WingNews logo WingNews GitHub [2]

reid's comments

reid | 4 months ago | on: Tell HN: Azure outage

Portal and Azure CDN are down here in the SF Bay Area. Tenant azureedge.net DNS A queries are taking 2-6 seconds and most often return nothing. I got a couple successful A response in the last 10 minutes.

Edit: As of 9:19 AM Pacific time, I'm now getting successful A responses but they can take several seconds. The web server at that address is not responding.

reid | 4 months ago | on: Tell HN: Azure outage

This is impacting the Azure CDN at azureedge.net. DNS A records for azureedge.net tenants are taking 2-6 seconds and often return nothing.

reid | 9 months ago | on: Mikeal Rogers has died

Many great memories with Mikeal at the first few NodeConfs, walking around Portland, debates over coffee in Oakland, and NodeConf Adventure at Walker Creek Ranch. Very thankful for what Mikeal has done in the JS community. So sad to hear of his passing.

reid | 9 months ago | on: Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens

Parking lot is completely full. I parked nearby and walked over. They’re giving away free mugs today with Micro Center Silicon Valley on it.

Huge Ubiquiti display and demo area. I didn’t buy anything today because the checkout line was too long. My daughter liked the Magna Tile selection in the toys area.

Really great to have this much selection nearby.

reid | 1 year ago | on: ESPHome

Made a time clock with ESPHome and a M5StickC. Clock in and out. Home Assistant sends the time to a Google Sheet. Super reliable.

reid | 3 years ago | on: Freeshow: A Free and Open-source ProPresenter alternative

Awesome! As someone who uses a lot of ProPresenter this looks really impressive.

The calendar view looks like a useful innovation.

Thanks for sharing it! I use Looks, NDI, and Resi in ProPresenter most of the time yet I am eager to see where this project goes for all kinds of new productions.

reid | 3 years ago | on: My worst tech decision: A G Suite account for personal use

Yes. I made the mistake of setting up Google Home with my “Google Apps for Your Domain” account I used since around 2009. Now I’m married and can’t add my wife. It’s been years and no changes: it still doesn’t work.

reid | 3 years ago | on: Yahoo admits mangling e-mail (2002)

I don’t know the policy for email account retention for AT&T Internet email, so I can’t speak to anything about it…

But for your last two questions: Yes, it’s Yahoo Mail under the hood! That is still the case. Yahoo provides email hosting services for AT&T Internet users under a contract between Yahoo and AT&T.

However, all customer support for AT&T Yahoo Mail is handled by AT&T, so the best resource for help for those accounts would be AT&T customer service or their help site: https://www.att.com/support/topic/email-support/

reid | 3 years ago | on: Yahoo admits mangling e-mail (2002)

Full disclosure: I work on Yahoo Mail, but I’m not speaking for my employer.

Yes, this can happen after 12 months of inactivity for free accounts. Policy: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN2018.html

For context, Gmail has a policy which allows for deletion after 2 years of inactivity: https://www.google.com/gmail/about/policy/

I’m sorry the service didn’t meet your expectation, but for others here who are curious, there are some options for keeping email storage active! These days there are paid Yahoo Mail accounts available which retain email for as long as you have the subscription active. (Or you can log in once a year with a free account.)

You can also use a IMAP app to save a local archive of all of your email. This works for all accounts, even free ones! More: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN5033.html

reid | 3 years ago | on: Some CyberPower UPSes may pose a fire hazard

CyberPower OR700LCDRM1U.

I was replacing hard drives every few months until I used a UPS. Once I replaced all the drives I’ve been good ever since. UPS is essential for a NAS.

Been using this model since 2019. Just replaced the batteries for the first time this week after the UPS threw code E02 and had a very hot battery compartment. The cells were bad and there was no battery backup possible anymore. Things cooled down a lot after the battery was replaced and the battery backup works again. I’m happy with it.

It connects over USB to the Synology to tell the server to shut down on low battery.

reid | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What should I bring up during salary negotiation as a junior developer?

I believe Walter’s comment (sibling to yours) is a common experience because there isn’t a solid relationship with superiors before the negotiation takes place.

Building relationships takes time. Restarting new relationships every couple years via job hopping can impede such a conversation and make it feel more transactional than mutually beneficial. Since short tenure is more common, this may be another reason Walter finds his colleagues’ experience common.

When negotiating, I knew I was solving the right problems for my superiors and I wanted to keep working to solve their problems but for wages which were more competitive. My bosses understood, wanted the same, and used the offers from other companies to make the case for a raise or promotion.

I would not advise going into a negotiation simply with the notion “I can get paid more over here.” That wasn’t the point of the negotiation. If you go about it that way I believe it would be damaging. A conversation only about pay feels transactional which is damaging to these kinds of long-term relationships. Instead, I was truly desiring to continue my good working relationship with my bosses, but for more pay, and the negotiation was the way for both of us to win.

Over a long time, relationship building snowballs and can be even more effective. The last time I did this after working at the same place for a decade, I got a call from the company’s CTO a few hours after my talk with my manager. He was traveling on business but made time for me to discuss my concern since he knew my work. The call was the start of a satisfying new career direction in a new department.

page 1
more