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maxencecornet··on Show HN: Tailwind Builder – online editor for the Tailwind CSS framework
>https://bulma.dev

I've been looking for a bulma drag and drog builder for years

I'm going to test it out asap

maxencecornet··on Ask HN: What is your go-to project when learning a new language/framework?
For back-end tech, it's almost always a job board
maxencecornet··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
Sure!

- The first one was a trivia game made with javascript (Vue.js), it was a hit on Reddit around a month after launch and became the top post on a 900k subs subreddit, I was contacted soon after through reddit mail

- The other one was sold on flippa, so they took a large cut of the sale

maxencecornet··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
Do you see the "Try out the Brave Browser" button on the main page ?

It redirects towards this page: https://brave.com/bat684

I get payed by Brave Software around 5$ for each user that download the browser and use it for at least 30 days

maxencecornet··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
It doesn't exactly qualify as a one-man business, but I'm running a few side projects bringing around $500/month:

- https://batgrowth.com: A website monitoring the growth of The Brave browser / Basic Attention Token, in terms of publishers adoption (Fun fact: Wikipedia founder, Larry Sanger, tweeted about the site)

- https://ethereum-cours.com: A CMC clone built mainly for fun, bringing some decent referral revenue

- My tech blog

I've built many more side projects, most were earning $0/month after a few months, but I've also sold 2 side projects, so overall it's worth the effort

maxencecornet··on Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet
This

If you really want to have an impact while still eating meat, just stop eating beef/lamb altogether

The amount of food and water needed to produce 1kg of beef meat is just insane

Eat poultry or fish instead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_conversion_ratio

>Cattle is the worst at something like 15:1. Aquaculture, specifically tilapia and catfish, is good at under 2:1

maxencecornet··on Plant-based diet can fight climate change – UN
If you really want to have an impact while still eating meat, just stop eating beef altogether

The amount of food and water needed to produce 1kg of beef meat is just insane

Eat poultry or fish instead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_conversion_ratio

>Cattle is the worst at something like 15:1. Aquaculture, specifically tilapia and catfish, is good at under 2:1

maxencecornet··on Tree planting: Where can I do it and which type is best?
> an average person from a high carbon output country needs about 600-1000 trees to offset their carbon output.

This seems really doable for the average person!

maxencecornet··on Show HN: I built a service to discover rapidly growing Google search topics
What could be a really neat addition is having trends sorted by countries
maxencecornet··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
Thank you!

This is the draft for the next version (The texts are placeholders, it's just a UI/UX draft) :

https://twitter.com/MaxenceCornet/status/1144929703058399232

EDIT: Direct links to the draft:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-OberFXYAA3dMR.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-ObfgRWwAA9m0O.jpg

maxencecornet··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
I'm working on the v2 of the UX/UI for my side-project https://batgrowth.com

Basically, the site is just a listing of content creators that accept tips in the form of Basic Attention Token sent through the Brave browser

I'm pretty happy with the project and the site is getting some decent traffic (https://simpleanalytics.com/batgrowth.com), but I think the current UI/UX is not good enough

maxencecornet··on Start Eating Mussels
I'm in Italy right now in holidays, met an old italian guy that told me that growing mussels is pretty easy and really cheap

I just tipped "Reddit how to grow mussels" on google, and this was the first link

maxencecornet··on Deutsche Bank Says Software to Detect Money Laundering Had a Bug
Paul Jorion, a french writer and ex-"the Bank of the European Union" employee, said that he was pushed out of the company when he revealed a bug in risk-calculation software

I'm pretty sure this bug was known for some time as well

maxencecornet··on The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
>They literally do

No they don't, I've been using the Brave browser for over a year on desktop, with the users ads activated

This is the most common seen misconception on HN about Brave, Brave is not replacing ads with their own ads

It just doesn't work like this

A great comment from a Brave team member about that misconception on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/bby4um/the_la_ti...

maxencecornet··on The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
>and places its own ads.

No it does not, I've been using the Brave browser for over a year on desktop, with the users ads activated

This is the most common seen misconception on HN about Brave, Brave is not replacing ads with it's own ads

It just doesn't work like this

A great comment from a Brave team member about that misconception on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/bby4um/the_la_ti...

maxencecornet··on SoftBank founder lost $130M on Bitcoin
>Well 10% is better than less or nothing, right? Shows his lack of confidence in it going up any further - or at least within a timeframe that there aren't better investments.

Pretty much any good book about investing (eg. The Four Pillars of Investing) teaches you that following your human emotions and irrationality in investing is the worst you can do, basically selling when everybody IS selling is the worst move (Warren Buffett: Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful, https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/012116/warre...)

So I'm pretty surprised to see Masayoshi Son acting like a rookie investor, and following the crowd of uneducated investors buying during the mania and selling during the crash

It's the opposite of investing 101

maxencecornet··on SoftBank founder lost $130M on Bitcoin
I like how you can be a literal billionaire bank founder and still buy a speculative asset at it's peak and sell at it's lowest after a 90% crash

Buy high sell low

>>The investment came at the peak of the bitcoin frenzy in late 2017 after the digital currency had already risen more than 10 fold that year. The exact size of the bet couldn’t be determined, but bitcoin peaked at nearly $20,000 in mid December 2017 and Mr. Son sold in early 2018 after bitcoin had plummeted, the people said.

maxencecornet··on Gimli – A Visual Studio Code extension for front-end developers
Not only, I know more than 3 completely unrelated piece of software using the name gimli:
maxencecornet··on Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
I've switched to Brave a long time ago already

And to protonmail for emails

maxencecornet··on Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
The exact same thing happened to me last week

My ads-free really simple React Native app was removed from the play store for “deceptive ads”

I don't care too much as this was just a way to learn React Native for me, but it's still really weird

To be honest every interaction I have with Google products nowadays are bad:

- This app kicked from the Play store

- A bug with the new Adsense Auto-ads where you couldn't disable the giant ads that were added on your content without removing completely Google Adsense script, which I did

I'm now moving away from anything Google

maxencecornet··on Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique called letterboxing
>May switch to Brave in the future

In the futur? Tor tabs are already a feature of Brave, as of today

maxencecornet··on You probably don't need a single-page app
Of course you can use server side rendering with Next.js,but it adds some work/complexity

With a server rendered website, you don't have to do anything

maxencecornet··on Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018)
I've heard that I'm unknowingly "eating" bugs everyday by drinking ground coffee

I don't know if it's a fact or a myth

maxencecornet··on Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation
There is a huge difference between being downvoted and not being able to express your opinion because of censorship

IMO you should be able to express any opinion, and of course you'll be downvoted if you are a bigot or a religious nutcase

Right now Reddit is going full censorship, which I hate

maxencecornet··on Millions in cryptocurrencies frozen after Canadian founder's death
It doesn't sound fishy at all

I'm 95% sure this is a bizarre exit scam

maxencecornet··on Bye, Bye, Google
>Brave stole a lot of bitcoin from people by converting it into their useless/worthless BAT.

What is this even supposed to mean?

I'm both a Brave publisher (4 verified websites) and a Brave browser user, nothing like this ever happened

As a publisher you can choose in which token you want to be paid, BTC, ETH or else, you are never forced to accept BAT.

As you can see on this screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/TKg1m0i

From the Brave publisher dashboard

maxencecornet··on Bye, Bye, Google
>Who, in 2019, are the "cherished underdogs of today"?

My guess:

- Email: Protonmail get recommended all the time on HN/Reddit

- Analytics: Simpleanalytics seems to be the new champion

- Search Engine: DuckDuckGo

- Browser: Probably Vivaldi, or maybe Brave

maxencecornet··on Deliveroo users are getting defrauded
I have a friend that works for a deliveroo clone in Paris, this is true, loads of people rent their phones to migrants that work for the company under a fake identity
maxencecornet··on Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
I mean, they are not wrong, you should be using HTTPS.
maxencecornet··on The New Brave Is 22% Faster
Thank you for correcting me! I wrote the numbers that were on top of my head
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