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vinnymac··on Bumblebee queens choose to hibernate in pesticide-contaminated soil
Makes me wonder if it could be that some of the pesticides attract the bumblebees, but not because of the absence of parasites.

Presumably clean soil also has no mites or parasites in it.

vinnymac··on MVCC – the part of PostgreSQL we hate the most (2023)
The part I hate the most is that in 2024 I still need a connection pooler (such as pgbouncer) in front of it to make it usable.
vinnymac··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
I don't have a question, but wanted to let you know that your site, www.robertsimmigration.com has a self-signed certificate and therefore others cannot create a secure connection to it.

> openssl s_client -connect www.robertsimmigration.com:443 2>/dev/null

> ---

> SSL handshake has read 1859 bytes and written 427 bytes

> Verification error: self-signed certificate

> ---

Cheers

vinnymac··on "Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"
I won’t be touching this binary with a ten foot pole until every line of code is open.

Many excellent alternatives already exist that are also open and free, I don’t see a compelling argument to use this software on any device at the moment.

vinnymac··on Do not use secrets in environment variables
Encrypting dotenv files is a thing, I would even say it has become popular!

https://dotenvx.com

https://github.com/getsops/sops

vinnymac··on Evolving GitHub Issues
Maybe I am misunderstanding you somehow, but you can turn off Issues without archiving a repository, I have several like that. If I attempt to navigate to `/issues`, it redirects me to `/pulls`. And the Issues tab is not visible whatsoever.

Have you tried `/settings` -> Features -> [ ] Issues ?

vinnymac··on Web components are okay
This could summarize every interaction I’ve had with Web Components since the beginning. Web Components are becoming the Nuclear Fusion of Web standards.
vinnymac··on Show HN: Selectric – macOS Search for Gmail, Outlook, Drive, Slack
Reminds me of a modern macOS version of “Everything” for windows. Love the concept!

It would be interesting if there was an option to add additional devices, such as a MacBook or iPhone, and search across all of them at once.

Alternatively if you want to preserve isolation perhaps a mobile app would suffice.

If you built an interface that we could plug other platforms into, I could see that being helpful, akin to what raycast has done with their extensions.

vinnymac··on OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux
I have been using OrbStack for 8 months now for personal use. I haven’t experienced a single issue in that time, and use it daily.

Can’t say that for much software to be honest.

vinnymac··on Show HN: Linkpreview, see how your sites looks in social media and chat apps
Does not appear to handle open graph correctly. For example, it displayed pixelated favicons resized to fit their containers, rather than the `og:image` in the head tag.
vinnymac··on Pipe Syntax in SQL
It's difficult for me to tell how sincere your confession was, I am guessing you meant it in jest.

But it is worth stating nonetheless. No one confesses when they search StackOverflow for something they've solved 100 times before, or when they ask Google a question a dozen times a day. Asking ChatGPT for some insight should equally not be considered sinful :)

vinnymac··on Imgpls – An extension to load Imgur images directly
StopTheMadness didn’t fit my needs iirc. I have heard “Redirect Web for Safari” is a decent alternative solution though, have yet to try it
vinnymac··on Imgpls – An extension to load Imgur images directly
I have been doing this using iOS Shortcuts and a regex for years. Except instead of old I redirect to a redlib instance.
vinnymac··on Troubled Amazon drone delivery program faces latest challenge: Annoyed residents
Especially when much more practical ideas have been under our feet: https://www.pipedreamlabs.co/
vinnymac··on Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – Isolated Declarations
Thanks for the clarification.

The fact that there are developers out there that are willing to accept hour long compile times from the typescript compiler is disgusting. I’ve seen slow recursive types here and there, but you can analyze your slow types using tsc and fix them yourself.

I hope that slow typescript compiling is a niche issue for massively large/complex codebases and not a common problem.

vinnymac··on Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – Isolated Declarations
I think they are referring to the manual creation of type definitions. As they mention it in the article.
vinnymac··on Show HN: From dotenv to dotenvx – better config management
You can, you just need to define the private key.

For example

DOTENV_PRIVATE_KEY_PRODUCTION

Would provide it with the information it needs to read .env.production

vinnymac··on Show HN: From dotenv to dotenvx – better config management
Dotenvx has a cloud hub from which the keys can be pulled. I imagine an eventual feature will be for the keys to expire, and you’ll have to re-authenticate with the cloud to get new credentials, just as you would with AWS.
vinnymac··on Show HN: From dotenv to dotenvx – better config management
Dotenvx used to encrypt by file. It’s a very recent design decision to encrypt by secret.
vinnymac··on After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL
I still enjoy using GraphQL, because it has allowed my teams to move measurably faster when developing APIs over the last half-decade. Some organizations seem fairly allergic to full stack development, but it has broken that barrier in ways I hadn’t witnessed before at my workplace.

However, lately I’ve been thinking that with the advent of React Server Components we will see a migration away from GraphQL-focused Frontend applications, and instead move toward other solutions. Such as ones based purely on exposing Postgres databases (e.g. supabase & postgREST) and type safe APIs (e.g. tRPC).

vinnymac··on Time-Based CSS Animations
I can think of a few ways, but here is an example where CSS triggers a request to track a user: https://underjord.io/is-this-evil.html
vinnymac··on My notes on Gitlab's Postgres schema design (2022)
I always wondered what the purpose of that extra “I” was in the CI variables `CI_PIPELINE_IID` and `CI_MERGE_REQUEST_IID` were for. Always assumed it was a database related choice, but this article confirms it.
vinnymac··on How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
The tech to do this exists, since WebRTC works without internet. One just needs to run a local server for signaling purposes.

https://github.com/coturn/coturn

vinnymac··on How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
Fortunately none of the options above require installation.

If properly invested in and maintained instead of being a toy open source project, they’d work seamlessly everywhere the web does.

vinnymac··on F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI
The fact that a $5k bounty still exists for the original makes you wonder where the copy is going to be found.

What content is being produced today that we will offer a $25k dollar bounty for in 50 years? Perhaps something in Roblox or Minecraft?

vinnymac··on How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
I have used all of these solutions, including the one you shared in the past.

Some of them used to work better than they do now, I imagine with browsers updating and the software going unmaintained, it hasn't left them in a great state. These are small open source projects without funding from what I can tell.

The fact that they work at all is amazing to me, and says a lot about what we can do with a few Web APIs. If only it was worth getting these individuals to collaborate on a web standard API around file transfers, maybe then we would finally see a long-standing solution.

vinnymac··on How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
I have used many of these to send files from windows to linux or mac to windows. My point isn't that one of the solutions above is perfect, but that the problem has been tackled in a user friendly way with existing web technologies in a variety of ways. These are very small, often one man projects, compared to something like airdrop for example, and they do 80% or more of what you need them to.

I spent less than a minute searching and found another WebRTC based project.

- Site: https://perguth.de/peertransfer/

- Source: https://github.com/perguth/peertransfer

Imagine what could be built with an actual investment? I don't think the money exists for this type of tech, otherwise we would've seen someone do it in the last 20 years.

vinnymac··on How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
Here is a list of open source options. This isn't the first time I have shared this on here either. Perhaps this is another sign that web search is failing us.

SnapDrop

- Site: https://snapdrop.net/

- Source: https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop

ShareDrop

- Site: https://www.sharedrop.io/

- Source: https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop

FilePizza

- Site: https://file.pizza/

- Source: https://github.com/kern/filepizza

Original Wormhole

- https://webwormhole.io/

- https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole

vinnymac··on Show HN: Play the game I'm developing directly on its website
I didn't use a password manager, and filled the input elements by hand.

Definitely have seen similar issues with autofill in the past. If it helps I have been doing web development for over 20 years, so whatever the issue was, it wasn't obvious to me. If I get time later I'll hook up the device to a debugger and get a closer look at what happened there.

vinnymac··on Bioluminescent petunias now available for U.S. market
I wonder how this could affect fireflies. Would the glow distract them in any way?
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