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thedookmasteron Ask HN: Best way to simultaneously run multiple projects locally?

pm2 could work https://pm2.keymetrics.io/

thedookmasteron Haunted by my own projects

Re: domains

You can run each project on its own subdomain on a shared domain. Example: app1.mysite.com app2.mysite.com. This can save you tens of dollars a year and save you some headaches. Probably not optimal for SEO, but for random projects it's pretty good.

thedookmasteron Dotfiles: Best way to store in a bare Git repository (2016)

I can wholeheartedly recommend yadm which is a dotfiles manager built around the bare git repo concept. If you know git, you know yadm.

https://yadm.io/

thedookmasteron Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environments

I've used asdf for years, but recently switched to https://github.com/jdx/mise It's a drop-in replacement for asdf, but I prefer some of the nice features it has to offer.

See: https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/comparison-to-asdf.html

thedookmasteron Washington's Lottery forced to pull site after creating AI porn of lotto user

> We were made aware that a single user of the AI platform was purportedly provided an image that did not adhere to the built-in parameters set by the developers.

I laughed at this. What a non-apology with no accountability.

thedookmasteron Htmlq: Like Jq, but for HTML

here's an alternative I've used in the past: pup https://github.com/ericchiang/pup

thedookmasteron DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching

https://github.com/debauchee/barrier is the free open source version of this

thedookmasteron New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy

I don't use the qwerty layout, I use colemak. Likely this mitigates this for myself.

thedookmasteron How to make YouTube less distracting

+1 for unhook here's the homepage which links to the firefox, chrome, and edge version https://unhook.app/

thedookmasteron Ask HN: Can I see your scripts?

Here's my scripts directory from my dotfiles repo: https://github.com/kleutzinger/dotfiles/tree/master/scripts

thedookmasteron HeyWhatsThat – Calculate viewshed and panorama for any point on Earth

Mt. Diablo is in Contra Costa County, not Oakland.

thedookmasteron Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

https://www.getlektor.com/

lektor offers some of this functionality. editing is done locally through a browser UI, but there may be a way to host the interface. deployments are easy.

thedookmasteron Ask HN: Solo Dev(Op)s, how do you deploy webapps in 2021?

I've enjoyed using Dokku https://dokku.com/ It's very similar to heroku, but self-hosted. The pre-setup digitalocean option seems like a good way to try it out.

Here's a short video series that helped me get started: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsClh15QqVh5lQ-_iiFYO...

thedookmasteron Ask HN: Junior SQL developers – How do you learn SQL?

https://sqlbolt.com/ and then https://sqlzoo.net/ were great places for me to start.

thedookmasteron A useful Caps Lock key

I have Caps Lock mapped to Backspace. Makes total sense after seeing how out of the way Backspace is.

thedookmasteron Poll: What OS do you prefer for Web Development?

Arch Linux all the way, for any type of development. I love trying out different languages and frameworks , and pacman makes installation and updating a breeze.