Pym's comments

On: I Broke My MacBook User Profile by Deleting a Single Folder

[Pym]

I have been doing this since years and never had a problem... The author is blaming the system while he made a mistake when he tried to create the symlink.

Also he wrote "SimLink command" in the article. PEBKAC here :)

On: Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?

[Pym]

Same.

On: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2019)

[Pym]

  Location: N/A
  Remote: Only
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: #1 SwiftUI #2 Ruby #3 Go 
  Résumé/CV: https://bit.ly/2xpo2M2 // I had a website but I got tired of updating it
  Email: hnwwtbh@pymorris.com

Me: "Indie Hacker for 15+ years. I learned to program “for fun“, back in middle school. I've done everything by myself the first years (code/UI/website/analytics/tests!). Good old days! I've studied for a few years also – mostly to please the parents – and worked for and with a few startups, before creating my own code/consulting business. I closed it after 3½ years and now I'm traveling looking for what's next! :)"

Also me: I'm lazy so this is my exact LinkedIn About Section (that I just updated) \o/

Obviously I've done a lot of things all those years. Nowadays I'm really focused on iOS/SwiftUI, but I'm open!

On: Apple Sign In

[Pym]

I've been trying for some time to explain to my friends and family how a unique email/password + 2FA strategy is the best thing to do and how it would allow them to cut one in case it gets leaked. I guess I will just tell everybody about "Sign in with Apple" now, it will be easier.

[damnyou → Pym]

Will you also tell that to your Android or Windows using friends?

[Pym → damnyou]

Family is easy, I made them switch to Apple years ago and things have been a breeze since. Most of my friends using Android are also working in IT and are already using disposable/forwarding emails AFAIK. And... to be honest, I don't have friends using Windows :D

[aendruk → damnyou]

You can tell them it's a valuable category of service that they should want an analog of.

[notlukesky → Pym]

Take a look at SAASPASS Authenticator & Password Manager. It might meet your criteria of usability and security.

[eropple → notlukesky]

It's only polite to disclose that it's your company when you flog it like that.

On: SwiftUI

[Pym]

This reminds me Visual Studio back in 2001 when I discovered programming. Everything was so easy to prototype. I'm so happy to see Apple is taking this direction. Thank you guys!

[pplante → Pym]

I assume you mean Visual Basic, since Visual Studio was geared towards C/C++. Unless you actually used the MFC designer in VS5/6, which never really worked that well for me.

[Pym → pplante]

Actually I had VB6 in mind yes, but after a few months playing with it I made the switch to .NET (which was still in beta I believe at the time) so I was using Visual Studio ".NET" :)

On: Computer personality judgments more accurate than those made by humans: study

[Pym]

How do you feel about all the recommandations algorithms out there?

On: Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it less secure

[Pym]

It's not the first time that Verizon transfers an account like this...

Have a look at this other story from last month, "On Phone Numbers and Identity":

- https://medium.com/the-coinbase-blog/on-phone-numbers-and-id...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12597609

"It turns out the attacker was able to impersonate the employee on a call with Verizon"

On: Show HN: Jasper – Jekyll Port of Casper, the Medium-Like Ghost Default’s Theme

[Pym]

The choice was to match Casper as much as possible.

All Jasper's assets came from Casper, so I didn't chose any markup. I just reused Casper templates and translated those for Jekyll :)

Here are the original Casper files related to the two files you mentioned:

[1] https://github.com/TryGhost/Casper/blob/master/page.hbs#L25

[2] https://github.com/TryGhost/Casper/blob/master/index.hbs#L14...

As you can see if you compare both repositories, Jasper is a direct port of Casper but with less code repetitions!

BTW, here is the <article> you're looking for: https://github.com/Pym/Jasper/blob/gh-pages/_layouts/page.ht...

But I can't really answer that second question, I think you'll have to ask Casper authors:

https://github.com/TryGhost/Casper/blob/master/assets/css/sc...

On: Simplifying Docker on OS X

[Pym]

As a Dinghy user too, thank you! I will give a shot at Dlite right now :)

On: What are your biggest career regrets?

[Pym]

My first regret: having not the balls to do what I really wanted when I was a teenager.

I went to the university mostly to please my parents and to reassure them. I think that was my biggest mistake and I never really learned anything there.

My second regret: quitting. I'm getting bored very easily.

I'm thinking about 2 projects I started with friends where I left the ship eventually because I felt less motivated than them. Now they are both making tons of money and expansing there companies (while I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my life).

I also started a lot of projects which I will probably never release, but that's a pretty common thing.

The last one: working for someone else.

Studying led me on the logical path of getting a job. I first said to myself that it will be temporary and I listened to people who were telling me that I had to have a little experience before launching my own thing (and my advice is: don't listen to their bullshits and do what the fuck you really want to do). The truth is that when you get a job it consumes you and you can forget what your dreams are pretty quickly.

The counterbalancing point of this last regret is that I met extraordinary people while I was an employee, who are still very good friends nowadays. Actually the guy with whom I'm trying to build a startup right now is a former coworker of mine ;)