ngerrity's comments

On: “This is not the computer for you”

[ngerrity]

Well said. Artificial constraints often breed creativity and for younger folks getting into computers, these Macbook Neos seem like a great option.

On: Making an iPad case for blind to “See” with touch

[ngerrity]

Interesting idea and an entertaining and informative video. Subscribed.

On: The social obligation to be bad at things

[ngerrity]

I don't think there's anything wrong with not wanting to participate in silly games like that all the time, but if you never try to step out of your comfort zone in a public setting, I think you're missing out on an opportunity to grow as a person. You might just have fun doing something you thought was stupid or you thought you would hate.

[kubanczyk → ngerrity]

Ahh hello there, good'ol FOMO. Let me show you a little trick:

I don't think there's anything wrong with not wanting to participate in silly games like that all the time, and if you never try to step out of your comfort zone in a public setting, I don't think you're missing out on an opportunity to grow as a person.

[cutemonster → kubanczyk]

Not fomo IMO. Rather, experimenting and discovering new things, incl about oneself.

[leroy_masochist → cutemonster]

That can happen outside of attention-seeking exercises organized by extroverts, FYI.

[kanakka → ngerrity]

Basically Bandit algorithm: balancing between exploitation (doing same things that already work) vs exploration (try out new things)

On: Design Doc: Use JavaScript instead of TypeScript for internal Deno Code

[ngerrity]

linting wouldn't, but if you're writing unit tests, that kind of problem would be caught pretty quickly.

[mikewhy → ngerrity]

This also works in TypeScript's favor. Meaning you can skip writing tests that simply check you're giving the correct props.

[nailer → mikewhy]

I don't think anyone /does/ write tests that simply check they're giving the correct props. They write unit tests, and props are part of that.

[eyelidlessness → nailer]

This also works in TypeScript's favor. You get test coverage which you would never write. A "simple" component that doesn't have any logic and doesn't warrant a test still checks its prop types, and you don't have to do anything other than make the compiler pass.

On: Never ever run directly against Node.js in production. Maybe

[ngerrity]

Pretty good article. Monit is another nice utility to keep applications and services monitored and running on *nix. It has some cool features, and some may find it easier than systemd.

On: Show HN: StreamE – Cross-platform live-stream viewing service

[ngerrity]

I wrote StreamE because I was tired of constantly switching back and forth between Twitch, Mixer, and YouTube to watch the live streamers I wanted to watch. StreamE lets you search for, follow, and watch live streamers on all the major platforms. I searched around to see if there was anything similar, and found a couple browser extensions, that both seemed to want OAuth verification, which I didn't want to mess with.

StreamE has some unique features, like a universal search across all the major streaming platforms, and a custom following feature as well. Follow streamers you like, and your list of followers is updated and stored in your browser/URL for easy bookmarking and sharing. The site requires no logins or signups, shows live indicators next to followed streamers, is mobile friendly, and is dark mode by default.

I tried to keep StreamE as simple as possible, it is written in vanilla JS, HTML, and CSS. I use the lz-string library (should be found through a quick Google) to encode the JSON follower data inside the browser and URL. The website hits a couple AWS Lambda endpoints written in NodeJS, which use the various Twitter, Mixer, and YouTube APIs for some of the site functions.