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New comment by jadedragon942 in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

jadedragon942 — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:45:26 +0000

Sorry to jump in... But why are you ssh'ing into your hosts over the open net? Why not tailscale? Why not wireguard?

New comment by jadedragon942 in "Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon"

jadedragon942 — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 01:56:25 +0000

Can't take it with you. (money)

New comment by jadedragon942 in "Show HN: Typeform was too expensive so I built my own forms"

jadedragon942 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:17:35 +0000

I find it baffling that people are paying $300/month for what amounts to a simple set of HTML and a simple backend. That's insane.

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jadedragon942 — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 22:48:37 +0000

Hey everyone! In the spirit of release early, release often, I wanted to post to Hacker News (for the first time ever!) about an idea of mine. Okay, so it's not a very original idea. It is however a missing gap in the Python ecosystem for learning and introduction to the language.

Check out the Tour of Go if you're not familiar with this concept already. The general idea is an in-browser interactive learning playground. (An in-browser REPL, if you will).

It needs more slides, it needs bugfixes and improvements overall, but the basic concept is here. The sandbox was implemented using code from healeycodes.com and ChatGPT did much of the other initial heavy lifting for me (I am a backend engineer by trade, my front-end skills are extremely rusty.)

The code is here: https://github.com/jadedragon942/tour_of_python/

Disclaimer: it is nothing too fancy.

My long-term lofty goal is to build this and hand it off to python.org if possible/feasible.

Contributors/volunteers/feedback/opinions are of course welcome!