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Oh really? Cool, thank you very much! I will.
Each avatar has 3 layers: background, foreground (head), and text (single letter).
The background code chooses from one of the background SVGs (gradients in different directions with color placeholders) and then selects colors to put into the SVG. The whole things is meant to be easy to extend to fit your needs.
My understanding with Gravatar is that your email is hashed in order to select an avatar you have already uploaded, but is not used in customizing the avatar. Is that right?
What did you have in mind?
Also, what error do you get on Magicell? There are some geo-restrictions in place, so I am curious what you saw. Thanks!
Interesting, thanks.
I was thinking perhaps something in the browser's WebRTC stack might have some kind of voice isolation in it for video conferencing too. I'll investigate.
How do you do at other parts of the interview? The background interview where you talk about a technical project from your past, or the behavioral interview where you talk about situations you have been in before and how you reacted?
If you are feeling confident after those, and it is just the live-coding session, I'd suggest being upfront about it and asking for a different type of assessment. Ask for a take home assignment, or ask to be left alone to complete the task, and then review the code with the interviewer where you can explain all of the tradeoffs you made and why. The better companies are open to making accommodations for candidates, so if they are not open to this, that is a sign of how rigged the thinking at that company may be.
On the other hand, if you are struggling with the other interview types as well, you may need to dip into some psychological tricks to get your head in the right mindset. One counter-intuitive thing to do is to tell yourself that you do not want this job. If you can convince yourself to believe that, it will lower the pressure you may be putting on yourself and open you mind to think more clearly.
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pas256 on Thursday July 17, 2025 @08:05PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I am making a 2 player game where each player uses their phone as a microphone. It works well when players don't talk at the same time, but there is a big problem when players are talking simultaneously. It turns out the iPhone microphone is really good at picking up everyone's voice who is in the same room.My AudioConstraints has echoCancellation: true and noiseSuppression: true, but I think...
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pas256 on Thursday July 17, 2025 @06:40PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/pas256/default-avatar-generator
After your team has signed up for a new SaaS or service, I find it bland when everyone has the same generic, grey avatar. I'm a visual person and find it helpful to distinguish users by colors in their avatars, but many people never change from the default avatar. So I thought to myself, why not generate interesting avatars for users when they sign up.The result is this little gem. It randomly...
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Hi, I'm a Fractional CTO and player-coach for hire with 25 years of startup experience. I've been a CTO/VPE and worked across industries including B2B SaaS, mobile communications, consumer live-streaming, video production and developer tooling.
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pas256 on Monday March 03, 2025 @12:35PM
from the answersforaws.com dept.
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, TailwindCSS, Hotwire
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petersankauskas/
Email: pas256 @ gmail
Very experienced Rails engineer currently working on my own thing and open to part-time contracting work. Other than application dev, I can also automate CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions deploying to AWS.
Couldn’t do Master of Puppets
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pas256 on Friday March 01, 2024 @02:00PM
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pas256 on Thursday February 29, 2024 @03:56PM
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pas256 on Monday February 05, 2024 @11:44AM
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pas256 on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @02:13PM
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I wasn't sure it was possible to put everything you needed to know about AWS on a single page, and it probably isn't, but what an amazing start. Well done folks.
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pas256 on Monday August 01, 2016 @11:44PM
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JSON for humans is called yaml.
Good question. I'd like to know if going with AMEX is still as limiting as it used to be. I recall many restaurants not accepting it and only VISA and Mastercard.
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pas256 on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @05:29PM
from the mjknox.com dept.
That's true, but the S3 bucket limit, just like the VPC security group limit, is fixed at 100, even if you are Netflix.
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Edit: Wow, what a difference a day makes.
So many companies building the same stuff internally, and a great deal of it non-core services.
If that happened, hit the Guest Mode button. I don't know what causes Google to push a logout event in some cases, but it does.
Thanks to phibit, that is now fixed
Merged and deployed. Thank you!
My pleasure. Hope you find it useful. It was certainly fun to write.
Posted by
pas256 on Thursday May 21, 2015 @06:24PM
from the show-hn dept.
I'll be talking about this at Gluecon this week. You are right, it is a little broken right now.
The number of parallels between Go and Ruby keeps me entertained. Isn't this just rvm and bundler all over again?