Viewing profile — mshenfield

25k per unit, assuming the battery lasts 5 years, is uneconomically high at $5k/year per home. A 100kw generator can produce enough power for 100 homes, costs ~$50k all in, and ~$1…

It's back

No. Companies just have to re-hire fired employees and pay lost wages and benefits. IMO Starbucks should pay a large punitive fine that gets split between the fired workers and the…

I've never seen anyone directly make this case. Most people seem to want their colleagues (many of whom are friends) to keep their jobs more than they want the stock price to go up…

I'm still not convinced VSCode is faster and better. My Atom setup was never slow, the only thing that wasn't instantaneous was code completion. For me, it felt like VSCode came ou…

Twitter won't die, but it won't make much of a profit either. Elon Musk will find another buyer in 2 years for $25 billion and make most of his money back while leaving the company…

Also a good reminder why exceptions and optionals exist. Bonkers that "I didn't get a response" defaults to 0.

I like Pixlr, I use pixlr.com/e. It's free and web based and has always worked well for me. Did that happen recently? It says in Pixlr's site they're owned by INMAGINE.

These tools are amazing for prototyping. I had an idea for a promotional poster, and seeing my idea just by writing it felt like magic. The generated image had too many artifacts t…

I had the luck of getting to interact with Simon a little at my first real programmer job at Eventbrite. You would never know meeting him that he was one of the creators of Django,…

Love everything about this. The 6+ lawyers of parallax background really make it feel alive. Is the background generative in some way, or is each layer in a loop?

I used Atom for a long time after it was cool. I just loved the idea of an editor I could extend using the standard web tools and frameworks. Overall love this project, and still a…

Thanks for acknowledging how much harder this is when you use a cloud-specific feature. Modifying your codebase to migrate off some cloud specific service seems like it would be by…

Even though this begins with a pitch for empowering tenants, the customers are the landlords. The value for landlords comes at the expense of tenants in several ways. * It prevents…

It's a post about emojis, but I feel like I understand Unicode better now?

Does Google contact developers before taking down their extensions?

I used d3.js for one of my first programming projects. I was grateful and impressed that almost every question on Stack Overflow was answered by Mike Bostock or Jason Davies. I'm (…

One trick of `pragma journal_mode = WAL` is that even with synchronous normal, SQLite syncs when you close the last connection [1]. So re-using a connection is key to getting the f…

This list is self-consciously blunt/rude (correlating programming practices with intelligence and sanity) and unaccountable ("who knows what I'll believe in a few more years"). It'…

Going from a local db to one over a network has at least one risk. The SQLite docs gives developers the okay to write "n+1" style queries ( https://www.sqlite.org/np1queryprob.html…

There hasn't been a post with the words "twitter alternative" in 3 weeks [0]... but this probably has nothing to do with Twitter banning Donald Trump today. [0] https://hn.algolia.…