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I'm working on my mental health this weekend - I've been putting it off for a while now, so I'm focusing on writing and staying away from work and competitive games. Might finally crack open a book, which isn't something I've been able to do a whole lot recently. Recommendations are welcome :)

Slightly off topic, but as someone who works at a company that uses Drupal for e-commerce sites, I'm surprised there isn't a good (free) module for recurring payments. Definitely sounds useful though - I'll have to bring it up sometime.

Looks good but you may want to consider changing the name as to not clash with https://twig.symfony.com/

If your password manager supports it, make a secure note with all the URLs you use regularly. My work keep a big wiki of documentation, including frequently accessed servers, which seems to work really well - it also allows us to document each individual server.

When in doubt, write it down, preferably somewhere secure to prevent leaking anything if handling sensitive data. Excel spreadsheets work pretty well too, but formatting might get a bit distracting.

At a previous job we ran a lot of client-facing servers and kept most of the URLs in our server monitoring software. It wasn't great and there wasn't a lot of documentation, but frequently accessed servers were all in a central place (save for our test/Ansible servers).

You could take a look at Owncloud, I know there's a few projects that also do it but I can't name any others off the top of my head.

It does however avoid screwing with the timeline order, and I find the column layout very convenient in most cases.

> super bloated dev environments

Care to give some examples of this? I've been using compiled languages for a while now and I've never felt my environment had been "bloated".

Could this be any more vague? It looks almost like a paywall system judging by the mockup images. I'm also really put off by the giant banner asking for outlets to contact him for interviews - why not do a press release?

> And the performance/resource usage is just fine.

It depends. On my machine with 8GB of RAM and an older processor, Electron apps suck the life out of it. My newer dual core with 16GB of RAM (ultrabook) and an NVME SSD handles them fine. I think most devs working with newer faster hardware get a bit desensitized when it comes to performance. Electron isn't necessarily a terrible thing, but I refuse to call it "the greatest thing" - there's still a lot more work to do, like have a single shared Electron process for all Electron apps.

Alright, I'm not for or against Google - I appreciate the things they've done but really notice their shortcomings - I'd say I'm more "pro-sensible advertising".

> Here's the thing, Google doesn't have the authority to dictate what software you run on your computer.

No, but it can dictate what plugins are available in _their_ store for _their_ browser. Just use Firefox or manually install the plugins. They aren't stopping you completely, but when you're in their ecosystem you play by their rules.

> App Store, Chrome, Adwords, all need to be separated into unrelated companies to eliminate the blatant conflict of interest

Absolutely, and there are other competitors in this space. Google is too big at this point to spin those off.

> As an aside, this is evidence that advertising is dead.

It's not dead because there's no real valid alternative for the everyday website. A lot of users don't want to pay to browse your website past paying their ISP, and mining cryptocurrency isn't an option either. There was a project a little while back called F-U, Pay Me! by Datajoy (https://datajoy.us/fupm.html) that I wrote about that was a worthy replacement, but needs more traction to really take off.

> Thanks to AdNauseum and any similar forks, no corporation in the world, no matter how large or wealthy, can guarantee that their advertising model is honest or functional.

This is where advertising falls apart and it all becomes valueless, which I think is more destructive overall. Google offers a pretty good way of monetizing a website while they help themselves to analytics and a portion of the revenue. Google's AdSense getting shut down would mean (likely, speculation here) a lot of smaller hobby websites being killed off, and larger ones forced to gate access with a paywall. Ultimately, we need a DNS-based tip jar system, but that requires adoption. It's not impossible to run a website if you have a job, but if that website _is_ your job, you're out of luck.

I think one of the biggest issues with AdNauseum is devaluing ads to a point it's no longer viable to show any because the adsense account (or alternative) will get flagged as fraud or ads will pay out far less, harming the publisher much more in the long run than an ad blocker. If I still ran ads on one of my websites, I would be very upset if this was the case. While I agree it is also probably in Google's best interest to sell ads at high prices, it does affect those who use adsense as well.

VirusTotal link: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/e88753917d7283715f0a4c633e...

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/X60nnAT.png

I'm excited to try it but because I'd be using it for sensitve/confidential work I don't want to risk it unfortunately.

I'm still really leery of eul.im, I can't seem to find anybody reviewing/actually using it and it throws up a couple detections on VirusTotal. Would be interested to hear of your experience.

I wouldn't say it failed, more like foiled by investors less interested in the technology and more intent on making profit, which has killed any chance it has of becoming an actually viable currency. I had dreams of paying for physical goods in store with BTC, maybe through NFC, but thanks to price fluctuations that will probably never happen.

Do the founders have family in Russia? I'm not really up to date with Telegram as a company or the people behind it.

This actually looks really cool, curious how it works under the hood. Sort of disappointed there's no WebCatalog Lite version for Windows, would love to avoid using Electron - is it a mater of building it, or are there OS-specific the Chromium build requires?

I'm personally a fan of PocketCasts but with a small caveat: Syncing feeds goes through their servers, which means smaller feeds aren't updated instantly, even when manually syncing.

As both a listener and once guest of SE Daily (and now contributor to the open source project), I really appreciate both the content and the community around it. Jeff is fantastic at conducting the interviews, even with people who arent very experienced with being interviewed (e.g me). Glad that it's doing so well. Would be curious to know how many people on HN listen to it as well.

Might want to look into changing the name, since Scratch is a block-based programming project MIT runs https://scratch.mit.edu/ and makes discoverability a lot more difficult.

I'm assuming the reason for not having seeding open is because you never know what's on the drive? Or is there some other technical reason?

I really want to use this - I run a school student newsletter and would love to be able to see how people are reading it. Unfortunately I'd want to host this on my own server that I already have set up serving the PDFs with some small PHP scripts and Caddy. Any options for this use case?

I did a double take when I initially read the name, thinking it was a minimal browser _for_ Cargo packages.

No mention of restricting access to keypairs and removing access via password login? This is the #1 thing I do with all servers I deploy.

I'm not sure this change really affects the HomePod - I've heard from some Siri still can't (or won't) play music from Spotify when asked, and defaults to Apple Music. This goes for in-line controls on headphones/earbuds and in-car control. If music is already playing it seems to control fine, but if trying to start playback it opens Apple Music. I'm getting this second hand so I could be a bit off but that's part of the reason my SO moved to Android.

> Don't be afraid of trouble.

Legally speaking, you probably should be. Contracts work when done properly.

Recently on reddit I answered a question on the /r/webdev subreddit asking about backdoors in websites in case the client doesn't pay[1]. Sometimes webdevs don't quite understand how to deal with clients who don't pay, and the real answer is get a legally binding contract. Most other devs I know don't bother with this though, and leads to some frustrations on their part.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/7u5965/how_to_add_b...

This story reminds me a bit of Ready Player One, but on a much smaller scale.

Yeah it really does feel like it, at least for their referral code, which they ephasize. I wish they'd publish a script for DIY benchmarking to compare to their results. Also

> DigitalOcean 10$ - CPU 1 core - 1 GB RAM - 512 MB Swap

Not the case any more, so some updated stats would be nice.

So am I going to be paying $2.50/month for my existing 512MB instances, or is it going to be charging me $5? I don't see anything either in the article or on DO's blog about it, nor anything on their pricing page.

Edit: So I guess it's still $5/month. https://twitter.com/digitalocean/status/953304176280432646

I think an IBO (Initial Board Offering) would be more fitting.