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Brandon Philips

@ifup.org

Dystopia aware techno-optimist, founder (CoreOS), father (2), Oregonian, software engineer, AFOL, cyclist, gardener. (he/him) https://ifup.org

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Could you share the economics of making the ebook an Amazon Kindle exclusive?

(I moved all of my ebook purchases to Kobo due to Amazon's whole situation.)

Congratulations on your success with the book.

02.02.2026 23:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Those masks almost guarantee the 6th is half eroded as well.

25.01.2026 03:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A kid walking near my home was ran off the road into a ditch by a reckless driver (sidewalk-less road). The driver didn't stay at the scene to check on the kid.

When called the Sheriff's office told me that unless the vehicle made contact there was nothing they could charge the driver with anyways.

12.01.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell YouTube video by Federal Reserve

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

12.01.2026 00:35 πŸ‘ 24035 πŸ” 9202 πŸ’¬ 1150 πŸ“Œ 2892
Supernote 101: Basic settings for A5X2 & A6X2 (Manta and Nomad) - an 8 MIN guide for beginners
Supernote 101: Basic settings for A5X2 & A6X2 (Manta and Nomad) - an 8 MIN guide for beginners YouTube video by pixel leaves

I really like the Supernote products.

Pixel Leaves has a number of super chill and to the point introductions to the products: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXdT...

05.01.2026 23:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There needs to be some secrete handshake for software engineers to file detailed bug reports to site owners.

I currently can't pay a bill because of some AngularJS app missing a dependency. I debugged it and threw some code into my console to fix:

window._satellite.kpCustomEvent = function() { };

05.01.2026 20:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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OrbStack Β· Fast, light, simple Docker & Linux Say goodbye to slow, clunky containers and VMs. The fast, light, and easy way to run containers and Linux. Develop at lightspeed with our Docker Desktop alternative.

Wow! OrbStack is a great VM/container manager for macOS.

Every few months I have tried to use Podman Desktop or Docker Desktop and always hit some work stopping bug. But, OrbStack has been great.

Nice work @kdrag0n.dev and team. Wish y'all success.

orbstack.dev

03.12.2025 23:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Quick Hack: Fix epub's for early reader books. github.com/philips/kids...

The HTML/CSS of kids early reader books is atrocious and impossible for koreader to render correctly. So, just throw it all out and repack the epub.

06.11.2025 21:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This commenter knows whats up! And it's because they have worked a couple of elections. I think that is important pre-req before trying to comment on this stuff.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4566...

22.10.2025 03:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Public trust demands open-source voting systems | Hacker News

I posted an article on HN and people are super passionate about voting systems and also very under informed on the scale and complexity (particularly in the USA).

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4565...

21.10.2025 18:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Yesterday, news broke that Dominion Voting Systems was sold to a new company, Liberty Vote. Dominion, the second-largest voting systems vendor in the US that currently tabulates 1 in 5 American votes, is no more.

www.voting.works/news/public-...

10.10.2025 17:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Cloudflare's sorry you have been blocked.

Cloudflare's sorry you have been blocked.

With how bad robot detection has become across the internet and AI crawling everything in sight it makes me wonder if the future is more like @tailscale.com ACLs and less like the wide default routed internet.

Off I go emailing support and asking for an IP whitelist like it is 1999.

21.10.2025 15:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It is remarkable a software and brand we (CoreOS team) created 12 years ago (!!!) is still relevant enough for people to debate on Hacker News.

19.10.2025 23:39 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
How The Amazingly Burly β€˜Buffalo Bicycle’ is Changing The World
How The Amazingly Burly β€˜Buffalo Bicycle’ is Changing The World YouTube video by Berm Peak

I love this. A bike designed for long term maintenance with limited supply chain: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV88...

12.10.2025 18:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

An actually useful GMail AI integration: forcing users to Reply All unless the body contains sensitive documents or shit talk.

25.08.2025 00:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Cheapest DIY Injection Molder ($200 - $400) with LARGE shot | Buster Beagle 3D Injection Molder
Cheapest DIY Injection Molder ($200 - $400) with LARGE shot | Buster Beagle 3D Injection Molder YouTube video by The Crafsman Steady Craftin

Hello and Welcome to the Crafsman Show:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDt0...

07.08.2025 01:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That is a generous take.

I wish they had pad printed so I could solve it with some solvent.

I guess they probably had to replace their injection molds anyways from use and didn't want to buy a pad printer.

07.08.2025 00:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The most annoying thing about this is that light switches are touch points. And a debossing on a touch point is essentially asking for dirt collection. Ick.

Hot take: They are trying to figure out a planned obsolescence for a safety critical system they can't compromise the internals of.

07.08.2025 00:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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In 2025 and you can't buy a light switch without brand advertising on it.

Lutron, Leviton and Legrand are not high fashion brands- they are light switches.

Product manager from Leviton saying "Well everyone else is doing it" www.reddit.com/r/homeautoma...

06.08.2025 23:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Also. Apparently Nest Protect are being shutdown by google.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

17.07.2025 20:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I decided to get β€œdumb” First Alert wireless interconnect smoke alarms and a zigbee β€œsmart” alarm detector. All offline. Probably best to have cloud free alarms anyway.

17.07.2025 20:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I am in the market for smoke alarms. When I think smoke alarms I think of @bradfitz.com ❀️

But, does anyone else have recommendations? I like Nest Protect but would consider other options. Must be battery powered. Must have push notifications. Ideally no subscriptions.

16.07.2025 02:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

For supreme court reasons you have to file them under handouts. 🫠

28.06.2025 16:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Excellent overview video of Apple Containerization by Michael Crosby (who played a critical role in getting opencontainers.org to v1.0)

Amazing to see these standards used in such a well integrated way 8 years later.

developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

10.06.2025 21:38 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
MSN

There are many reasons I limit Disney in my house. And here is another one. Disney adds Newsmax to Hulu.

www.msn.com/en-us/entert...

12.05.2025 18:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.

We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

28.04.2025 00:38 πŸ‘ 30918 πŸ” 8736 πŸ’¬ 1319 πŸ“Œ 1348

@bsky.app next up, tshirts that say: Facilitate is an active verb

18.04.2025 22:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This whole order from the fourth circuit gives me chills. I can’t believe step one is convincing the Executive of due process.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

18.04.2025 22:03 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

It is remarkable how the political discourse has shifted from let’s ensure equality to what does the constitution do again?

17.04.2025 22:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
In this house we believe there are 3 coequal branches, only congress can levy taxes, due process is a human right, electeds shouldn’t trade stocks, country above party,  j6 participants are criminals.

In this house we believe there are 3 coequal branches, only congress can levy taxes, due process is a human right, electeds shouldn’t trade stocks, country above party, j6 participants are criminals.

had this thought today.

17.04.2025 22:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0