jbeard4
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Comment · 1 year ago
I rolled my own outdoor laptop, using an old Dasung e-ink monitor, power bank, and latte panda SBC. Works great for outdoor coding. Cut the chassis out of 1/2' plywood on the CNC router. Dual boots vanilla Windows and Linux. Picture here: https://imgur.com/a/RrpPjET
Comment · 1 year ago
"$3,000 per work" seems like an incredibly good deal to license a book.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Over the years, nearly everything on the vehicle has been replaced or repaired, and Campbell says the only original part is likely the body, and even that has had work done on it.
It’s the Tercel of Theseus: if every part has been replaced, is it still the same car?
Comment · 1 year ago
> NixOS is a superpower to me
Can you expand on this? Just curious what is the main value-add you are getting from NixOS in particular?
Comment · 1 year ago
I love XSLT. I wrote a SCXML-to-JavaScript compiler in it back in 2010:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/sandbox/gsoc/2010/s...
Written as a pipeline of XSLT transformations. Ran natively in the browser to execute SCXML documents to control UI logic. Good times.
Comment · 1 year ago
For context, the Bench bookkeeping SaaS suddenly collapsed and was subsequently acquired by employer.com:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549343
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42523061
Bench has failed to deliver on their commitments to allow users to download their data, so it's interesting that some of Bench's competitors are now starting to provide their own solution to facilitate data export.
Comment · 1 year ago
For context, the Bench bookkeeping SaaS suddenly collapsed and was subsequently acquired by employer.com:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549343
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42523061
When users now go to login to Bench, it asks if you want to consent to share your data with employer.com; OR request a download link be emailed to you. However, the download links never came, and Bench now says they will arrive by January 15th. Additionally, Bench now reportedly says that you must consent to share your data with employer.com in order for them to prepare a download link.
Comment · 1 year ago
We use nextjs because we want to optimize the page for SEO and crawlability. If you don’t need your page to be crawlable (eg a dashboard behind a login), then there’s a good chance you don’t need nextjs, and pure React will indeed be simpler.
Comment · 1 year ago
I created a subreddit in case any current/former Bench users would like to continue talking to one another and compare notes: https://www.reddit.com/r/BenchUsers