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by harlanji 3y ago
> He next question was whether I was an organ donor. That's dark. I've been homeless for 5 years (including working full time and having never been an addict). I'm very healthy so for a while I felt like I could be targete
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by harlanji 3y ago
Thinking back to a link posted here a few months back [1], the call to action goes on the outside edge because it's visually the heaviest element. So if the buttons are on the right of the dialog, "OK" / "Save"
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by harlanji 4y ago
The best offsites I've gone on have been working for charities/community service. Better than hanging out with drinks or doing some other random 'fun' activities by far. I know that's not exactly the question, but a
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by harlanji 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | Bay Area, California, USA | Remote OK I can help your business unify Social Media integrations. I've built integrations for many services and have a background in real-time analytics. My current stack for the past year i
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by harlanji 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | US/California | Remote OK Hi, I'm a programmer looking for 1-4 week projects and open to extension, available immediately. I've worked up and down the full stack for over two decades and am deeply familiar with
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by harlanji 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | San Francisco, CA, USA | Remote OK I can take on dev work using Python or Java with a focus on API and am capable of non-SPA frontends such as for internal tooling or proofs of concept. I can also fill in for some product man
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by harlanji 4y ago
I found myself specialized with data eng + platform skills in Clojure + Kafka + K8s + Node and it's a liability if you want to work outside of Big Tech, because few can afford to use tools like that. Node's relatively pretty expen
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by harlanji 4y ago
I've got an open source Twitter and Mastodon app that's as vanilla as possible. Python + HTMx. Just added video support this morning. Total page load is 200kB. Double-click loads the video: https://twitter.com/iSpo
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by harlanji 4y ago
Windows S Mode has PyPI restricted to pure Python due to Device Guard. I'm happy to leave it on ($250 laptop). Indeed, Numpy has been a recurring blocker, maybe 3 times now. But with general peace of mind is the only way I've know
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by harlanji 4y ago
Happy to see HTMx mentioned every month or two on here lately. A+, would recommend to anyone especially newbies. Been doing web dev since the Perl / pre-PHP3 / pre-jQuery/Scriptaculous days, and I feel reincarnated into a nic
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by harlanji 4y ago
That's what I thought. Turns out constructive dismissal, choosing to quit due to poor conditions or breach of contract, qualifies for unemployment. I'd have quit a couple jobs way sooner if I'd been aware. My claim in CA was
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by harlanji 4y ago
Seeking work | San Francisco, CA or St. Paul, MN | Remote OK Jack of all trades and master of none doesn't describe it. I've been in the game since I got done with Lego in my pre-teens 20 years ago. I like building tech more as a
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by harlanji 4y ago
I can easily run Pleroma on 1G VPS and Pi3s; the heaviest part is the Postgres server, which can itself be tuned to be pretty light. It relies on PG's native JSON data type which is cool. I run a couple instances and poked around with
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by harlanji 4y ago
Exactly. The key is that it's a paid service. And it looks to be based on Pleroma and they will export data and transfer domains upon request. As long as it stays like that and that's the bar across providers everyone wins.
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by harlanji 4y ago
What about starting with a public library? 120 year email + static hosting tied to library card. Start with one branch or small system, scale from there. Could reasonably be managed per branch with central support orgs. I guess most of them
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by harlanji 4y ago
Narcissists are created either through abuse or never having their entitlement checked. They feed on creative or empathetic people through various devices. Having fallen into a well of victimization for the past few years I definitely strug
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by harlanji 5y ago
10 hours a week isn’t that much. I get by with the same vegan taco 100s of times in a row. 2 hours to make the rice and beans on the weekend and freeze half of it. 20 minutes to cook one up. 5 minutes to wash the dishes. Took about 5 weeks
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by harlanji 5y ago
Some orgs are much more in line with GP’s suggestion. Marketing sites may feel low risk and in my view the iteration speed required justifyies having a trusty stack with known good versions to start from. Personally my method of constructio
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by harlanji 5y ago
Indeed. It’s perfectly possible and recommended to run Artifactory or similar as a local mirror anyway to buffer upstream unavailability/slowness. (Beyond Maven it also does npm, pip, and I think deb and more via pluggable layouts). I
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by harlanji 5y ago
This is me bringing my backpack and laptop to the bathroom with me at cafes. Nothing has happened to make me do that, except knowing how fast things can happen. I leave something like a mouse or charger cable behind to show that the seat is
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by harlanji 5y ago
MS acquired Peer5 for Teams recently so I imagine improvement on the horizon. I built an nginx-rtmp oss project a few years ago and it worked well—simulcasted out to Twitch and YouTube and saw comparable latency (YouTube: 3 2 1 ispooge live
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by harlanji 5y ago
I bet homelessness was less intense before the proliferation of IT. I've been unhoused for about 3.5 years now, last few months I do have a shelter situation and it's been much easier to gain weight and study. For my first 5 years
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by harlanji 5y ago
Imagine if each site in the ring had well-known assets like a Lunr index and RSS feed, perhaps a convention/catalog of XMPP and email IDs like social@. Thanks for the description.
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by harlanji 5y ago
There is a pretty big omission which is life before and after the lockdowns. I was not on social media until about a year before lockdowns when I was set back and lost my ability to be employed in tech, and used Twitter as a way to stay plu
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by harlanji 5y ago
SEEKING WORK | U.S. Central Time | REMOTE only Hi there, I'm seeking remote-only clients for a new firm which includes a school where we pair with new appers (developers) and get them on their feet. Since this is a technology based com
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by harlanji 5y ago
It is relatively low power, in the ballpark of a mobile phone. Running headless the Pi3 consumes 4-5W with an out of the box Ubuntu install, about 9W with the 7" screen, and after shutdown it remains on at about 2W. The iPhone SE takes
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by harlanji 5y ago
When I lived in my car in SF a waymo would pass me right when I left and at many key intersections and at my destinations. I know it was not random but I don’t go down the rabbit hole of trying to figure out how they did it. If I get proof
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by harlanji 5y ago
Exactly. I found myself in retail jobs after 20 years in tech and a large % of colleagues had 2-3 jobs and were in their late 20s-mid 30s. Managers tended to be in their early or mid 20’s and one GM left for academia. Nobody asked how I fou
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by harlanji 5y ago
I had achieved a nice middle class life and faced a setback that left me homeless 18 months before pandemic began. Hard worker from ages 14 to 32ish when pandemic hit, even crawling back up from homelessness with labor and service jobs. Now
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by harlanji 5y ago
I had an overall good time working an entry level job with a quota in the Bay Area, that is to say with very smart mostly young folks. The model was clear when I paid attention to how the numbers changed. Our app showed us a velocity metric

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