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by umaar 6y ago
This is a great explanation thank you! Makes much more sense now. Will indeed read into the all-intra format.
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by umaar 6y ago
Sounds fascinating, stuff like that interests me a lot. Hope that video surfaces one day, would really like to see it.
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by umaar 6y ago
As a little side project, I've been trying to automate creation of those "1 second everyday" style videos [1], and used FFmpeg to achieve this. For things like trimming and concatenating videos, one thing that surprised me wa
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Chrome Flag: Force Dark Mode for Web Contents – On Desktop and Mobile(twitter.com)
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The Spreadsheet I Use to Compare Job Offers(umaar.com)
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by umaar 6y ago
I'm all for web apps, but does CS actually require admin rights? > disk space CS just downloaded 185mb of network resources for me to play. I would have thought those resources are stored on my disk, and not just in memory. > ins
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by umaar 6y ago
When it comes to browser automation tests, everywhere I've worked at suffered from intermittently failing tests. When I was at the Ministry of Justice (UK), I configured CircleCI to run tests hundreds of times [1] (over a number of day
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by umaar 6y ago
I've been doing voice + screencasting on a modern MacBook Pro. The fans seem to intermittently kick at full blast while connected to a 4k external display, or sometimes it's just Dropbox doing CPU intensive things. Either way it&#
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by umaar 6y ago
Thanks Kasra, yes it seemed 'spyware' was disputed and I didn't want to jump to any conclusions. But it's good to know it's a non issue. RE: 2fa. Brute force protection is a step in the right direction, but password
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by umaar 6y ago
Hi sneak, I left a comment explaining my journey with CapRover in this HN thread. In there I explained one thing which concerned me was "netdata image in use is spyware #553" which you raised last year. I haven't yet gone thr
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by umaar 6y ago
A few weeks ago I mentioned on HN [1] I was looking for something where I can take a $5 VPS and install a bunch of Node.js apps easily. I did this with DigitalOcean + CapRover and it was extremely smooth. Initialising the app, enabling SSL,
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by umaar 6y ago
I like this style of writing, feels like storytelling, rather than something purely instructional. As someone who doesn't do Rust, the code lost me a little, however it has been one of the most loved technologies on the Stack Overflow
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by umaar 6y ago
I had a similar issue for the tweet embedding, so I wrote a Node.js script to download tweets via their API, and construct the HTML and CSS necessary to display it on my own website, without needing to include their JavaScript: https:&#x2F
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by umaar 6y ago
Yeah the hiding of the protocol in the URL was a pain to deal with. I updated Chrome today and looks like there's a way to turn this off: 1. Enable chrome://flags/#omnibox-context-menu-show-full-urls 2. Right click the a
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Tell HN: You can now make Chrome show the full URL in the address bar
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by umaar 6y ago
A while back I installed ServerPilot which automatically sets up Nginx/Apache/PHP/MySQL for you. It also handles security updates. This made those $5 VPS' so much more appealing [1] as I could install lots of small Node.
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My code exercises I submitted to get job interviews at tech companies(umaar.com)
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by umaar 6y ago
I repurposed a WebGL globe to visualise anonymous Wikipedia edits made around the world: https://umaar.com/globe/ This is the original, which visualised tweets: https://github.com/cedricpinson/glob
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by umaar 7y ago
Nice work. I investigated a few similar services, mailtrap, mailgun, mailosaur. I wanted to try having my end-to-end tests assert that the email which got sent out actually included the correct info. (As in, you request a password reset to
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by umaar 7y ago
That's really useful, appreciated.
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by umaar 7y ago
To answer your q (btw it's not a popup), I tried to explain in my comment you're replying to: > sometimes I do the thing that works/is quickest to do, move on, and then revisit when I have time Knowing me, it was probably
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by umaar 7y ago
Sorry you feel that way. I'm an independent creator and agree there's lots of room for improvement on everything I build, sometimes I do the thing that works/is quickest to do, move on, and then revisit when I have time - the
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by umaar 7y ago
I make Dev Tips: https://umaar.com/dev-tips/ a place to share little tips primarily with DevTools. Currently at 200+ tips. Few other random things I've written: * The Benefits of Speaking at Tech Conferences: htt
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by umaar 7y ago
In addition to using a video which would be the biggest improvement here, `font-display: swap;` can help with the perceived performance when using custom web fonts. Made a video on how to use Chrome DevTools in applying this technique: htt
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Learning New Code Techniques and Concepts from Open-Source(umaar.com)
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by umaar 7y ago
You can "blackbox" certain code in DevTools so it doesn't pollute your debugging sessions, made a gif of how it works & what it results in: https://umaar.com/dev-tips/128-blackboxing/
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The biggest collection of tips for Chrome DevTools(umaar.com)
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The Benefits of Speaking at Tech Conferences(medium.freecodecamp.org)
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Practical mini-projects in Node.js – Video, code and slides(twitter.com)
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by umaar 8y ago
For the data maps which the Medium article displays, I used: https://github.com/ericfischer/datamaps initially. If there's interest, I can try to get my scripts onto GitHub. They: a) Include Node.js scripts for co

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