. I'm just adding to Cyberdog's comment that it's not immediately obvious from the title of the article that the instructions are for indexing a static file.

The title makes it sound like it's instructions to setup up an alternative API to Gmail search. I was thinking something like Algolia.

I cross post to medium from my blog. I figure if people want to comment, they can do it there. Here's an example of the original[0] and the copy[1].

[0]: https://www.ceriously.com/blog/post.php?id=2017-10-16-es6-mo...

[1]: https://medium.com/@styfle/22969cd360f0/

Medium allows you to import pretty easily and sets the canonical URL so Google (hopefully) won't get confused with duplicate content.

Agree, Set is a disappointment.

I think the “Why” is because it’s easier to get everyone to sign off on small changes than large changes that can never be removed.

The web platform has to live for a long time and be backwards compatible.

Some packages ship with both importable module as well as a global CLI. So it’s hard to categorize packages on into a single category.

Also, any new emails you received since exporting your mailbox will not be available.

They are bundled, it’s called ES6/ES2015. But for backwards compatibility, the userland packages are still used regularly.

“Docker Engine” doesn’t but “Docker for Windows” provides several tools including a wrapper around Hyper-V. I’m sure “Docker for Mac” does something similar.

A year or two ago, it used to spin up Virtual Box.

I’ll have to give this a go.

I usually shared types from the backend to the front end in the same repo. Then change

    (data: any) 

To something like

    (data: User)

See this repo

https://github.com/styfle/react-server-example-tsx

This was posted yesterday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15933687

> doing some validation on the content of the values is easy

How can you validate a JSON string to see if it matches a TypeScript declaration?

What about if I don't have a cell phone but I'm standing between a cell tower and someone talking on their phone?

Where did you even find the source code?

This is what I do too.

I used to use Cygwin but it became a pain to manage the packages and it couldn't update it's own setup.exe last I checked.

I recently tried out WSL and I still run into problems with the file system. My home directory is in a new place which is kind of annoying. And cloning a repo with Git changed all the line endings. autocrlf didn't do anything for me either.

Back to good ol' git.exe

Works fine on the iPhone 6 running iOS 11

I don't understand the screenshot

Does Siri save the result anywhere? It’s nice to get an instant response but my memory isn’t very good.

How accurate can you get with an IP address? I seems like it could act as a fallback if the geolocation web api is blocked.

I have a side project[0] that uses the geolocation api to post to Slack and seems to be pretty accurate, even on mobile. Maybe I'll try this as a fallback.

[0]: https://github.com/styfle/geoslack

Thanks, a lot of these I've read elsewhere but it was a good refresher and it's nice to have it all in once place.

I used to work at Target and they had a system in place that would time the cashier from when they scanned the first item to the time the payment was placed and gave a letter grade based on how fast the experience was for the customer.

It was a bit of gamification but also served as way for managers to see which cashiers were slow and not meeting company standards.

I have been waiting a lifetime for this! Ok that's an exaggeration but I'm happy Amazon Prime is finally available on the Apple TV.

Good point.

What do you think about shared components using React SSR?

https://github.com/styfle/react-server-example-tsx

TLDR; Code Sponsor brought funding to small and large projects on GitHub. But GitHub didn't want ads and Code Sponsor shutdown.

Starting in January, Code Sponsor will take on a new role of matchmaker between sponsors and developers. Funding will be provided at a flat monthly rate. Code Sponsor will represent the developers as an "agent" and negotiate the highest rates on a month-by-month basis.

I'm more concerned about small blogs like my own[0] who will never pay an ISP to be in the fast lane.

My blog doesn't get huge amounts of traffic now but I could imagine that it could get blocked by ISPs unless you have the Wild Wild West package that lets you visit any website, not just the big names.

We can't treat websites like cable channels because cable channels are separate streams. But websites are all linked.

[0]: https://www.ceriously.com/blog

I think you missed a key point in your example which you demonstrated but didn’t explain. The last sentence of the email should be an action for the reader. Don’t make them scroll back up.

This doesn’t render very well on mobile. I wish the Git team would write their docs as a .md so GitHub could render as HTML with word wrap in all its glory.

This is great! TypeScript (another Microsoft language) did something similar not long ago but used a flag to opt-in to strict null checks. It seems this setting is strongly encouraged.

Looking at the examples, the compiler can determine if not null by reading the if statement like so

    if (str != null)

But what about if the code uses the following?

    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(str))

TypeScript has a way to solve this using the `is` keyword but I'm not sure if this is introduced in C# yet.

As a dev, that was my favorite part of Code Sponsor: being able to see which repos were doing well and on what days impressions/clicks increased.

I could see a correlation between posting to Hacker News and the amount of impressions/clicks for that day.