Hacker News: babayega2

New comment by babayega2 in "Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler"

babayega2 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:27:02 +0000

Is there a pooler handling schema switching in PostgreSQL? like something in front of django-tenant ?

New comment by babayega2 in "Wolfram Compute Services"

babayega2 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:39:34 +0000

Maxima is the clone. I remember using it 20 years ago. very nice.

New comment by babayega2 in "Boycott IETF 127"

babayega2 — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 07:49:38 +0000

But it is in the Schengen area. I have a 1 year Schengen visa and I have been going there regularly without problem.

New comment by babayega2 in "DeepFace: A lightweight deep face recognition library for Python"

babayega2 — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 12:07:48 +0000

Very nice package. I used it recently for a project where I needed to detect faces in images as tasks with celery [0]. I wonder if there is an equivalent for OCR.

[0]: https://github.com/srugano/facematch

New comment by babayega2 in "Ask HN: Local Mac Wysiwyg HTML Editor? (for “Lo-fi” website)"

babayega2 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:53:01 +0000

One of the open source wysiwyg editors I have been trying to use is BlueGriffon. It does what you want. But it hasn't been updated for a while. I remember codeigniter soe something like that used to do that back in 2010s.

New comment by babayega2 in "Jailer, a unique open-source database tool"

babayega2 — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 11:49:13 +0000

It took them time. I had asked the same problem few months ago [0]. I needed a tool to subset a huge PostgreSQL db. The choices where Condenser [1] and this Jailer. Since I'm not a Java guy, I was struggling to know how to properly run this Jailer. I'm glad they released a .deb format. But I ended up using Condenser.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35975606 [1]: https://github.com/TonicAI/condenser

Ask HN: What are the open source tools for database subsetting?

babayega2 — Wed, 17 May 2023 14:23:58 +0000

I have a very huge Postgres database that I need to clone locally (like 0.01 if its data) and do some tests. I have tried to use Jailer [0] (complicated to use. Like after installing it with the dpkg command, how do we launch it?) or Condenser [1] (intuitive but producing errors). Is there any other open source program to produce a small subset of the data available in a PostgreSQL? Like I like the fact that in Condenser you only tell the config file that you want 1% of the initial data and it does.

[0]: https://github.com/Wisser/Jailer [1]: https://github.com/TonicAI/condenser

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35975606

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New comment by babayega2 in "TV series about startup failures"

babayega2 — Sun, 07 May 2023 11:42:02 +0000

One of the funny/sad consequences of watching Silicon Valley, is that a lot of my friends (in my African country where only 4% has electricity) think that the startup need to expand no matter what, even if it has no viable business model, you can run a "budgetivore" business for many years like Linkedin/Amazon and in the end you will find a business model.

So imagine. Instead of building good and sound startups that can be champions in the country/region, they waste the meager resources available in the country on fake startups/crypto-scams.

Sad.

New comment by babayega2 in "Ask HN: Is it time for a new Storybook?"

babayega2 — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:27:07 +0000

Coupled with DOMPurify [0], it helps much to simplify the messy JavaScript, HTML. Yin [1] has book on that.

[0]:https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify [1]:https://leanpub.com/react-wagtail

New comment by babayega2 in "Francis Fukuyama – Against Identity Politics"

babayega2 — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 20:57:43 +0000

Eric Li, from China has a big take on that: the West thinkers, including Fukuyama, stopped thinking since they assumed history was written. No more authoritarian state would outperform a liberal one. Apparently history is still being written.

New comment by babayega2 in "Simple Raspberry Pi Powered SMS Gateway"

babayega2 — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 04:58:02 +0000

5 years ago, I built the same SMS gateway without using the AT command "Explicitly" [0], but by letting Kannel handle that for me. Thus, I had an endpoint generally usable. Kannel is still used by Mobile Network Operators in Africa.

[0]: https://hackernoon.com/build-an-sms-center-with-python-kanne...

New comment by babayega2 in "Spending $5k to learn how database indexes work"

babayega2 — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 07:43:26 +0000

My experience is that on AWS there are hidden costs. Paying for traffic, and other stuff.

New comment by babayega2 in "Spending $5k to learn how database indexes work"

babayega2 — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 20:07:26 +0000

That's why we use DigitalOcean a lot in Africa. You know upfront how much you will spend.

New comment by babayega2 in "An unprecedented wave of online bank fraud is hitting Britain"

babayega2 — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 08:45:32 +0000

This is a good feature. I'm enjoying it actually.

New comment by babayega2 in "Ask HN: Did somebody have success with the migration of Python 2.7 to Java/C#?"

babayega2 — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 19:56:28 +0000

From my advice, try to stay on Python.

I am currently doing the opposite. Moving an old Java stack to Python/Django. Been able to do so under 9 months. I think upgrading to Python 3 should be doable. What's the version of your Django stack? You just need to try to reach Django 2.2. And if you are at Django 1.1, 90% of your code can be upgraded to Python 3. Nothing fancy. You just need to use libraries such as pyupgrade [0] to automatically upgrade your code, combined with black [1], flake [2],... Everything is done in less than 20 commits. From there you jump to 2.2 which supports Python 3.6+ .

It will be very difficult to implement all the goodies given by Django ORM/SQLAlchemy. But ... You if Java/C# is the tech that you feel confortable with, no problem. You have to use it. But, I really think it's easier to understand the "business domain" of Python code than Java/C#.

[0]: https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade [1]: https://github.com/psf/black [2]: https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8

New comment by babayega2 in "Full WireGuard Support in ProtonVPN for Android"

babayega2 — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:03:27 +0000

Absolutely. I will migrate to it ASAP since my Streisand is mired in 16.04. good job guys from Algo.

New comment by babayega2 in "An unprecedented wave of online bank fraud is hitting Britain"

babayega2 — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:01:49 +0000

Two days ago, I purchased a subscription online and my bank app thought it was a security incident, blocked the transaction and discarded the online virtual card I was using, informed me about the whole process and asked me to create another virtual card to replace all my other 6 subscriptions that were linked to the now defunct card.

I'm discovering Revolut.

New comment by babayega2 in "Full WireGuard Support in ProtonVPN for Android"

babayega2 — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 00:42:24 +0000

3 years ago I installed Project Streisand [0] on one of my Digitaocean droplets which configured automatically different VPN protocols and my favorite one has been Wireguard. To this day I still use it on all my devices and it's only last month that I was made aware that the project has been discontinued (Why??). But my Wireguard VPN is still kicking. Works like a charm. On all devices. I can use restricted apps in Africa where my bank app and Disney plus/HBO do not works...

[0]: https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand

New comment by babayega2 in "ExpressVPN employees complain about ex-spy's top role at company"

babayega2 — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 17:12:32 +0000

True. I use VPN to get behind the geoblocking on my banking app which is prohibited to work in my African country. Also viewing movies banned in my country.

New comment by babayega2 in "Black barbers have become mental health advocates for African American men"

babayega2 — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 17:25:19 +0000

Exactly.

And when you have your special barber, he would cut your hair even when you have no money. That's another assumption a lot of non-black peoples do not know.

I'm black African. I went to live in Rome (Italy) and went 3 times in a "normal" barber shop and the Italians were just doing the haircuts as it is required by their jobs and talking about moundane things. I joined the conversation but ... They are professional. They don't have time to talk about personal problem and stuff. This is not the place.

I switched to a black barbershop and, just near Termini train station. Man, the first day I was there the barber told me and asked me personal stuff and it wasn't "unprofessional" in my view.

We bonded. And now he even call me to ask me how if a problem I have told him previously is solved yet, he has a plumber who can help me fix things and stuff...

So in our culture barbers are well respected.