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valzevul

1,053 karma · joined January 29, 2019

I build small but opinionated apps, and occasionally help others do the same.

https://drobinin.com/

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valzevul··on I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer
OP here!

> it sounds like you get API access fairly quickly after that?

Yes, that's correct; I am yet to hit the rate-limit but from my experience with the official app/website, it's quite forgiving to failed attempts.

The scope in the post is the one used by the app and other unofficial clients on GitHub [1][2], so I doubt there are more options beyond that.

-- [1] https://github.com/0wain/puregym-api-php-wrapper/blob/main/s... [2] https://github.com/2t6h/puregym-attendance/blob/main/puregym...

valzevul··on I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer
OP here! Appreciate you actually pulling examples instead of just dropping "this is AI".

> There's a mixture of em dashes joining words and double hyphens spaced between words, suggesting the former were missed in a find and replace job.

The em dash conspiracy in the comments today is amazing -- I type double hyphens everywhere, and some apps (e.g a Telegram bot I made for drafts, or the macOS' built-in auto-correct) replace them with em dashes automatically–I never bother to edit those out (ok, now this one I put here on purpose).

> It's just a ZIP archive with delusions of grandeur > Clear examples of LLM fluff that don't "add facts or colour to the story".

Yeah, no that's fair enough, should've known better than to attempt humour on HN.

I've got to say though, pkpass is a ZIP archive, and no ZIP archive should require one to spend 3 hours to sign it.

valzevul··on Things I Learnt in 2023
The picture is from Wikipedia but seems like it's just the bottom of the (probably copper) pan visible through?
valzevul··on Things I Learnt in 2023
Hey, OP here, that’d be sad indeed but the RSS is at https://drobinin.com/feed.xml
valzevul··on Things I Learnt in 2023
Ah, then today I learnt that rugby and American football are different!

I knew about the Kurosawa's movie though, just didn't mention it in the snippet.

valzevul··on Things I Learnt in 2023
That's pretty cool, thanks for sharing!

(seems like I will be spending tonight learning how to mimic bird sounds)

valzevul··on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
https://tuesdaytriage.com/

I write weekly on things I learnt or read, most posts are paywalled but at least one every month is public.

valzevul··on Show HN: Tuesday Triage, weekly crème de la crème of the Internet
A warm beer is still a good beer!
valzevul··on Things I Learnt in 2021
Nope, the result was 52 newsletters. I picked one thing out of each of them, and ignored all articles, so it’s less than 10% :)
valzevul··on Things I Learnt in 2021
Personally I find some of these lawsuits fascinating enough to share (especially as someone who never lived in the States).

And the story about tuna sandwich is far from over [1], so there is nothing wrong with a good BS story.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/new-lawsuit...

valzevul··on Things I Learnt in 2020
Yeah, that's true.

These sentences were examples from the language creator's original book [1], and his initial idea was to use nouns as a way to ask a question, and then add a personal pronoun for an affirmative statement:

> Will you go to the theatre tonight? - Soldoremi? > I will go to the theatre tonight. - Soldoremi dore.

As far as I know, later it was changed by the followers and the Solresol grammar [2] tries to move away from this approach, e.g

> Dore fasifa ladofa fami ladosol (I want to read this book [3])

instead of

> Ladosol dore.

[1]: http://www.ifost.org.au/~gregb/solresol/sudre-book.pdf [2]: http://mozai.com/writing/not_mine/solresol/ [3]: https://solresol.blogspot.com/2012/07/learning-solresol-less...

valzevul··on Things I Learnt in 2020
Wow, thank you for the extra bits!

I can't believe I have missed the boh! reference in the most recent Spider Man movie.

Re: ere, I learnt it the hard way with the word "ereyesterday" (and on that note, the word "overmorrow" is nice too) .

valzevul··on Things I Learnt in 2020
My favourite solution was espresso, lemon, and milk, until someone came up with a lemon affogato and ruined it.
valzevul··on Things I Learnt in 2020
Thank you! It's only a fifth of the facts I've shared over the last six months, so feel free to nurture the addiction further :)

That's a very good question: newsletters are rendered from markdown files; each of them is a combination of an intro, a book section, and two sections with articles and facts.

Both facts and articles are stored in a local CSV with my brief comments, and then I manually pick and expand on the ones suitable for the edition.

I mostly use Pocket + IFTTT for storing, and a naive Bash script to automate everything routine related to it (e.g formatting sources).

valzevul··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2020)
Location: London, United Kingdom

Remote: Yes, if this is a contract without strict time zones

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: All things iOS (Swift, Objective-C, Xcode, CI/CD, fastlane, watchOS); leading, coaching and mentoring; building and designing scalable and performant systems.

Résumé/CV: https://drobinin.com/cv

Email: hn@drobinin.com

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Started as a web developer in 2008, switched to backend in 2011 and shipped my first iOS app in 2013. Won Apple WWDC Scholarship, led VK University's iOS track, a regular speaker at mobile conferences worldwide since 2015.

Can help you with release pipelines, automation of CI/CD flows, solid app's architecture and bring your mobile team to the next level (or help building it from scratch).

valzevul··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (January 2020)
SEEKING WORK | London, UK | Remote

All things iOS / watchOS / tvOS.

Started as a web developer in 2008, switched to backend in 2011 and shipped my first iOS app in 2013. Won Apple WWDC Scholarship, led VK University's iOS track, a regular speaker at mobile conferences worldwide since 2015.

If you need help with finally moving that needle which prevents your company from conquering the world and it has anything to do with AR, iBeacons, custom animations, NLP, OCR or mobile security, I might be the right person to help.

Résumé/CV: https://drobinin.com/cv Email: hn@drobinin.com

valzevul··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2019)
Location: London, UK

Remote: Within the UK.

Willing to relocate: Within the UK.

Technologies: iOS, Swift, Objective-C, Xcode, CI/CD, fastlane

Résumé/CV: https://drobinin.com/cv

Email: hn@drobinin.com

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Started as a web developer in 2008, switched to backend in 2011 and shipped my first iOS app in 2013. Won Apple WWDC Scholarship, led VK University's iOS track, a regular speaker at mobile conferences worldwide since 2015.

valzevul··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2019)
Hi, I am an iOS developer who is pretty dispassionate when it comes to writing code and yet is a huge fan of the whole Apple ecosystem, so I talk at the events here and there. Can help you with release pipelines, automation of CI/CD flows, solid app's architecture or just bring your iOS team to the next level (or help building it from scratch), so essentially looking for a more senior position.

Location: London, United Kingdom (on sponsored visa)

Remote: Only if part-time / contract

Willing to relocate: Yes, within the country

Technologies: All things iOS, though used to be both backend (python, Django, etc) and web-developer so have no problems with finding the common denominator when interacting with other teams.

Résumé/CV: https://drobinin.com/

Email: offers@drobinin.com

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