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Hi, I built this as a little side project as I had the following issues when travelling on the Elizabeth Line: - Hard to get live departures for my destination/line - Hard to get t…

Hi, I built www.askbyemail.com after getting tons of wordy emails from my kids' schools that I had trouble reading on the go. I know there are tools like Gemini (which I have not f…

Hi, I’m a long-time HN reader, though I don’t post much. I recently built an iPhone app called Sunny Hours. Living in the UK, I’ve often wanted a weather app that shows, at a glanc…

I've used it at work to speed up some standard Python code (without any c-bound library usage). It sped up the code by 5 times. I've deployed used the pypy:3.9 image on docker. One…

I did try PyCharm a few times, but it seemed too complicated - and this was after using Visual Studio for 15 years! The debugging support in VS Code is fairly good, so it's just th…

I moved/was pushed over to Python around a year ago, after writing C# for 15 years. My Python setup is as follows: * vscode * pylance * black formatter * flake8 * python typing ann…

I agree. I only generally use Fargate with containers, and control with cron or with always on APIs, with Cloudwatch for monitoring, and it’s seems like a good midpoint between ec2…

Are people that callous? I work for a large corporate, and I can honestly say that I think no-one would make such a decision. Perhaps I am naive.

I've tried to grapple with this notion over the last 10+ years. When I entered finance (I work for a derivatives trading desk), it was just as Facebook etc were just starting and w…