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New comment by ab071c41 in "FAA to cut flights by 10% at 40 major airports due to government shutdown"

ab071c41 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 03:21:03 +0000

Not sure if it matters much, to be honest. Even if another airport wasn’t on the list, chances are good it’s connected to at least one that is on the list. Less planes coming in, less planes going out.

New comment by ab071c41 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

ab071c41 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 03:49:02 +0000

I just had a chance to watch the video and think it’s coming together pretty nicely! I wonder if more different sound effects would help. I like the size of the level - I don’t think something like this could work as well in a giant room.

For an intro/tutorial, I think the first 1-2 minutes of the video would provide a pretty good outline for the player, especially if it’s text on the screen. Have them move a couple of things in sequence and then they know the gameplay.

New comment by ab071c41 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

ab071c41 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:08:43 +0000

This is definitely an interesting UX puzzle to solve from a game design perspective. I get what you're saying on finding the right balance.

Beyond sound alerts, some glow effect around an object might help? A tutorial at the start almost seems necessary so people get the mechanics, if you don't have that already. Just my $.02!

New comment by ab071c41 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

ab071c41 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 19:17:06 +0000

This sounds interesting; how are you guiding the player from one object to the next? E.g. if I'm looking at the fridge, I have to observe the painting shrink or that it's a lot smaller the next time I see it. And if there are a lot of objects in the room, how do I know what's relevant? I'm curious!

New comment by ab071c41 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)"

ab071c41 — Sun, 04 May 2025 21:04:04 +0000

Location: Seacoast, NH

Remote: Remote is preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Experience in: Most VMware vSphere infrastructure, CI/CD, Ansible, PowerShell/PowerCLI, Windows Systems Administration, incident management, Azure

Wants to go towards: web development (full stack or backend), Kubernetes, DevOps roles that are code/infrastructure heavy, Ansible, Linux, Cloud

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-longchamps/

Email: comical.styler.7l@icloud.com

Other ways to get in touch: https://alongchamps.carrd.co

--- Hey! I'm an infrastructure engineer that is looking to make a change into web development or Kubernetes. Both of those are things I've picked up in my home lab to learn and I'm also a fan of self-hosting my own cloud services. I also picked up blogging last year and will occasionally write about things I'm working on over there.

New comment by ab071c41 in "Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life"

ab071c41 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 01:11:32 +0000

I was looking for an organization system and came across Johnny.Decimal. I actually applied that methodology to organize my bookmarks and that's been pretty good. It does help that my browser shows all the folders and everything fits into something specific there.

For my files/folders though, it was a little much. I borrowed the concept of 10 subfolders though, and that became my new folder organization structure without the leading numbers.

High level folders are very broad - Entertainment, Financial, Food, Life, etc. Under there, they get specific quickly. Food > Cooking > Stews is for stew recipes, Food > Cocktails are for cocktail recipes, and so on.

Life > Housing > $address is for all the docs related to my current place. Life > Work > $company is for anything related to my current employer. Financial > Taxes > TY2024 is for 2024 tax docs, etc.

I found the numerical indexing to be overkill since each folder has, at most, 10 subfolders. Alphabetical sorting is much better for that - at least for me.

New comment by ab071c41 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2024)"

ab071c41 — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 14:37:28 +0000

Scrubbed

New comment by ab071c41 in "Ask HN: What Are You Learning?"

ab071c41 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 15:41:11 +0000

I'm learning AWS to hopefully help me find my next job. My primary background is VMware with some Azure, so adding AWS to that definitely won't hurt.

New comment by ab071c41 in "Ask HN: Does remote work by choice impact upwards mobility?"

ab071c41 — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 02:35:53 +0000

Really depends on the company, as others have said.

I've been remote for a couple of years and for last year, I got an extremely good performance rating - which gets harder the more senior you are. I also made sure my manager knew of my efforts, did lots of demos throughout the year, and led efforts with visibility.

Part of this is just knowing the management system, knowing your own manager, and saying the right stuff. The soft skills.

It may also be helpful if the company you work for is already distributed across the globe. It increases the chance that everyone is remote to each other, especially due to the pandemic.

New comment by ab071c41 in "Ask HN: What are some tools you wish you had while doing your day to day work?"

ab071c41 — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 12:39:24 +0000

maybe I have a new project to start.

New comment by ab071c41 in "Ask HN: What are some tools you wish you had while doing your day to day work?"

ab071c41 — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 15:36:14 +0000

I've been looking for software to map relationships between my team's products (app servers) and their integrations.

E.g. server01 can go from 3.1 to version 4.0 since foo01 integrates with server01 and foo01 supports 3.1 and 4.0.

I have been poking around at graph databases for this, but I'm also looking for something better than wiki pages.

New comment by ab071c41 in "Apple’s $1000 monitor stand is a massive and unnecessary PR fail"

ab071c41 — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 16:58:51 +0000

Everybody and their mother knows that Apple has a new monitor by now. You can't buy that much publicity.

New comment by ab071c41 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2018)"

ab071c41 — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 23:56:19 +0000

scrubbed

New comment by ab071c41 in "Netflix and Alphabet will need to become ISPs, fast"

ab071c41 — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 16:29:25 +0000

I think the idea is better fixed WISP options which could potentially replace cable internet. If Verizon/T-Mobile suddenly have a home internet option based on 5G, then Comcast gets competition.

New comment by ab071c41 in "Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?"

ab071c41 — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:05:51 +0000

There's a plain text option in the Jira I use, that will show formatting in the usual forms, like *, _, etc. I also refuse to use the WYSIWYG editor since it's a pain.

New comment by ab071c41 in "Ask HN: How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?"

ab071c41 — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 14:30:24 +0000

I use an RSS feed, skim the headlines for what's interesting, and either read it then or save it to pocket. This also means that after a few days, I end up with 1000+ articles, but I can skim them 100s at a time.

New comment by ab071c41 in "Apple previews iOS 11.3"

ab071c41 — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 16:31:28 +0000

I definitely agree. I'd much rather have my phone temporarily slow than reboot when I need it to stay working.