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New comment by PontiacParade in "Portlander creates AI-powered device to monitor street health"

PontiacParade — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 20:05:59 +0000

This is great. I have been thinking of building something similar to track how many cars are speeding on my street so I have data for discussing changes with the neighborhood and local government.

This is just an all around better concept than mine. Love all the extra data it can gather. Especially living near schools having the data of cyclists and pedestrians will make a much better data set around safety and methods to tamp down on speeding and cut through traffic.

New comment by PontiacParade in "Why is Ally Bank abandoning email 2FA?"

PontiacParade — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 23:25:49 +0000

I too am pretty disappointed with the change. I'll be looking for alternatives. I sent them a message in product asking them to add other options.

New comment by PontiacParade in "Tell HN: 1Password shares passwords you don't want shared"

PontiacParade — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 15:00:01 +0000

This is not a problem I have, this may be helpful:

https://1password.community/discussion/30903/how-to-reveal-p...

New comment by PontiacParade in "How I learned to stop worrying and push to master"

PontiacParade — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 15:51:32 +0000

The develop/main split for us is not costly I'm not sure what overhead others are incurring there. We run deploys on demand throughout each day. We don't have the same sign off process or block other deploys. We just send develop to staging and once it is confirmed good we merge it to main and then out to production.

> IMO you don't gain a lot by merging something that doesn't have a user-facing deliverable (how can you be sure the code you're merging is right or not?).

I disagree but to each his own. I think you can release small parts with testing around it. I often release half of a back end feature, then the other half, then the front end all in separate branches and releases. All I really need is to have the parts broken down into logical testable chunks.

New comment by PontiacParade in "How I learned to stop worrying and push to master"

PontiacParade — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 15:44:57 +0000

We really only have staging/production so it works great for us, we don't have to support multiple releases at the same time. I agree it gets more difficult if that is a concern.

New comment by PontiacParade in "How I learned to stop worrying and push to master"

PontiacParade — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 15:41:06 +0000

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the branch is named for the JIRA ticket. I personally like to have the ticket number in the branch name along with a description though. It was more that each ticket branch is for a small chunk of work that can be merged and deployed when a single ticket is complete not when the whole feature is complete.

New comment by PontiacParade in "How I learned to stop worrying and push to master"

PontiacParade — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 01:08:15 +0000

I agree with the middle ground comment. That is how we tend to do things where I work.

We have a modified GitFlow: main: is the source of truth and is what is in production. develop: is the constantly moving branch we make PRs against. You can commit directly here which is discouraged but it isn't a hard rule. ticket: is a branch for each JIRA ticket not each feature. release: We don't make these and just use tags on main. Each "release" is a merge from develop to main and that gets deployed. hot fix: These are made against main and merged back to develop when they are used. It is rare enough I have to look up our "official" procedure.

With that we can easily use PRs, release code in small hidden chunks, do code reviews, etc.

Seems like the big win they got was releasing small hidden chunks of a feature and deploying it to staging. They also gave up some nice things as well like code review before merging.

New comment by PontiacParade in "U.S. house prices are rising exponentially faster than income"

PontiacParade — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 17:53:05 +0000

Great write up. I hold the same view but hadn't written it out in such a way. Thanks!

New comment by PontiacParade in "The main thing about Phenylacetone meth is that there's so much of it"

PontiacParade — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 19:48:57 +0000

We'll be there soon. You still need a prescription in Oregon until Jan 1, 2022.

New comment by PontiacParade in "Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore starting January 31"

PontiacParade — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 20:16:40 +0000

I had the same experience. Very simple with only one retention step of offering a discount. Once declined I could cancel.

New comment by PontiacParade in "LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them"

PontiacParade — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 19:21:34 +0000

I believe it stands for Private Equity Group.