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xeno42
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About xeno42
Previously: Director of Engineering, Cloud Services at Anki Software Engineer at Splunk Software Engineer at VA Software (Sourceforge, etc)
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Comment #40837482
n/m not sure how i missed it in tfa.. i do remember trying it at the time and it had a similar mixed response from people, but mostly negative.
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Comment #40834255
Isn't this a dupe of SceneTap from a decade+ ago?
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Comment #35388863
Congrats on 5.0 - CoScreen has been an integral part of our team's daily workflow for the last couple of years, and it's been wonderful to to be able to share feedback and see the …
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Comment #32717475
I've been hosting my email on my own server since the 90s, but got tired of dealing with keeping up with spam filters. Updated the MX to deliver inbound to mailroute.net and have t…
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Comment #28225145
My team has been using CoScreen ( https://www.coscreen.co/ ) for collaborative meetings and development for much of the last year and it's been really transformational. The ease at…
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Comment #27064570
Every day, and it's still very reliable and works very well for me; i hope it continues to run, though it would be nice for Zoom to make a strong statement around it. I note the Ke…
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Comment #26583015
CoScreen has been great for our engineering standups, truly collaborative development and debugging etc; it's just removes so much friction for distributed teams
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Comment #26582136
This has been a really great addition to our workflow for many months now as it's gone through beta - It's become the default place to have standups etc as it just makes working to…
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Comment #26520463
While unfortunate, this is a really great, transparent summary posted in a very timely manner. A bonus that I learned something about the sharp edges of Cloudfront in the process w…
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Comment #25289578
I've been using the beta version for the past few months, and it's really been great to see the progress made - Adding thumbnailed webcam feeds of participants was a nice addition …
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Comment #24796808
Seems similar to Fluid ( https://fluidapp.com/ ) which i found useful many years ago, albeit Mac only and likely much lighter/simpler
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Comment #23468969
I've been using https://krisp.ai/ to great effect with Zoom while sitting outside on the laptop with road traffic, birds, etc nearby - My team really had a "wow" moment when i turn…
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Comment #22155711
I had a Dell 38" ultrawide that I loved, but it did not survive a cross-country move so I just replaced it with a Philips 499P9H 49" ultrawide - 5120x1440 - Really the same dimensi…
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Comment #20622131
If you've used Cmd-C to copy something to the clipboard, pbpaste is really useful to pipe the clipboard contents into a pipe or to a file (pbcopy being the inverse)
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Comment #20622041
Ctrl-Cmd-Space in most text edit fields to open the character viewer to enter emoji and other common unicode characters
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Comment #15043006
I don't read 1000/day, but I do step through 1,000 - I scan a headline/summary, hit "j" and move on for the vast majority of them. Some i'll star and come back to later, for others…
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Comment #15042513
https://bazqux.com/ was the closest i found in terms of UI and performance with the amount of feeds/items i go through (~1000 items/day) - Been pretty happy with it since Google Re…
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Comment #11981791
I've had a license for Charles Proxy for the last 9 years and it's been a seriously useful tool, not just for introspecting http/https traffic (and recording those sessions to atta…
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Comment #11958224
Interesting.. I've been very happy with Webpass for the past 8 or 9 years (though my building's crappy wiring can "only" support 100Mbit). A Webpass engineer I spoke to last week m…
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Comment #11718947
I wrote a fax->email gateway in 2002 that's still in very active use.. wouldn't be that remarkable, except most of the servers are still running original equipment with original ha…
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Comment #11694578
fwiw i switched from Google Reader to https://bazqux.com/ - The UX is very similar, has no problem dealing with a lot of feeds and is fast enough to keep up with my ~1000 item/day …
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Comment #9703228
The page linked in the post confirms your assertion: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSOptim...
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Comment #9220130
Did you get a pre-registration offer this year? I've been every year too, but it seems like they've given up completely with their I/ON program now :-(
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Comment #9014560
Additionally - Pushing the seed operation out of the loop decreased the run time for 1,000,000 samples from ~10 seconds to ~50ms on my machine.
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Comment #6550777
I tried a lot of different readers prior to and after the reader shutdown, and Bazqux was the only one I found I could live with. Very fast, has search, is consistently up, keeps t…