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I guess it depends on what you want out of life too. I did not go to Uni, started my career early and had a very comfortable income my entire 20’s. No debt, travelled all over the …

Podman supports just the pod spec also used by kubernetes. How much orchestration do you need on a local machine?

I started using an extension called “social focus”. Allows me to hide all kinds of distractions on social media and YouTube, can highly recommend

Not updating your browser will net you tons of exploitable vulnerabilities. How do you expect things to ever change if no one ever updates? Certainly even if you decide to lean tow…

Back in the day I believe I just installed the OS on a USB stick and used the SD card only to boot of that.

You can get a free cert from letsencrypt using their dns challenge. No need to expose to the internet. Add a DNS record that points to the address of your LAN and it’ll make things…

I like using Vercel v0 for frontend

Even if it is intended as a hint to human observers, during a big scandal in my country a few years ago turned out all the gov officials where blindly following the computer advise…

I agree with you on the subjects are boring rich people, if we judge it with today standards. For the time it was actually quite unique that (upper) middle class people could get t…

Additionally you can use Tailscale for added convenience. Tailscale is a payed service, for a simple home server you can get away with the free plan and their mobile apps work rath…

Fair enough

Thank you for bringing this up, I almost ignored this project since I assumed it had something to do with TypeScript + JSX. The JS ecosystem sure struggles with naming things.

If chrome permissions made sense a user could choose to activate the extension when they visit a site. Also the extension could have no network access and have read-only access to …

If you start to think about optimising the performance of your bash scripts it might be time to rewrite in another language

I just mount a case sensitive Apple File System disk image at ~/code, works well

HN is so full of negative comments like these. OP I’m very impressed you learned all of this at 17! I started coding when I was a teenager but still haven’t released something like…

I would love some reading recommendations on the history of Indonesia after Dutch colonialism

I think this is antithetical to most people’s view of privacy on this platform :)

I really enjoy reading /r/askHistorians. It’s a strongly moderated community with high quality content. Truly and example for what the internet can be.

Ah I was just experimenting with what was possible, essentially I wanted to intercept notifications from an app to use for an automation.

From my experimentation with writing my own push notification client for android, this is exactly what Google does with their push messages.

You are right most developers are not very good at that. I think it’s important to stress that this goes both ways. You should not cut your margins if you take longer, but I also t…