tobinfekkes

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by tobinfekkes 18d ago
This was exactly Mount Vernon, Washington. I was so disappointed.
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by tobinfekkes 25d ago
Seems weird to question their statement, right? Surely they know their life. This is not that unusual. I also have never had any of these, or any other, streaming services. It's been wonderful.
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by tobinfekkes 1mo ago
I went to a (hot!) concert last weekend, and the only "water" available at the venue was liquid death.....for $8. Absolute robbery. It was the plainest water imaginable.
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by tobinfekkes 1mo ago
hate to be the bearer of bad news: it's too late. There was a time around 2016-2019 where this was possible with Twilio. I went from nothing to sending real SMS messages to real numbers in under an hour. Then it scaled, became popular,
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by tobinfekkes 1mo ago
My first thought too! I couldn't put up with it. Left quickly.
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by tobinfekkes 1mo ago
It sounds like you're interpreting that in a way I didn't say or intend. In fact, the exact opposite. It was the culmination of my list of things I think my parents did really well. It wasn't oppressive. It was disciplined. I
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by tobinfekkes 1mo ago
I was homeschooled and will be homeschooling our kids (first one coming early January 2027!). Game-changers for me growing up, that I think my parents did really well: - change the curriculum to match the kid (i.e. learning styles, difficul
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by tobinfekkes 1mo ago
My guess would be via one of those white-labeled apps required to set up your home router. For example, a Comcast, Spectrum, Astound, T-Mobile, etc.
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by tobinfekkes 1mo ago
I had this problem too for all my clients e-commerce websites, then solved it 3 years ago with very little code changes. Happy to share it with you. Using small businesses for credit card testing is one of the most evil things on the Intern
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by tobinfekkes 1mo ago
... All of it? Does a bubble need to be confined to one vertical? It seems like The Bubble is just the sum of a bunch of other individual bubbles.
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by tobinfekkes 1mo ago
Also available natively to the OS (Windows) with PowerToys, if you want an alternative to a browser extension. One of the unsung heroes of that library. Jury is still out on which is more trustworthy handling any personal data, Microsoft or
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by tobinfekkes 1mo ago
Edit: I should have clarified that I was on a 17" desktop monitor. I just loaded it on mobile, and it's fine and dandy on mobile. But reading small white text on black background that's 100% width is nearly impossible to read
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by tobinfekkes 2mo ago
Wow, my browser's Reader Mode saved my bacon on this one. Otherwise, I would have left immediately. I'm all for speedy, simple, plaintext websites, but it is a negligible amount of work in 2026 to throw some barebones CSS in and m
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by tobinfekkes 2mo ago
Solid. Well-stated. I'm arriving at a similar point as well.
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by tobinfekkes 2mo ago
It's true that it can easily save 1-2 hours per month, but it only seems worth it if those hours saved are spent doing something else productive/profitable. It appears that a lot of the time saved is spent either 1) doing nothing
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by tobinfekkes 2mo ago
That is a massive website, and still loads quicker/smaller than an entry level React site.
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by tobinfekkes 3mo ago
The parent comment wasn't regarding traffic loads; it was regarding latency.
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by tobinfekkes 3mo ago
On the contrary, Big tech famously has plenty of data centers on the west coast: • Quincy, WA (Microsoft) • The Dalles, Oregon (Google) • Prineville, Oregon (Facebook, Apple) • Hillsboro, Oregon (Cloudflare, others) • Boardman, Oregon (AWS)
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by tobinfekkes 3mo ago
I think your logic makes sense, if this was both logical and about the money. But it seems to be more about greed, discontentment, and "more". There is no limit to "more".
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by tobinfekkes 3mo ago
Am I missing something? The URL doesn't load...
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by tobinfekkes 3mo ago
Is this just a guise to get people to hand over their contact information? So it can be linked and associated with a GitHub profile? It's presented as an official Microsoft product (the link), but it's just a random public-facing
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by tobinfekkes 3mo ago
Actually, literally, yes. A letter I've needed to write for a long time, but have been putting off.
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Seattle Just Had an Earthquake
13 points by tobinfekkes 3mo ago|10 comments
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by tobinfekkes 3mo ago
My grandpa, Dick Weisser, spent summer/fall with Dick Proenneke at Twin Lakes for many years. The other cabin, which the State Park operates, was built by my uncle and grandpa. I've got pictures still of it being built alongside D
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by tobinfekkes 4mo ago
This is amazing to see TA on HN. I grew up playing Total Annihilation in the 90s because my cousin worked for Cavedog and got us a CD for free. It is still one of my favorite games to this day. So many great memories with that game, countle
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by tobinfekkes 4mo ago
> the purpose of Excel is pretty clear cut and the scope is small. That has to be the understatement of the century.
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by tobinfekkes 4mo ago
Can you imagine if Excel just quietly adjusted formulas in the background, and you didn't know the numbers weren't right? Or if Excel just said, Sorry, you can't use that formula with this formula? Or with these types of numb
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by tobinfekkes 4mo ago
Save yourself time and don't bother reading this. Lots of words without saying anything.
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by tobinfekkes 4mo ago
I understand that there are UI/UX issues, and I mostly agree with all of your points. There are markdown issues, I get the redirects too, the copy/paste color scheme affects me when I paste from dark mode and then see my co-worker
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by tobinfekkes 4mo ago
I wish there was enough space here to write out all the things wrong with Sendgrid. The usual stuff with dominant players in any market. Stripe. Google. Microsoft. Too big to care. Multiple account blocks with no warning, no questions, over

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