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mini_racer | nitter | |
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4 | 950 | |
583 | 9,655 | |
0.7% | - | |
7.2 | 5.3 | |
22 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
JavaScript | Nim | |
MIT License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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mini_racer
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Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
Some years ago I was on a shitty job - not technically, but the company turned out to be inhumane - at a Ruby shop, and on the side I was toying with mini_racer and I just upgraded to some macOS beta where it failed to build. A shitty +1-1 hack† for a compiler flag later and it was back flying.
A month later I received a cold email from a CTO to chat a bit about that PR, turns out they were using mini_racer heavily and forked it for their own purpose, and also created PyMiniRacer for the Python side of things. Next thing I know I got hired. Two years later the company got acquired.
Of course conditionally adding a compiler flag wasn't what got me hired per se, it only got my profile noticed. Probably side projects such as porting go by example to Ruby by implementing a ~1:1 CSP channel API[1], an Electron desktop client for Mattermost basically on a dare[2], ex mode for the Atom editor so that I could have that frackin' `:w`[3], leveraging Blocks to bolt on object-oriented-ness onto C because "closures are a poor man's object"[4], or reverse-engineering the Xbox One USB gamepad and writing a kext to turn it into a HID device on macOS from scratch on a lonely 7+h train ride with passengers judgementally staring at me sideways[4] probably contributed to it a bit.
My takeaway: luck is when preparation meets opportunity; but don't to side projects to get hired, because if you don't get hired then that time is lost. Rather, of all things, scratch your itch, have fun, embrace whatever quirkiness you fancy; no one can take that away from you.
[0]: https://github.com/rubyjs/mini_racer/commit/2086db1bbf2b5de4...
[1]: https://github.com/lloeki/normandy
[2]: https://github.com/lloeki/matterfront
[3]: https://github.com/lloeki/ex-mode
[4]: https://github.com/lloeki/cblocks-clobj/blob/master/main.c
[5]: https://github.com/lloeki/xbox_one_controller
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YouTube-dl has a JavaScript interpreter written in 870 lines of Python
Cue libv8-node+mini_racer from which PyMiniRacer was born. It is non-trivial but not as hard as one might think.
The most painful part is the libv8 build system and Google tooling, which makes it an absolute PITA for libv8 consumers that are not Chrome.
This is why the libv8 gem was atrocious to keep up to date and to build for several platforms, and why libv8-node was born, because the node build system and source distribution are actually sane.
Disclaimer: worked at Sqreen, now maintainer of libv8-node and collaborator of mini_racer
https://github.com/sqreen/PyMiniRacer
https://github.com/rubyjs/mini_racer
https://github.com/rubyjs/libv8-node
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Rendering markdown with Markdoc in Rails
Eventually, we’ll want to call this JavaScript from a Rails controller using ExecJS or MiniRacer or some similar tool. None of the Ruby-to-JavaScript gems I found were sophisticated enough to know how to load npm modules with common.js or ES module syntax, so my solution is to just build the JavaScript with a watcher and have that run as part of bin/dev.
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Anyone having issues with M1Pro?
https://github.com/rubyjs/mini_racer/issues/190 has some info an then this PR: https://github.com/rubyjs/mini_racer/pull/210 that has been merged. Hope that all helps!
nitter
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Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads
Don't use Youtube without going through a proxy like Invidious [1] or Newpipe
Don't use {site} Search without going through a proxy like SearxNG [2]
Don't use TwiXXer without going through a proxy like Nitter - this has gotten more difficult lately but it still works as long as you feed the daemon some registered accounts. Video does not work at the moment but that seems to be fixable.
Don't use Reddit without going through a proxy like libreddit [4]
Start noticing the pattern? Maybe it is time to start producing promotional posters:
The only thing to come between you and ADS could be a proxy / ADS. I'ts just not worth the risk
ADS / New rules for a sane net / Sane net protects you, your partner and your community
A proxy here and a filter there, ADS nowhere
The more you tighten your grip, ${site}, the more viewers will slip through your fingers
[1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
[2] https://github.com/searxng/searxng
[3] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
[4] https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit
- Nitter over IPFS or Torrent
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Neural Network Diffusion
https://nitter.esmailelbob.xyz/liuzhuang1234/status/17601959...
(bit of trial and error from https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances)
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X blocks Taylor Swift searches after fake AI videos go viral
I assume this is why Nitter got slammed and is on the verge of breaking.
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1154
- Nitter Shutting Down
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Nitter Is Dead
The creator of the project left this comment an hour ago:
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1155#issuecomment-19...
(HN removed the deep link to the specific comment from the title)
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Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe
Most of the time you can just replace twitter.com with nitter.net or nitter.it but when these instances are down or blocked you can use other instances listed here: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
But as the other commenter said Libredirect is the way to go: https://libredirect.github.io/
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YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again
Use a Youtube proxy like Invidious [1], problem solved and you get to subscribe to channels without telling the Beast about your interests. Add Sponsorblock (which supports Invidious) to get rid of any in-stream advertising which remains and you'll be transported back to those hallowed times of yore when men were men, women were women and advertising was something you found in newspapers. Youtube will try to make this harder just like Xitter is trying to make it harder to use proxies like Nitter [2].
[1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
[2] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
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Nitter.net Has Disappeared
njal.la restored nitter.net, and replied with their reasons: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1150#issuecomment-18...
tbh I can totally understand why they acted this way.
- Cloudflare CEO responds to viral termination video
What are some alternatives?
execjs - Run JavaScript code from Ruby
fritter - A privacy-friendly Twitter frontend for mobile devices
libv8-node - Package libv8 from Node
NewPipe - A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.
quickjs - Thin Python wrapper of https://bellard.org/quickjs/
libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit
PyMiniRacer - PyMiniRacer is a V8 bridge in Python.
nitter-instances - Automated uptime monitoring of Nitter instances.
pyduktape - Embed the Duktape JS interpreter in Python
Invidious - Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube
markdoc-rails - Example of rendering markdown using Markdoc with Ruby on Rails
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community