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Looks nice. Bookmarked it with Pinboard.

I used my pinboard account to remember kippt (YC S12, closed 2015) - https://blog.ycombinator.com/kippt-yc-s12-launches-inc-the-w...

Is pinboard still a thing? I've an account but haven't used it for ages. Maciej seems to have left twitter, http://blog.pinboard.in resolves to a placeholder page. Thought it was abandoned at this point.

Still a thing. There's an excellent iOS app for Pinboard made a third party developer, called Pins. It was just updated in 2022.

https://get-pins.app/posts/pins-v2022.1/

I don't see a placeholder page at https://blog.pinboard.in/ I see the most recent blog post. It happens to be a couple years old, but Pinboard is good enough as it is. I didn't subscribe for monthly product blog posts.

Thanks for the recommendation; just purchased Pins. I was using Pinner, but was not happy with it.

I wasn’t expecting the app to be that good! Great recommendation

Man, I love his writing.

> It helped in this process that I was in Japan, since I could do most work at night while my US/European customers slept or wept into their phones or whatever it is people do at night nowadays.

Why the heck are there no screenshots on that site? Not even in the home page?

I do not understand how many developers forget that the easiest way of converting potential buyers is showing a picture of your GRAPHICAL user interface. One of the best sales boost vs time investment you could ever do for your app, takes literally 15 seconds to do.

Sorry, I'm not interested enough to go chasing an App Store link (there's none) or if you shared one in a blog post.

Apparently it is, because Pinboard has taken over my search results for certain queries.

He didn't "seem to have" left Twitter. He announced he was leaving Twitter for a year, about 6 months ago. It's literally the first tweet on his feed. blog.pinboard.in resolves to the Pinboard blog. Pinboard works great; I use it daily.

Pinboard works great for some. For others it doesn't work at all, and, unlike you, we mere mortals don't have Maciej's cell number. :-)

The most grating part is where he ignores support mails, Twitter DMs etc. completely, over many, many months, but drops in on HN to talk about Pinboard, still ignoring you in that very thread.

Really, this hasn't been going on for six months or so, this has been this way for years and years.

I've recently read on HN that it depends on which server your user account is located on, so I guess we can both be correct. Just open accounts until it works for you. :-)

I don't know about anyone else's Pinboard experience and am not denying anyone's experience, but I use it pretty much every day (I'm surprised by how often I use it) and I've never had a support request. Wait, that's not true, I once asked him to change the way tweet indexing worked, and he ignored me. But other than that: nothing.

Yeah I did not check his first tweet, I just don't see his tweets on my feed so I assumed he left. I've always loved his writing style and humor so his absence was obvious.

Blog still loads a "Ubuntu Apache hey you managed to install this" page for me. (https://link.ekin.dev/scKR1f) Don't know why.

Glad that it's still alive and kicking though.

You've somehow hit the http:// version of blog.pinboard.in. Chrome won't let me get to that page, but Safari will. The URL is https://blog.pinboard.in.

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