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> what the most romantic ideal you have of America that you think would be worth sharing? A shining city on a hill. Both as an ideal to aspire to, and a warning that the world's ey…

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To each their own, just stay away from Tenderloin and Market and 6th street. I'm sure if you set out some time to explore, you will find whatever fits you best. When I was moving, …

Ever since I've been very young I wanted to live in the global West. At first England, then USA became more lucrative place. I've spent 10 years trying to move to USA. Sacrificed a…

neal.fun is the bestest place on the internet

Good luck supporting it

1 is the loneliest number that you'll ever do 2 can be as bad as 1 It's the loneliest number since the number 1

I still use Authy tbh

Let me use my UniFi

I don't mind UI, but I think it's a bad approach. Instead of hiding all those complexities of the server behind UI, I would like to see each part of the application teach me how to…

JIRA replaced Project Management job a long time ago. If you select for proactive, driven, autonomous engineers, you don't really need to oversee them or tell them what to work on.…

I took a python library for generating posters from maps and wrapped it up as a web UI: https://maptoposter.penk.in/ I mean AI did all the work for me with some minimal guidance. A…

I self host Stirling-PDF for complicated tasks, and use native MacOs app Preview for easy tasks

yup, something to fix in the future. I suspect it couldn't find city coordinates

https://maptoposter.penk.in/ Using Claude Code and OP's library, I've put it on the internets. Web hosting is cheap(free) and generation takes some time

https://penk.in/ - one day I will add a proper blog in there and testing bed for tech, but for now it is as it is. The background image is the one I took in Iceland, really proud o…

RIP. Also RIP my dreams about apple doing networking hardware like AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, Time Capsule, XServe etc. It was a great time in 2000s

When running your own backup server, you're forgetting about scenario(however less-likely) when Google Photos will loose your photos, or if your google account gets banned with no …

have you tried CasaOs or Zima board? It's their premise your own micro cloud

https://filebin.net/jptm6h7q2agr8qoe Let's see if HN admins will allow it. File will be deleted in 6 days

There was a post about 2 years ago on HN so that people would post links to their blogs. Somebody saved that post and extracted all the links in to the CSV file with their name and…

I started to frown upon people calling themselves developers. This is the term I used a long time ago and now I use Software Engineer.

Isn't it called consultant/consultancy?

thats not the point I was answering. The point is that it's 2 sides of the coin under regulation vs over regulation. And no system is ideal on both sides of Atlantic

I guess we have different understanding of L24/N24. There is no need for a task to take 1 day, it can span days easily. I had tasks which spanned a week or two just because they we…