Hacker News: bowersbros

New comment by bowersbros in "Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security"

bowersbros — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:12:56 +0000

Step 1: Ensure that docker images are available when the embargo is released. We're 2 hours in, and they still aren't available.

New comment by bowersbros in "PHP 8.2.35"

bowersbros — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:54:09 +0000

That's placeholders for images, you can't actually pull them yet.

https://hub.docker.com/layers/library/php/8.5.12-fpm/images/...

New comment by bowersbros in "PHP 8.2.35"

bowersbros — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:45:37 +0000

Looks like the docker images are struggling in the Jenkins queue: https://doi-janky.infosiftr.net/

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

bowersbros — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:55:39 +0000

I've ran into so many problems trying to get a nice setup for my local development that matches similar to our production setup. I usually have completely separate docker compose setup locally, and a kubernetes setup of some kind in production.

These behave fairly similar, until I need to work on the ingress, or network policies, or anything else that is kubernetes specific.

I've finally taken the plunge into running it all locally on k3d, and have a pretty nice setup now with the manifests syncing with ArgoCD.

I'm thinking of packaging it up into a justfile and documenting it, but wondered how other people work on these sort of things. Do you just accept the shortcomings and test in staging envs for kubernetes specific changes?

New comment by bowersbros in "The Valley of Webhooks"

bowersbros — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:24:01 +0000

It's a British colloquial term meaning basic / expected / ordinary

New comment by bowersbros in "Holocloth"

bowersbros — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:24:31 +0000

One reason would be that Vercel does the build process, whereas Github pages (afaik) would require you to commit the dist dir

New comment by bowersbros in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

bowersbros — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:07:43 +0000

You could already do that by setting a _acme-challenge alias CNAME record, so you can point it to a domain that they control. It's a bit finnicky and the new setup definitely looks better for whitelabelling, but there are current workarounds; although it does still involve client DNS access, you can put it onto a zone that has no risks

New comment by bowersbros in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

bowersbros — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:15:17 +0000

I had a teacher who told us to make a website using Powerpoint..

Turns out you save save as HTML and any links you put between slides become anchor tags.

Pretty neat, but hurt my soul to have all my classmates do that

New comment by bowersbros in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

bowersbros — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:03:48 +0000

Any chance you could share those sections of your claude file? I've been using Claude a bit lately but mostly with manual changes, not got much in the way of the claude file yet and interested in how to improve it

New comment by bowersbros in "PHP – The Right Way"

bowersbros — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 11:58:45 +0000

That first article is a decade old.

New comment by bowersbros in "5 annoying things in VS Code you can fix right now"

bowersbros — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:34:10 +0000

Only a few of these i found annoying, but its good to get a fix for the Previews and GitHub-Style Inline Diffs

New comment by bowersbros in "Uber discusses plan to lay off about 20% of employees"

bowersbros — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:47:08 +0000

But _most_ of the time you'd be using the one in your city.

If you are from Manchester, UK and you live there, how often do you need a taxi app that works in Bangkok, or NY, or Oslo?

New comment by bowersbros in "Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon"

bowersbros — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 15:44:48 +0000

Old School Runescape is where you want to be

New comment by bowersbros in "Firefox 64 Released"

bowersbros — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 19:23:50 +0000

Things like large documents don't make that any easier though. Scrolling through a large document can take a while, but a scrollbar allows you to get to somewhere else often quite a lot faster.

Imagine you cmd + F a phrase and there are 200 responses separated into like 4 chunks of a document. It can be useful to scroll to the start of each chunk to get the context of them.

New comment by bowersbros in "“The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)"

bowersbros — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 12:08:30 +0000

To be fair, he works for Microsoft, its entirely possible he maintains one of their OS repos.

Discovering history in the unlikeliest of places

bowersbros — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 22:47:36 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/bowersbros/status/906670427564642304

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17502871

Points: 1

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New comment by bowersbros in "AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1"

bowersbros — Thu, 03 May 2018 00:51:59 +0000

I can't see anything about the 33.0.0.0/8 range being reserved

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses

New comment by bowersbros in "EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen"

bowersbros — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:08:36 +0000

Note that EU customers of Stripe get a drastically nicer 1.4% + 20p charge.

New comment by bowersbros in "Dear Apple, please fix notifications"

bowersbros — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 17:29:30 +0000

A better solution would be to use the status bar at the top, similar to how it changes when "In call".

Have it change colour, and say "1 new Mail notification" etc, and if you tap that, you get the proper context notification show up.

New comment by bowersbros in "Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player"

bowersbros — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 14:46:37 +0000

This is commonly solved using Amazon S3 and single-access tokens I think?

Pretty hefty work involved in getting it reliable, would be nice for a "drop in" solution.