Hacker News: CloudBuddy

New comment by CloudBuddy in "Ask HN: Programming (Python) course for physics prof"

CloudBuddy — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 01:04:38 +0000

https://www.udemy.com/course/complete-python-developer-zero-...

New comment by CloudBuddy in "Ask HN: What kind of chair are you using for WFH?"

CloudBuddy — Tue, 25 May 2021 11:41:35 +0000

Try sitting on an exercise ball instead of a chair. It worked for me. It takes a couple of weeks to build up to the point of being able to completely ditch the chair.

New comment by CloudBuddy in "Ask HN: Is there some way for using Hacker News with a “mark as read” function?"

CloudBuddy — Sun, 02 May 2021 01:36:44 +0000

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mark-all-as-read/h...

New comment by CloudBuddy in "Ask HN: Is there a service for short lived emails addresses for single shot use?"

CloudBuddy — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 06:45:01 +0000

https://33mail.com/

Could this be how Covid-19 actually started?

CloudBuddy — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:56:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2020/09/09/alina-chan-broad-institute-coronavirus/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24538766

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by CloudBuddy in "Ask HN: Good resources for learning electronic curcuits and PCB design"

CloudBuddy — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 06:02:40 +0000

https://www.udemy.com/course/crash-course-electronics-and-pc...

New comment by CloudBuddy in "Snowflake: Graphical SFTP client and terminal emulator with helpful utilities"

CloudBuddy — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 04:39:49 +0000

This is very useful. Note though that all of the following doesn't work unless you have ssh access to the server: - search - terminal - monitoring (cpu & memory) - report of used/available disk space - system information

New comment by CloudBuddy in "Ask HN: What's the current thinking on doing plain JavaScript development?"

CloudBuddy — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 00:49:58 +0000

All of the JavaScript written for https://cloudbuddy.cloud/ is raw and developed from scratch (zero frameworks / libraries / dependencies). It was my belief at the time that maintenance costs would be zero or extremely minimal over time since there was basically no dependency on anything external. Since inception (over 2 years), the benefits have held true. The disadvantage of course is that it took longer to finish the service and offer it.

So, I'm an old timer. I've been doing software development professionally for 25 years. For me, new development is stimulating; maintenance - not so much.

Andrew, here is what I would suggest - create and finish a small project and code it in ReactJS. Then code the same one using only raw javascript. With the experience, you'll have your answer whether the cognitive load is worth it.

New comment by CloudBuddy in "Ask HN: Random upper back pain is ruining my life. At wits end. Anyone else?"

CloudBuddy — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:07:49 +0000

I do a handful of Pilate Roll Ups when I first wake up in the morning and again before I go to bed. I do these everyday (takes about 5-10 minutes per day). I've been pain free for 8+ years. Here's a pic - http://www.easyvigour.net.nz/pilates/h_pilates2.htm

New comment by CloudBuddy in "Simple SFTP Hosting"

CloudBuddy — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 17:11:36 +0000

Here is another option if you don't have much to store - https://cloudbuddy.cloud

New comment by CloudBuddy in "The PGP Problem"

CloudBuddy — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 11:35:49 +0000

Use ccrypt instead. It is very reliable. https://github.com/Scott-Kaplan/Client-Side-Encrypted-Backup...

New comment by CloudBuddy in "How I encrypt my data in the cloud"

CloudBuddy — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 12:34:04 +0000

This is what I use- https://github.com/Scott-Kaplan/Client-Side-Encrypted-Backup...

New comment by CloudBuddy in "Show HN: Client Side Encrypted Backups – easy to use and no chance of corruption"

CloudBuddy — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 23:12:53 +0000

Thank you kind sir.

When I was investigating backup solutions in 2010, I did read about rsync and had read a few negative reviews saying that user's had their backups corrupted (by rsync) and that they were unable to restore their backups. However, looking now I am unable to find those reviews. So, likely either those issues were fixed in a newer version of rsync or I am not remembering the posts correctly.

New comment by CloudBuddy in "Show HN: Client Side Encrypted Backups – easy to use and no chance of corruption"

CloudBuddy — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 19:33:22 +0000

So corrupt backups weren't possible - just my personal preference.

New comment by CloudBuddy in "Show HN: Client Side Encrypted Backups – easy to use and no chance of corruption"

CloudBuddy — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 15:35:28 +0000

Thanks for your comment. Actually, Client-Side-Encrypted-Backups is different in that a backup cannot be created unless tar, ccrypt and sftp on the user's machine execute smoothly. In your example, in the case of a user's local drive going bad during a backup, one of these (tar, ccrypt, sftp) would fail causing the backup to not be created. All files that show up in the completed_backups log file are golden backups and can be restored at anytime. For me, I have been exclusively using Client-Side-Encrypted-Backups to do all of my backups (since 2011). I don't ever recall seeing an issue in all of those years. It's been very reliable.

Show HN: Client Side Encrypted Backups – easy to use and no chance of corruption

CloudBuddy — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 20:36:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Scott-Kaplan/Client-Side-Encrypted-Backups

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19531686

Points: 7

# Comments: 6

New comment by CloudBuddy in "Making websites with vanilla JavaScript in 2019?"

CloudBuddy — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 21:17:43 +0000

I did look into using one or more JavaScript frameworks before I created CloudBuddy (https://cloudbuddy.cloud/), but decided against it. Since I was new to JavaScript at the time, I figured that learning a framework would be more work than just coding the JavaScript directly. In hindsight, I think it was the right decision since maintenance has been straightforward. If you have questions and would like to chat with someone that's been through it, my contact info is in my profile.

New comment by CloudBuddy in "Ask HN: Why is it harder to learn new things the older you get?"

CloudBuddy — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 21:49:13 +0000

I couldn't agree more. Waking up early is how I built https://cloudbuddy.cloud. Learned a ton.

New comment by CloudBuddy in "AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3"

CloudBuddy — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 21:43:17 +0000

If your into plain vanilla SFTP and don't have large storage needs, https://cloudbuddy.cloud takes less than 1 minute to setup.

New comment by CloudBuddy in "Ask HN: Self-taught devs, what are the best cheap resources for learning webdev?"

CloudBuddy — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 22:02:17 +0000

https://www.theodinproject.com/