Hacker News: mcescalante

New comment by mcescalante in "Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text"

mcescalante — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 06:44:42 +0000

yep, I've played with Hurl and find it nice but recently have been leaning into the .http stuff more. IntelliJ has it built in, there's the plugin you linked, and then for CLI i've used httpYac. No "vendor lock in", really easy to share with copy & paste or source control.

New comment by mcescalante in "'Financial Times' Issues 103-Year-Old Correction (2017)"

mcescalante — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 23:47:40 +0000

(2017) should probably be added to the title. Really enjoyed this and noticed the published date after I read it.

New comment by mcescalante in "Starlink adds another 100Gbps connection to the SeattleIX"

mcescalante — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 05:24:21 +0000

I can't speak to how all transactions are conducted, but there are auctions on one marketplace, IPv4 Global auctions, with cost per IP in the $50-60 range https://auctions.ipv4.global/. I also really enjoyed Flyio's blog post about acquiring addresses https://fly.io/blog/32-bit-real-estate/

New comment by mcescalante in "My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated"

mcescalante — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 22:30:42 +0000

ZeroTier is certainly another viable alternative, but their self hosted option still relies on the ZeroTier root servers (you can self-host roots, but they don't support removing theirs [1]), and their licensing for the self hosted product is more restrictive than something like netmaker.

[1] https://docs.zerotier.com/self-hosting/introduction/#roots

New comment by mcescalante in "My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated"

mcescalante — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 01:07:34 +0000

I just stumbled on a self hosted project similar to tailscale: https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker. There is also https://github.com/juanfont/headscale which is an open sourced implementation of the Tailscale coordination server. Tailscale "just works" and makes things incredibly easy for personal use, but it's awesome that there are also similar self-hosted options out there

New comment by mcescalante in "Google Camera randomly changes some QR code URLs on Android 12"

mcescalante — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 22:27:18 +0000

Here is a screenshot of the issue as of time of posting. Forgive the zoom, the UI has a iframe scroll which isn't very capture friendly. https://i.imgur.com/hS8jBzw.png

New comment by mcescalante in "Crypto.com accounts had unauthorized withdrawals"

mcescalante — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 15:35:35 +0000

At least one US investment banks I've used require a waiting period before transacting with a newly added account/routing number for wires/ACH. I've even got calls from customer service manually confirming transfers/withdrawals if it's a new account or one that's been unused for a long period of time.

That said, there is no waiting period on me withdrawing from my checking account.

New comment by mcescalante in "I Miss RSS"

mcescalante — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 21:37:14 +0000

I use RSS daily with Miniflux. Tiny Tiny RSS is another popular self hosted option and there are a number of freemium platforms like Feedly & Inoreader. I prefer to self host primarily for cost/no ads or tracking/private data. It's true that social media platforms don't support it but that's never been my personal use case - every news site or discussion group I like to keep up with has a feed and it's worked great for me.

New comment by mcescalante in "Three things to never build yourself: auth, notifications, payments"

mcescalante — Thu, 13 May 2021 18:39:55 +0000

We are going through this currently. Have a large new system going in which relies on OAuth and JWTs and our IAM team is now spending a lot of time & energy with the developers on all of the use/edge cases with tokens, expiry, security, and whether the code should be in the client or the server. In the end it'll work out, but I completely agree that grabbing the most popular auth framework for your language will save a lot of headaches in the vast majority of cases.

New comment by mcescalante in "Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and grocery stores"

mcescalante — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 23:51:29 +0000

Agreed, wish they qualified "efficient".

Another example may be that hydroponic growing is typically faster than in soil, for example leafy lettuce such as bibb can be ready nearly twice as fast when grown with hydroponics.

New comment by mcescalante in "DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries"

mcescalante — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:23:14 +0000

I have the same experience - my two major issues with DDG are the results for technical searches, and I wish that it showed more basic info for businesses like phone number/address/hours without me having to click around a bunch.

New comment by mcescalante in "Massachusetts voters pass right-to-repair expansion opening up car data"

mcescalante — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:39:52 +0000

This type of question is called a "Ballot measure." 26/50 states have initiative or veto referendum processes, which means Citizens can collect signatures to place a law on the ballot. A coalition containing unions (i.e. service & tire) and others were able to collect 103,604 signatures in support of this law which was more than the required 80,239 to have the question appear on the Massachusetts ballot. They submitted this all in late 2019 and there was some back and forth with the legislature and they were required to collect some more signatures which they did successfully (skipping some legal stuff). After all the signatures were verified, it was certified for the November 2020 ballot (in MA).

If you are curious for more detail, Ballotpedia has a good overview of information in their "path to the ballot" section: https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_Question_1,_%22Right_t...

New comment by mcescalante in "Show HN: A fast RSS reader I built with a friend"

mcescalante — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 21:26:15 +0000

I love RSS. I started using it again late last year and it's a joy once you find the RSS app that fits your needs. Currently very happy with Miniflux, but also gave TT-RSS a try and found that both would work great for me but preferred the resource usage of Miniflux.

New comment by mcescalante in "Do Not Follow JavaScript Trends"

mcescalante — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 15:36:41 +0000

> As someone who has used Angular 2 since beta, I can tell you, it's been a bumpy ride nonetheless.

I can second this - I've been working on a variety of Angular apps in an enterprise environment. It's worked fine and the "batteries included" has worked for my org, but it has definitely been a bumpy ride to get from beta to 9 with plenty of changes along the way.

> And here I am using HTML and CSS with tiny sprinkles of JS for most websites, and it's working just fine, and has been for many years.

This has been my favorite setup at work - pick "boring" tech like Django/Flask or Spring Boot and then sprinkle in some Javascript for highly interactive forms/pieces (React or Vue if needed).

New comment by mcescalante in "The Mainframe Is a Modern Platform"

mcescalante — Wed, 20 May 2020 17:52:35 +0000

You're absolutely correct - we have a healthy mix of traditional server-side web applications and a small number of SPAs only where it makes sense (usually complex forms with lots of feedback/conditionals). I just used Angular as an (admittedly) easy target. These days, I've been trying my best to avoid SPA for enterprise stuff if possible

New comment by mcescalante in "The Mainframe Is a Modern Platform"

mcescalante — Wed, 20 May 2020 14:25:20 +0000

I have been involved in a slow-rolling project at work to migrate a fair number of administrative screens and their data (written in the late 80s/early 90s) off of the existing zOS mainframe, primarily because of the costs (management doesn't want to pay IBM anymore for the limited set of things it's being used for and finding devs is expensive too). The project has already run way past the original estimate, no major surprise.

Our new APIs and web UIs are nice and all and offer a number of advantages for today's users/admins, but sometimes it feels they take more babysitting and fuss (updating deps, etc.) than the old mainframe code did - I'm not confident that an Angular SPA running for 20+ years would still work the same, so we have tried to take that into consideration while designing replacements.

I'm not complaining about one or the other but rather I feel lucky to have experienced tradeoffs and learned about how some of these problems were solved 20-30 years ago, while I was still in grade school.

New comment by mcescalante in "It’s Time to Get Back to RSS"

mcescalante — Sun, 17 May 2020 16:39:47 +0000

RSS has been really great for me over the last year or so (when I got back into it). I tried Feedly, and then Inoreader. I was not willing to pay for either and ended up trying out the two popular self-hosted options: ttrss (tiny tiny rss) and Miniflux. Stuck with Miniflux for its simplicity. Using the Fever API with Reeder on my Mac and Readably on my Android.

New comment by mcescalante in "Kanboard – Kanban Project Management Software"

mcescalante — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 14:34:24 +0000

This looks lovely for a self hosted Kanban board. Of course there are _lots_ of paid products out there for this too, but there are a lot of times where my company would prefer something free and self hosted.

Slightly unrelated: It looks like the author is the same as the self-hosted RSS reader Miniflux which I've been using for 4-6 months now and has been fantastic (Miniflux is linked in the footer and the primary committer is the same on both repos).

New comment by mcescalante in "Tell HN: Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and now web cams"

mcescalante — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 15:07:43 +0000

If anyone's curious about this from 3 camels standpoint they made a blog post about this. I was curious what the non-Amazon opinion would be so I went looking: https://camelcamelcamel.com/blog/amazon-eu-covid-19

New comment by mcescalante in "Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls"

mcescalante — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 16:04:06 +0000

I have a 2013 Accord with a touch screen (bought it used and it's what came with it) instead of button controls. The latency on the screen is terrible and my father's Acura RDX which does not have a touch panel is much more user-friendly. I would love if more manufacturers started to put more analog controls back into their cars, but kept the non-touch screens for info display/backup cameras.