joelhaasnoot

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Head of Engineering at Apollo Agriculture - bringing financing to smallholder farmers in Africa.
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Comment · 3 days ago
ASN was pretty bad - they recently wanted me to renew KYC/ID info. They wanted to install a Chrome Plugin that then would read the government KYC data. I nope'd out of that very fast. The alternative indeed was an app.
Comment · 9 days ago
I actually did the same but at some point was like "this is good enough" and it works well. Diffs, comments on diffs, integration with Linear and worktrees is good enough for now and gives me a productivity boost. Couple of other apps in the space but at the time none supported Claude Code in terminals
Comment · 11 months ago
I think we're talking about 500 updated apps here. You could've done it manually, didnt need a kubernetes cluster
Comment · 11 months ago
Time for the META Down Detector - detecting which of the three is down
Comment · 11 months ago
There is also weather and voice recognition services. If implemented with third party APIs those costs can add up.
Comment · 1 year ago
No one would ever hack my app!
Comment · 1 year ago
The license is also not front and center
Comment · 1 year ago
Lol, it's funny you need a higher level language and choose... JSON.
Comment · 2 years ago
Time for an "open source contributor"-by proxy service ;)
Comment · 2 years ago
Well, and there being feeds of videos?
Comment · 2 years ago
cough https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/ovhcloud-fire... (physical security isn't just access control)
Comment · 2 years ago
Would rather have 5 episodes with a 5 min sponsor section than one 25 min episode about your way too expensive cooling mattress
Comment · 2 years ago
How many wheelchairs are actually truely customized? I hear a lot of complaints from wheelchair manufacturers that this isn't really customized
Comment · 2 years ago
Also saw a bunch of tennis courts
Comment · 2 years ago
The final report looking into it was published yesterday

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