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Does anybody know some good real life examples of projects using blockchain? (other than cryptocurrencies of course)

Whenever I tried to find some all I can find is proof of concepts, or new projects to evaluate the technology, but they never seem to consolidate.

I feel like there should be more tangible and clearly successful examples by now, if the technology was really promising.

Is there any browser on iPhone that allows custom CSS/JS? Last time I checked I couldn’t find a way, all I wanted was to set a dark then to HN, without having to visit another website.

I picked Elixir to develop Statuspal 4 years ago as a solo founder, I’m pretty happy with the decision so far, we’ve been in production for close that time and I feel very productive and enjoy it a lot.

That’s not to say we never encounter hiccups, we’ve been bitten by a few libraries getting unmaintained, a few drastic changes in Phoenix in the first years, and a hard time getting a proper deployment setup, but nowadays is much more mature.

Thanks to Elixir we got away with things like not needing to cache (for quite some time) with great performance and with little resources, not worrying about the app becoming slow if 6 people visit at the same time.

Hiring Elixir developers is not as easy as RoR devs but is doable, I had good experience in Elixir specific places like https://elixirjobs.net/ and Upwork to a lesser degree.

More of a sign that your status page should be separately from your Infrastructure, this was a takeaway from Facebook latest incident too.

https://statuspal.io/blog/2021-04-09-learning-from-facebook-...

They are reporting about it here https://api.twitterstat.us/

I think their current status page is https://api.twitterstat.us/ actually.

Is there an open source alternative to ChartMogul? I feel like it makes sense, at least I'd like to avoid having to share financial information with a 3rd party, would much rather use some self-hosted open source solution.

Hi there,

I created this small tool to mock HTTP endpoints and dynamically configure how they respond to requests, comes handy to quickly test monitoring tools.

More than open to feedback and ideas on how it can be more useful, the way we envision it is a very simple and easy to use version of AWS Lambda with focus on HTTP requests forwarding, manipulation.

I think most monitoring services offer at most 1 HTTP request / minute checks, is there really need for lower intervals?

Can't you just use the context of the information? like put a technology related Ad right below a post related to technology, granted is not nearly as relevant, I think that's kind of like what Reddit does.

You configure the integration in Postbear’s dashboard and this way we pull your products and make them available to drag and drop them onto your newsletter, go ahead and give it a try!

I’m working on a tool that allows you to build newsletters from external sources like static blog posts (Gatsby, Hugo, Jekyll), Shopify products, Airtable data, and more.

https://postbear.io

Basically providing you with a browsable “gallery” of data items from which you can filter, select and customize in order to assemble your newsletter avoiding repetitive copy/paste and styling.

Feedback is welcome :)

No one using iCloud email? I’m giving it a try atm, I think if you’re in the apple ecosystem it can be a good choice, anybody else experimented with it?

I created this simple tool to help format the output of bash scripts, since it was not so trivial when I wanted to do this myself, colors.sh lets you easily set the formatting (foreground and background colors, etc), preview it and see how to implement it.

Hope it's helpful for others too :)

Hi there, I built this service to provide light and good looking status pages management, inspired by the Heroku status page (and some others), I decided to go with Elixir + Phoenix as I enjoyed it in my last project (lesen.io).

This is still work in progress, there are many features on the way but I think it can provide some value already, and hopefully I can get some feedback here so I can pick wisely on what features to work next.

What about placing the sponsor ads in the projects websites instead of in the READMEs? couldn't that be a viable option?

but we are keeping this one :) I like it

On a related note I was expecting to see you guys using the app in the video, it would be nice to see examples of real life use of it, Im not totally sure how/if I would use it

I feel this way too, I would just remove this story or replace it with how you got the idea of making this app

"Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not." -Master Yoda

May the Force be with you Princess

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A really cool app that costs $1 (cant think of one from the top of my head but Im sure there are), maybe something on self improvement

haha I was just guessing and there you have it ^^ I'm slowly switching to Gitlab, only issue is its slighly slower than Github

So simple, so useful, I wonder if this feature wasn't already in Gitlab since it seems to be more full featured

Exactly my thoughts!, Im just a little concerned on how to accurately determine when two different links are the same story, it would be very bad to join different stories into one by mistake

Thanks I will look into supporting RSS, and the Android version is coming soon

I'm definitively putting more effort in this, thanks

thanks for the feedback :) will consider this

Thanks for the tips, my idea is that, at least for tech news, I should be able to get enough stories from just one place, not having to go through multiple apps to get a grasp of whats going on out there... and maybe in a future include other categories and not just tech.

I also like the idea of pulling the stories from aggregators as its stuff that people is explicitly expressing interest for.

Maybe its just me, but I find panda too complex to use, I just tried one more time now and could not get a simple combination of this 3 sources of news in one timeline, I wanted something simpler and that would work without configuration to get good tech news

Thanks :) Im proud at the minimalistic approach I took for this project, been working with react.js lately, I just wanted the simplest and fastest type of app here, and Phoenix seems to be responding pretty well too