Hacker News: douglasheriot

New comment by douglasheriot in "Partial Cloudflare outage on October 25, 2022"

douglasheriot — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 07:21:02 +0000

What happens if a rollback somehow makes things worse? Even emergency rollbacks need a gradual rollout so you’ve got a chance to catch any new issues you didn’t expect.

New comment by douglasheriot in "Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Are Now Open Source"

douglasheriot — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 03:21:20 +0000

I guess knowing that people will criticise your messy code is one of the reasons why people don’t open source more things. It’s nice to have the code open-source even though it’s not perfect.

New comment by douglasheriot in "Lyra V2 – a better, faster, and more versatile speech codec"

douglasheriot — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 00:47:49 +0000

It sounds like you’re asking for uncompressed audio? That meets all of your listed requirements. 48kHz * 16bit, single channel = 768kbit/s

New comment by douglasheriot in "Why can’t you buy a good webcam?"

douglasheriot — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 15:14:27 +0000

To mount a camera on my desk, I'm about to purchase this "Neewer Tabletop Light Stand", and a mini ball head with standard 1/4 inch screw for angle adjustment.

I can't vouch for it yet, but hope it arrives and does the job. There's other similar products in other sizes by other brands.

[1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001657723138.html

New comment by douglasheriot in "Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxDB, and CollectD"

douglasheriot — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 02:49:00 +0000

I've been using InfluxDB, but not satisifed with limited InfluxQL, or over-complicated Flux query languages. I love Postgres so TimescaleDB looks awesome.

The main issue I've got is how to actually get data into TimescaleDB. We use telegraf right now, but the telegraf Postgres output pull request still hasn't been merged: https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3428

Any progress on this?

New comment by douglasheriot in "GitHub was down"

douglasheriot — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 07:30:09 +0000

> Your control. Your network. Your infrastructure. Your responsibility

These are all the reasons why I don't want to self-host my own git. I can live with it being down every now and then. And when it is down, I don't want it to be my job to fix it. I've got more important stuff to worry about.

New comment by douglasheriot in "Recovering the Lost Apollo 10 LM Software [video]"

douglasheriot — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 04:28:52 +0000

I think this is the GitHub repo with the code shown in the video. Very impressive!

https://github.com/virtualagc/virtualagc/

New comment by douglasheriot in "I've spent the last two years building a new email client"

douglasheriot — Wed, 02 May 2018 09:00:10 +0000

> Total privacy - we do not have access to your email account, Ivelope only sends your email data and password between your computer and your email server.

I wish this was the default assumption these days.

New comment by douglasheriot in "U.S. To Seek Social Media Details from All Visa Applicants"

douglasheriot — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 11:42:31 +0000

Yeah… so annoying it confused me for a while.

New comment by douglasheriot in "The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday"

douglasheriot — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:07:27 +0000

If that’s the user interface, I can hardly imagine what’s underneath. Is this thing actually secure with properly designed two-factor authentication, etc. Or a weak password and a PHP script and some rubbish like that?…

New comment by douglasheriot in "Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail"

douglasheriot — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 14:01:21 +0000

Google Apps isn’t Google’s primary business – they could neglect it and have unhappy customers, but their bottom line would hardly notice the difference.

New comment by douglasheriot in "Creating an embeddable Python distribution on OS X"

douglasheriot — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 02:21:00 +0000

Picking files out of homebrew for distribution is generally a bad idea. You’ve fixed the linking issues, but not -mmacosx-version-min.

If you run $ otool -l libpython3.5.dylib and look for LC_VERSION_MIN_MACOSX – you’ll see it’s compiled only for your current OS.

So, if you do this on OS X 10.11, your users will have to have OS X 10.11. It may appear to work on older versions of OS X, until you hit something that doesn’t. For example, when I tried using a homebrew library, it was compiled using newer SSE instructions that weren’t supported on older processors still supported by older OS X versions. So when testing on an old Mac, it crashed with bad instruction at a somewhat random point in execution.

New comment by douglasheriot in "React Desktop – React UI Components for OS X El Capitan and Windows 10"

douglasheriot — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 06:39:44 +0000

Here’s a real reactive-native for desktop OS X Cocoa I found:

https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-desktop

Currently just "hacking weekend" level maturity. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/247#issuecom...

I have never actually tried it, but this one is real native controls. It’s on my TODO list…

New comment by douglasheriot in "When Solid State Drives Are Not That Solid"

douglasheriot — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 01:28:11 +0000

Wow, that sucks. Another reason to use ZFS – you’d notice the corrupted files a lot sooner.

New comment by douglasheriot in "Show HN: Headphone Enhancer for Techno and 5.1 Movies"

douglasheriot — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 23:56:18 +0000

Did you look at creating a user-space audio driver instead of the kernel one? 10.9+ only, but if you built this recently it probably makes a lot more sense. https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/samplecode/AudioDriv...

New comment by douglasheriot in "C++ – From goto to std::transform"

douglasheriot — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:21:50 +0000

After in coding in languages like C/C++/ObjC for a while, it took me a while to parse your Scale equivalent.

Personally I find the C++ much clearer – I don’t see either as that much better/worse.

New comment by douglasheriot in "Google Maps now lets you find and catch wild Pokémon"

douglasheriot — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 05:46:48 +0000

One of my friends made ‘iPokédex’ for iOS, but had to take it down…

http://www.timoliver.com.au/2011/07/21/on-ipokedex-getting-p... http://www.timoliver.com.au/2011/11/01/laying-ipokedex-to-re...

New comment by douglasheriot in "FreeBSD 10.0-RC3 images available"

douglasheriot — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 23:38:32 +0000

Checksums are also found in the PGP signed release email.

New comment by douglasheriot in "Diary of a programmer with no clue about marketing"

douglasheriot — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 01:37:10 +0000

I didn’t even realise it wasn’t free until reading your blog listing 'sales' separately to 'downloads'. Price needs to be way more obvious up the top. Only now just seeing it’ll cost $50, is a disappointment after thinking it was free.

New comment by douglasheriot in "Adobe abandons its Creative Suite to focus on Creative Cloud"

douglasheriot — Tue, 07 May 2013 04:37:53 +0000

Yep.