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ElbertF

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Founder of Wappalyzer

https://alias.io https://www.wappalyzer.com

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ElbertF··on ISO100 – Photography portfolios without designing a website
Yes, I use ISO100 for my own portfolio:

https://alias.iso100.photos

ElbertF··on ISO100 – Photography portfolios without designing a website
I’m a web developer and amateur wildlife photographer. I wanted a place for my own photographs that looked good without requiring me to design and maintain an entire website.

The platforms I tried often gave me either a very open-ended website builder or a product centered on selling, licensing, or client delivery. I wanted something narrower: choose the photographs, arrange them into galleries, and publish a portfolio where the presentation stays out of the way.

So I built ISO100: https://iso100.app

You can adjust typography, spacing, image proportions, covers, and photo sequences without arranging every page element yourself. Individual galleries have direct links, and crop focus controls help preserve the important part of a photograph across different layouts and screen sizes.

ISO100 is for committed amateurs as well as professionals. There’s a generous free plan, while the paid plan adds more capacity, custom domains, custom favicons, and the option to remove ISO100 branding completely.

It’s developing quickly, and I’d especially value feedback from photographers, or anyone who has built or maintained a photography portfolio. What matters most to you when presenting a body of photographs online, and where do existing tools get in your way?

ElbertF··on I Built a Pente App for iPhone
Hi everyone, I’ve been working on an iOS app for Pente and wanted to share it here.

For anyone new to it, Pente is an abstract strategy game where you win by getting five stones in a row or by capturing five pairs of your opponent’s stones.

The app is called Pente Go. You can play:

  * Online against friends or other players
  * Local pass-and-play
  * Single-player against AI
  * Classic or tournament opening rules
  * Leaderboard and basic stats
I’d appreciate any feedback, especially from people who play Pente, Go, Gomoku, or other abstract strategy games.
ElbertF··on Xiaomi’s humanoid drummer beats expectations?
I was expecting this:

https://youtu.be/5UuFqQXWneM

ElbertF··on Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
I created a browser extension for exactly this called Demodal:

https://github.com/AliasIO/demodal

ElbertF··on BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees
https://github.com/wappalyzer/wappalyzer

You’re welcome to help out. :)

ElbertF··on I miss del.icio.us – the web’s discovery-engine and link classifier
I think you meant https://pinboard.in.
ElbertF··on Don't use text pixelation to redact sensitive information
I do this on my website with paywalled information. It respects upper/lowercasing and spacing but randomises each character. Anyone can disable the CSS blur but the data is still obfuscated.

https://imgur.com/a/NY6xKie

ElbertF··on Show HN: Demodal – A browser extension that blocks modals and overlays
I created this browser extension to solve a personal annoyance. It automatically removes obnoxious prompts on websites that interrupt your reading, like prompts to sign up or enter your email address, overlays with discount offers, pointless GDPR and cookie consent banners, etc.

It's in early development and doesn't work on most websites, yet. The aim is to build up a comprehensive set of rules over time to block modals anywhere. Creating your definitions is easy and can be done from within the extension. The project is open-source and I'm looking for contributors!

ElbertF··on Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time
Nice! Managed to shave off a couple of bytes:

  setInterval("l=loopTapApp;b=l.getBallAngle();[a,c]=l.arc;b+6>a&b-6<c&&l.tap(new Event(1))")
ElbertF··on AWS free tier data transfer expansion
The CloudFront savings add up to about $100/mo. Still pretty negligible.
ElbertF··on Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chipotle
True. Not the same thing but an equally disastrous outcome.
ElbertF··on Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chipotle
Years ago I ran into this issue with MySQL, storing four billion rows with a unique ID.
ElbertF··on Safari 14 added WebExtensions support, so where are the extensions?
1.5K installs so far, versus 1.5M on Chrome and 90K on Firefox. Hard to say what the percentage will be.
ElbertF··on Safari 14 added WebExtensions support, so where are the extensions?
We finally ported Wappalyzer across to Safari. The process was fairly straight-forward but Safari doesn't implement every API that Chrome, Firefox and even Edge support, so we had to do a bunch of work to get a single version of the extension to work consistently in all four browsers. I'm glad it's finally here though.

https://apps.apple.com/app/wappalyzer/id1520333300

ElbertF··on How to convert existing web extensions for Safari
This motivated me to finally port Wappalyzer to Safari. It was fairly straight-forward but Safari doesn't implement every API that Chrome, Firefox and even Edge support, so I had to do a bunch of work to get a single version of the extension to work consistently in all four browsers. I'm glad it's finally here though.

https://apps.apple.com/app/wappalyzer/id1520333300

ElbertF··on Stripe Atlas: Getting your first 10 customers
Good question, I don't know. I could fail the verification if it doesn't match.
ElbertF··on Stripe Atlas: Getting your first 10 customers
Thanks! Will do.
ElbertF··on Stripe Atlas: Getting your first 10 customers
It's challenging to find a balance between security and not hindering legitimate customers. Telling them the order went through when they mistyped their card number isn't great. I don't expose the reason the payment was rejected however.

Stripe does warn me about the charge-backs.

ElbertF··on Stripe Atlas: Getting your first 10 customers
Done!
ElbertF··on Stripe Atlas: Getting your first 10 customers
I was looking at that. It's not available in my country but I requested an invite. Thanks!
ElbertF··on Stripe Atlas: Getting your first 10 customers
I send a verification link to new email addresses before accepting payments. They do click them.
ElbertF··on Stripe Atlas: Getting your first 10 customers
Thanks for the suggestion. I do this manually and never won a dispute. I suspect the fraud is being committed by a single person or group of people for the purpose of testing stolen credit cards. In some cases victims contact me after seeing my business name on their statement. I also report suspicious transactions myself.
ElbertF··on Stripe Atlas: Getting your first 10 customers
This is off-topic but is anyone else dealing with an insurmountable number of charge-backs selling digital goods using Stripe? I'm using Radar, Sift Science, email verification, CAPTCHA, post code checks, country and domain restrictions, rate limiting and every other trick in the book and yet reportedly a third of my payments is fraudulent.

The way credit card payments work seems backwards and hopelessly broken. I reached out to Stripe several times but keep getting the same templated response. What gives?

ElbertF··on Show HN: Evening hack: open source tool like BuiltWith/Datanyze
Not quite! The browser extensions are stand-alone tools that analyse web pages right in your browser. Wappalyzer also has PHP, Python and Ruby drivers that allow you to run it server-side.

You may be able to use it for your project. You are also very welcome to contribute.

ElbertF··on Show HN: Evening hack: open source tool like BuiltWith/Datanyze
Wappalyzer does this as well and is open source, cross-platform and identifies 500+ technologies:

https://github.com/ElbertF/Wappalyzer

https://wappalyzer.com/download

ElbertF··on MtGox launches Bitcoins.com, an information site for all things Bitcoin
What incentive is there for the buyer to spend their money on anything if they could be buying Bitcoin?
ElbertF··on Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
http://thelist.io
ElbertF··on Ask HN: Your best passive income sources?
Not completely passive but I run http://wappalyzer.com which is very low maintenance and a decent secondary source of income.
ElbertF··on Ask HN: Anyone use Search HN before submitting articles to prevent duplicates?
There is. In the footer.
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