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Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?
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#242I hacked a couple of Ansible playbooks around and made them do things in an arguably better manner than they did before
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#243I did far more work than usual and now my product lead is going to expect this to happen every sprint. They'll be so disappointed.
I was so productive I managed to finish the work inside of a day that I've been having trouble with the past two weeks. Maybe HN should have planned blackouts? :D
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#244Restarted my phone thinking something wrong with it. Then changed to Cloudflare DNS instead of PiHole thinking it maybe pihole issue. Because when does HN ever go down :D
I feel you: I recently migrated my network setup to a VM based solution and it has been a bit volatile the first week; especially while I tweaked it or learned some details. But it worked well for the last week, and all of a sudden HN doesn't work... Pihole? Ipv6 or ipv4? Random libvirt iptables? Opnsense unhappy? Thank God for isitdownorjustme!
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#245Slept right through it. Funny thing about being in a completely different time zone.
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#246Wondered how HN might best implement mandatory offline periods during the day. I’m thinking something like it’s offline for an hour every other hour so only a total of 12 hours uptime a day.
Or maybe we should all learn some self-control instead.
Don't be silly. I'd write an elaborate explanation why that's statistically likely for tech workers to be easily distracted by shiny things and how HN is triggers this, but I have to sneak out of bed now so I can setup uptime-kuma (which I just learned about). ;-)
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#247I read half way through this free book by Sven Yrvind called “WITH FOUR SQUARE METERS OF SAIL AND ONE OAR” which is sort of a manifesto about building small boats and living simply. He’s a super interesting guy, I don’t even know how to sail and I was pretty glued to it. Not sure why I decided to latch on and go deep on the subject but you can find it here if you’re interested: https://www.yrvind.com/wp-content/uploa…
Yrvind is such a legend - he has had me on a micro-cruiser kick for quite a while now. He has a youtube channel that's worth checking out - he's a character that's fun to listen to as well. Other interesting boat designers (this is sort of my obsession): You might check out Matt Layden's designs for similar micro-cruisers. A totally different but equally iconoclastic designer is Dave Zeiger, of TRILOBOATs. Those are…
Thanks a lot for compiling this list. There are a lot of interesting boat styles there. They kind of look funny but seem to be fully functional and some even quite comfy.
Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?
#248I found that Twitter still exists :))
Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?
#249Discover OCRmyPDF (embed an OCR layer into a PDF from the command line), and then repeatedly check if HN was up so I could submit it https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Cool. Anyone know how this relates/compares to Paperless-NG?
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#250I was working too much, so glad it's back too. Needed a break asap!