afitnerd's comments

On: A 20-year-old small company

[afitnerd]

On top of that, y’all are great in the community. You’ve hosted my tech meetup before and I know you host others as well.

[hank1931 → afitnerd]

Thanks for the comment. To think, a Hacker News person was in our offices. How cool!!

On: Show HN: Habby – A straightforward bullet journal ...

[afitnerd]

Really like the aesthetic. I’d love to be able to set custom text for a yes/no habit. Myself and a bunch of friends do daily “RPM” - read, pray, meditate. I’d capture that at one yes/no habit

On: 1989 Networking: NetWare 386

[afitnerd]

I set up a local job recruiters network with netware 386 running over arcnet (2 mbps) in 1989.

On: Use a work journal

[afitnerd]

I use the resettable rocket wave notebook for my work journal.

Aside from reinforcing ideas and helping figure things out on paper, it’s perfect to jump back into a task that’s been interrupted.

The other trick with it is to keep a running todo list from the back page in.

The moment a disruptive thought pops into my head that I need to revisit, I flip to the back, capture it, and flip back to where I was.

On: Ask HN: What single line of code would you put on ...

[afitnerd]

Bash fork bomb. In fact, I have the tshirt.

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Good explanation here: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/understanding-bash-fork-bomb/

On: Real-Time Settlers of Catan

[afitnerd]

Tokaido duo Splendor duel A little wordy Patchwork Jaipur Sky Team

On: TOTP Authenticator for PalmOS

[afitnerd]

This is cool. I wrote a TOTP authenticator for the ArduBoy: https://developer.okta.com/blog/2018/08/30/build-one-time-pa...

[pjerem → afitnerd]

Arduboy is reeaaaally something I’m trying not to buy because it looks to be so much fun but I know It’ll die in my unused gadgets drawer.

On: What Is OIDC?

[afitnerd]

Friends don’t let friends build auth. Use open source, standards compliant solutions if you don’t trust a company. Just don’t reinvent the wheel.

[richbell → afitnerd]

There are plenty of solutions you can run in-house like Keycloak or PingFederate. Not using Okta or Azure AD doesn't meant hand-crafting your own tooling.

On: Don't waste money on a math coprocessor they said

[afitnerd]

One of my first paid jobs was in the summer of my college freshman year, 1988, I did some consulting work for an insurance salesman. He had an ibm 8086 based machine and it was taking 15 hours to run an insurance estimate.

I got him an 8087 math coprocessor and it reduced the time to about 10 minutes. I think it cost around $500 at the time.

I made my first $50 in tech, an his business was demonstrably improved. What a thrill!

On: Everything advertised on social media is overprice...

[afitnerd]

This is a really great summary (with reference links) of the problem.

As an anecdotal experience that supports this: I’ve ordered products from Instagram ads exactly twice, with the same experience in each case: a higher quality, lower price alternative was available elsewhere. And, in both cases, the products shipped from overseas and took weeks to arrive.