Hacker News: Pawka

New comment by Pawka in "Practical SDR: Getting started with software-defined radio"

Pawka — Fri, 30 May 2025 07:18:59 +0000

Hermes Lite is not _so_ expensive and decent open source project: http://hermeslite.com/

New comment by Pawka in "The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo"

Pawka — Wed, 28 May 2025 06:41:26 +0000

It depends on the VCS you use. I don't know any ways to manage read permissions, such as allowing a person to checkout one directory but not another, though you can do that per branch on git.

But there are many ways to manage write permissions - limit the directories to which engineers are allowed to push code. E.g. if you use Git, this can be done with Gitolite, which is a popular hosting server.

Gitolite has very flexible hooks support, especially with so-called "Virtual Refs" (or VREFs)[1]. It is out of the box and has support to manage write permissions per write path [2]. You can go even further and use your own custom binary for VREF to "decide" if a user is allowed to push certain changes. One possible option - read incoming changed files, read metainformation from the repository itself (e.g., CODEOWNERS file at the root of the repo), and decide if push should be accepted. GitHub has CODEOWNERS [3], which behaves similarly.

[1]: https://gitolite.com/gitolite/cookbook.html#vrefs [2]: https://gitolite.com/gitolite/vref.html#quick-introexample [3]: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-reposi...

New comment by Pawka in "The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo"

Pawka — Wed, 28 May 2025 05:28:35 +0000

It's worth noting that most monorepos won't reach the same size as repositories from Google, Uber, or other tech giants. Some companies introduce new services every day, but for some, the number of services remains steady.

If a company has up to 100 services, there won't be VCS scale problems, LSP will be able to fit the tags of the entire codebase in a laptop's memory, and it is probably _almost_ fine to run all tests on CI.

TL;DR not every company will/should/plan to be the size of Google.

New comment by Pawka in "Design for 3D-Printing"

Pawka — Mon, 05 May 2025 10:19:34 +0000

> If you are broke <...>

Buy used Prusa! Their printers are reliable machines, easy to fix or upgrade. I have seen MK3 or even Prusa Mini (which is a newer option) for ~150 EUR. Still great options for anyone who wants to go into this hobby.

New comment by Pawka in "Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam"

Pawka — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:32:53 +0000

Sadly no..., I browsed quickly and found this post https://slate.com/business/2011/12/are-mutants-human.html which leads to a dead link to the podcast. Did not listen to the podcast (yet).

I also expected somebody from this community to enlight me :)

New comment by Pawka in "Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam"

Pawka — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 10:04:47 +0000

Sounds insane. But what is more surprising to me - is why dolls were taxed differently than other toys. At first glance, it looks like stupid rules force to play silly games.

New comment by Pawka in "Coffee Stats – Maximize Caffeine Intake and Get to Bed at Night"

Pawka — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:29:27 +0000

Honestly, I've noticed how sensitive I am to caffeine when I have reduced my caffeine intake. I think that it is important to clean the body before starting to observe, understand, and make conclusions about how a particular thing affects the body. Let it be caffeine, alcohol, or anything else.

New comment by Pawka in "9/11 in Realtime"

Pawka — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 07:51:20 +0000

It also requires an internet connection. Which also limits the audience.

Obviously this material is not available for everyone. But I'm glad the author created it in a form as it is.

New comment by Pawka in "Pipes: A spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes"

Pawka — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 11:52:45 +0000

> Do people still use RSS feeds?

Daily. For me RSS feed is the only option to pick what I want to read instead of reading what promoter wants me to read.

If there are other ways - I would be happy to know.

New comment by Pawka in "Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)"

Pawka — Thu, 23 May 2024 08:19:34 +0000

That was my first impression too. Curious what is the cost of wallpaper.

New comment by Pawka in "Why I use Firefox"

Pawka — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:01:34 +0000

Google is paying because Firefox is popular. It is a chicken & egg problem.

New comment by Pawka in "FOSDEM 2024 Schedule"

Pawka — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 14:11:43 +0000

Last year I took headphones + power bank and watched presentations live on my phone while waiting in a queue at another auditorium or commuting. Worked well.

New comment by Pawka in "Gnome Receives €1M from German Government"

Pawka — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 10:00:09 +0000

My guess - probably they have more work places in government which runs Gnome what makes sense to them invest into it.

New comment by Pawka in "Applying SRE Principles to CI/CD"

Pawka — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 10:12:45 +0000

That is exacly what previous commenter meant - developers a bad at setting correct serverity for logs.

This becomes even a bigger proglem in huge organizations where each team has own rules so consistency vanishes.

New comment by Pawka in "Ask HN: Why would Google sell Google domains to Squarespace?"

Pawka — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 19:17:27 +0000

I am interested. Do you have any material to share where I could "look at IBM"? Thanks.

New comment by Pawka in "Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers"

Pawka — Wed, 17 May 2023 18:36:33 +0000

This piece looks really nice and I almost want it!

But have no idea what to do with it. What are your plans folks? How you are using similar hardware?

New comment by Pawka in "The world’s oldest ultramarathon runner is racing against death"

Pawka — Wed, 10 May 2023 05:37:58 +0000

Some people just love routine. Just recently I have listened interview with local Olympic swimmer Giedrius Titenis (not in English, so won't share). He mentioned that he liked to swim in a pool the same n*100 meter distances multiple times each day. Repeat and repeat and repeat. This allows person to compare current result with previous. Measure time and think "oh, I made in xy seconds but still had some power left, I can do better next time".

New comment by Pawka in "Dropbox telemetry can't be disabled"

Pawka — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 09:48:13 +0000

I did the same. Plus also I'm using on my Android phone. Replaces Dropbox completely unless I want to share something with other people. But for that case I usually use Sharing feature from Synology NAS.

New comment by Pawka in "Dropbox telemetry can't be disabled"

Pawka — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 08:58:51 +0000

Is this still a case?

The first comment in thread is from 2020, the last - from 2021. Now where I live is 2023.

I don't have any relationship with Dropbox, but we should be precise that this information might be outdated.

New comment by Pawka in "The art of auto engineering"

Pawka — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 18:05:26 +0000

Same with bicycle repair. Each major brand has own proprietary toolset.