tomaslaureano (u/tomaslaureano)

tomaslaureano commented on Poll HN: Do you use SSH certificates (not mere public-key authentication)? · Posted by u/tonyg

XiS · 3 years ago

As an alternative, you might consider using an ed25519-sk ssh key so you can use your YubiKey as a second factor during authentication. I've got my keys loaded up in the SSH agent by KeepassXC when I open my database and can log in to a box just by pressing my YubiKey. No keys on disk, no passwords to remember (except your Keepass master key ofcourse).

tomaslaureano · 3 years ago

Would love to know more about this workflow!

tomaslaureano commented on I couldn't debug the code because of my name mikolaj-kaminski.com/jetb... · Posted by u/mikasjp

amarshall · 4 years ago

For a list of strings that often cause problems to, e.g., add to a test suite, see https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings

tomaslaureano · 4 years ago

Great resource! I usually use pangrams (holoalphabetic sentences like "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog") to ensure that my code can handle all the alphabet characters for the languages that should be supported at the very minimum.

tomaslaureano commented on Treat yourself to the 90s club aesthetics of the Wipeout games cdm.link/2021/08/treat-yo... · Posted by u/glitcher

alexjplant · 4 years ago

A prototype version of Wipeout appeared in the seminal 1995 film "Hackers" [1]... the very same film that involved future Shaggy actor Matthew Lillard sporting a red Motorola pager and a pre-"Tomb Raider" Angelina Jolie declaring that "RISC architecture is gonna change everything". What a fantastic (in the literal and figurative senses of the term) film.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATlszssL-eI

tomaslaureano · 4 years ago

Have been listening to the film's soundtrack for the past few weeks while programming. It might be that the OST is hardcoded into my brain and that's why I found it so appropriate to listen to it while coding - but it's great to get into "the zone". I was looking for something like that to listen - without much luck so far. Will give a try to Wipeout's tracks. They look promising :)

tomaslaureano commented on Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities? · Posted by u/beatthatflight

buzzy_hacker · 6 years ago

I use YNAB (https://youneedabudget.com/), which requires inputting every one of your transactions by hand or importing them from your bank. The downside of the import is it takes a few days for the transaction to show up and you need to give YNAB your bank username/password, which I'm not comfortable with.

I wrote this https://github.com/buzzlawless/ynab-live-import to import credit card transactions instantly with no need of giving up my bank credentials.

The whole stack runs on Amazon Web Services. Simple Email Service receives a notification email from the bank that I've made a purchase, saves it to S3, and triggers a particular lambda function tailored to whichever bank the notification came from. The lambda function retrieves the email from S3, parses it for transaction data (account, payee, amount, date), and writes that data to a DynamoDB table. The table has a stream enabled, which triggers another lambda function when the table is updated. The function reads the transaction data from the stream and posts the transaction to YNAB using their API.

I've mentioned this on HN once or twice before and got some positive interest with people even submitting pull requests, which is awesome :) Going to find the time soon to review those and maybe add more features

tomaslaureano · 6 years ago

It's an amazing job what you have done here. I've been tinkering with exactly the same idea (and same implementation) but haven't had the time to go ahead. Your work will instantly jumpstart my own use case (VISA and Beancount) and I thank you for that. Kudos!