Hacker News: gerogerke

New comment by gerogerke in "Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS"

gerogerke — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 11:15:18 +0000

This is GCP and AWS feeling pressure from EU legislation.

New comment by gerogerke in "Translating OpenStreetMap data to HTML5 Canvas with Rust and WebAssembly"

gerogerke — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 14:22:48 +0000

For anyone interested, I have a similar blog-post [0], in which I explore rendering OSM data using WebGL.

[0]: https://gero.dev/blog/webgl-render-osm-streets

New comment by gerogerke in "AirGradient Air Quality Monitor Pro Kit Review"

gerogerke — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 14:20:42 +0000

I have a IKEA Vindstyrka running in my Home Assistant, which reports PM2.5 and a proprietary VOC value from the sensor manufacturer. For 40€ + ZigBee / HA Setup quite reasonable as well.

New comment by gerogerke in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

gerogerke — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:21:02 +0000

https://gero.dev/blog

I rarely find time to blog, and it's mostly interesting programming resources that I feel other people could also benefit from.

New comment by gerogerke in "iOS Reddit App Apollo's Developer Surprised by WWDC Callout"

gerogerke — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 10:52:20 +0000

Here's a direct link: https://www.youtube.com/live/GYkq9Rgoj8E?feature=share&t=279...

New comment by gerogerke in "PayPal has restricted our account after we invoiced a key containing “ALEP”"

gerogerke — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 10:58:57 +0000

I opened a business PayPal account, and it was closed within the first 2 minutes of opening. There was no reason given, and I had provided all details necessary during sign-up. I still get promotional mails until now.

New comment by gerogerke in "Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market"

gerogerke — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 10:49:57 +0000

I was also surprised when I saw it. A GbR is a German "Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts" which does not need to be formally incorporated and offers no limited liability. The name needs to include the names of all partners, so we can deduce it is being run by two persons. I am quite surprised they do this without liability protection. Upon googling, I found only a playlist on YouTube which has this name and contains one explainer video about signing up a company with German tax authorities. If they are indeed based in Germany, they're required to have an Impressum / imprint on their home-page, without it, they risk being fined.

New comment by gerogerke in "Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell"

gerogerke — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 20:31:29 +0000

Honestly, I am just happy that someone is using the GBFS feed. We built it for and are using it on Openvelo [0] which I don't think many people use. The purpose was never to somehow be rewarded, but to make working with this kind of data in our city easier.

[0] https://openvelo.org/

New comment by gerogerke in "Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell"

gerogerke — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 18:26:57 +0000

Very cool. I just checked your site after some time and happily saw that my city is now supported. Upon checking in the API, it's using the unofficial GBFS feed that a couple friends and I are hosting (which we're also earning 0€ from).

We built our own GBFS GraphQL abstraction called gbfsQL [1] a couple years ago that makes working with GBFS less difficult.

[1]: https://github.com/mapintelligenceagency/gbfsQL

New comment by gerogerke in "Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap"

gerogerke — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 19:45:47 +0000

I would also like to throw in planetiler[0] and tileserver-gl[1] which I am happily running to serve vector tiles for some regions in Germany.

[0]: https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler [1]: https://github.com/maptiler/tileserver-gl

New comment by gerogerke in "Hacktoberfest Is Now Opt-In"

gerogerke — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 14:47:33 +0000

I suggest adding the hacktobefest label to issues you'd like to see tackled. Many people search for `label:hacktoberfest language:Rust is:open` or the likes to find projects to contribute to. I have not found a way to search for repos with a repo-tag yet.

New comment by gerogerke in "NPM Bans Terminal Ads"

gerogerke — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 12:30:36 +0000

Clearly, you didn't read the article from the original author. Ads were deduplicated, so only a single ad was shown, even if 500 deps used the funding dependency.

New comment by gerogerke in "Rückzugsorte – Map of areas in Berlin which are the furthest away from a street"

gerogerke — Thu, 16 May 2019 11:16:53 +0000

There's a big bubble right over the airport Tegel (TXL) hwich I would consider no place of silence ;)

New comment by gerogerke in "Matrix.org hacked"

gerogerke — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:47:59 +0000

Seems like the user itself has been deleted, which might cause Github to remove all content created by that user.

Berlin offers women 21 percent metro ticket discount to highlight pay gap

gerogerke — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:19:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.politico.eu/article/berlin-offers-women-21-metro-ticket-discount-to-highlight-pay-gap/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19368972

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gerogerke in "App-Only Banks Rise in Europe and Aim at Traditional Lenders"

gerogerke — Sun, 23 Sep 2018 22:53:17 +0000

I have been using N26 as my daily driver for the last year, and I really don't want to look back at any bank that is using branches. However, I feel N26, Revolut, Monzo, Tomorrow, and all of the others are driving customers away with very expensive "premium" plans.

I recently opened an account with DKB, another German direct bank, but with a shitty app. They offer everything I paid N26 5,90€ month to month (which they raised to 9,90€, can you imagine that) and much more like overnight money and a stock depot, for the tradeoff of having a shitter app, which is basically a webview loading their webpage.

The next thing Europe needs is a Robinhood-like app for fee-free trading.

New comment by gerogerke in "Building a Kickass Portfolio"

gerogerke — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 14:17:56 +0000

Here's mine: https://gerogerke.de/

Self-written with React for component reuse. Hosted on my Hetzner Dedicated, Dockerized and Reverse proxied with Traefik.

Code: https://github.com/Empty2k12/portfolio/