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unvs··on Changelog for Elixir v1.11
It's not out yet, for anyone who got excited (like me)
unvs··on Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?
Would be great with better builtins for this. I use yabai and skhd, but have to disable SIP to utilize fully. The instant spaces switching with no animation is so good!
unvs··on OTP 23
Agreed! I found learning Elixir to be a great gateway to learn Erlang as well. When I first tried learning Erlang (before Elixir was released), it became a bit too much to wrap my head around. It was a lot easier when I had gotten the fundamentals of FP down through Elixir, though!
unvs··on How the iPad's New Trackpad Works
I’d be fine with having an eGPU at the office actually. That’s where the noise gets most out of hand and annoys my coworkers. It’s just a bummer to sink even more money into this machine.
unvs··on How the iPad's New Trackpad Works
Interesting! Thanks for the link. Not one of my coworkers is getting the 16 after hearing how noisy it is, and they ALL were planning on upgrading. Let’s hope a future software update might improve it.
unvs··on How the iPad's New Trackpad Works
I bought the MBP 16” and when I work with an external monitor it’s like having a hair dryer on. I wish I could just go back to a desktop machine again.
unvs··on MacBook Pro 16" 2019 Teardown
That's what I'm replacing with the 16" now. I work with external displays and the Intel Iris is the weak link for me. Other than that I've been really happy with the 2015 13"!
unvs··on PostgreSQL 12 RC 1 Released
Release notes -> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/release-12.html
unvs··on Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon
I've built some stores for clients with Shopify's Slate[1] tool, which was a better dev experience than I had expected. I was pretty surprised and disappointed to see that they put it in "low maintenance" mode while still in beta. Hope they'll pick it up again soon.

[1] https://github.com/Shopify/slate

unvs··on A Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’
I bought an Awair some months ago, having been diagnosed with Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and slightly freaking out, I wanted to have a bit more data on my living conditions. It measures PM2.5, VOCs, humidity, CO2 and temperature. Luckily my indoor air quality was pretty good, except for low humidity. The Awair app kept nagging me to get a humidifier, so I relented and bought one. Just some minutes after switching it on, the PM2.5 skyrocketed!

I googled for answers, and found out that Awair warned about this: https://blog.getawair.com/awair-investigates-how-your-humidi...

The humidifier was spewing crap out into my air!

I switched to distilled water and the measurements were OK again, but a bit scary to see how bad it was with regular tap water.

unvs··on Elixir 1.9
We build it in Docker, but copy the release tarball out of the container and upload it directly to our servers.
unvs··on Erlang Ecosystem Foundation
Better safe than sorry!
unvs··on GitLab is now running on GCP
Backstory: https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/25/moving-to-gcp/
unvs··on The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS
I searched around and closest I found was https://github.com/Nordstrom/serverless-artillery
unvs··on 16 year old app developer: Plagiarist or Prodigy?
> but coding =! app development

That's a pretty funny typo from someone defending themselves against accusations of not knowing how to program.

unvs··on Spaces: Scalable Object Storage on DigitalOcean
From the introduction document: [1]

> Spaces currently supports v2 of pre-signed URL functionality. Tools and libraries that only support v4 of pre-signed URL functionality will not work.

I had really hoped this would be in place for the launch, but I guess this wasn't a priority. Looking forward to this + EU locations!

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduc...

unvs··on Spacex Launch Webcast: Formosat-5 Mission
Maybe you shouldn't prejudge the quality of developers on a project you know nothing about
unvs··on Vue.js and Brunch: Webpack Alternative
I thought it had more to do with all the noise lately around the React PATENTS, but I could be wrong
unvs··on Taking a month off from OSS volunteering
I usually check in on open source projects I use and see what is going on in the issues and pull requests tabs on github. Almost every time I check, there is someone behaving in a rude and/or entitled way.

Some of these projects have implemented github's issue template, and the crazy thing is, these people actually just DELETE the entire template before writing their issue. They can't even be bothered to fill in the few fields the maintainers ask for.

I had hoped that Github would have translated the issue templates to actual forms, where you at least HAD to fill in the fields before getting to submit.

unvs··on The 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time
Because many people enjoy coding/working while listening to ambient music
unvs··on Elixir 1.3.1 released
Not exactly what you want, but I've found this snippet useful from time to time:

    for {item, counter} <- Enum.with_index([:a, :b, :c]) do
      IO.puts("#{counter} -> #{item}")
    end

    0 -> a
    1 -> b
    2 -> c
unvs··on Luxembourg's leaders have proposed a far-reaching animal rights bill
you'd be amazed at the number of dogs in animal shelters who are there cause the kid who got it for Christmas suddenly got tired of it. banning it might be extreme, but I wish more people would think of the consequences of gifting someone an animal.
unvs··on Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
Elixir and its ecosystem (plug, ecto and phoenix) has been above and beyond every time I've contributed. Helpful, patient and kind, and also very smart guys.

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir

https://github.com/elixir-lang/plug

https://github.com/elixir-lang/ecto

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix

unvs··on Norwegians Use the Word “Texas” as Slang to Mean “Crazy”
It's sad to see some people get defensive and try to pit this as a "europe vs the US" thing, even bringing up the Utøya tragedy and Breivik. The article is just click bait, and sensationalism at its worst.

"Texas" is a slang to mean "wild west", like they say further into the article. I don't know why they try to pin it as "crazy". It doesn't have anything to do with stereotypes. It stems from old westerns and has been in our language for decades. "Texas" in the 60s and 70s was Bonanza, cowboys and spaghetti westerns for most people in Norway. The expression just stuck. That's how language works.

unvs··on Elixir v1.1.0 Released
There are multiple pull requests pending to tune those benchmarks, and reports that the numbers are off by a factor of 10x.
unvs··on Squarepusher virtual reality music video – WASD to look around
Nice work! Was Hariton Pushwagner a concious inspiration, or is it just coincindentally similar?
unvs··on Metaprogramming Elixir
*Fred Hebert
unvs··on Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven
Norway
unvs··on Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven
I have the same laptop model and I'm on my 4th logic board. Luckily, we have 5 years of warranty for hardware failures by law where I live.
unvs··on KitKat giving you battery drain problems? Uninstall Skype, says Google
XPrivacy is your friend! It needs root, though.
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