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goddamnyouryanon Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

I built a simple bookmark manager myself a couple of years ago:

Mostly it just lets you apply any arbitrary number of tags to a link and the groups then together. The other key was building a bookmarklet to make saving them easy.

I don’t plan on monetizing it or really adding that many new features, but it’s worked great for me for a few years now.

goddamnyouryanon Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

Only kind of an alternative but I built a bookmark manager called https://link.horse

I use a combination of this and instapaper

goddamnyouryanon Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?

Tell me more about this 2D pixel blitter engine

goddamnyouryanon Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

This link orginization tool: https://link.horse

The key is using the bookmarklet.

goddamnyouryanon Discussion: Job seekers can't find a job and Employers can't find an employees

seems like a relevant place to promote my tech hiring company: https://polyfill.work

goddamnyouryanon Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site

I built something similar a few years ago: https://link.horse

goddamnyouryanon Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

I have literally so many not done projects (maybe I have adhd)

- TripSync: A “shared travel plans app” for you and your friends. Essentially tells you where your friends are going to be when and when you’ll be in the same area. (For iOS, not yet launched of course)

- cookmatic: recipe organization and parsing: https://cookmatic.co

- polyfill: finding developer jobs based on company values as opposed to programming languages: https://polyfill.work

- tweeker: a/b and multi variate testing: https://tweeker.io

- payote: custom stripe invoice data and invoice plugin for your site: https://payote.co

- minotaur: using Spotify data and YouTube to make a free web based music player with a better, simpler ui: https://minotaur.fm

Some are essentially finished, others are barely started.

goddamnyouryanon Ask HN: How do you look for jobs in 2023?

Figuring out hiring in 2023 is exactly what we’re trying to do over at https://polyfill.work

goddamnyouryanon Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?

We’re trying to solve this exact problem over at https://polyfill.work

goddamnyouryanon Ask HN: What's a good, privacy focused bookmark manager?

https://link.horse

I don’t have a privacy policy because I haven’t gotten around to creating one yet but yeah, like the other guys say:

- full api access - get all your data out as a zip or json or csv - when you delete something it’s truly deleted, not soft deleted.

goddamnyouryanon Ask HN: What are your favorite sci-fi books?

“The Left Hand of Darkness” besides having one of the coolest titles of all time completely blew me away. Which lead me to reading “the dispossessed” which also blew me away and has maybe further radicalized me.

She has a beautiful way with words and also all of her stories are so recognizably human. Two qualities I find woefully lacking in most sci fi.

goddamnyouryanon Ask HN: Is the job market brutal? or is it just me?

Check out https://polyfill.work we’re trying to figure out a way out of this mess of applying for 150 jobs to only hear back from 1 or 2

goddamnyouryanon Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?

https://link.horse

Linkhorse has been great for organizing my links. Like my own personal bibliography.

goddamnyouryanon Ask HN: How does an old timer find contract work

This is one of the several problems we’re trying to solve at https://polyfill.work

goddamnyouryanon Why I Work Part-Time

I work part time because I love not waking up to an alarm.

goddamnyouryanon Why is recruiting developers so difficult?

Seems like a lot of people in the comments are getting recruiting and hiring confused.

goddamnyouryanon Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

Why wouldn’t it?

goddamnyouryanon Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

I created yet another place for me to store all my own bookmarks: https://link.horse

I mostly wanted to be able to categorize bookmarks within multiple tags, and easily be able to save them, using a bookmarklet.

goddamnyouryanon Ask HN: How can I stop my inbox/wishlist/bookmarks/tabs/todos from growing?

I built a bookmark manager for myself as a place to archive links in case I ever need to reference back to them, and to allow me to close the tabs:

https://link.horse

goddamnyouryanon I quit caffeine

I have been told that oxide is not very bioavailable at all, Magnesium Citrate or Glycinate are better.

goddamnyouryanon Show HN: Linkhorse – A Simple Bookmark Organizer

Yes! Definitely lots of potential for doing some interesting social features. Thanks, I will!

goddamnyouryanon Show HN: Linkhorse – A Simple Bookmark Organizer

Thanks so much! I’ve actually been using it myself for the past 6 months or so just to see how I would like it to function, that’s where the bookmarklet came from.

I’d also like to have an iOS app to make link saving that much more seemless on mobile.

I’ve also thought about a chrome plugin that would allow you to easily save opened tabs. Having too many open tabs was originally my motivation for creating linkhorse.

goddamnyouryanon Show HN: Linkhorse – A Simple Bookmark Organizer

Oh interesting, on mobile you have to click the link twice because the first click just triggers the hover state which shows the edit button. I should probably change how that works on mobile.

No privacy policy yet as I’ve just created this as a personal tool, but the backend is hosted on heroku.

goddamnyouryanon A few things I’ve come to believe in my years in music tech

I made a music player that pulls data or organization purposes from Spotify but uses hidden videos from YouTube to play the actual music, bypassing the licensing issues:

https://minotaur.fm

goddamnyouryanon Adjustable recipe

I built a tool called https://cookmatic.co that solves this exact problem (among others)! You can hover (or click on mobile) the ingredients in the recipe body and it will tell you the amount from the ingredients list.

ex: https://cookmatic.co/recipes/easy-frittata

goddamnyouryanon Show HN: Minotaur – Free music streaming service using Spotify Data and YouTube

I was a huge fan of Rdio back in the day before it got bought by Pandora and shut down in 2015 (ish?). I've tried all the other streaming services, literally, and none of them lived up to Rdio in my opinion so I decided to build my own version.

I'm using Spotify to gather Artist, Album and Track data then streaming YouTube to actually play the songs.

Let me know what you think.

goddamnyouryanon Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify

Thanks! I built it several years ago and never really promoted it as it seemed to me like the ability to play on your phone was crucial, but not really possible to do with YouTube videos on iOS. Ahh well.

goddamnyouryanon Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify

Checkout this product I made a couple years ago after rdio shut down: It basically connects Spotify music info to YouTube songs: https://minotaur.fm

goddamnyouryanon Science Fiction Books I’ve Read (2018)

I think “house of suns“, which is not R.S. is maybe one of the best sci fi books I’ve ever read. I’ve only also read chasm city by him but I thought “House of Suns” was leaps and bounds better

goddamnyouryanon Selling Juicer

True value was probably the wrong phrasing here. More accurate would be “relative value”; The value you as an employee bring in vs your cost. Employers are arbitraging between these values to generate a profit. Businesses have to make more money than they pay their employees.

This particular phrasing just happened to strike a chord for me. It’s likely Marxism 101 but I’m not well versed on economics.