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jalada

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About jalada

Head of Engineering; https://pixielabs.io

Podcast co-host; https://octal.fm

Also made: https://twitterfall.com, https://www.rivered.io, https://www.traintrack.io.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/jalada; my proof: https://keybase.io/jalada/sigs/1NgGnifAWiFvtmWKkvcr37qSJQZaVXvd_B5pPuc0Y-4 ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49060627

    Simultaneously - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/26/water-supply...

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    Comment #47979515

    Spotify pretending like they don’t want AI artists. Once you’re locked in, you won’t look, and they can make maximum ad $$$ and pay no one.

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    Comment #46601627

    Depends on the room.

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    Comment #38793156

    Reminds me of Spotify's post about shuffling songs: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/02/how-to-shuffle-son...

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    Comment #38642518

    It's looking dated now but I built https://www.rivered.io 10 years ago, based on the same theory, inspired by Dave Winer's discussion on the topic: http://scripting.com/2014/06/02/…

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    I know there's a lot of concerns about generative voices, but it's a shame the only solution is 'insist on a live recording of random phrases'. For those whose voices have already …

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    Comment #35419354

    When I was in Paris in 2019 I tried to use their e-scooters and it was nearly impossible because angry locals had sharpie-d over every barcode so you couldn’t scan them. I’m surpri…

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    Comment #34142881

    Cute. My parents' house has, for a few years now, been plagued by crows attacking the windows in the early hours of the morning, dive-bombing them, standing outside them screaming,…

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    Comment #32834400

    Orinoco cards were also great for wardriving, I paid a premium to get one over here in the UK (where they were way less common) with an external antenna connector on it.

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    Comment #30525142

    Pixie Labs | Full Stack Developer (Senior Engineer) | Remote (UK-based) | Full-time | See job spec for compensation details | https://pixielabs.io Pixie Labs is a digital product a…

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    Comment #29661464

    Heads up for anyone thinking about trying out a homeserver or two. To my knowledge there is no way of moving from one piece of homeserver software to another. So for example if you…

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    Comment #29640699

    Very good.

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    Comment #29048347

    Thanks for sharing, OP! I had a lot of fun learning Rust whilst building this, which means some of my code is probably questionable. Any hints about what I've done wildly wrong are…

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    Comment #29028554

    Those handles make it a good LAN party case!

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    Comment #28608389

    For anyone who tl;dr: > Only 61 percent the battery life of a similarly configured XPS 13

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    Comment #26785057

    Here in the UK it's incredible how little immunotherapy is prescribed despite the fact that it's been available for ages and known to work. Anecdotally I have heard one problem is …

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    Comment #24588456

    I made a Twitter bot when this first came out that tweets random sounds from this every few hours: https://twitter.com/oh_sfx . A lot of different engine noises...

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    Comment #23244212

    It's still a thing, it was re-released on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/352700/Subspace_Continuum...

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    Comment #20425233

    Yes. I think HN stole your asterisks. You meant: /.*=.*/ becomes /[^=]*=.*/ That is, zero or more 'not-equals-sign-characters', followed by an equals sign. Where the first regex is…

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    Comment #19681854

    Always nice to hear from people who still use Twitterfall!

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    Comment #18829199

    Welcome to managing a team of eight people.

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    Comment #15955267

    We (Pixie Labs) have been using Dependabot for a month or two now. Here four reasons why, as a small team with a bunch of codebases to look after, we 1. Their pre-sales support was…

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    Comment #13955928

    Not an option for anyone developing MacOS, iOS, or WatchOS apps.