jcwayne's comments

jcwayne | 2 months ago | on: Show HN: HookVerify – Webhook delivery visibility for production systems

Thank you for actually showing a base price for an enterprise tier.

The sparklines on Downdetector's homepage can't be compared to each other. Spikes that look similar can actually have a difference of several orders of magnitude. Only meta's services have truly large spikes.

jcwayne | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Quickwit – OSS Alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog

I find presenting this as an open source alternative to commercial solutions a little disingenuous when any commercial use of it also requires a paid license. Like many other cases it seems like the AGPL is functioning more as a trial license.

jcwayne | 2 years ago | on: A Beginner's Guide to eBPF

The parody here is so perfect, they even created the technology they don't bother to define.

jcwayne | 3 years ago | on: Low Earth Orbit Visualization

Thank you for this. While the visualization is useful/interesting, it frustrates me how often similar visuals are used in news stories about space junk. Yes, it's a problem, but using visuals like this without proper explanation misrepresents it terribly.

jcwayne | 3 years ago | on: How the SQLite virtual machine works

I'm curious how many companies building for >1M concurrent users have even a tenth of that in reality.

jcwayne | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Extensible OSS Retool Alternative

I'm sure it's not a popular opinion, but I consider AGPL to be more source-available trialware than OSS. Even for strictly internal tooling, I hesitate to use AGPL licensed code.

jcwayne | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: DataStation – App to easily query, script, and visualize data

Overall, this looks great. My only concern the the project file being a SQLite db. I'd really like to have something to (usefully) put in version control.

jcwayne | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Pxl.to – A serverless link shortener with no limits and no downtime

> It's largely free

Looks like it's $30/mo for a useful plan.

jcwayne | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: HomeSheet – easy-to-use home inventory software

The ability to add location and an Alexa skill to allow me to ask Alexa where my foo is would be great.

jcwayne | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Tempchan – Throwaway Discussion Boards

Would be nice if there were a way to differentiate all of the anonymous users. Personally I like Google's random animal name approach.

jcwayne | 4 years ago | on: How to programmatically find out if computer is on

Seems like a reasonable compiler would inline the most likely implementation as 1. So, while technically undefined, it's safe to assume that it will 'return' 1 regardless of the actual on/off state of the computer.

jcwayne | 4 years ago | on: MoviePass settles FTC allegations that they limited usage, exposed user data

Add in a startup fee and it would be a gym membership.

jcwayne | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: ArcaneVM – A Fully Homomorphically Encrypted Brainfuck Virtual Machine

The level of evil here is inspiring.

jcwayne | 4 years ago | on: Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic

I prefer "walking petri dish".

jcwayne | 5 years ago | on: John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT

"It's NFTs all the way down."

jcwayne | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: NudeNet – Nudity classification and exposed part detection in images

I don't think it would take much to get funding and political support with exactly that pitch.

jcwayne | 5 years ago | on: U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation

It seems that what they've ruled is not that the treaty must be honored, but that only the federal government gets to decide not to honor it. Absent a specific decision to that effect, the treaty is still in force which limits the state's authority.

jcwayne | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Reclaim – an adaptive calendar app that plans time for your routines

I'd love to see todoist integration. The "find me 4 hours to do this" feature looks like a natural fit for this. Also, any plans for a public API?

jcwayne | 5 years ago | on: Oppose the Earn IT Act

With failure to pay eventually landing you in jail.