brendonjohn

I’ve loved using deno.

Full time for the last three months.

Deno replaced a pnpm monorepo I was using.

Yes

Principal engineer for Loom here: Congrats on the beta launch.

Super cool, I’m looking forward to trying it out.

Welcome to the Thunderdome.

Hah, touché.

To counterpoint, their success is probably correlated with consumer spending habits (If consumers don't spend, transactions aren't happening, Stripe isn't getting its commission)

The case against Stripe probably sits with an understanding of how an incoming recession will impact the volume of transactions Stripe is dealing with.

> the way of WeWork

That's an unreasonable comparison. Stripe is not deeply tied to commercial office real estate.

I must be missing something here.

On a donation of $10, their cut should be $0.75, given that's 7.5%.

I thought this was going to be a critique of Blinkist.

There's clearly been a lot of thought put into KubeSail, the platform & pibox provisioning service looks interesting.

Have you had businesses try to make this part of an internal provisioning process?

It looks like you're aiming for hobbyists, but I'd take a guess you could be integrating with businesses at a premium.

Assuming this is for Android, the APK would no longer be signed and would cause all login attempts to fail.

Have a read about "SafetyNet Attestion API" for Android.

This is brilliant work, I'm hoping in part II we get to see it working against the API.

I reverse engineered this in a production environment. It took approximately 7 months to build a scalable solution.

The investigation on how to create the x-snapchat-client-auth token is brilliant. One day I hope to do a talk on what my old team did to circumvent it.

There's a painful gotcha on the homestretch for this token: You may be creating the token, but it's not obvious what you're supposed to be using the method to sign.

What do they use it for? As far as I could tell, it's so they can verify requests at the edge nodes of their network. When you provide a bad x-snapchat-client-auth, you get a near-instant 403.

I currently work at Loom. I think it's worth mentioning, when they say it's remote, they actually mean remote and not just "you can work from home sometimes".

I did the whole interview process from home in New Zealand and continue to work in my home city.

> full-service dealers advertise their wares is through Snapchat or WhatsApp:

Oh dear, just because a snap disappears doesn't mean a record doesn't exist.

While Snapchat (I don't know about WhatsApp) says that they "typically" don't retain your expired story data, you only need one of your friends/followers to be using a third-party app that does capture and retain data for your record to persist.

I'm guessing that the moment an account is of interest to law enforcement, a social network organization is obligated to start persisting and reporting account data.

This probably sounds crazy... I think in the next ten years there will be a cultural shift away from carrying any form of electronics on yourself. That's including mobile phones and media devices.