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by dmje 4y ago
"WordPress is too complicated! Let's do everything in React" is my current favourite developer anti-pattern :-)
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by dmje 4y ago
It's so typical of the rapid, results-oriented, outcome-focused world that we live in that McMindfulness has dashed into the forefront of popularity; oh look, I'll just ignore the last 2500 years of learning and sit on a cushion f
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by dmje 4y ago
We've watched our local (seaside town) carparks turn to an absolute shit show with the arrival of these. Before: insert money, get ticket. Now: type registration number (on non qwerty keyboard), lots of to-ing and fro-ing as person &#x
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by dmje 4y ago
So very glad I'll be dead in 50 years.
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by dmje 4y ago
Really nice. Minor UI / marketing suggestion - set the summary size somewhere in the middle for the initial summary rather than right at the bottom. This would allow the user to see a shorter version but not the really cropped one whic
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by dmje 4y ago
In my world (running a small digital agency), I've realised that even if I do all the things to reduce my data footprint (for instance, migrate all my docs to NextCloud, self host email, etc), it actually all breaks almost instantly
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by dmje 4y ago
I use a client, so have a local IMAP backup, and regularly back this up to my NAS. That's not really my worry, though. What scares me about being heavily invested in blah@gmail.com or blah@notmydomain.com is lockout from services. As l
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by dmje 4y ago
I just don't understand the attraction of self hosting email. The pain seems extreme, even for those who understand the considerable number of nuances. To me the happy middle ground is email on your own domain but using an existing pro
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by dmje 4y ago
The guy launched. It looks great. It works well. Maybe consider being a bit kinder.
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by dmje 5y ago
OPML has always seemed to me to be a hugely underused technology. A list of someone's feeds is a reasonable indicator of their interests, and bashing different OPML files together feels like it'd be a good way of finding other peo
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by dmje 5y ago
We should definitely watch out. There’s not mushroom on this planet.
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by dmje 5y ago
I'd call a company in this space Sound Hides In Toilets
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by dmje 5y ago
Aw man, I loved the Atari for sound. I never had one but some mates did, we used to write some epic stuff. This has also reminded me of much later when I started using Tracktion, which it turns out is still a thing…
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by dmje 5y ago
PostIt note on your screen? :-)
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by dmje 5y ago
Anyone remember any names of DAWs back then? - I had it on my Mac Classic round about 92-95. I thought it was called EasyStudio but man, apparently it was a while ago and I seem to be getting forgetful...
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by dmje 5y ago
Quite gratifying to read that I'm not alone in this. I was really early into Gmail so have first.last@ and get a lot of stuff emailed to me that is exactly as you describe - not spam, just mistaken address. Hotel reservations, golf c
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by dmje 5y ago
The flaw here is that I’m not interested in the indie web per se. I’m interested in specific, interesting looking articles, some of which might happen to be indie web in nature…
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by dmje 5y ago
That's a weird thought. Medium might be irritating as an interface or as a business but there are still some really interesting things written on it, no?
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by dmje 5y ago
I'm not an engineer, I'm a generalist who works in tech. I'm based in the UK, so no - I apparently have no idea about what it's like to live in the area. But that's not really my point. My point isn't about how
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by dmje 5y ago
Sure. I’m just expressing discomfort at how it became just “meh, it’s how it is”. My issue is I just don’t see the world in this money focused way. From out here, in the land where it’s sort of average to earn maybe $50k and feel pretty goo
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by dmje 5y ago
> We have a few other systemic issues I’d like to see solved first Insane levels of inequality is what’s on my list
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by dmje 5y ago
Sorry, I read it all the time, but still - how the fuck is it suddenly normal for a fairly standard salary amongst any non exec layer in a company to be ~$250k? I know engineers and developers have to be skilled, but this is insane. No-one
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by dmje 5y ago
A tiny bit of me - just a tiny bit - thinks: what's the point? Or - maybe it's more like: what percentage of this activity is actually about organisation, and what percentage is about having a fun time using the organisational t
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by dmje 5y ago
Insane 1984-ness. How the f did the world come to this
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by dmje 5y ago
I'm in the process of trying to open a UK business bank account for myself and two other directors. The hoops we have to jump through are insane.
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by dmje 5y ago
Yeh, there's some common schemas as museums share a smallish range of collection databases. But...they tend to use them in their own unique way, which is where the complexity comes in. You're right about the big players, however p
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by dmje 5y ago
Thanks, I know nothing about dynamodb so that's a good tip, will go and research!
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by dmje 5y ago
That's a great point, and one I'd totally missed. Thanks!
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Ask HN: 3k museums submitting data. How?
15 points by dmje 5y ago|24 comments
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by dmje 5y ago
"the older I get, the better it was"

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