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Simplified Firestore wrapper with transparent caching and validation(asserted.io)
3 points by ehacke 6y ago|0 comments
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by ehacke 6y ago
Hey, I built this. Let me know if you have questions.
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Show HN: Asserted.io – Test in Prod. Continuous Uptime Testing with Mocha(asserted.io)
6 points by ehacke 6y ago|1 comments
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by ehacke 6y ago
Because the more powerful parts of the business want it to look green all the time, regardless of the reality. It would be easier to automate it. But they want to pretend that they have fewer outages than they actually do because if they we
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by ehacke 6y ago
To double-down on this, I wish companies more broadly would stop lying about their uptime on their status pages. It just creates chaos and confusion. It also forces otherwise-honest companies to also lie about their uptime, because they don
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by ehacke 6y ago
Yeah all my projects are down. Really irritating that they never update the status pages automatically, or even in a timely manor. As if customers won't notice.
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by ehacke 7y ago
At a high level, this is how Google Pay and Apple Pay function now. They create a temporary card number that's used in place of your own to insulate you from being tracked (to some extent). The primary issue with anything like this is
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by ehacke 7y ago
I'm always tempted to push people into programming. Mostly because I wish I had learned it in high school instead self-teaching in my mid-20's. But really, at their age it's mostly just important that they try to make somethi
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by ehacke 7y ago
For decades large portions of the US population have prided themselves on ignoring whatever the government says. Until the bodies start piling up in their own town, people will not take it seriously, and possibly not even then.
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by ehacke 7y ago
> Slack, Dropbox Paper, Google Docs/Sheets/Diagrams/Forms, Salesforce, LeanKit, Figma, Jira, Trello, Asana, Zendesk RoleUp handles most of those, but some don't offer user APIs. What type of data are you looking to co
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by ehacke 7y ago
If it's just keeping track of the users and who has access, I built https://roleup.io to solve that problem. And I'd be super interested to know which 60 services you use. Beyond shilling my service, I'm not sure
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by ehacke 7y ago
Why not just use Okta or something?
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by ehacke 7y ago
I think it's a bit of a fake idea in the sense that you ALWAYS want to ship the most minimal thing you can, as soon as you can. But what that means will depend on the company, the product, and the market. The tough part is figuring out