wjvdhoek's comments

> You are 2% basic. Wombripper and Blindfolded and Led to the Woods? Where do you even find this shit?

m000, you are my new best friend.

HN tip of the month ;)

When Canon released the EOS M as its first mirrorless camera, it hasn't gone down well in many reviews as it's a slow performer[0]. Now, this has actually been addressed in a later firmware upgrade, but at that point the damage had already been done. After that, Canon basically dumped this camera on the market at very low prices.

Good thing for us is that this little camera can now be bought very cheap second hand (got mine last year at around $100) Once you load up ML, you get a fantastic fun little camera! I'm not very experienced with shooting video but for photography, it's a wonderful experience. Focus peeking, magic zoom, interval photography, all for free.

Many kudos to the ML devs from this side as well!

[0] https://kenrockwell.com/canon/eos-m/m.htm

As mentioned in the article, over here in the Netherlands we've had these for quite some time now (called the 'dwarsligger'). It probably won't change the way we read, but it's a nice form factor for reading during transit or travel for those who prefer to read from paper.

This is awesome, great job!

That's great! Thanks for the update, it's nice to see how things are developing. I hope you guys get out unscathed.

I'd love to find out how much is raised via HN :) I donated a few euros as well.

The security-rationale is a fair point, haven't thought of that ;)

Without knowing how you run the code server-side, are there any languages/challenges that are presumably safe? Maybe you could offer the Javascript challenges without the requiring the user to register.

I tried to run a challenge but upon trying to run it, I'm greeted by an obnoxious pop-up that asks me to register or log on. Nope, sorry, won't do that. You could have mentioned that _before_ trying out a challenge...

Please don't do that. Aside from being a major buzzkill, it probably kills conversion, which I'm sure you find a buzzkill ;) Maybe you could let people try out some challenges and then after N runs, ask them to sign up?

We (me + a couple of buddies) were in the process of building such a service. Unfortunately due to the circumstances, we had to stop working on it but I firmly believe such a service can benefit professional development teams to improve. So I don't fully agree about not using such a service in your work place.

Anyhoo, we did find that such a service exists[1]. I haven't looked at it of about a year, but at the time it seemed interesting though a little lacking in features. They do seem to have improved over the year. You might want to check it out!

[1] https://getbadges.io/

Since I moved to Linux as my daily driver, I've been using Darktable as prefered editor. I do have to say that I'm not a high demanding user, so you'll have to take my experience with a grain of salt. Coming from Lightroom there's a slight learning curve and it's not as refined as Lightroom. But once you get the hang of things, it's really a great editor. Definitely quick but also really usable. The interface can sometimes be somewhat confusing, I can recall several occasions at which I didn't really know how to use a tool or preset. Luckily I'm better at googling than photography. I don't miss Lightroom at all and as of yet have not encountered any missing features.

I've used a 13" laptop as my main workhorse for 7 years now and can't imagine trading it for a bigger laptop.

The reason for choosing 13" is that I travel a lot for work and I want to get some work done when I'm on the road. I also find it the ideal size to still accommodate a decent-sized keyboard and trackpad. When I need some extra screen estate, I just hook it on an external monitor.

Because I do allot of programming on it, I've chosen one with a high resolution screen (1920x1080) so I don't trade in screen estate but that might be a bit too high for most people (e.g. everything tends to get a bit tiny).