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imperialWicket
Personal blog · imperialwicket.com · on HN as imperialWicketprogrammingweb
imperialWicket is a personal blog at imperialwicket.com about programming and web. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “DIY adjustable stand up desk (for under $175)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-15, and you can follow it by feed.
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- DIY adjustable stand up desk (for under $175)2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-09-01
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I totally agree. I recently had the password requirements experience with quickbooks and their silly requirements ( http://imperialwicket.com/quickbooks-online-password-fails ). Like many have said, I have a 6-10 password bank of relatively complex passwords that I use for services I may need to easily use on alternate computers. For everything else, I use randomly generated values (usually 24 char, including alphan…
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on “Fuck passwords”Submitted Open source in higher education - why not? as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI've been using a diy standing desk for almost a year, and was in a cube that I repositioned to standing height for nearly 12 months before that. I don't think I'll ever go back. I've posted this here before, but in case newcomers are interested in details for an inexpensive diy stand up desk: http://imperialwicket.com/diy-adjustable-stand-up-desk-for-u...
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on “A standing desk for $22”Submitted Asgard AMI: Try Asgard with no admin hassle as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy preference is to make a base ami that's configured with puppet and a couple core user/keys. I make this instance automatically hit our puppetmaster and use things like security_groups and user data to figure out what type of node it is. One of the things that puppet installs is a script to generate a new ami from the built instance, this script optionally deletes the puppet package. Now you have an easy way to bu…
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on “Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup”Submitted DIY adjustable stand up desk (for under $175) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSenseless self plug - It's not adjustable, but for between $100-$200 (depending on quality of parts and whether or not you elect to sand/stain/seal) you can build this: http://imperialwicket.com/diy-adjustable-stand-up-desk-for-u... . It's not quickly adjustable, but with the removal and replacement of some bolts, you can adjust the main desk area from 30" height all the way up to 52". Built into the cost are four a…
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on “The $40 Standup Desk”Submitted Ditch shared hosting, AWS: Now with heavy utilization reserved instances as a story · 2 points
HN discussionVery nice. I thought about shelf systems, but none of the standalone options seemed nice enough (I rent, and wanted to stay away from drilling into the walls). Here are a few more pics of what I ended up with: http://imperialwicket.com/diy-adjustable-stand-up-desk-for-u...
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on “Standing desks are on the rise”Submitted Why is Carrier IQ drawing so much attention? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is a great concept, although I share a couple of the concerns mentioned (project momentum, and the implied issues with this technique as the organization grows). I recently highlighted that I'd like to have a pot of opensource days that I could use at my discretion ( http://imperialwicket.com/how-about-some-open-source-days ). I think it offers a similar benefit, while maintaining a lot of personal responsibili…
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on “WOW Week at PatientsLikeMe”Submitted Attention to Dependencies Breeds Maintainability as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis got me; often you want clock_timestamp() or timeofday(). I wrote about it, too - http://imperialwicket.com/postgresql-getting-now-in-function...
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on “Stopping Time in PostgreSQL”Submitted Asgard and Hubot: Simplified AMI deployment to AWS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving to AWS (it's more than 6 steps) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted [Further Analysis] What's your favorite text editor/IDE? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hiring technique as a story · 1 points
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