aparks517

I didn't know about Mailchimp's RSS-to-email, that's pretty cool! I've worked with RSS before; I think it would be pretty straightforward to add.

Colors make sense. Maybe whole themes to pick from?

For custom URLs are you thinking like a custom domain or just the path?

Thank you for the feedback! I really appreciate it :)

Hey, HN friends. I was thinking a lot about The Old Web when I built this, so maybe some of that sentiment came through, but I tried not to make it so quirky that folks wouldn’t get it.

I’ve been trying this out with friends and family for a couple of weeks. Some things we like about it: no setup or signup, it’s fast and snappy, it doesn’t demand or abuse attention. I guess the third one would keep it from ever being big, but maybe that’s fine. I think I’d rather make something nice than something big.

Some things I’m still thinking about: image scaling and optimization, discovery (search? hashtags? web-rings?).

I’d love to have your thoughts and perspectives. Is it something you can see yourself enjoying? Why or why not? What would you add or take away?

I do something like this. You can write HTML almost as simply as text if you ignore some current best-practice.

It could be just that simple. I wonder too if there's pent-up demand. I think it's best when bringing a dog into a new home if you can be around a lot to help them learn the ropes. I guess that goes double for a puppy, but I think it applies to mature dogs too. If other folks think the same way, this might be a good opportunity for them to do something they'd been putting off.

Not sure about OP’s costs, but I sell physical goods and have a similar attitude: I don’t want money from anyone who’s not delighted to give it to me. Most people are good most of the time and it works out fine.

I have had a couple of obvious scammers take advantage, but that’s on them to square with their conscience. Life’s too short to spend it fussing with folks like that.

The Ruckus has a modern four-stroke fuel-injected engine. It shouldn’t smoke or make a stench.

NIC happens at retail. I suppose it would take time for retail sales volume changes to ripple back through the supply chain, so maybe manufacturers view it as a leading indicator.

This is a truly delightful dictionary!

I put together a tool to improve the formatting somewhat the last time this went around: https://github.com/aparks517/convert-websters

And also an iOS app: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id943993346

I’ve also been collecting patches to correct typographical errors which I’ve been meaning to post somewhere. I’ve met lots of neat folks through this project!

I work on https://getmirrorshades.com It doesn’t use cookies. Data is aggregated immediately and purged on a tight schedule. May be worth seeing if it is sufficient for your use case.

Sure, you can’t just turn it off where I live. But reducing the temperature somewhat can have a larger than expected impact on heating cost, especially in homes with poor thermal resistance. Personally, I’d cut the cable TV first (and did).

My recollection is that it was mostly for brightness. I think the amber phosphor had shorter persistence and was less prone to burn-in as well. But yeah, kinda harsh on the eyes in comparison.

IME, it was common lingo in the telecom world a couple decades ago too. Typically in reference to physical circuits.

Handbook of Filter Synthesis by Zverev. It’s out of print, but gives a nice tour of the field with good references. Beautiful charts and tables.

Design of Crystal and Other Harmonic Oscillators by Parzen delighted me with its practical depth and detail.

I did a Shown HN on Mirrorshades a while back: http://getmirrorshades.com

It’s not self-hosted, but it’s fairly lightweight.

The origin within the SS7 network. Someone has to pay the bill ;)

The signaling data includes the real origin. CID is convenience data provided by the originator. The telcos wouldn’t use it for anything important, like billing.

The argument might be junk, but if you reject it solely because it points toward a conclusion that contradicts your pre-existing biases... I think you've left the path of wisdom.

Thanks for the additional feedback.

I agree that folks who commonly send large files probably already have found a good solution for it. There are a variety out there.

In my own case, I sometimes send large files but at least as often ask someone else to send /me/ a large file, typically someone who doesn't often send large files. That turns into a phone call in which I explain to them how they can sign up for a service to send me the file. Sometimes the file ends up coming on a USB stick.

Seeing that Randall Munroe had even made fun of my struggle was the last straw and I decided to build something :)

Thanks for the link. It was a delightful read.

Thanks for the feedback and for the kind words.

You certainly can ask people to sign up for Dropbox or Google Drive and a lot of folks do. It can be a bit of a side-quest if you just need them to send you a file so you can get to work on something. I've tried to make this easier to explain to the person you need a file from.

If you exceed the free tier, you'll be prompted for payment. Payment is associated with your email address, which you would enter anyway to get a link, so no additional sign-up is required. More convenient than that, I think, is that the person you are requesting a file from doesn't have to sign up for anything.

The file is encrypted in transit and at rest, but I think these are only basic measures. I agree that you shouldn't trust some guy from the Internet (including Google, perhaps). If the information to be sent is sensitive, I would recommend taking measures suitable to the level of sensitivity before sending it, probably encrypting it with keys you control rather than depending on the service provider.

Right now the size limit is 25GB, but I'm open to suggestions on that. Of course there has to be some limit, but I wanted to make it high enough that it didn't feel like there was one for most folks.

Thanks for the link. I'll check it out :)

Inspired by https://xkcd.com/949/ and https://www.xkcd.com/936/

Neighborliness and hearing protection are the reasons I've heard.

Project: https://getmirrorshades.com

Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13687353

Summary: Simple web analytics

Result: Lots of great feedback, added about 100 active users

Yes. I have basic measures already in place and a good idea of additional steps I would like to take.

At least some of them appear to use a more general-purpose method than that. They actually load pages and execute scripts with document.referrer and the Referrer header faked-up. Though it's presumably more resource-intensive, it has the benefit of working for a wide variety of analytics setups, both hosted and server-side.

Spammers are already doing what they do. I have rudimentary measures in place, but additional data will enable a more sophisticated response. I use the service myself and find spam to be crazy-making. So... ;)

Thank you! This was very helpful feedback. I added the async attribute to the script tag late in the game and didn't think about how it would interact with this. I've updated the agent script with a more robust method of finding the site ID and am deploying it now.

Thanks. HTTPS is now live. :)

I'm eager to keep that stats page small, but at the same time I'd like it to have what people need to see. So this feedback is particularly valuable to me and I've made a note of it. Thanks!

Oh! Sorry about that. Should be fixed shortly.

Oh my! Strictly speaking, it may be true that most folks will spend a bit more time on receiving practice to become minimally proficient. But I would caution against de-emphasizing sending practice for two reasons. First, there's a wide gap between sending /something/ and sending intelligible communications. At low speeds, an iambic keyer with strict timing can cover up poor technique, but at higher speeds or when sending with a straight key, it's surprisingly easy to send gibberish. If I can't make our your call, I can't respond to you ;) Second, effort spent on sending practice helps reinforce receiving practice. It also helps break things up, provide variety, and generally make practice more fun. As you point out, the code is no longer compulsory. It's a hobby and should be fun! :)