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Re:Ask and Show HN: Ever coded for love? Willing to share? on Saturday August 08, 2020 @06:03PM (#24095611)
My gf at the time and I were looking to move to NYC for school. Apartment hunting isn't super fun - especially in a place neither of us were super familiar with that also happened to be NYC. AND we were going to attend separate campuses.

So naturally I wrote a script that scraped Craigslist for listings (1) in our budget, (2) calculated our individual commute times, (3) filtered the results so that commutes were under an hour or something and (4) posted the listings to a Slack channel with all the info I could scrape. It was working perfectly until she dumped me several days later.

Same - I was doing a bit of contract work on the side when I quit. Did some traveling (briefly) and then ended up making those gigs my job. Haven't even touched my FU/1-year-savings money yet after almost a year...
Re:The Common Lisp Condition System – Upcoming Book on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @09:50AM (#23845181)
This seems really valuable for development, but is there a way to use this in production systems? Say a user hits a bug in a CL web app. Could I write an exception handler that (1) immediately returns a 500 error page and (2) persists an image somewhere so that I could fire it up later and have the debugger ready at the offending point?