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8ig8on On React and WordPress

> On a side note - I'll bet WordPress get's rewritten in Vue.js

Seems like a good bet. Developers discussing the matter...

https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/2733

8ig8on Ask HN: Alternatives to (locally hosted) CrashPlan?

This came up on the latest episode of ATP. They discuss some alternatives/options...

http://atp.fm/episodes/236

I'm not sure where in the episode the topic is discussed. I'd guess about halfway through.

8ig8on San Francisco street sells for $90K. Neighbors aren’t happy

> Another option [for making the investment pay off] is to charge residents to park on their street — and rent out the 120 parking spaces that line the grand circular road.

Ouch.

8ig8on Ask HN: Good stack for a billing and invoicing application?

Instead of writing your own invoicing application, what about writing a custom front end to an existing web-based app (using existing API)?

That way you can focus on the specific UI you need and not mess with recreating everything else. Your UI doesn't need to be browser-based.

8ig8on Ask a Repair Shop

Loosely related, here's a great Reddit AMA with a vacuum repair technician...

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1pe2bd/iama_vacuum_re...

8ig8on Show HN: Pocket Stream Archive – A personal Way-Back Machine

Pinboard offers an archive feature:

https://pinboard.in/upgrade/

8ig8on Show HN: Geekmarks: An Open-Source, API-Driven, Geeky Bookmarking Service

> Now, assume I have a generic tag programming, and a couple of more specific tags: python and c. I definitely want my bookmarking service to be smart enough to figure that if I tag some article with either python or c, it means programming as well; I don't want to add the tag programming manually every single time. So, what we need is a hierarchy of tags. Surprisingly enough, I failed to find a service which would support that.

What about Pinboard's tag bundles?

https://blog.pinboard.in/2012/08/every_day_i_m_bundlin/

8ig8on A friendly web development tutorial for complete beginners

Go grab the latest release of Arachnophilia and have at it...

http://arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.php

(Pleasantly surprised to see this is still going strong after 20+ years.)

8ig8on How to build the next Trello and sell it for $425M or more

I think it was the same story for Fogbugz.

8ig8on Show HN: Mitmproxy 1.0 released, now with a web interface

Yes...

http://docs.mitmproxy.org/en/latest/certinstall.html

8ig8on The year you were born predicts flu risk

Was hoping I could enter my birth year and get back some risk prediction.

8ig8on Show HN: Cloud Commander orthodox web file manager with console and editor

Wikipedia has an overview:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#Orthodox_file_m...

8ig8on Advancing our amazing bet

NY Times article is a bit easier to parse...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/technology/google-curbs-ex...

8ig8on Vesper Sync Shutdown Tonight, Open Source Plans

From the announcement:

> We will make Vesper for iOS, Vesper for Mac, and Vesper’s JavaScript sync service open source on my personal GitHub account. This code will also be provided as historical artifacts: they’re not intended as active projects. They’re also not intended as examples of how to write apps these days.

8ig8on Text Summarization with TensorFlow

There's SUMMRY (http://smmry.com). I don't recall it being very smart -- that is, it doesn't rewrite sentences. It extracts the most important/relevant ones to basically shorten an article. It's definitely useful.

8ig8on A few HTML tips

With checkboxes, nesting the input inside the label makes the label clickable. It provides a larger target for checking, unchecking.

Edit, to add: To avoid nesting you can use the for attribute. More info on the following link addressing checkboxes and input nesting, in general:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/6293626

8ig8on De La Soul’s Legacy Is Trapped in Digital Limbo

I was at the '92 Spring Fling. Incredible line up.

8ig8on The Mesmerizing Math of a Wind Turbine on Fire

I thought the post perhaps was this unbelievable flaming UFO...

https://m.imgur.com/dm2o6h5

(Starts slow, but worth watching past the initial smoke.)

8ig8on Ex-Cardinals scouting director sentenced to 46 months in jail for Astros hack

The _hack_...

> Correa was able to obtain password information from a laptop that was turned into him from a Cardinals employee who had left St. Louis to take a job with the Astros. Correa used variations of the passwords on the laptop to gain entry into the Astros' servers.

8ig8on Critical Update on DAO Vulnerability

Cached version:

http://archive.is/YkANN

8ig8on A new Curl logo

I just realized after all these years, I think I've been saying the name wrong.

In my head, I say "curl" as in curly hair. It's really "see-url"!? I think it's too late for my brain to correct that.

8ig8on A new Curl logo

Cached version of link: http://archive.is/TRDMX

8ig8on Bots Are Hot (1996)

Darn. I assumed this was about HotBot based on the title and date.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotBot

8ig8on Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

Jennings Pattern auger bits for braces...

https://www.toolsforworkingwood.com/store/dept/TD/item/MS-JB...

8ig8on The Great Suspender: Free up memory by suspending inactive Chrome tabs

What about rolling your Gmail back to 2012 with the lighter HTML version...

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049?hl=en

I rolled back about a month ago to free up some resources since I have it open all day. So far, so good.

As a bonus, you have to manually check for new mail, which I actually like.

8ig8on Thermal camera footage allegedly shows pro cyclists using motors

NY Times just published an article on the subject:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/sports/cycling/with-a-disc...

8ig8on My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT

Full TOS here for anyone interested...

http://pastebin.com/UM6pHEVV

8ig8on Vacuum-maker Dyson is reportedly working on an electric car

> Which vacuum would you recommend?

Reddit made a vacuum repair technician _famous_ with the same question...

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2ldfs3/iama_vacuum_re...

8ig8on Grd – A CSS grid framework using Flexbox in 512 bytes gzipped

Can class names begin with a hyphen followed by a number?

This SO answer says [1]:

> a name must begin with an underscore (_), a hyphen (-), or a letter(a–z), followed by any number of hyphens, underscores, letters, or numbers. There is a catch: if the first character is a hyphen, the second character must be a letter or underscore, and the name must be at least 2 characters long.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/449000

Which references the CSS Grammar spec [2].

[2]: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/grammar.html#scanner