fterh

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by fterh 5y ago
I was a law student who got sick of legal practice, and found my passion for programming through luck. I actually wrote a reflective blog piece on my journey recently if anyone is interested - https://medium.com/@fabianterh&
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Pandemic survival guide for a new grad remote software engineer(medium.com)
1 points by fterh 6y ago|0 comments
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Pandemic survival guide for a new grad remote software engineer(medium.com)
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by fterh 6y ago
Quarantine is really, really boring, and I wanted to count down to my last day with a way to visualize my progress. I didn't need event names, background images, or fancy functionality. I just wanted something stupidly easy to use that
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Show HN: I built a visually progressive countdown app for my quarantine(fterh.github.io)
2 points by fterh 6y ago|1 comments
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Coronavirus: Singapore develops smartphone app for efficient contact tracing(straitstimes.com)
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by fterh 7y ago
No, you're not misunderstanding. I guess I made that statement with the implicit trust of AWS so I didn't think to qualify it. You're absolutely right that if AWS is a bad actor it has access to all the information, but I&#x2
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by fterh 7y ago
The trust reason is theoretical - in practice, I would trust most decently large services especially for unimportant marketing emails (main use case). My primary motivation in doing this was to learn to use AWS and Serverless framework and
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by fterh 7y ago
No worries, thanks for the feedback (I appreciate all feedback whether positive or negative). A catch-all email address is actually less complex to build and test, but there are a couple of reasons I chose to use this approach: 1. It seems
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by fterh 7y ago
Thanks for linking! I would have linked directly to the blog post but I believe it's against the rules of Show HN, so I chose to include a link in the readme instead!
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by fterh 7y ago
I was born in the 90s so I'm not familiar with the "dream of the 90s" haha - care to explain?
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by fterh 7y ago
Right now, silently dropped. Yeah, this is an issue I'm planning to work on. The reason I chose to release it before supporting attachments is that for my use case for receiving marketing emails (this project is primarily for my person
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Show HN: Heimdall – Self-managed email alias/forwarding service(github.com)
130 points by fterh 7y ago|52 comments