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Re:Telefunc: Remote Functions instead of API on Sunday October 02, 2022 @04:24AM (#33054043)
SOAP for browser is finally here.
It's a job. There are others. If your team is worth its salt its members will be supportive, excited, and will yearn for your return.

With regards to time off in general, writing shit down is my best advice. Get people used to searching some knowledge store before asking you. That way you won't be missed when it comes to explaining to individuals what you've already told fifteen people in separate one on one conversations. You're left to innovate.

Re:Tell HN: I interviewed my dad before he died on Thursday August 04, 2022 @07:24PM (#32349576)
I thought about doing this with my mum.

The problem was she was scared of dying I couldn't broach the subject with her. She left me a bunch of decisions and no stories for my kids.

I wonder if the type of parent who consents to an interview has probably instilled in you a wonderfully inquisitive attitude. My mum did for me to be fair - she just hid her lack of one from me during my childhood.

In fact she hid lots from me. She was not one for looking back. She said my dad left me and never looked back, and neither did she.

As I went through her stuff I found books and books photos. I found every card I've ever written her. I felt like I didn't know her fully.

If I had my time again, I'd push her for the bits I didn't know. Early relationships. How she felt about becoming a grandmother not 1 or 2 but 3 times. Stories not for me, but for my kids. "this is your nana. Not the pictures or the Xmas toys. The imperfect person who hid her idiosyncrasies and addictions from her son so he'd grow up without them"

My wife and I have no remaining parents, so missed this boat.

Final tip: find out passwords, funeral songs, emails of friends, etc, as its way hard once they've gone.

Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @03:26AM (#31750078)
My mother was a billionaire apologist.

The world would get on just fine without coinbase, stripe, meta.

$100m is an insane amount of money. Enough to buy anything you want. If people sell things for over $100m they'll soon bring their prices down.

Re:Using a catch-all domain is a mistake on Thursday June 02, 2022 @04:49AM (#31592771)
I do this and it keeps my main inbox nice and clean.

In the case where I have to reply, Google allow you to set up a from email which you can use from your spam trap account. So if you need to send an email as [email protected] it's a few clicks away

Re:JEP 425: Virtual Threads (Preview) on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:08PM (#30937437)
Is there a concerted effort within the Java community to avoid async/await semantics? Genuinely curious whether a discussion has been had.
Re:Authorization in a Microservices World on Friday April 01, 2022 @04:25PM (#30882930)
The best I've ever had it is using an API gateway that destructured a token into headers. Back end services used MTLS. This meant testing Auth was as simple as adding headers. No server needed to be up, no jwt nonsense needed to be mocked. I can't recommend enough keeping this nonsense at the boundaries.
Re:No_color on Sunday February 27, 2022 @04:47AM (#30486775)
I usually handle this inside code. Colour output operators make loss difficult to read. An associated commit and message is a sign to developers that the software runs in environments without colour consoles. Finding a way to shoehorn an environment variable into a build pipeline feels like an antipattern.
Re:A toaster from 1949 is still smarter than any sold today on Thursday November 25, 2021 @12:23PM (#29343148)
Does it do crumpets?!
It's possible your comment brought the site down?
Re:Free Stuff for Developers on Monday June 21, 2021 @01:32PM (#27581454)
Repair JSON missed a trick when they failed to call it Shitty Print
Re:Don’t use environment variables for configuration on Thursday April 01, 2021 @02:59AM (#26657385)
Moving from tokenising files to end vars was one of the best choices I ever made. Life is sooooo much easier using env vars
I'm not sure I'd heard of fun before his death. It sounds sad, and somewhat of a loss.

Nice, evenly and non-judgemental written piece.