msantos
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Comment · 1 month ago
I didnt know that. And I can’t edit the post title anymore. That’s a shame.
Comment · 1 month ago
I’m not the affiliated with the tool’s creator in anyway, but found it incredibly useful when creating clips this weekend.
I suspect HN community may appreciate the fact that the tool runs in-browser and doesn’t require signups.
Comment · 1 year ago
For a long time I used to use smtp-sink — http://www.postfix.org/smtp-sink.1.html
$ smtp-sink -u nobody -R /tmp/smtp-sink -d "maildir/%Y-%m-%d/mail.%H.%M." 127.0.0.1:25 1024
Comment · 2 years ago
Gmail
A Soft murmur (mobile app)
Linux
Comment · 3 years ago
> Offbrand POE+ switch firewalled at the router to avoid cloud, telemetry, and backdoor bullshit
How do you handle firmware updates for the devices connected to this vlan?
Comment · 3 years ago
My 10+ years old poor-man's image background removal through ImageMagick alone
https://gist.github.com/mvsantos/5554663
It does a good enough job for studio photography with clear subjects and plain backgrounds. But fails miserably if the background is multicolour and/or contain too many objects.
Comment · 3 years ago
The solution really depends on what sort of problems you are trying to solve and who your customers are.
There are a fair few low-code solutions out there for reporting and data visualisation that are great for finance and marketing teams for example. e.g. https://metabase.com/ , https://evidence.dev/
For multipurpose SMB workflows and organisational processes, I have used n8n in the recent past and found it was quite good and incredibly easy to maintain. https://n8n.io/engineering-resources/
For enterprise processes I'd go with Camunda (solely based on recommendations and not first hand experience). Although only parts of their platform are OSS https://github.com/camunda
Bear in mind that some of these are not suitable if you want to build something that competes with them while taking their OSS code. But are perfectly fine otherwise.
Comment · 3 years ago
If I was to pick one single topic that improved my overall experience with Jira the most, I would say mastering JQL.
With JQL you can add custom filters to boards and backlogs making it considerably easier to hone in and highlight and narrow down specific patterns.
You can also save/fav searches and filters based on complex JQL scenarios if you use a shared backlog and rely on custom labels to split work.
Here are some JQL ideas https://gist.github.com/mvsantos/e9b2530a97a6345c2668116ffef...
As for Jira general slowness, bug your instance's admin to run maintenance cleanups and purges more often particularly if you run a large shared instance. It won't solve the problem entirely, but might help depending on your instance size and typical usage.
Having clear baseline practices will help too, but don't go overboard and come up with dozens of rules. Keep it intuitive so that they quickly become second-nature, and not points of contention and friction.
Comment · 4 years ago
HNLondon run until at least 2018[1] and were well organised IMO. The speakers line up were mostly very interesting. And some of the recordings of the talks are still available at https://vimeo.com/hnlondon
If I'm not mistaken the organisers of HNLondon in its final years were Dmitri Grabov[2] and Stevie Buckley[3].
One recurring issue that I recall was the typical audience member trying to hijack Q&A to promote stuff - i.e. "can I ask a question?" then proceeds to make a comment and pitch their product instead. But that's not isolated to HNLondon.
PS: Big shoutout to Dmitri and Stevie for the awesome events that they put together back in the day.
[1] https://twitter.com/HNLondon/with_replies
Comment · 4 years ago
+1 for OpenProject.
For small (sub 20 users) their hosted plan comes up to approx EUR1400 (total) per year. And IMO that's definitely worth paying for, instead of going down the self-hosting path once you considered the costs of self-hosting it i.e. (maintainer's hourly rate * 2 * 12) + hardware hosting costs.