jessejmc's comments

jessejmc | 4 years ago | on: Docker container security cheat sheet

Thank you for the article "Best Practices Around Production Ready Web Apps with Docker Compose". I've been referring to it since seeing the original HN submission [0]. Something like Kubernetes was overkill for my needs, especially since Docker Compose is already a part of my development workflow.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27359081

edit: wrong link

jessejmc | 4 years ago | on: Why we're blind to the color blue

Don't know about Yves Klein specifically but remember seeing this video from Vox:

"Why these all-white paintings are in museums and mine aren't" [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aGRHOpMRUg

jessejmc | 7 years ago | on: Syncthing graduation day

I've been using it with SyncTrayzor on Windows for a few years and have found it extremely reliable. Currently syncing 3 computers with ~ 10,500 files, 600 folders, and 280 GiB. It is set up for LAN only, as I don't have a use case for syncing on the go.

jessejmc | 7 years ago | on: Foundations of Animation

Drawabox has some great exercises and starts by teaching the mechanical skills necessary for drawing.

https://drawabox.com/

jessejmc | 8 years ago | on: Type 2 diabetes can be reversed with a low-calorie diet

Usually general fasting with only water consumed. Many practitioners will allow unadulterated coffee or tea. I haven't seen much evidence to indicate that dry fasting provides additional health benefits over water fasting.

jessejmc | 10 years ago | on: Data is a Toxic Asset

FastMail has an option to use subdomain addressing[0]. Instead of [email protected], it can be [email protected].

[0] https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/addressing.html

jessejmc | 10 years ago | on: Data is a Toxic Asset

The right way to solve this is that Visa and Master Card need to develop a standard to make super easy to generate a unique payment number everytime you make an online purchase. Then that should be built in as a browser extension or component. So I browse to a site, click to pay with my Visa card, and Visa automatically generates a unique code for that site and fills it in on the form.

Blur[0] from Abine has this in their premium version. I have used it, and overall it worked well, but I had some password syncing issues and stopped using it.

A final key innovation would be if email providers would make it super-easy to generate aliases per site. I do this myself manually with fastmail, but if there was a simple browser extension that would automatically create an alias and fill in a form, that would be great, because I could have a unique address that all funnels into one place, for everything I sign up to.

Something like this can be done on FastMail using a catchall alias[1], but it requires a custom domain, and the domain could be used to link all the accounts to you.

I'm experimenting with it, but what happens when I forget a password and the email I used to sign up for it? A password manager is an option for that, but they have their own problems.

Edit: FastMail also has subdomain addressing[2]. I believe it works with all of the FastMail provided domains.

[0] https://www.abine.com/index.html [1] https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/alias-catchall.html [2] https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/addressing.html

jessejmc | 10 years ago | on: Soylent 2.0

Check out BARF (biologically appropriate raw food, bones and raw food). It's possible to formulate the meals yourself, but it's hard to get the nutrients right. Several companies offer a balanced raw refrigerated/frozen product.

We had concerns about bacteria from the raw meat, so we feed a freeze dried raw food (Stella and Chewy's[0], no affiliation, just a happy customer). It can be expensive, costing around $5 per day to maintain a 15 lb dog, but our dog is a picky eater and loves it.

Raw food will most likely result in smaller, firmer stools. They're easier to pick up, and they dry out and deteriorate faster.

[0] Stella and Chewy had a recent recall due to listeriosis. Fortunately, none of our lots were affected.

jessejmc | 11 years ago | on: Django Community Survey

There is an Apache/mod_wsgi image from the mod_wsgi maintainer. It was pretty easy to set up, and Graham has more in depth documentation on his blog.

https://github.com/GrahamDumpleton/mod_wsgi-docker

I've been evaluating using uwsgi as a stand-alone server. I'm not sure how much load it would support, but I think it's possible get quite far with Django, sqlite, and uwsgi.

jessejmc | 12 years ago | on: SteamOS: It's here

This happened to me with Batman: Arkham Asylum. Not saying that the game was bug-ridden, but I couldn't get it to run on my computer.

I had previously spent thousands of dollars through Steam, and after they wouldn't refund a $5 sale, I quit buying games through them. I even mailed a letter to Gabe Newell at their corporate headquarters, and while this has worked successfully with other companies, I never received a reply.

I also won't buy games that require Steam activation, which sucks sometimes. Shadowrun Returns was one such game, but it looks like they now have it on GoG, so I have something to play this weekend.

I'd start doing business with them again for a $5 store credit and an apology, but I have little hope that will ever happen.

jessejmc | 12 years ago | on: Google 'down,' let's do an experiment

ISP: Comcast

Location: Acworth, GA

jessejmc | 13 years ago | on: Social login buttons aren't worth it

Guild Wars 2 is like this. I was trying to use the same password for two accounts and received “Unavailable password. You or someone else has used it before."

jessejmc | 14 years ago | on: A small fast and cute web framework in Python.

Bottle supports Python 3 (as does CherryPy, Pyramid, and Tornado), while Flask currently doesn't. Depending on project requirements, this may or may not be important.

jessejmc | 14 years ago | on: Do we own our Steam games?

This happened to me twice. Both times I asked for a refund and Valve refused.

I was quite insistent and even mailed and faxed a letter to their corporate headquarters. This strategy has worked with other companies, but I never heard back from Valve.

Needless to say I quit "purchasing" games from them. They lost a loyal customer that had spent thousands of dollars with them over a $5 sale item.

jessejmc | 14 years ago | on: Maxing out your Dropbox referrals (how I got 16GB for less than $10)

http://db.tt/nVCbbbzL Thanks.

jessejmc | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Buying domains for side projects

How did you find your article writer?

jessejmc | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is the most profitable way to self-publish e-books?

6) Make sure you have an ISBN so you control your metadata.

Could you go into more detail? I understand what an ISBN is, but why is it important for self publishing ebooks?

jessejmc | 15 years ago | on: Novell: Why we don't need a third Linux distro

http://www.linode.com/about/ - In the Interesting Statistics box.

  48% of deployments are Ubuntu
  24% of deployments are Debian
  16% of deployments are CentOS
  4.3% of deployments are Fedora
  3.1% of deployments are Gentoo

jessejmc | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: I want to start a clothing company.

This is the kind of post that makes HN awesome. A person can ask for help and get a response from someone experienced in that area.

jessejmc | 15 years ago | on: WSGI is now Python 3-friendly

Does this process really work? Are standards written and then products are built to those standards, or are products built and then the standards are created from those working products?

I've been considering a web app in Python 3, but with ZeroMQ bindings and Mongrel2, WSGI isn't even on my radar any more.