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ashleyhindleon Show HN: Vask – Pusher-compatible WebSockets on Cloudflare, no fan-out fees

Using Cloudflare here has been an interesting learning curve, coming from Laravel and go

And still not 100% sure if the sharding is the correct approach, but load-testing is promising so far

ashleyhindleon Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display

This is so great

How is it volume wise while it's working? Manageable or painful?

ashleyhindleon Tldx – CLI tool for fast domain name discovery

That worked beautifully - thanks!

ashleyhindleon Tldx – CLI tool for fast domain name discovery

Same here

ashleyhindleon Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

Whisp [1] - Pure* PHP SSH server specifically designed for devs to build fun TUIs

Ended up having to write a decent chunk of C using FFI mind, no wonder people write SSH servers in Go/C, and why every AI tool told me it's really difficult and shouldn't be done :D

Bit of fun though, and I know more than I would ever want to know about the SSH protocol now!

- [1] https://github.com/whispphp/whisp

ashleyhindleon Mail-in-a-Box – one-click, easy-to-deploy email server

This is the exact reason I built Fodor: https://fodor.xyz - it lets you easily setup GitHub projects on DigitalOcean so it truly is one~ click (usually about 4, but hey pretty good?)

You add a fodor.json file, add a link to Fodor and it makes it super easy to get it setup for yourself

ashleyhindleon Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

My Conference Is On Fire - Frontend for Twilio conferencing system

https://github.com/ashleyhindle/myconferenceisonfire

https://conference.ashleyhindle.com

ashleyhindleon Show HN: Instant Spotify - Search Spotify songs using Google keyword suggestions

This is really nice. I had to be logged in to the web player for the play button to work, but once I did it's a great experience.

Nice work!

ashleyhindleon What are the downsides to this bash script for SSH keys?

Thanks for your input. I didn't realise Ansible had added that in 1.9, that's really awesome.

ashleyhindleon howiwork.xyz – discover, and share, how people work

I'd love it if you could share your story at http://submit.howiwork.xyz - this really interests lots of people (especially me!)

ashleyhindleon Show HN: Telegram bot to log your weight – open source with JSON API

Would appreciate any thoughts on this, or the next steps which are:

/metric [type] command: to set how you want to send/receive the data /output [type] command: the bot will send you your logs in table format, or graph format

ashleyhindleon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)

Probably for ease of managing benefits, payments/salaries, employment law and such

ashleyhindleon Show HN: GifFight.club – Who has the winning gif?

Hi Astrodust,

Twitter is there for authentication so you can't 'vote hack' as easily - it was also much easier to integrate than a full user account system/email verificatoin.

Also, somebody else mentioned this (in a less abrasive way) - what is it about the Twitter auth that's so creepy and invasive?

ashleyhindleon Show HN: GifFight.club – Who has the winning gif?

Howdy!

I made this this morning in around 6 hours from domain availability to 'launch' and I'll be writing a blog post about that soon.

See if you can become the King of Gif Fight Club!