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torvald··on Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs
Nice. I imagine this could be used to list and track TODOs in code as well.
torvald··on Office noise generator
Ah, I can subtract all the way to 0 colleagues, I guess it works for me to. Thanks!
torvald··on Ask HN: What do you use to keep track of bookmarks/notes/snippets?
I self host Seafile. It has a simple and markdown friendly editor in its mobile app.
torvald··on Several grumpy opinions about remote work at Tailscale
> The "show me what changed" view is nearly useless; tons of updates about tiny clutter changes, but no good way to give me a deduplicated list of all the docs that changed. Virtually any wiki's RecentChanges view is better.

We use Quip (https://quip.com/), it's very equal to Notion.so, and suffers from the same issue. But Quip has a small API, and every hour i just grab my stared documents, flatten them to plain text and `diff` them. Changes are sent to email by a cron job. https://github.com/torvald/quipdiff

torvald··on Ask HN: What are the underrated newsletters you like reading?
I quite enjoy Postgres Weekly by Craig Kerstiens.

https://postgresweekly.com/

torvald··on Merry Christmas HN
Gledelig høytid!
torvald··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)
Kolonial.no | Oslo, Norway | Full-time ONSITE | See https://careers.kolonial.no/

Kolonial.no is the leading online grocery retailer in Norway, but as a company we’re first and foremost an ambitious tech and logistics company. We’re one of the fastest growing startups in the Nordics, working with huge, complex challenges in order to make the lives of our customers simpler and easier.

  Data & Insight
   - Machine Learning Engineer
  Design & UX
   - Digital Designer
   - Senior Service & UX Designer
  Infrastructure & IT
   - Data Engineer
   - DevSecOps Engineer
  Product Management
   - Product Experience Strategist
   - Product Manager
  Software Engineering
   - iOS Software Engineer
   - Senior Frontend Engineer
   - Software Engineer
torvald··on Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
Because it now more then a textarea, my mind automatically adapt and expect <enter> to give me a newline, but instead I am filling up channels with premature messages. Weird.
torvald··on Ask HN: Any “Git diff”-like service but for when terms of conditions changes?
I made a simple script, as I prefer plain text emails. https://torvald.no/web-change-detection.html
torvald··on Ask HN: Why there is a rise in WiFi hotspot market?
> We don't connect to WiFi in cafes or restaurants or buses anymore. We use the mobile net.

My bet is that this comes only from people with full time jobs. The world is still full of youth or unemployment where free WiFi still makes sense.

And with a more affordable data plan there is also a increasing amount of data to be transferred with higher bitrates, more megapixels and more video content in general -- I guess it equals out for an everyday user.

torvald··on Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?
The new Lenovo x390 looks quite promising for being smaller than 14, but bigger then the x200 series (which is 12.5").
torvald··on Creeping normality
Docker!
torvald··on FeX: Forum Explorer – Rethinking how we interact with threaded conversations
Nice. I wonder if this something like this could be applied to code, to easier get a overview of how classes and functions relate to each other.
torvald··on Docker Hub Hacked – 190k accounts, GitHub tokens revoked, builds disabled
Their data can be sharded whereas only a part of their databases got compromised. Or it could be a cache layer that got compromised. Or a partial user dump intended for something else that somehow ended up in the wrong hands. I guess there could be a lot of reasonable explanations.
torvald··on Ask HN: What is the best “dumb” phone?
A quick search and it does not seem to be available for sale in Europe.
torvald··on Ask HN: What is the best “dumb” phone?
I might increase the battery life by some, but I guess you still need to bring your charger for a weekend trip.
torvald··on Ask HN: What is the best “dumb” phone?
I second this.
torvald··on Ask HN: What is the best “dumb” phone?
I also have a Nokia 3310. I guess I charge it every other 4-5 days.
torvald··on Nginx 1.15.9
> Noticed via https://hackernewstitles.netlify.com/

Of course that's a thing.

torvald··on Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases
Yeah, a draw.io integration would have been great.
torvald··on Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases
I am wondering if this is just the thing for our workplace - it is remarkable how spot on their value proposition is. It is not every feature from every service - but they seem to deliver very well on core functionality. And I must say that their landing page is one of the better I have seen for a SaaS.

I posted this in hopes of people posting stories and discussions about their experiences and thoughts about the product - which you very well delivered, thanks.

torvald··on Ask HN: How do you keep track of the articles you want to read?
I mostly send it to my kindle with the browser extension push to kindle. http://fivefilters.org/kindle-it/
torvald··on Show HN: Space invaders, but the invaders evolve with genetic algorithm
It would have been interesting to see an evolving agent playing against these evolving invaders. Cool project!
torvald··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)
Kolonial.no | (Senior) Software Engineer; Product Managers; Head of Data & Insight | Oslo, Norway | ONSITE http://jobb.kolonial.no/

Kolonial.no are one of the fastest growing startups in Norway recently valued at ~$180 million after just 3 years of operations. We're enabling users to buy their groceries online and have already thousands of daily customers.

We're unique in that we've built a complete warehouse, logistics, and procurement platform with millions of daily transactions and lots of interesting challenges as automation becomes a more important. This has allowed us to scale and adapt quickly to market and business demands.

Our technology stack is primarily Python, Django, PostgreSQL, HAProxy, Salt, Elastic Search, Celery, SCSS and Javascript + React.js where suitable. You can read more about our stack here: https://kolonial.no/om/teknologi/.

Non-exhaustive list of benefits: a competitive salary; autonomy; warm lunch made by our office chef; new offices in central Oslo; and whatever equipment you would like to develop on. Norwegian is not a requirement, but it is preferred if at least you'd like to learn.

torvald··on Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?
As an sysadmin I can highly recommend Google's «Site Reliability Engineering», available for free online <https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html>.
torvald··on Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds
I use RSS feeds quite extensively, but as others have mentioned, its noisy and not every site lets you filter on categories and search terms. So I have my own little python script which fetches, regex filters and pushes to my phone. https://torvald.no/rss-regex-reader
torvald··on Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?
> Youtube sucks because you cannot turn the phone screen off and listen only the audio.

Oh but you can. I have just tested on android, but if you open YouTube in Chrome and ask for the «Desktop site» in the menu, you can play, turn of the screen (the music stops), you turn the screen on again (without unlocking), and get a little toolbar you can press play to resume playing.

torvald··on How engineers can stand out from the applicant pool
I wonder if Nina got that job in Airbnb.
torvald··on Redoing all my home networking
I often ask people I interview what their home network looks like and what their visions are. This often open doors to both inner motivation and thoughts you don't find elsewhere in an ordinary tech interview.
torvald··on Lego railway and through a house and garden [video]
Why do it when you can overdo it.
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