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blzaugg | 2 years ago | on: EFF Call to Action: Tell Congress to Stop 'Kids Online Safety Act'

The parental controls on Nintendo Switch are a joke. Barely any options to be useful.

For example, try blocking a specific app, like YouTube.

I think that's one a the biggest problems, when a company adds parental controls. It's usually minimal effort. Just enough so they can say "see, we give parents control". It's a PR move.

blzaugg | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: What companies have blown you away with their customer support?

Two game controller companies. Garvis (1998) & Mad Catz (2004)

My Gravis Xterminator's cable was coming out of the controller body. They shipped me a new one, and the box came with a return label. All free of charge.

My Mad Catz PS2 controller's tumbsticks had some stick-drift. They wouldn't replace the whole unit (out of warranty?) but did send me replacement parts for free. The rep. said they'd sent almost any replacement part for free.

blzaugg | 5 years ago | on: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

I've always found it oxymoronic that "adult words" or "mature humor" are established when we are in our [pre]teens. These things typically don't have origins after coming-of-age.

blzaugg | 5 years ago | on: Let's do AWS whiteboard sessions – I'll review your architecture, live

I'd like to see some general best practices/architecture. Something that would fit a large range of web applications, not just the one I'm making.

For context, below are some details of what I plan to make.

This web application will have: - user provided content - login/sign-up - email notifications (sign-up, user comments, etc) - limited number of users at the beginning (less than 100 per day). But I want it architected in a way that allows me to scale up when the time comes. - Standard web application security patterns - Standard web application performance patterns (load balancers, containers, CDNs, etc) - Secrets will be stored in Vault (or similar)

My planned full-stack is: - Vue - Vuetify - PWA - SSR - Apollo GraphQL + Hasura + PostgreSQL - Node or Python

blzaugg | 7 years ago | on: Making an emperor bed

> I have no write-up, so probably not a terribly interesting comment.

That would require a write-up.

blzaugg | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who are some unsung heroes in open source that need more support?

Jon Neal[0]

You can thank him for: normalize.css[1], sanitize.css, SVG4Everybody, HTML5 Shiv[4], and the yayQuery Podcast theme music[5]. And many more[6][7].

[0] http://jonathantneal.github.io/ [1] http://nicolasgallagher.com/about-normalize-css/#overview [2] https://github.com/csstools/sanitize.css [3] https://github.com/jonathantneal/svg4everybody [4] https://github.com/aFarkas/html5shiv#who-can-i-get-mad-at-no... [5] https://jonneal.bandcamp.com/track/yayquery [6] https://github.com/himynameisdave/postcss-plugins/blob/maste... [7] https://www.npmjs.com/~jonathantneal

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