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The hardware wallet a.k.a cold storage, is predominantly protecting you from key exposure. The thought process is if your private key is on an internet connected device there’s alw…

Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows This introduced me to systems thinking which gives an interesting perspective on how to solve complex systemic problems. Concepts can be appl…

terraform and AWS’s free tier. Only costs are route53 costs which depending on your setup you can also eliminate. I’m usually utilizing a static site generator for main site; usual…

Hmm, even though LastPass doesn’t have access to your pass, couldn’t a malicious software update cause attacker to view your passwords when it runs since the software ultimately ha…

Air gapped wallets can utilize QR codes to sign transactions. Look into PSBTs (partially signed bitcoin transactions). Gist is you can create a transaction from any device that doe…

Woah thanks for sharing your situation. Talking about it to others sounds like a step in the right direction. One thing to consider is what you are teaching your kids by staying. K…

I’ve noticed lately when I visit HN from mobile it can take 3-10 seconds to load … did something change?

Woah this is awesome. Does anyone know if this is using web authn under the hood? Or is this a new spec? Would love to see Pub/Priv replace passwords

1. 6-12 month emergency fund 2. Learn to Budget if you don’t already 3. Max out retirement accounts 4. Place remainder in index funds; S&P is a great one to start with 5. Invest so…

I always accidentally click it instead of collapsing a thread. Does anyone find this useful? Am I just behind on the times?

This is great. I’ve been looking for documentation of using the new al2 runtime with go and this fits the bill. Thanks for the excellent article.

I absolutely love DynamoDB. Would definitely recommend the DynamoDB Book by Alex Debrie and Advanced DynamoDB Patterns by Rick H on YouTube. Once you understand how to properly use…

We currently do this. Team is compromised of folks across multiple time zones so it comes in handy. However, I do feel like synchronous stand-ups are more productive

Are you doing this solo? I’ve found it’s good to have partner(s). Ideally with diverse backgrounds; e.g. - marketing - engineering - sales - finance This way the burden doesn’t fal…

I wish we had more systems thinking around these problems. From my perspective it seems some are quick to want to change to another system on any signs of problems in the initial s…

There’s a lot of pitfalls measuring inflation in general especially when you add tech to the mix. Technology is known to be deflationary; getting faster and cheaper over time. This…

started off with chess.com and moved over to lichess years ago. Haven’t looked back since. Yeah sometimes it takes a while to join a game if you are trying to just play casual, but…

Yes zen mode is amazing. You’d be surprised at how much better you do when you just focus on the game vs paying attention to your opponents rating.

All depends on what’s important to you in that startup context. If you need a good mix of high productivity and low costs on the server side I think go is a good fit. If you don’t …

Hmm, can you provide some examples of how a context based iterator is slow? If you need raw performance and you are just doing some minimal operations on a slice then yeah you’d wa…

Regarding your point on iterators, I typically use a channel with context; this lets you exit that range loop early and will automatically stop the related go routine. (assuming it…

Raphael Poss did a really insightful talk on how to gracefully panic[0]; this gives try catch like functionality, though should be used sparingly IMO. - [0] https://m.youtube.com/w…