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apitman
13,487karma·3,567submissions·December 11, 2014
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Software architect on the iobio team at the University of Utah Eccles Institute of Human Genetics. I'm passionate about the application of computer science to solving health problems. Hans Rosling is my hero.
Personal site:
apitman.com
Projects:
IndieBits.io - A community for data ownership, self-hosting, and decentralization.
LastLogin.net - A free, privacy-focused login provider
TakingNames.io - Domain names for self-hosters
boringproxy.io - Simple, e2ee tunneling proxy
droplock.apitman.com - Simple secure secret sharing
recent activity (3,567 total)
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Performance of JS is much more controllable than round-trip latency.
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I have no idea what I'd use this for but it sounds awesome.
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I'm sure you are but just in case are you aware of hackaday.com?
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Sounds like something that's going to have to be configured on your CDN. I'm assuming you already checked with them/their docs?
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> Something about CORS and the resources out there makes newcomers think that it's something the client has to do differently I think that "something" is the fact that the client doe…
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Love the teflon analogy; can totally relate. At this point our team his literally anthropomorphized CORS into some sort of a malevolent entity actively trying to ruin our lives. But stick with it. It …
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One of very few books I've read twice and intend to read again in the future.
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Oh cool I didn't realize it was interactive. I'm pretty sure this is their scrimba platform[0], which is what they built imba for in the first place. [0] https://scrimba.com/…
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Svelte looks really cool. Has anyone compared it in-depth to imba[0]? [0] http://imba.io/
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Since we've got all the true nerds in here I'll go ahead and drop a link to the gate-level bubblesort implementation I made a while back: https://anderspitman.net/apps/h…
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This is pretty much what I do. I ran into issues getting the browser autofill stuff to work so I've been copying passwords manually, but it's still better than typing even if I could somehow…
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I played around with some Linux DAW stuff back in the day. That's awesome that you can achieve enough performance on an RPi these days.
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That and is there really much point in using ZFS if you can't give it complete hardware control over the disk controllers?
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On the hardware front I'll plug the project a friend of mine is working on[0]. As far as self-hosted software goes, the file sharing/sync section[1] of awesome self-hosted is great (the whol…
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It would be nice if every blog had a "Sites I frequent" section.
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Blame the web, not the internet
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Lists like this are models to help frame your thinking, not immutable laws set in stone. Maybe your idea can still work. If you want to do it, do it. Just proceed with caution.
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I recently enjoyed Rich Harris' talk "Rethinking Reactivity"[0]. He nicely ties spreadsheets into the current trend in "reactive programming". [0] https://youtu.be&…
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I'm a huge fan of physical/tactile input (and output) devices. I use foot pedals hooked up to an Arduino for my CTRL/SHIFT/META keys both at work and home, which helps my RSI enorm…
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Firefox and Chrome both show links in the bottom left of the screen when you hover over them. Not sure about other browsers.
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That's an interesting take. Somewhat random question that came to my mind: Do you think it's more important for a user to be in control of their computation, or of their data, or are they eq…
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Sorry this is off-topic, but can you expound a bit more on the history of WebDAV in this context?
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I somehow didn't realize the article itself was a notebook until I got to the bottom. I can't decide whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, and whether it says more about me or obs…
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This is way cool. I recently started a new app and decided to see how far I could get without a build tool. My early impressions left me wanting to write a blog post "ES Modules Make JavaScript F…
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There are tradeoffs either way. For popular modules it might already be in your browser cache if another app used the module recently. Plus being a CDN it's probably being served by a machine clo…
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I had a similar feeling. ES modules really are a refreshing experience.
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I had just stumbled on Timeliner a couple days ago. Looks awesome. I've been thinking a lot lately about a) how to take control of ones data without getting overwhelmed with server configuration,…
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Nice. Does OpenRPC have any concept of streaming, a la gRPC?