michaelanckaert

There are also issues with Gmail, message delivery is impacted in almost all regions.

Common Lisp and Clojure!

>> Common Lisp applications are hard to deploy.

>No server or desktop or web-browser comes with common lisp pre-installed. Building common lisp is a pain, because packaging/ASDF is terrible and you don't easily get a nice and small statically linked executable out either. Compared to exactly what language is common lisp not hard to deploy?

I'm not here to defend all of the flaws in CL, but I really enjoy the SBCL feature that allows you to compile to a binary. Yes it may not be as small as a pure C/C++/Rust executable, but it's very useful and I've used in various projects with great success.

My heart still goes out to Python but I was I could just as easily create a Python executable as I can with SBCL.

It looks like everyone is building their own thing... So am I: https://trackr.sh

I have a couple of thousand bookmarks, which as some might say is a ridiculous amount. Except they aren't really bookmarks in the strict sense. For me they are webpages that contain useful information. Some bookmarks don't get opened for years but I know that if I ever need information on compiling SBCL I can click the tags 'sbcl' and 'compilers'. Searching the internet for that exact article probably wouldn't get me what I found 4 years ago.

I have the same experience. A healthy portion of my time (25% is my estimate) comes from Perl freelance work. The amount of 'legacy' systems that run Perl and need maintenance is staggering.

If it weren't for the current Python hype (AI/ML and devops), I'd have more project that require Perl than Python.

It certainly wasn’t my intention to hijack this post. I wanted to ask a genuine question. Personally I don’t think referring to a competing product is bad when asking for a comparison of features.

Sorry if my comment came across as self promotion!

Congratulations on launching Zapmarks!

I’m a big fan of bookmaking services. Having better ways of managing your saved information is important to me. I run https://trackr.sh that serves a similar goal.

Why did you pick a single keyword to identify your bookmarks? I use a similar workflow in Firefox vit found that it doesn’t scale for a lot of bookmarks. For https://trackr.sh I chose to go with a multi tag combination where you select a number of tags to narrow down your list of bookmarks.

Good to read this, I call this the Spartan Webdesign and describe it here[0].

[0] https://www.sinax.be/blog/general/guidelines-for-spartan-web...

I'm really pleased to see Django is still going strong. I started using it since version 0.96 and have been in love ever since.

I'm currently supporting two major business applications built on Django (custom ERP/CRM software) and the speed with which our teams can develop new features is astounding.

One thing I want to get right is reliable archiving of bookmarks [0], a modern minimalistic UX with first class mobile support and we include an RSS reader that integrates seamlessly into the bookmarking functionality.

I'm still working out the details but I want to make trackr a first stop for managing your content: bookmarks and feeds.

[0] If I can believe other users this is something that pinboard has actually gotten worse at lately.

True, without tooling most platforms/languages would suck to work with.

But I believe that the more tooling a stack needs, the more wobbly the stack gets. The more wobble the more error prone and less fun to work with.

I'm not sure if I like where this whole WebAssemby thing is going. On one hand I'm thrilled to the prospect of Python in the browser, on the other this seems like a huge layered mess just waiting to trouble those poor devs.

I actually enjoy creating plain server side rendered web applications with just a dusting of client side Javascript where it makes sense. The development flow is simple and debugging is easy.

This is a habit that I also picked up over the past couple of years. It has lead to me clicking away a lot of websites, but I'm still equally happy.

Clicking away happens even more so if the site I'm trying to view is "user hostile". Bad readability, banners, popups, those cookie preferences that really don't work, just clicking Yes to hide them works.

The article on Letters of Last Resort made me think how absurd democracy can be at times.

It looks like PM May wrote her Letters of Last Resort, and then Johnson did the same. But from the looks of it, new Letters of Last Resort could be written pretty soon. Just thinking of those sub commanders, receiving new letters last week and then getting another set of letters just a couple of weeks later.

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Why build it? Because I think we can do a better job and provide a different experience (hopefully better) than competing services. Just because similar services exist is no reason not to build something. Otherwise there would be very little to do in this world :-)

The goal of trackr.sh is to allow you to bookmark interesting information, allow you to quickly find that information at a later time, and just stay out of your face in all other cases.

We feature archiving so you never loose that interesting piece of content you bookmarked and have integrations with Twitter and Reddit.

I would love to get your feedback on this and we are very open to feature requests so we can make trackr.sh a better product!

Thanks for the tip!

Great resource, thanks for sharing!

Thx for the tip!

These are great write ups! Just a shame they are in the format of a twitter “conversation”. The readability really sucks and don’t let me get started on the UX :/

I'm also a fan of the 'email me your comments' approach. The extra effort required acts as an extra filter that is often welcome.

The nears a design what I call Spartan Webdesign [0]. The UX on mobile devices is not there yet but I agree this is one of the better sites we've seen here in a long time :-)

[0] https://www.sinax.be/blog/general/guidelines-for-spartan-web...

I agree that getting things like comments and search running on a static site is a lot work. But I’m of the opinion your personal site doesn’t need those things.

Rarely have I seen interesting discussion happen in the comments of a personal blog. All great discussion is held in aggregators like HN.

Similarly search is best left to specialized platforms such as a search engine. Blogging software may have decent search by why recreate a search engine when duckduckgo.com will far exceed capabilities with site: and filetype:?

For me a personal site and blog are mostly single visit kind of stops. I end up on a blog via a link but almost never do I feel the need to read the top 5 best posts of some blog. I got some interesting information from the current article but then I’m of to the next link that shows up in my feed.

In my opinion a website needs readability[0] and an ATOM/RSS feed. All the rest is part ego ("my content is so great people just have to see what else I wrote") and part feature creep.

[0] https://www.sinax.be/blog/general/guidelines-for-spartan-web...

I think they would be, if you use the definition in the sense that the 'work' done is the Research & Development. The actual producing of the chips is easy. The R&D for new products and production methods are the real cost. So with in mind they are tech companies since it doesn't matter if they sell 10k chips or 10mil, the work is done. The rest is creating copies, which is 'cheap' in comparison.

I'm using Pelican [0] and found it really easy to setup and use.

This is great, it really proves that you don't need a lot of styling and interactivity to get a message across.

I'm sounding like my grandpa, but... back in my day, things were fast, simple and they worked Now we got this huge mess of technology just so we can track users, sell ads and annoy our site visitors?

Seems logical to me: the bank essentially gave you a loan and then said, well you don’t need to pay us back. So they really gave you a certain amount of money. Isn’t that what they call income?

Thanks for your work on Bulma! Are you available for freelance work? I’m starting to use Bulma on a new project and could use some customizations here and there.

I agree. I'm currently working on a project containing 45k lines of Python code and we have really benefited from having type annotations.

I suspect that the high household debt has to do with the fact that those countries all have a high number of home owners that have a loan out for their house.

In Belgium for example all houses bought/built are financed via a loan, which in turn is promoted by the government in the form of a tax deduction. Not getting a loan for a house (even when you have the money available) is simple a bad choice here.