Hacker News: jenkinstrigger

New comment by jenkinstrigger in "US Food and Drug Administration rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food"

jenkinstrigger — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:45:21 +0000

me to the plague doctors: we are SO back

New comment by jenkinstrigger in "Automate Excel with Python: From manual grind to one-click workflow"

jenkinstrigger — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:47:28 +0000

Yeah, a $50 book (physical) or $40 ebook

New comment by jenkinstrigger in "AWS us-east-1 outage"

jenkinstrigger — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 16:30:23 +0000

Can someone just have a site ping all the GET endpoints on the AWS API? That is very far from "automating [their entire] system" but it's better than what they're doing.

New comment by jenkinstrigger in "How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure"

jenkinstrigger — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:05:39 +0000

One .zip to rule them all :)

New comment by jenkinstrigger in "How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure"

jenkinstrigger — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:04:23 +0000

I love Terraform and ASGs but that still doesn't solve the fact that their SRE overprovisioned. They might have even used both things!

New comment by jenkinstrigger in "How to Exit Vim"

jenkinstrigger — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 15:41:33 +0000

I know of the perfect 12 step Vim Anonymous program that helped my brother in law finally get free

New comment by jenkinstrigger in "The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from over a decade ago"

jenkinstrigger — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 03:27:45 +0000

maybe make a TODO to do it

New comment by jenkinstrigger in "Ask HN: 2020 goals and resolutions?"

jenkinstrigger — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 21:11:04 +0000

In 2019 I

* became a father

* gained a lot of Python/Devops/AWS skills, another AWS cert, and a Linux cert

* finished one OSS project (Terraparty.com)

In 2020 I'd like to

* Gain a Pro-level AWS cert

* Learn ML and React Native (like Not Hotdog)

* Try to build a solution, or a dozen solutions, that finally appeal to real markets

* Finish learning to crochet!

* Play less video games, though we live in an Indie golden age imo

New comment by jenkinstrigger in "Tesla Cybertruck"

jenkinstrigger — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 05:25:51 +0000

ok sure, but what if they paint it red?

New comment by jenkinstrigger in "KonMari method in under 1000 words"

jenkinstrigger — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 03:53:16 +0000

recycle bin for clutter, folders for current things, zip archives for indefinite things :)

New comment by jenkinstrigger in "Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?"

jenkinstrigger — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 01:52:52 +0000

whats great about this is that you don't realize that you've written a new classic.

also, get out while you can!

New comment by jenkinstrigger in "Kosher Cell Phone"

jenkinstrigger — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:56:22 +0000

I never understand how people think it's "intellectually dishonest" to "break" rules that were meant to be broken.

I feel like people don't understand how mitzvos work, and therefore can't understand why we can sometimes "break" them.

Oftentimes one is allowed to use the loophole and still is rewarded for adhering to the mitzvah, even if they didn't do it (e.g. other comments here use examples of shabbos goy, shabbos elevator, selling chametz etc.). These cases are built into the mitzvah itself inherently, allll the way from way back when.

Jewish law is extremely complex, and we're allowed to use loopholes that the rabbis find, AND STILL we get rewarded for it if done properly and within the confines of Jewish Law.

That all said, I have no position in the kosher cell phone debate, let them have it if it makes them feel more comfortable. Besides the anti-porn arguments for it, it's less of a religious thing.

New comment by jenkinstrigger in "Crystalline nets harvest water from desert air, turn CO2 into liquid fuel"

jenkinstrigger — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 19:48:40 +0000

I feel the same way about blockchain healthcare startups. If you put PHI on a blockchain it will get distributed, and one day cracked and shared. Modern cryptography is not a silver bullet that will last forever as-is.

By then the founders (who we see these days on Techcrunch taking money for these sham projects) will be long gone.

New comment by jenkinstrigger in "Tech firms “can and must” put backdoors in encryption, AG Barr says"

jenkinstrigger — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 20:46:02 +0000

maybe he thinks the b in bcrypt stands for backdoor

New comment by jenkinstrigger in "Why aren’t more companies remote-first?"

jenkinstrigger — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 15:54:18 +0000

Yep, I've mentored junior developers over video chat and Slack. If they have good communication skills (which is much needed for remote!) then they can write questions or ask to be shown something remotely just as well as in person.