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santialbo | 11 days ago | on: Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language

> I took a shit

I just completed a high-impact, end-to-end internal optimization process. It’s all about streamlining the system, letting go of what no longer serves the mission, and making room for the next big deliverable. Grateful for the opportunity to decompress and refocus on the core objectives. #Efficiency #ProcessImprovement #GrowthMindset

santialbo | 1 year ago | on: We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger

Banning new Steam IDs on banned IPs seems too strict to me. Some ISP use CG-NAT or rotate IPs, meaning a single bad actor could harm many innocent players.

santialbo | 1 year ago | on: Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem

I see a lot of people here justifying the occupation of bank-owned homes as if that is okay. I hope you never have to experience living next to squatters, as among other things, you might end up paying for their exaggeratedly high utilities.

santialbo | 1 year ago | on: Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem

Occupation of bank-owned homes also causes a lot of trouble. I hope you never have to experience living next to squatters, as among other things, you might end up paying for their exaggeratedly high utilities.

santialbo | 2 years ago | on: Zigbee and Z-Wave are the best part of my smart home

Try having more that 40-50 devices connected to your home router and you will see devices disconnecting randomly because your router can't keep up with them.

santialbo | 2 years ago | on: Zigbee and Z-Wave are the best part of my smart home

Add to wifi that if you plan on having a lot of devices your router might commit seppuku.

Zigbee can hold hundreds of devices (as long a you have zb routers in your mesh)

santialbo | 2 years ago | on: Zigbee and Z-Wave are the best part of my smart home

I tried that and gave up. Get ready to spend a lot of moeny, sensors and devices are still very expensive compared to the ZB counterparts. Most Matter devices go with Wifi rather than Thread which makes your wifi network implode if you plan on installing a large number of them. For that reason I decided to go with what's cheap and works today, which is Zigbee.

santialbo | 2 years ago | on: Zigbee and Z-Wave are the best part of my smart home

Another silly reason is that unlike ZHA, Z2M doesn't restart everytime you restart HA.

santialbo | 2 years ago | on: Zigbee and Z-Wave are the best part of my smart home

I'm running Zigbee2Mqtt on my Homeassistant and so far it's been a very pleasant experience buying devices from different brands without having to use each vendors app. The compatibility list is gigantic https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/supported-devices/

santialbo | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Open-source Postman alternative with type safety

I've used it a lot whenever I've needed to integrate with a third party through a REST api. Postman for me is the playground where I build the queries and play with iteratively as I develop the integration.

santialbo | 2 years ago | on: Launch HN: Resend (YC W23) – Email API for developers using React

I built something using react-mjml and storybook (storybook-server). It takes a bit of plumbing but the devx is very nice.

santialbo | 2 years ago | on: Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)

Prepping everything can take a lot of time if you are not experienced. Time for things like chopping an onion can vary from 1 minute to 5 very easily.

santialbo | 2 years ago | on: Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

I'm one of those users. Went back to Plex and private files.

santialbo | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: iWF – A new “workflow as code” execution engine

If I wanted to build some sort of Zapier-like workflows within my application for my customers to create and run, would I be better using one of these libraries as backend?

santialbo | 3 years ago | on: CTEs as lookup tables

To me the advantanges comes when you use some sort of query builder. You can pass your list in code rather than having to write the SQL.

santialbo | 3 years ago | on: JSX Mail: Ending All Your Problems When Creating Email Templates

I'm using mjml-react which gives me:

- proper i18n with any react i18n library

- js to create complicated emails

- nicer component reuse story.

- syntax highlighting and completion when used with Typescript

- can be integrated with other nice js tools like Storybook for seeing all emails in one place and play with their props.

How is that useless?

santialbo | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Whose Fault, Apple or Spotify?

When I got my Apple Watch I was really disappointed at Spotify for not having streaming, then I learned that Apple kept the APIs private and only Apple Music allowed streaming.

When finally Apple relased the feature for third parties, Spotify was really slow at implementing it. What should have been a couple months max took like a year or so...

I would really like to know who is responsible here.

santialbo | 3 years ago | on: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

What's the point of the rotary control? How am I supossed to put it in my backpack with my laptops and books? It will end up breaking.

santialbo | 3 years ago | on: Temporary pause of Bitcoin withdrawals on Binance

I'm seeing people removing the laser eyes from their twitter avatars.

santialbo | 4 years ago | on: Azores – Evacuations Begin as Seismic Crisis Unfolds in Atlantic

Noone died in La Palma, but thousands of families lost their lifelong belongings.