I hope that Microsoft will not smash GitHub UX to something like Azure Devops. UX of Azure services is terrible, even compared to AWS.
Readit Newslandsman commented on Database Linting and Analysis for PostgreSQL pglinter.readthedocs.io/e... · Posted by u/fljdin
Checks for DB migrations in GitHub Pull Request would be really nice!
landsman commented on Show HN: The Unite real time operating system jacquesmattheij.com/unite... · Posted by u/jacquesm
I would consider putting it on GitHub. Torrent is not the best way to share code today.
Currently a one-man side project:
Last year PlasticList discovered that 86% of food products they tested contain plastic chemicals—including 100% of baby food tested. The EU just lowered their "safe" BPA limit by 20,000x. Meanwhile, the FDA allows levels 100x higher than what Europe considers safe.
This seemed like a solvable problem.
Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent testing of specific products you actually buy. Think Consumer Reports meets Kickstarter, but focused on detecting endocrine disruptors in your yogurt, your kid's snacks, whatever you're curious about.
Here's how it works: Find a product (or suggest one), contribute to its testing fund, get detailed lab results when testing completes. If a product doesn't reach its funding goal within 365 days, automatic refund. All results are published openly. Laboratory.love uses the same methodology as PlasticList.org, which found plastic chemicals in everything from prenatal vitamins to ice cream. But instead of researchers choosing what to test, you do.
The bigger picture: Companies respond to market pressure. Transparency creates that pressure. When consumers have data, supply chains get cleaner.
Technical details: Laboratory.love works with ISO 17025-accredited labs, test three samples from different production lots, detect chemicals down to parts per billion. The testing protocol is public.
So far a couple dozen products have received some funding, six products have been fully funded (five product results published, the sixth is at the lab as I write this!)
You can browse products, add your own, or just follow specific items you're curious about: https://laboratory.love
Really nice project. US regulation of food is a joke. Good luck!
A Kotlin Multiplatform implementation of OpenTelemetry: https://github.com/embrace-io/opentelemetry-kotlin
It's been really fun writing this from scratch and trying to design a mobile-friendly API that fits the OTel spec. There's still work to do on OTLP export and various other features - if this project interests you, please do get in touch!
Oh, nice job! I love Kotlin.
landsman commented on OpenAI Is Preparing to Launch a Social App for AI-Generated Videos wired.com/story/openai-la... · Posted by u/thm
So even more digital mess on the network, requiring more electricity and resources—for what exactly? To send a modern GIF?
This feels like some kind of weird pivot for investors… or doom-scrolling junkies.
Scripting in Lua sounds good.
landsman commented on Why do we need modules at all? (2011) groups.google.com/g/erlan... · Posted by u/matthews2
What a mess
landsman commented on The US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide apnews.com/article/us-air... · Posted by u/geox
I saw that there is some communith, open source project who manage database by volunteering. That's the way.
Running your own servers was never rocket science, it was literally the only option 20 years ago. Every startup used to have a rack of servers in a closet.
I have always thought of cloud hosting as something you do because you cannot afford a full-time ops team so it's wild to me that companies like Netflix decide that they literally don't have the operational expertise to manage servers.