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tekmavenon Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support

In case anyone was wondering, use `--js-runtimes node` to use the (as stated as insecure) node option.

tekmavenon Show HN: I used an LLM to parse HN Who's Hiring comments to structured job data

Thanks for the feedback! I've moved it below the original comment now. I made some small adjustments to the original comment display as well.

tekmavenon Show HN: I used an LLM to parse HN Who's Hiring comments to structured job data

Thanks for the suggestion. I added the time posted as the first piece of displayed metadata. Also, I updated the sort order to display the newest jobs first.

tekmavenon Explore Matter, the new smart home standard, in Home Assistant

TLDR: Home Assistant and their community are experimenting today (June 15) with a Matter Workshop, where they will connect a ESP32 dev board to HA via matter.

tekmavenon ESPHome – Connect ESP32 with Sensors to HomeAssistant

https://www.esphome-devices.com/

There is a lot of great retail hardware with ESP chips out in the market. The above site is a collection of ESPHome configurations for a lot of that hardware.

tekmavenon Control Esp32 from a web panel over MQTT protocol

For a more battle tested solution, I recommend trying ESPHome - https://esphome.io/ - it supports MQTT as well as many other protocols.

tekmavenon Monolith First (2015)

Microservices are hard. Monoliths are hard too. Focus on the product and the customer, build what they need. Architecture is a means to make a successful product.

tekmavenon Google Finance Finally Updated

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F01q...

Google trends predicts interest on the "Stocks" topic is about to go through the roof in the US. Interesting.

tekmavenon High Temperature and High Humidity Reduce the Transmission of Covid-19

IF this is the case, we should be way more prepared including possibly having a vaccine available.

tekmavenon Apple Just Disabled Clearview AI's iPhone App for Breaking Rules on Distribution

We're talking about an image upload and search results. If apple won't allow it, this is the only possible step where you can win.

tekmavenon Apple Just Disabled Clearview AI's iPhone App for Breaking Rules on Distribution

> Will Strafach, the founder and CEO of Guardian Firewall, an iOS security app, said he doesn't see any way Clearview can remedy its situation with Apple given the startup's clear flouting of the rules.

A web app can do this easily.

tekmavenon The top bug predictor is not technical, it's organizational complexity

I was surprised that Conway's law was not mentioned.

tekmavenon CQRS and Event Sourcing Intro for Developers

I've worked on CQRS / ES microservices at scale and have seen how successful they can be at reliability, scalability and performance.

I don't think people are qualified to reject this pattern unless they've spent some serious time working in these ecosystems. It took me a long time with a ton of production experience to evolve my thinking and truly appreciate CQRS/ES.

tekmavenon Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

I’m not really sure they articulated why they had to switch very clearly. They didn’t like managing Mongo. They said they couldn’t use Mongo’s hosted solution BUT they switch to hosted Postgres. Why not just overcome the limitations preventing them from switching to hosted MongoDB?

tekmavenon Announcing Gatsby 2.0.0

I’ve been using it since the 1.0 timeframe. The SEO went through the roof on my low traffic few post personal blog when I switched to Gatsby.

tekmavenon Announcing Gatsby 2.0.0

This should be the recommended starter for React developers, over create-react-app!

tekmavenon Top Open-Source Static Site Generators

Gatsby is absolutely a pleasure to work with. Any react developers should check it out!

tekmavenon Centrifuge: a reliable system for delivering billions of events per day

By age 35 you should have written your own queuing system at least once.

tekmavenon Proposal to fix NYC’s subway and broader transit system expected to cost $19B

It’s time for the MTA to release an ICO.

tekmavenon The Source Code for NYC's Forensic DNA Statistical Analysis Tool

I'm all for using the right tool for the job. WebForms code is not possible / extremely difficult to unit test.

The actual codebase itself may be pretty old so WebForms isn't a surprise - the SLN file indicates it was saved with Visual Studio 2010 (https://github.com/propublica/nyc-dna-software/blob/338a1b86...).

tekmavenon The Source Code for NYC's Forensic DNA Statistical Analysis Tool

On first glance it uses very old frameworks (for example, ASP.NET WebForms) and there are 0 unit tests.

A concerning thing is that a dev database username and password was committed to multiple files, like this: https://github.com/propublica/nyc-dna-software/blob/master/F....