Hacker News: nightbrawler

New comment by nightbrawler in "The Twelve-Factor App (2025)"

nightbrawler — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:56:05 +0000

normal indeed but not what i'd consider a best practice anymore. we've moved away from any secrets in the env after the typical secrets leak when secrets popped up in some debug logging that hit datadog.

we now have a secret cache layer api and the app loads secrets securely at time of use from that api. there's also no secret-0 problem because we use IAM auth when calling the cache.

edit: for those wondering, api response time is sub 1ms (rust!)

New comment by nightbrawler in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

nightbrawler — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:39:07 +0000

You can easily manipulate and set TTL to whatever is needed with a Mikrotik router. Override TTL for all devices behind it.

/ip firewall mangle add chain=postrouting out-interface=lte1 action=change-ttl new-ttl=set:64 passthrough=yes comment="Set TTL for Mobile Hotspot"

Female spies are waging 'sex warfare' to steal Silicon Valley secrets

nightbrawler — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:30:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/silicon-valley-spy-china-russia-2v03676kl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45674009

Points: 17

# Comments: 10

New comment by nightbrawler in "[dead]"

nightbrawler — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:07:55 +0000

and its fixed now.

New comment by nightbrawler in "Back to the future: Are hackers the future of amateur radio?"

nightbrawler — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 22:21:51 +0000

Yep! The New Mexico Mega-Link repeater network is still up and running.

http://nm5ml.com/nm5ml_map.jpg

There’s also a great APRS repeater network:

http://www.urfmsi.org/repeaters/aprs

With APRS you can send/recv text messages from pretty much anywhere in NM

New comment by nightbrawler in "Waterway Map"

nightbrawler — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:43:14 +0000

I'm in New Mexico too, there's some creeks I frequent that are considered "navigable waterways" and unless it's monsoon season, you barely get your ankles wet lol.

Utopia to blight: Surviving in Henry Ford’s lost jungle town

nightbrawler — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 18:35:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/28/fordlandia-brazil/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36923123

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by nightbrawler in "Isaac Solar Ice Maker"

nightbrawler — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 18:16:27 +0000

Indeed. Not as easy to organize as one with a front facing door, but we keep stuff organized in milk crates and it's worked great for our family for many years now.

New comment by nightbrawler in "Isaac Solar Ice Maker"

nightbrawler — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 15:42:52 +0000

At my offgrid cabin I converted a $300 chest freezer to a fridge by using an external thermostat that toggles power off/on based on temp. I have it turn on at 37 degrees and turn off at 35. It uses such little power that it's not even a factor for my small solar setup.

New comment by nightbrawler in "27 years ago I accidentally ran the hardest, strangest Easter egg hunt"

nightbrawler — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 23:14:10 +0000

So many participles at play here

New comment by nightbrawler in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2021)"

nightbrawler — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 18:47:19 +0000

Cool to see another New Mexican on here!

New comment by nightbrawler in "IRCv3 Spec round-up"

nightbrawler — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 19:58:16 +0000

nice, now I want to connect and check out the old channels I used to hang out in!

New comment by nightbrawler in "IRCv3 Spec round-up"

nightbrawler — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 19:57:38 +0000

awesome, thanks for that info!

New comment by nightbrawler in "IRCv3 Spec round-up"

nightbrawler — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 14:54:21 +0000

Back in the 90s I spent a lot of time on EFnet. What's the go to network these days?

New comment by nightbrawler in "Learn RegEx step by step, from zero to advanced"

nightbrawler — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:26:43 +0000

Back when I used Windows, I had an app called Regex Buddy and you could paste in any regex and it would generate a comment block that broke down what was going on. Was super useful when you come back a few months later and need to understand a complex regex

New comment by nightbrawler in "Learn RegEx step by step, from zero to advanced"

nightbrawler — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:09:12 +0000

  [0] Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.

I love regular expressions and figuring out the syntax to solve problems I encounter where I can use regex. Such as searching code for calls with specific named params that may be in different order across the code base. But I always have this quote in the back of my mind if I'm thinking about using regex in code, especially areas that get hit a lot.

[0] https://blog.codinghorror.com/regular-expressions-now-you-ha...

New comment by nightbrawler in "Dusty Hill has died"

nightbrawler — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 23:11:52 +0000

An amazing power trio band

Fake Resume Generator

nightbrawler — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 23:24:23 +0000

Article URL: https://fake.jsonresume.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24725037

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Cards Against Containers

nightbrawler — Tue, 05 May 2020 15:23:07 +0000

Article URL: https://thenewstack.io/cards-against-containers-a-devops-card-game-from-sysdig/

Hacker News: nightbrawler

New comment by nightbrawler in "The Twelve-Factor App (2025)"

New comment by nightbrawler in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

Female spies are waging 'sex warfare' to steal Silicon Valley secrets

New comment by nightbrawler in "[dead]"

New comment by nightbrawler in "Back to the future: Are hackers the future of amateur radio?"

New comment by nightbrawler in "Waterway Map"

Utopia to blight: Surviving in Henry Ford’s lost jungle town

New comment by nightbrawler in "Isaac Solar Ice Maker"

New comment by nightbrawler in "Isaac Solar Ice Maker"

New comment by nightbrawler in "27 years ago I accidentally ran the hardest, strangest Easter egg hunt"

New comment by nightbrawler in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2021)"

New comment by nightbrawler in "IRCv3 Spec round-up"

New comment by nightbrawler in "IRCv3 Spec round-up"

New comment by nightbrawler in "IRCv3 Spec round-up"

New comment by nightbrawler in "Learn RegEx step by step, from zero to advanced"

New comment by nightbrawler in "Learn RegEx step by step, from zero to advanced"

New comment by nightbrawler in "Dusty Hill has died"

Fake Resume Generator

Cards Against Containers

New comment by nightbrawler in "A King Who Became a Pirate"