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Just finished the first version of the custom build system for my operating system project. For once, I'm really happy with the design and its flexibility whilst also being quite simple to understand and use. Next will be applying it to the kernel repository and a few other utilities. This side project is the only thing that brings me joy recently.
Anyway, lately I've been enjoying putting together "mixtapes" (not recording them live, just putting the tracks together and then exporting to MP3) and uploading them to Mixcloud. It's been creative and when I see that someone listens to it, I feel like I'm connecting with them in some way.
Could we make this a monthly post, just like the Who's Hiring one? I miss that aspect of HN.
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great site , what im missing on the web is information on how to build or use proxy server for use with the wev scrapers
Thanks, that's a great suggestion! I actually have an article on proxies in the works however I'm a bit stuck on making it a bit more accessible since proxy access is either really expensive (for a single dev) or extremely unstable (like free proxies). I've always had the luxury of paid quality proxies in my web-scrapers however for article purposes I'd like to have an example of cheap or free proxies for casual usag…
I configured an Alpine Linux docker container with openvpn and a proxy server (I think I settled on squid for stability), and a bash script to to start up the openvpn connection and proxy server with config for both passed into the container. Then just generated a long, line by line list of every possible vpn connection config line by line, shuffled and duplicated.
Then in my outer scraping function: grab a line from the config file, start up a vpn-proxy container (passing in the config), do one page download through the container proxy and then stop and delete the docker container. This allowed me to download pages in parallel, with all connections originating from different IP addresses (as long as I made sure not to exceed VPN simultaneous connection limits).
Kinda messy, and I spent ages fiddling to get the container config just right, but it worked.
I love this thread - it feels like therapy to me. Perhaps because I believe there's a few (if not many) people lurking around that I can relate to, and partly because I'm lacking the human connection I had with friends in my pre-parenthood years. Anyway, lately I've been enjoying putting together "mixtapes" (not recording them live, just putting the tracks together and then exporting to MP3) and uploading them to Mix…
Started programming 4 years ago because wife gave me idea for brilliant, never been done before video game. Detoured down web stack just to get a job. Have since become a programmer for a University and had 2 kids. Maybe I'll start back up on the game in 10 years or so. Am > 40 years old and feels like life is just getting started for me.
What a great thread. I’ve been learning finger drumming on a pad controller (Maschine MK3), going through a course called Quest For Groove. I’ve been into making electronic music for a long time but this is my first attempt to learn a musical instrument and the fact it fits into my musical ecosystem so neatly (because of its digital nature, it’s not “real” drumming) makes it an even more rewarding experience. I’ve al…
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Recommend reading "Four Thousand Weeks" by Oliver Burkeman. It's about time management, but not the traditional "how to get everything done" sense. He talks about what a normal person can do with their "4000 weeks", or, roughly speaking, their life. If you do decide to go back to work, I'm sure you'll approach it in a very different way. I'm a lot older than you, but I'm also 6 months off work on a break. I'm doing a…
I just read the short summary on goodreads [1] and... color me skeptical... It reads like a version of "The Celestine Prophecy" [2] but aimed at a middle-aged tech bubble. Could you (or anyone else) compare the two, for a very slow reader to make a decision? :D PS yes the comparison is probably too harsh but that was honestly my first gut reaction... [1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36481028-4000-weeks-a-li..…