williamjackson

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by williamjackson 6y ago
I was not aware of prior work so I maintain Alpine wheels for packages I use personally in a GitHub org. https://github.com/alpine-wheels/index Besides my own needs, only one other person has requested additional packa
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by williamjackson 6y ago
That article should be titled, “Most Python packages do not upload an Alpine-compatible wheel to PyPI.” If you know where to find Alpine-compatible wheels, or host your own, Alpine has no build-speed penalty.
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Calling the Docker CLI from Python with Python-on-Whales(docker.com)
2 points by williamjackson 6y ago|0 comments
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by williamjackson 6y ago
I suspect the target demographic already knows what a userscript is. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Userscript
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by williamjackson 6y ago
This sounds like a lovely service, but my library requires the cardholder to be present when checking out books. My father tells stories of living in Las Vegas in the late 70s when the local public library already provided this service for
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by williamjackson 6y ago
Reveal Codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPerfect#Reveal_codes
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by williamjackson 6y ago
I launched the Postgres Docker image on a VPS several years ago, published the port on the open Internet, and ... used strong passwords? I still haven’t been compromised. Have I done something wrong?
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by williamjackson 6y ago
The README explains that you can get Celsius by appending `?m` to your query.
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Docker regroups as cloud-native developer tool company(techcrunch.com)
4 points by williamjackson 7y ago|0 comments
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by williamjackson 7y ago
https://app.netlify.com/teams/<team-name>/settings/billing
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by williamjackson 7y ago
Disney+ is on Roku, they just didn't make the channel available before today.
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by williamjackson 7y ago
I'm slightly embarrassed to admit that I wasn't paying complete attention on the sign up page, and I pasted my new password into the "Pick a username" field because I expected it to be a password verification field. Also
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by williamjackson 7y ago
The article claims that adding subscript support to your own types is unique to Swift, but I immediately thought of how you would do it in Python: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__... I
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by williamjackson 8y ago
"Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs!" [1] is a great book that I love to read to my children. I hope it helps them understand that scientific knowledge changes all the time. [1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book&#x2F
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New on Daring Fireball: Display Ads(daringfireball.net)
3 points by williamjackson 9y ago|1 comments
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Refreshing Harvest: Thinking about the Visual Design of an 11-Year-Old App(getharvest.com)
1 points by williamjackson 9y ago|0 comments
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by williamjackson 10y ago
I am reminded of my favorite poem[0]: "Shake and shake / the catsup bottle / none will come / and then a lot'll." [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armour
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You too can -print0(blog.subtlecoolness.com)
3 points by williamjackson 10y ago|0 comments
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The new IFTTT is here(ifttt.com)
4 points by williamjackson 10y ago|0 comments
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by williamjackson 10y ago
There was a security camera with a built-in HTTP server at a previous job. The built-in server would respond without a problem when viewed from one computer, but would force close the connection without a response when viewed from another c
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by williamjackson 10y ago
And now PowerShell on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows is a thing. (Spoiler alert, it doesn't work very well right now. The cursor keeps jumping to the top of the console and overwriting existing text.)
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by williamjackson 10y ago
This reminded me exactly of Python's mutable default arguments: http://docs.quantifiedcode.com/python-anti-patterns/correctn...
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The lost Death Star prop(neatocoolville.blogspot.com)
7 points by williamjackson 11y ago|0 comments
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by williamjackson 11y ago
If you haven't looked recently, they now have incoming and outgoing web requests: https://ifttt.com/maker
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by williamjackson 12y ago
I hope you don't buy a toy that is already recalled. It is against the law in the US to sell a product that has been publicly recalled. http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-...
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Announcing Windows 10(blogs.windows.com)
24 points by williamjackson 12y ago|10 comments
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Show HN: GroupMemail, email notification and response for GroupMe(groupmemail.herokuapp.com)
1 points by williamjackson 12y ago|0 comments
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by williamjackson 14y ago
My wife received a cochlear implant in October, so we are on this journey right now. It has definitely been frustrating, but we have seen progress and we are optimistic about the future. If you are interested you can read about the implant
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by williamjackson 14y ago
Use `man calendar` for details on the file format. It's more of an "on this day in history" type list than actual timeline. The data itself (LOTR dates) first appeared in 4.4BSD (though it was part of the file `calendar.history` [ http://s
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by williamjackson 14y ago
This looks a lot like Glympse [ http://glympse.com/ ] to me.

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