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a_chrison Show HN: Running a funny experiment with my free web-analytics

Two years back, I created a little web analytics tool for my side projects and I called Faenz. It's open source and self-hostable, available on GitHub at https://github.com/a-chris/faenz.

I've recently given it an update and came up with the idea of creating a demo version that's accessible to everyone.

How does it work?

You can add your own website, blog or e-commerce site and keep track of the visits it receives. Your website stats will be visible to others, and you'll get to check out everyone else's stats too. You won't be allowed to edit/delete a website, you should reach out to me for that.

I find it to be a fun experiment to see how people handle SEO or just to discover some cool new websites :)

The demo is available here https://faenz.acmecorp.dev/

a_chrison Bye Bye NextJS

Author here, I've built my blog with NextJS a few years ago but now I'm in the process of migrate to Birdgetown Ruby. I wrote a blog posts explaining the reasons behind my choose

a_chrison Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022

I can confirm. Also the technology used really counts: with Javascript I got weird error and there are no standard in the ecosystem so I found my self looking on Google and SO all the time. With Ruby, on the other hand, there are better documentation, no weird errors and everything seems so smooth that I visit StackOverflow just once a month. I have been working with JS for 3 years and just 1 year with Rub

a_chrison Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs

This is absolutely untrue. In Europe we work several days/weeks after the layoff notice. You can fire people from the night to the morning only in US

a_chrison I cheated on my Microsoft interview (2019)

Imagine to solve an algorithmic problem to work in the UX team. I'm always more convinced that this type of interview process is a joke

a_chrison Coinbase is rescinding already-accepted job offers

Yeah, because we spend the whole day reversing a linked list in your real-life SWE job, right? It's ridiculous that we have to study all those algorithms that we will never use it in your life, it's just too much.

a_chrison Git Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Windows and Mac

Opposite situation for me. I've been using Sourcetree for YEARS and it was a PITA, so bad, slow and counterintuitive. On the other hand Fork saved my mental health and it's by far the best git manager I've always used. This is the only software I would be happy to pay for.

a_chrison Next.js Layouts RFC: Nested routes and layouts, designed for Server Components

Coming from a React Router background, the Nextjs file structure is a bless to work with

a_chrison Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)

I'm trying to switch from Heroku to Render but it is awfully slow compared to Heroku, my Rails project takes something like 1 minute to start after it has been shut down gratefully. Moreover, it breaks the CSS assets and uses the older assets instead of the latest ones. I do not why, it is a really small project and I have none of these issue on Heroku

a_chrison Ask HN: Have you used SQLite as a primary database?

I'm working on a self-hosted analytics like Plausible but that allows to use SQLite as primary database. Of course it should be used for small websites and side projects but it will have all the Plausible features. Am I crazy?

This is the project: https://github.com/a-chris/faenz

a_chrison Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

You are living the future my friend

a_chrison Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

I've built several personal projects to be honest; background jobs, tasks automation, telegram bots to find a house to rent or buy, most of them are kept provate.

The two I'm most proud of are a web analytics that, coincidentally, I've made public today after a few weeks of work:

https://github.com/a-chris/faenz

I developed it for collect data for my personal website and it is working well so far, really happy of it.

The other one is a Google Chrome extension to manage bookmark because I think the default one is a mess and very unpratical to use. I haven't worked on it for a while:

https://github.com/a-chris/peffect-bookmarks-manager

a_chrison Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://achris.me

I'm working to improve it every week but already happy with it, I've built my own blog system with NextJS and the code is public at

https://github.com/a-chris/achris.me

a_chrison Scraping Instagram

Can anyone explain to me how these services are legal? I didn't read Instagram terms and conditions but I'm pretty sure there are tons of points against scraping, copying and distributing their data, in particular using them to make money.

How is this possible?

a_chrison Ask HN: Is Facebook Dying?

Here in Italy, most of the people I know stopped using it, nowaday it is mostly used by our parents and granparents (yea I'm serious)

a_chrison ReVanced

I know I would find a comment like this! Love you guys

a_chrison Tidier: Prettier but for File and Folder Names

interesting project!

a_chrison DietPi OS v8.1 has been released

DietPi is really great and solid. I've been using it for two years on a raspberry pi 3 and I've never had a single issue. Good job!

a_chrison SPAs Were a Mistake

The problem with SPAs is that they have been misused and overused, at least in Italy. Tons of projects built with SPA in which we have to re-implement basic browser features like the back button, just because project manager has no idea of how this technology works. I've worked on at least 4 projects which could be written in Nextjs in half of the time

a_chrison EU to mandate public salary information for all job postings [pdf]

I'm sorry by Europe is not USA. We have no RSU and little to zera extra compensations. Salary is just salary. Please don't undervaluate this law proposal if you don't know what you are talking about

a_chrison Poll: Where do you live?

Yeah, why not split north Italy and south Italy then?

a_chrison Gnome Linux – A Complete Disaster?

I know this will be an unpopular idea but I like the direction gnome is following. I think it is becoming a solid and reliable OS, it has much fewer bugs than KDE, it's getting faster update after update and I like libadwaita to have consistent windows styles. It was frustrating to have ten different windows style, in particular on a 4k monitor. Gnome has a solid core system and we can download or develop extensions if something other is missing. What's wrong with it?

a_chrison Ask HN: Has remote work made you move to a new location or consider it?

I think that the average american (USA) has no idea how good is the life in Europe.. They think we are all communists or they are very affectionated to the USA life style

a_chrison Aosta Valley Autonomus Region

Aosta Valley is a really bad place to live in: people are not friendly, food is not so good compared to other regions and job opportunities are very low

a_chrison Ask HN: Which tech stack is the most fun?

I absolutely agree! Rails, Nextjs and Flutter are the best and most funny technologies I've ever worked with

a_chrison Italy fines Amazon record $1.3B for abuse of market dominance

I guess you have never been in Europe, right?

a_chrison Q&A with the developer of BetterDummy: from macOS secrets to his motivations

I have a 4k 27" LG monitor and it is awesome with my Mac. I use it with 150% scale and the font is ultra sharp, best monitor I've ever seen so far

a_chrison 1-Line CSS Layouts

I feel the same issue and I'm 24, I think css grid is overwhelming

a_chrison Brainwashing, Italian-Style: The Birth of “Plagio”

Italian here, first time I see the word "plagio" used like this. We usually say plagio when someone does not respect a copyright, e.g. I wrote a book and someone copy the majority of book to write its own book