Hacker News: bingo_cannon

New comment by bingo_cannon in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

bingo_cannon — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:38:05 +0000

I'm working on a Personal / Family travel organizer. Started as tool to allow me and SO to plan a trip together. There's been steady progress over the last couple years. Focus on privacy and ability to self-host. Of course, there is a managed version if one doesn't mind me having access to their data.

New comment by bingo_cannon in "Ask HN: How can I DDOoS attack my personal website (for curiosity)?"

bingo_cannon — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 21:32:46 +0000

You can start by using Apache Benchmark: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/ab.html

New comment by bingo_cannon in "AuthZ: Scalable permissions system"

bingo_cannon — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 17:26:24 +0000

How does this compare to Apache Shiro?

New comment by bingo_cannon in "Robinhood Files S-1"

bingo_cannon — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:21:33 +0000

Fidelity has $0.65 per contract

New comment by bingo_cannon in "Ask HN: Why aren't micropayments a thing?"

bingo_cannon — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 21:51:24 +0000

That is how most toll systems work. You load up a balance on the card $10/$20 and it deducts every time you cross a checkpoint.

The difference between this and a micropayment platform would be the fees. In the toll system, the fees are paid once. With a micropayment platform, the fees would be per transaction.

There can be a "self hosted" version of such a platform that say each content-provider can host but I am not sure it will work out against the cost of maintaining it includes much more than just hosting (securty, auditing, refunds, taxes etc).

New comment by bingo_cannon in "Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client"

bingo_cannon — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 16:50:20 +0000

Oof I still remember the update that disabled re-sizing of the text box and people were up in arms about it. And there was a fork of Pidgin over it.

New comment by bingo_cannon in "Google Alternatives"

bingo_cannon — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 04:54:48 +0000

I have been using Fastmail for a few years now. Pretty happy with them.

New comment by bingo_cannon in "Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack"

bingo_cannon — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:44:10 +0000

Scaling is only half of it. There is a lot more to Jira than just CRUD over a few entities. It's trying to be issue tracking and project management rolled into one. For example:

- Workflows

- Access control over fields

- Custom fields

- Release management

- 3P plugins and integrations

- API access

I am far from being a fan of Jira but they do have a rather large set of features. Every time I evaluate the hottest new issue tracking and/or project management solution, there is something lacking as compared to Jira.

New comment by bingo_cannon in "Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved your quality of life?"

bingo_cannon — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 17:17:45 +0000

An automated pet door. My dog loves to go in and out of the house every five minutes and whines annoyingly if he doesn't.

New comment by bingo_cannon in "Amazon Ion"

bingo_cannon — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:34:32 +0000

I built the first version of IntelliJ plugin[1] to make working with the reactor stuff easier. Doesn't look like there have been much improvements to it.

1: https://github.com/amzn/ion-intellij-plugin

Ask HN: How do you manage translations?

bingo_cannon — Wed, 27 May 2020 16:40:36 +0000

I have a few hundred English strings to translate. They include both labels and content. I am interested to know how HN gets their project strings translated.

- Is there a service that will let me host my strings?

- Any experience/opinion on crowd sourcing translations?

- Cost: The dedicated companies are quite expensive for a hobby project. Did you ever pay for translations? What is the cost model?

Thank you.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23325942

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by bingo_cannon in "Diving into Go by building a CLI application"

bingo_cannon — Wed, 27 May 2020 04:54:12 +0000

Absolutely! I've used picocli[1] and airline[2]. There is always the Apache Commons CLI if you feel like building it all yourself.

1: https://picocli.info/

2: https://github.com/airlift/airline

Bonus: picocli lets you create native images using Graal, so you can really build native cli executable using Java.

New comment by bingo_cannon in "Build Software from Front-to-Back"

bingo_cannon — Thu, 14 May 2020 17:46:16 +0000

It's what I call customer experience design. You can build this in terms of user stories, UI mocks, OpenAPI spec etc depending on your customer. This makes the expectations from the API interface very clear. Of course, it may also mean that I'd have to deviate from pure REST but that's easy when you see the customer value. Then the tradeoff between fast, easy and cheap is restricted to components that don't impact the end user and can be changed later. The last thing I'd want is to change my customer's workflow because my entity relationships change.

New comment by bingo_cannon in "Diagram as Code"

bingo_cannon — Tue, 12 May 2020 17:41:16 +0000

This looks really neat! Is it possible to have embedded diagrams. For example, Gitlab lets you embed a PlantUML[1] diagram in any Markdown or ADoc file using a proxy server. This makes it really easy to write and serve documentation.

Personally, I'm a fan of PlantUML. Having an svg served in a browser that has labels linking directly to the relevant entity (code, resource etc) is a huge plus for new hire onboarding.

1: https://plantuml.com/

New comment by bingo_cannon in "Ask HN: Any legal problems working in the same field on the side?"

bingo_cannon — Fri, 08 May 2020 20:34:20 +0000

The answer depends on a lot of factors e.g. where are you based? Some states in the US allow you to do whatever using your own resources and your own free time. Even though it might be legally allowed, companies' contracts generally forbid you from doing anything competitive. So:

- Are you doing this using your won resources and time?

- Are you building a potentially competing product?

- What does your contract say about it?

- Can anyone still claim IP on what you've built so far? As in it seems you worked for someone before to build it, did you get compensated for it?

Of course, IANAL, so you'd want some professional advice.

New comment by bingo_cannon in "OAuth 2.0 Security Best Current Practice"

bingo_cannon — Tue, 05 May 2020 18:38:50 +0000

I've recently tried out Keycloak(https://www.keycloak.org/) and have been impressed with it. Saved at least a few weeks on a personal project. It does have a learning curve though.

New comment by bingo_cannon in "How to Write SQL"

bingo_cannon — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 17:44:15 +0000

> Then, often enough you also want to integrate dynamic parts in your query string… and now either you concatenate string parts..

Please, remove the concatenate part. Don't let anybody get any ideas.

New comment by bingo_cannon in "Ask HN: Does anybody else feel overwhelmed while reading HN?"

bingo_cannon — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 17:07:59 +0000

I was overwhelmed at first. Every time a Show HN would pop up, I was amazed at how individuals could deliver on so much alone. So I accepted these things:

- There will always be people who are better than you, in any field. I see it as a positive and a great learning opportunity.

- There will never be time to learn everything you want to learn.

The question I try to answer is: Am I doing the best I can at the moment? Of course, this can also lead to complacency.

New comment by bingo_cannon in "Show HN: Newsbump – a news platform with annotated and versioned reports"

bingo_cannon — Mon, 22 May 2017 18:34:18 +0000

The idea was to have a place for events/topics that aren't covered by the traditional news publishers. I understand it would be a hard sell.

Show HN: Newsbump – a news platform with annotated and versioned reports

bingo_cannon — Sun, 21 May 2017 23:03:26 +0000

Hi HN! I have been toying with this idea for about a year and half and have built a prototype. Long story short: - A platform to request news updates about anything that traditional media has long forgotten.

- A platform where anybody can post news updates

- A news report format that can be annotated by the editor instead of ML programs extracting pieces of information e.g. facts and opinions

- Explicit association between claimed facts and supporting evidence.

- Versioned news reports

- A place to discuss / chat with the reporter.

Website: https://newsbump.in/

What do you think?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14389723

Points: 1

# Comments: 2