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There was a period where my dentist would always ask do you floss in a check-up. They haven't asked for years at this point.
Re:Ask HN: What do you self-host? on Sunday October 13, 2019 @06:31AM (#21239637)
Intel NUC7i5BNK with coreos running the following in a single node docker swarm:

  - Traefik (reverse proxy)
  - Git Annex
  - Gitea
  - Drone (CI)
  - Docker Registry
  - Clair (security scanning for docker images)
  - Selfoss (RSS reader)
  - Grafana / Prometheus / Alertmanager (overkill really)
  - A few custom applications...
Turris Omnia running transmission under lxc
Re:Ask HN: Have you ever had an existential crisis? on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @03:54AM (#20342456)
Every morning when I do a standup.
Re:Why some of the best developers keep quitting on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @12:52PM (#14971115)
London is its own bubble. The part of the UK I'm in, £35k is the going rate for a senior software developer.
Re:Window Maker 0.95.8 released on Saturday March 11, 2017 @03:15PM (#13847009)
That's my worry with Wayland. Everything will be designed around GNOME and KDE and it will be difficult to run "alternative" WMs.
Re:Suckless conference 2015 on Sunday November 15, 2015 @06:41AM (#10569334)
Seriously? The first 2 paragraphs of the home page:

Home of dwm, dmenu and other quality software with a focus on simplicity, clarity, and frugality.

Read more about our philosophy and join us on the mailing list.

Would you say the same about the BSDs, who have rewritten software because it was under the GPL?
Re:Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Review on Friday May 22, 2015 @09:09AM (#9587995)
Not true unfortunately. I've looked into it quite a bit.
Re:The days are long but the decades are short on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @03:08AM (#9456840)
Its difficult to compartmentalize your job so that the negatively doesn't seep into all parts of your life.