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Why the divorce? DataGrip has been the best database-gui that I've ever used.

Asking for a friend: is there anything similar to this in the UK?

The recent Universal Paperclips submission reminded me of this excellent game.

This reminds me of another excellent time sink game: http://clickingbad.nullism.com/

Here is a video I found that explains the concept in a visual way that finally made sense to me after reading the release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN7lyxC11n0

There's an active incident:

    We're experiencing an elevated level of API errors and are currently looking into the issue.
    Jun 24, 2021 - 14:04 PDT

https://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/3710db57k6n8

Yeah, wow! 27 submissions altogether. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=joshworth.com%2Fdev%2Fpixelspa...

I think this is a problem with fastly.com

edit: Their status page now shows degraded performance: https://status.fastly.com

Thank you for this link. That was incredibly interesting. I won't spoil the twist at the end, suffice to say that I now am hoping for something like that in a scifi movie.

NoblePro | Senior mobile developer | Full-time | Remote, UK | https://www.noble-pro.com

I'm the CTO at NoblePro. We're building a tech team, and looking for folks who want to help us hack on treadmills, bluetooth, and the software that connects it all.

This stack is probably not something that most people have given much thought, but fitness-tech has exploded, and we're doing some super interesting things.

NoblePro has been around for 3 years, we're self funded, and profitable. With this round of hiring, we're hoping to build the tech team to launch our apps and platform globally over the next 2 years.

If that sounds interesting, I'd really like to chat to you about it.

Please visit: https://apply.workable.com/noblepro-ltd/j/1F7B8897B9/ or get in touch with me directly: willem at [domain]

And to the post on HN about the article yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26943408

I feel like the biggest piece of this announcement was buried at the bottom of the article:

> We're excited to announce Tobias Koppers, the author of webpack, has joined the Next.js team at Vercel.

https://expo.io does things in a similar vein.

Came here to say this. JetBrains Mono is my favourite code-font. The ligatures are excellent too.

Just a note that the solution proposed here will not work with JavaScript disabled.

What this entire thought is missing is that you need to have a idea you're saying yes to.

This is about prioritisation more than it's about focus.

TIL: o'clock means "of the clock".

Frankly, I wouldn't collate any of my data on this service.

I'm not advocating for anything specific here. :) And frankly, I take your point and actually agree wholeheartedly. The status quo of data mining and tracking is terrible, and leads to exactly what you're talking about: people changing their behaviour (not just online) because they feel like they're being watched[1].

I realise I'm not providing a solution. I wouldn't even feel confident at pointing a general direction. I'm merely pointing out that I don't believe the right way to solve this problem of personal data aggregation is consolidating all this personal meta-data into a single spot.

[1] https://www.socialcooling.com/

You make a good point. PDS solutions aim to get rid of "big data", and centralised data lakes that can be queried. It's not inherently a bad idea, but:

> a nicely structured datadump is not particularly valuable if it's just one person

This very much depends on the person.

Of course. :) I don't mean to patronise, and I hope you're not trolling, but I feel like you're missing the point a little. Using a "cloud" to store potentially sensitive documents or information is not comparable to collating your digital movements, usage history, habits, purchase information, etc.

It's not just about controlling the information, it's about collection in the first place. I want to store photos, and I need to store documents that are sensitive in a place that I can access them easily, and securely. These things are important to me. To me – individually – because they relate to me.

Collecting information about my online activity is not important to me. It is, however, important to advertisers, data brokers, and other players on some arbitrary scale of nefariousness.

I understand this, and there's an argument to be made about ethics here.. but, these companies do have a non-trivial amount of work to do to collate the data into profiles. There are also ways of making the attribution of this data to an individual more difficult for these companies.

This goes against my internal logic about personal privacy. The solution to online privacy and data mining is not collecting it all in a central repository, it is not collecting it at all.

Further, and I realise this will come off as alarmist, but, what then if the software suffers a 0-day? All that data will then be nicely aggregated for a bad actor. Somehow, knowing that there is perhaps a non trivial amount of work to be done to collect data and compile a profile from many different sources feels safer than putting it all in one place.

Adding an 'f' in front of the word 'mining', just to make all the words in the list alliterate. :) It's pretty funny to me, and shows the author is just ever so slightly making fun of the compulsiveness and repetitiveness in the game.

> farming, fishing, foraging, fighting, and _fmining_

This little easter egg really got me. Well done.

I've never played, but having seen some of the community interaction [1] that goes on with the developer (@ConcernedApe)[2], it occupies a strange little heartwarming place in my head.

[1] https://twitter.com/ConcernedApe/status/1341187588082683905 [2] https://twitter.com/ConcernedApe

This feels like a scramble to recoup some lost trust, and I imagine that they're hoping the media storm passes and the exodus stops. I really just hope Signal can get up and running again soon.