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lyptt | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Widget.json and Widget Construction Set

This looks awesome, unfortunately my attempts to use it result in showing some kind of placeholder blue image with a yellow and black corner, despite it appearing correctly in the list of available widgets. Hopefully that gets fixed soon.

lyptt | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?

I worked on an ad attribution service for a AAA games company and sold my soul in the process. It was neat maintaining a service that had 130m+ hits a day though, never had to deal with scaling like that since. Even neater was it was just two instances in production. Vertical scaling all the way!

lyptt | 3 years ago | on: Browsers, JSON, and FormData

From what I've seen, standards need to be picked up by browser vendors for them to become established.

Usually one vendor will implement it behind a flag, and if it gains traction then other vendors will follow suit before it becomes a generally available feature.

lyptt | 3 years ago | on: Just don’t

I've noticed it puts people on the defensive when I put 'just' in a sentence, even though I have no intent to disparage others with my words, so I make an effort to avoid using that word at all in any business setting. I've found it goes over much better when framing suggestions as 'Maybe you could try..." than 'Just do...'.

lyptt | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Have you set up a procedure to disclose your passwords in case of death?

I've set up a Legacy Contact with my Apple ID, since that provides access to all of my data, with a close friend in the event of my death. It was fairly easy to set everything up and I just had to provide their email address and send them a document produced after the setup was complete.

It's definitely given me peace of mind, as I wouldn't want them to be in a situation where my entire digital life was lost to them. They would also then be able to close all of my accounts and notify others of my passing.

lyptt | 3 years ago | on: Which emoji scissors close (2020)

I never much point in them as a kid. I'm left handed and I found it harder to use left handed scissors in my left hand than using right handed scissors in my right hand.

lyptt | 3 years ago | on: State of CSS

I'd love to see something like constraint layouts in pure CSS. It's an incredibly powerful tool when building user interfaces.

I was really excited to see GSS (http://gss.github.io), however at the time it was far too slow to be usable in real projects.

lyptt | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which web browser do you use and why?

I like it a lot. My main annoyance is when you have tons of bookmarks like I do the list freaks out and takes a good 5 seconds to fix itself. They're doing great work though, can't be easy trying to maintain parity with Safari while adding web extension support.

lyptt | 3 years ago | on: Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business

One option may be to investigate migrating rather than continuing to wait on Stripe's lack of customer service. When I was investigating Stripe Connect alternatives I found Square to be a good option. It was easy to migrate our billing code over and it acts essentially the same. The only key difference is the end user would access their own Square dashboard and manage their funds, rather than it all being managed by you.

lyptt | 4 years ago | on: Tell HN: There needs to be a “right to speak with a human”

I had an issue yesterday where Comcast forced me to go through their chatbot before I could speak to a human. That drove me crazy, because what I wanted to do I couldn't do on their website at all.

There needs to be some kind of escape hatch where you can get through to a real person. Companies that do stuff like this just make me want to stop dealing with them altogether.

lyptt | 4 years ago | on: Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes “2” into my stack? (2016)

From what I've seen, it's a common convention with game development to do non-blocking networking and update your network state every tick of your update loop.

It fits in nicely with how everything else works in your game loop, and means you don't need to deal with marshalling data to/from a dedicated thread.

lyptt | 4 years ago | on: An oral history of Bank Python

Reminds me of when I interviewed for an internship at Fidessa in London back in 2011-ish. I remember the team lead talking about an in-house programming language they used called FidessaC which used a mixture of C and SQL syntax.

Seems like a lot of the banking world like to invent their own tech stacks.

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