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digitalbase··on Nostr
As a 1 year nostr user i can relate to this sentiment. Most conversations today are either about crypto or about (building) nostr.

My guess is that the better the network becomes the more that specific content will take a backseat

digitalbase··on Nostr
I've been working on a Quora/StackOverflow alternative (on top of Nostr).

https://asknostr.site/

I hope this demonstrates how a distributed social protocol can solve many use cases and the advantage to the end-user:

- do not get rugpulled by (VC backed) companies that own your data

- receive zaps/money by contributing

- data is truely available to everyone (but signed by author)

digitalbase··on How Vercel Builds Vercel - Lee Robinson [video]
Nice video.

Surprised they use contentful (was expecting them to have something more typescripty or self-hosted).

The part about using v0 is the least interesting part to me. It felt like a plug rather than a true statement of how this is impacting developer/product workflows

digitalbase··on How I regained concentration and focus
I really enjoyed reading this post as I experimented with something similar 3 months ago which has drastically changed my mood/attention span:

- removed all social media apps from phone

- lock down all access to apps (screen time) and not know the password (give it to someone else)

- only allow photos, podcasts, spotify, navigation and the dial/SMS app

Screentime went from a few hours per day to about 15 minutes or so. But it has also changed my mood for the better. I still have to find a way to do the same thing on my desktop which is a lot harder (I need a browser)

digitalbase··on Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate
temporarily...almost always those measures stay in place much longer
digitalbase··on Want a killer product? Become more opinionated
Isn't having an opinion + figuring out how to match that w customer needs exactly what product management is?

I mean any product manager has to make a lot of decisions. Having an opinion does help in making decisions

digitalbase··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)
We're hiring:

- Backend/PHP/Postgres role - Frontend TS/React/JS role

You will get

- Competitive salary - Great tools: What would Batman be without his utility belt? He’d still be badass. But you get the point. At Prezly you’ll get to choose your own gear. - Flexible hours: There’s a life outside of work. That’s why our distributed team works from where they want, when they want. And they get tons of work done. - Unlimited vacation time: Employees can take as many holidays as they need. - Visits to Leuven: A few times per year the entire team gets together in the office in Leuven, the world’s capital of beer. We’ll fly you in so you can have fun with the team.

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https://careers.prezly.com/

digitalbase··on Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling
I use 1tab for this. works in Brave and Chrome
digitalbase··on SEMrush S-1
They did a small acquisition September 2020

https://www.semrush.com/news/semrush-acquires-fast-growing-s...

digitalbase··on Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS
interesting article. outside of gitlab, ghost.org are there other companies that embrace this model?
digitalbase··on A guide to live chat tools for startups
Great post. Made my question my bill and start a twitter rant sharing some billing details.

1488$/month for a support chat software that is average

https://twitter.com/digitalbase/status/1324461575483379712

digitalbase··on 11.3M pageviews without the growth hacking bullshit
good stuff! Really interesting article, first time in a long while that I actually finished a 10+ minute medium article / OR wasn't able because medium added their paywall
digitalbase··on Slate JS – A customizable framework for building rich text editors
Here are 2 wistia video's on images in slate specifically. The one on the bottom includes images + galleries

https://www.prezly.com/news/the-different-ways-to-use-images...

digitalbase··on Riposte: Scripting Language for JSON HTTP APIs
Nice idea, any frameworks trying to achieve the same ?
digitalbase··on Slate JS – A customizable framework for building rich text editors
Gitbook (powering the documentation in this link) is also using Slate but they Forked it.

Here is why https://github.com/GitbookIO/slate/blob/master/Readme.md

All slate repos @ https://github.com/GitbookIO?utf8=&q=slate&type=&language=

digitalbase··on Slate JS – A customizable framework for building rich text editors
The mention plugins is easily fixable and simple functionality. We have that fixed for a long time now.

It should not be a reason not to consider slate

digitalbase··on Slate JS – A customizable framework for building rich text editors
We just had too many problems to modify it + it seemed facebook had completely abandoned the project.
digitalbase··on Slate JS – A customizable framework for building rich text editors
We're using Slate to for a mid-sized react application where content editing is the core. I don't want to link/plug a product video showing you how it works but imagine dropbox paper, medium editor, CKeditor 5, ...

The implementation includes mentions, pretty complex gallery/inline image functionality, galleries with size/output controls, embeds (iframely) and other inline elements.

First we had TinyMCE, Redactor, DraftJS and then switched to Slate.

I would not say it's smooth sailing from here, we're mostly struggling with pasting from word, tables, mobile support and overall performance with the number of plugins, but working on it.

digitalbase··on Stripe Billing
@tarstarr can you email invoices?

Also do you have multi currency subscriptions? Or do i need to create a pro_monthly_euro, expert_yearly_dollar subscription ?

digitalbase··on Stripe Billing
As we speak, we are writing code to move from stripe to recurly/adyen.

The analytics/easy plan mgmt and email invoicing in recurly is something stripe doesn't have.

Would you advise against that ?

digitalbase··on Ask HN: What headless CMS do you recommend?
I've been asking me the same question to switch a static site to basic CMS.

Contentful.com seems to be the leader.

Graphcms looks nice, GraphQL is a promising technology to only fetch the content/relations you need to render that page.

I was thinking about using Airtable for even a simpler MVP

digitalbase··on Blocklist Facebook domains
Someone should start a business for this:

Provide people that care about privacy with a public DNS server they can use that auto blocks those domains (and update's its lists). I would pay for it (few dollars a month)

Feature suggestion: allow people to add their own entries so I can purposely block reddit or hacker news to reduce distractions.

Pretty sure I would set this DNS server on both my phone and desktop.

digitalbase··on Airtable gets $52M in funding
i don't think it works well. Tried it, not all updates come in especially if you're using lookup formulas.

If they can do Zapier push then a webhook should not be that hard to pull of either. But the request has been there for a long time (https://community.airtable.com/t/webhooks-for-records/1966) and I just don't think that their architecture is ready for it (yet).

Maybe the 50mio will do some good :-)

digitalbase··on Airtable gets $52M in funding
Why worried about vendor lock in? Every base comes with API and export options. It's very easy to take your data with you?

Actually we mirror all the data every 24 hours with some simple GET requests in combination with postgres JSON columns

digitalbase··on Airtable gets $52M in funding
The video made me discover zeit. It changed my life :-0
digitalbase··on Airtable gets $52M in funding
For everyone that does not get what makes this different from Google Sheets have a look at this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGUCqWa0Msc where the CEO of Airtable (Howie Liu) is live coding an example on top of Airtable

Google spreadsheets is a collaborative excel Airtable is much more than that (forms, views, versioning)

digitalbase··on Airtable gets $52M in funding
Airtable is awesome.

We have been throwing out a ton of self-built admin forms and CRUD pages by Airtable bases. Now people inside the company can add new fields, versioning by default, super simple interface.

Largest con: No webhooks. Which makes you pull data every X minutes to find out if a record changed. I would throw them a lot more money (280$/month now) if they just had webhooks as it could replace a TON internal systems/reports.

Second con: Ids. I would want them to support client delivered record_ids. Right now airtable has it's own ID field (which can not be set). Therefore if you want syncing to work efficiently you need to store that airtable_id on your side to do REST updates (PATCH). Would be better that airtable record_ids could be provided by the client so I can inject database primary keys and not have to store/query their record_id

digitalbase··on Airtable gets $52M in funding
the price just went up (after their round) :-)

I hope they don't sell and keep building the mission

digitalbase··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)
Prezly (https://www.prezly.com) | Europe | Full-time | Remote company

- Senior Frontend (react redux) - Full stack engineers (JS, PHP) - VP marketing - Customer Success Lead

https://www.prezly.com/careers

In terms of how we hire engineers i wrote about it on medium. HN thread @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15585316

digitalbase··on How we do coding assignments (hiring engineers)
hmmm good comment. I don't plan on using their code so do we really need an IP agreement ? (don't like paperwork)
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