Hacker News·4yWho wrote this shit?
It is a beautiful rite of passage for a junior developer to join a team, take some tasks full of enthusiasm, and have the life and joy sucked out of them one sprint at a time. Trashing legacy software is fun. It creates camaraderie. Who wrote this? What were they thinking? Looking at the commit log showed names that meant nothing to me.
Hacker News·4yHow we handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
Poly Haven has 5 million pageviews and 80 terabytes of traffic every month for under $400. Cloudflare All the Way is the reason we can do what we do so easily and so affordably. Nextjs is a framework created by Vercel which improves performance for users around the world.
Hacker News·4yMy first impressions of web3
Web3 aims to decentralize the internet in ways that web1 and web2 did not. The idea is that everyone on the internet would be both a publisher and consumer of content. But that is not what people want – they want to run their own servers. A protocol moves much more slowly than a platform.
Hacker News·4yI make $3K/mo from a browser extension! (+ December 2021 updates)
After 2 months of beta program, the total free users was ~9,800. That’s not a small audience at all, and the success of the beta program and the launch are heavily affected by the existing audience I have. Free users require a lot of resources to serve (server cost, support, etc.), but there are a lot. of potentials to convert people to paid customers. The launch announcement also helps to gather more attention/support.
Hacker News·4yI automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone. : antiwork
I work for a mid-size lawfirm that hired me as an IT specialist to handle all of their digital evidence for trials. The law-firm was in the process of changing their evidence managing system to Cloud based and wanted me to be the only person with admin access to the Cloud. I set up a remote workstation, tunneled it to my house, and that's when the real fun began. In about a week I was able to write, debug, and perfect a simple script that performed my entire job.
Hacker News·4yPHP in 2022
PHP 8.1 was released just a little more than one month ago. New features include enums, promoted properties and fibers. PhpStorm is now supporting generics when writing code. The PHP Foundation is stepping down to make core development sustainable. There's also a new initiative backed by several big companies to make PHP sustainable.
Hacker News·4yGoogle Analytics declared illegal in the EU.
The Austrian Data Protection Authority has declared Google Analytics illegal in Europe. Google is "subject to surveillance by US intelligence services and can be ordered to disclose data of European citizens to them" Google users can, however, make a setting in their Google accounts to stop Google from evaluating their use of third-party websites.
Hacker News·4yDev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker' breaking thousands of apps
Users of popular open-source libraries 'colors' and 'faker' were left stunned after they saw their applications, using these libraries, printing gibberish data and breaking. The developer of these libraries intentionally introduced an infinite loop that bricked thousands of projects that depend on them. The reason behind this mischief on the developer's part appears to be retaliation against mega-corporations and commercial consumers who rely on cost-free and community-powered software.
Hacker News·4yweb3 is Centralized
The trend of communication and information becoming more centralized in large corporations is worrying and worth fighting against. "Web3," as it exists today and appears to be building towards, is actually more centralized than the web it seeks to replace. The reason people build on these fundamentally centralized technologies is actually pretty obvious: the vast majority of DAOs are transparently cash grabs.
Hacker News·4yA classless CSS framework
Simple.css is a classless CSS framework that makes semantic HTML look good, really quickly. By using something like Simple.css, it provides the basics to get up and running quickly (or just use it as is for a simple, good looking site) Yet not have to learn an extremely convoluted framework, like Bootstrap.
Hacker News·4yHow I took my SaaS from idea to sold in 14 months
Joe Masilotti built Mugshot Bot in one month and grew the product for a year. After four months of parental leave, he officially posted MugshotBot for sale in November. He hopes to use the money to spend as much time as possible with his family.
Hacker News·4yWelcome to Waifu Labs v2: How do AIs Create?
The Waifu Labs AI has finished drawing its 20-millionth commission. To celebrate, we're releasing a series of posts addressing the topic of artificial creativity. If you haven't already had a chance to try out the new Waifulabs v2 Model, check it out now!
Hacker News·4yBevy 0.6
Bevy is a simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It's free and open source forever! You can grab the full source code on GitHub. Check out Bevy Assets for a collection of community-developed plugins, games, and learning resources. Thanks to 170 contributors, 623 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the Bevy 0.6 release.
Hacker News·4yThere’s No Such Thing as Clean Code
There’s no such thing as clean code. ‘Clean’ isn’t a measure of anything useful. Code can be good for a variety of reasons. The most simple code is probably not the most testable. Engineering is about trade-offs, so we’ve got to be able to articulate to each other why one solution is better than another.
Hacker News·4yCyberChef
CyberChef is a web app for analysing and decoding data without having to deal with complex tools or programming languages. It is expected that CyberChef will be useful for cybersecurity and antivirus companies. It should also appeal to the academic world and any individuals or companies involved in the analysis of digital data.
Hacker News·4yFacebook collecting people's data even when accounts are deactivated
When people deactivate their accounts, their profile disappears from view of other people, but not Facebook. Facebook views deactivation as a sign that a user may return to reactivate the account at some point. While deactivated accounts are not visible to others, Facebook handles them just like an active account.
Hacker News·4yMy 70 year old mother has been using Linux on the desktop for the past 21 years
My 70 year old mother has been using Linux on the desktop for the past 21 years. My mother is not a skilled programmer or anything, she's not even an average computer user and she definitely doesn't know what a terminal is. Gaming is another problem on Linux. It's not that it is not possible to game on Linux, but very few games are being made for Linux.
Hacker News·4yExploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment
System76 is developing a new desktop environment based on the Rust programming language. The COSMIC desktop is still a work in progress and is not yet ready for use. The new launcher is fairly similar to the one that is currently available in Pop!_OS. There are some bugs present and some features missing.
Hacker News·4ykhuedoan/homelab: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated from empty disk to operating services.
Infrastructure as Code is a highly customizable framework to build your own homelab. It can be used to automate provisioning, operating, and updating self-hosted services. The project is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY.
Hacker News·4yYour app is not compliant with Google Play Policies: A story from hell
Catima is only available on Google Play and F-Droid and will probably remain exclusive to these platforms for the forseeable future. The real problem with Google Play, however, is not the money, it is the incompetence of their support and moderation staff. It is possible to use the Dutch word “vrij” (meaning “free as in freedom”) into Google Translate to refer to things as being at no cost.