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gurgus

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About gurgus

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/grug; my proof: https://keybase.io/grug/sigs/9-oWJtGsglDg_wORRz2UuRS-4YY4Dj7RMuTFpMxuSwc ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #33519098

    Doing the weekly food shop over the last 12 months has felt reasonably nuts. For the most part, we usually get the same stuff each week (fruit/veg/meat/dried food etc...) and it's …

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    Comment #29993315

    This looks like a really neat tool but I wish that people didn't have to sign up in order to submit a response to the survey.

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    Comment #27433254

    Blame culture isn't the way forward here. Do a post-mortem, work out root causes, work as a unit to ensure this doesn't happen again. Obviously if there are levels of gross neglige…

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    Comment #24007378

    There's a typo on the main page: "Collect the partecipation quote" <-- should probably be "participation"

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    Ask HN: Strategy for changing your primary email?

    Hi there! For reasons (mostly that the domain I'm using isn't really appropriate anymore), I'm considering changing my primary email address. If you were wanting to change your pri…

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    Comment #22044998

    I just tested this out on my website and it worked exactly as instructed which is always a plus. Super easy to set up and a clear set of analytics :)

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    Comment #20888814

    That's something similar to what I've been doing lately where I've been trying to use colour palettes I like from other sites in my own designs but it's so hard to get the feel rig…

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    Ask HN: Web developers – how did you get good at designing things?

    I'm a web dev with a decade of experience with all things frontend, but I mostly consider myself a JavaScript engineer more than anything else. I've found that for most things, I c…

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    Comment #18960169

    Sweet username!

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    Comment #15956028

    It's in a browser. It's browser based.

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    Comment #15950406

    > - Signal and Whatsapp, as others have pointed out, are far from being comfortable as being private (they already know too much, phone number, etc.), and don't have the convenienc…

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    Comment #15777855

    If you're in London, hit me up! I work for a mid-large company that is full of Scalia devs. We'd be more than happy to give you an interview :)

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    Ask HN: Do people like doing Selenium testing?

    I'm a web developer who has been working in the industry for about 8 years and one thing that always seems to get a mixed reaction in the workplace is e2e/integration/functional te…

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    Comment #15662035

    It's a really cool read. I thought it was neat and a bit more elegant than doing something similar with Window.postMessage ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window…

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    Comment #15448244

    Yes! I absolutely love magic wormhole!!!

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    Comment #15330377

    This is pretty sweet. Very simple and the code base looks pretty easy to follow. I should get some time this evening to submit a PR to add a couple of small things :)

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    Comment #15026532

    Very cool writeup. I love posts like this that cover random things like this. I'm definitely going to take this away and mess around with it!

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    Comment #14125335

    This is super awesome work. Well done - you should be proud! I have to admit, I remember stumbling across your comment when you accepted the challenge and in my mind I scoffed, thi…

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    Comment #13614587

    Cool project! Makes me want to think of another fun way of crowdsourcing stock tips for fun. Maybe something like TwitchPlaysWallStreet?

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    Comment #13581831

    For an intern, that is insanely good. edit: In fact, for a lot of people, that is insanely good! Apologies if I came across as an asshole when I said "for an intern".

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    Comment #13541271

    That classic "well, nobody else has had a problem, so you must be the problem" response. I remember at one of my first jobs, myself and another programmer were working on a side pr…

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    Comment #13336207

    Awesome response - are you able to give me an example of what you mean "wrap third party components"? Thanks :)