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by ctippett 5y ago
Pilot’s flight time is calculated from when they sign-in, so delays and time spent on the tarmac (and not in the air) all contribute to the total “flight time”.
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by ctippett 5y ago
Not just using images for rounded corners, but drop-shadow effects too. Of course, that required 8 or so different gifs to cover all four sides of a container, including separate images for the corners.
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by ctippett 5y ago
If you don’t mind limiting your CPU choices, there’s nothing stopping you from using one of AMD’s CPUs that come with integrated graphics. I did this for a short while with a Ryzen 5 2400G before purchasing an external graphics card (and ev
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by ctippett 5y ago
I can highly recommend Test-Driven Development with Python[0]. The book has you build and deploy a web application, with emphasis on writing tests at each stage of development. The author has a great sense of humour and the whole book is a
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by ctippett 5y ago
I thought I was very clever registering `justthetippett.com`.
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by ctippett 5y ago
| Now do that without SES. Why, so they can prove they know how to host an email server? That’s not the point of the OP.
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by ctippett 5y ago
FlightStats / Cirium have an API for airport data[0] that I’ve found to be mostly complete (sans a few rural Australian airports). It includes historical records for airports that are no longer active, such as Hong Kong’s Kai Tak airpo
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by ctippett 6y ago
My current go-to resource for gradients is https://uigradients.com . One feature I'd personally appreciate is a programmatic interface for getting a list of gradients, it's handy for generating dynamic backgrounds.
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by ctippett 6y ago
Wow, thank you for sharing this. I had no idea you could do that with fzf.
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Show HN: Terraform module for deploying Docker containers to any Cloud VM(github.com)
2 points by ctippett 6y ago|1 comments
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by ctippett 6y ago
I've been playing around with a few different self-hosted PaaS offerings (Exoframe, Caprover, Dokku et al), but nothing quite hit the mark. I ended up bootstrapping a small VM using cloud-init and found it worked seamlessly across all
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by ctippett 6y ago
I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of using cloud-init to bootstrap VMs. The configuration is in YAML, but doesn’t require any other client side tooling. Most major distributions (incl. the public clouds) all support it and make it available
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Did someone say BigQuery UDFs? I'll take 10(christippett.dev)
1 points by ctippett 6y ago|0 comments
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by ctippett 10y ago
+1 for petl, I'm using it right now on a project that deals with a lot of tabular data and it's been a huge time saver.