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msmithstubbs

306 karma · joined February 26, 2009

I recently made backinstock.org, a customer notification app for Shopify stores.

You can reach me at matt[at]yellowrobot[dot]com[dot]au

I’m in Brisbane, Australia.

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msmithstubbs··on Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent
Post is gone. Guess they hit publish too soon!
msmithstubbs··on Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent
Looks like they haven't flipped the GitHub repo (https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli) to public yet.
msmithstubbs··on Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
Matter user here. I love the app, currently on the paid plan.

It has some nice bells and whistles (reading articles to you, highlights, etc) but it does the core job of saving articles for reading really well.

I’m not a pocket user so it may or may not be a good substitute but worth trying. I wish Matter worked on the kobo but there’s no API AFAIK (they do have a few of their own integrations with Obsidian and Readwise).

msmithstubbs··on Kagi Assistant
Try this:

https://kagi.com/search?q=remarkable+pro+site%3Areddit.com

It includes Reddit results from less than 24 hours ago.

msmithstubbs··on Kagi Assistant
Kagi uses Google as one of its sources for search results so should be able to return the same reddit results as Google.
msmithstubbs··on Kobo announces color e-readers
This would be a good place to start:

https://brandonjkessler.com/technology/2021/04/26/setup-kobo...

There is also a number of home brew readers and utilities available for the Kobo readers. Plato is a reader written in rust, and covered in this post:

https://blog.videah.net/my-e-reader-setup/

msmithstubbs··on Days of Awe: The clinical trial drug that might save my husband's life
Jake has his own site where he shares his essays here:

https://jakeseliger.com

msmithstubbs··on Phoenix LiveView: Async Assign Pattern
Yes, LiveViewTest (a module included in Phoenix LiveView) supports testing connected mounts.

You can write a test that just fetches the disconnected state, and then upgrades it to a connected state (see https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/Phoenix.LiveViewTest.ht...).

If you want to test the result of a button click there's support for that, too, with things like `render_click`.

msmithstubbs··on JMAP – a modern email open standard
Mimestream[1] is a new email client for Mac. It’s currently gmail only but JMAP support is on their roadmap.

https://portal.productboard.com/mimestream/1-mimestream-road...

If anyone else would like to see it supported consider upvoting on their roadmap.

[1]: https://mimestream.com/

msmithstubbs··on Deno KV
How has the experience building on top of FoundationDB?

I've always thought it deserved to be used more widely so intrigued to see it pop up here.

msmithstubbs··on An iPad Pro is more expensive than an equivalent MacBook Pro in the UK
There are ad blockers available on iOS.

https://www.imore.com/best-ad-blockers-iphone-and-ipad

I don't know how the functionality compare to what you are using on other platforms but ad blockers are definitely available on iOS/iPadOS.

msmithstubbs··on Show HN: I built an email marketing tool made for indie hackers and solopreneurs
Congrats on launching!

I'd suggest rethinking "5 automated flows with unlimited emails" on the free plan. Sending a few emails is very cheap, but sending a lot of email is not. Inevitably somebody will sign up for the free plan and send far more email than you expect. It will either end up costing you money, impacting the experience for your other users, or both.

You can always offer higher limits on paid plans.

msmithstubbs··on Building a Distributed Turn-Based Game System in Elixir
I’m in Brisbane and was expecting Singapore would be closer. Thanks for the reply.
msmithstubbs··on Building a Distributed Turn-Based Game System in Elixir
Nice demo! How is the server chosen? I'm seeing ~200ms latency. I'm connected to LAX which I don't think would be shortest round trip.
msmithstubbs··on Creating an open-source solution to the headaches of headless browsers
Solo founder: I built a tool and it solves problems for people to the tune of $24k/month

Almost everyone: That's great! Well done.

HN commenters: Pffft.

msmithstubbs··on Australian parliament passes encryption laws unamended
It looks like the cloud services are supplied by a company incorporated in the US [1] ‘Atlassian, Inc’. They probably needed to do this when they listed on the NASDAQ.

There is also an Australian entity `Atlassian Pty Ltd` but it’s not clear to me what role that has.

[1]: https://www.atlassian.com/legal/cloud-terms-of-service

msmithstubbs··on Application for Fixed Satellite Service by SpaceX
Ah! Thanks.
msmithstubbs··on Application for Fixed Satellite Service by SpaceX
> They expect that the smaller amount of lifting will increase satellite lifetime by 50% even after accounting for atmospheric drag.

I'm curious: why will this provide a longer life? Is it the lift burn itself that affects the lifetime (so reduced lift burn is better for the satellite)?

msmithstubbs··on One-Of-a-Kind Private Train Takes on Florida’s Traffic Nightmare
Do they own the stations the train operates from? If this is successful those stations could be some valuable real estate and generate revenue, too.

Hong Kong leverages this: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/capital-projects-and-inf...

msmithstubbs··on The Subscription App Paradox
Several of the app subscriptions listed appear to actually be subscriptions for content (Apple Music, The Guardian, Medium) while others are actual services being paid for (Dropbox).
msmithstubbs··on Dash for iOS: Back on the App Store
Got it, thanks.
msmithstubbs··on Dash for iOS: Back on the App Store
> The Dash iOS app is a great addition -- try it on an iPad with the Duet second screen app.

I'm confused: Duet is an app for viewing a macOS desktop on the iPad. How would you use it with the Dash iOS app?

msmithstubbs··on New Tube for London
Part of the problem is that much of the London tube is quite deep underground. New trains on the sub-surface lines have air conditioning, but on the deeper lines it's difficult to extract the waste heat.

It can be a problem in summer. I've seen a couple of passengers faint from the heat on hot days.

msmithstubbs··on Stripe launches in Australia
Seems like a solution would be to just have 4 weeks contracted leave which accrues. Then have an open policy on top of that which allows an employee to exceed 4 weeks per year.
msmithstubbs··on Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
I tried to give away a heavy instance in the past but to sell on the Reserved Instance marketplace you must have a US bank account. Worth noting if you are considering heavy instances and are based outside the US. You will be stuck with them for the life of the reservation term.
msmithstubbs··on Light Table is now open source
The source is at https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable

The binary from CloudFront looks to be a convenience to avoid building node-webkit. From the readme:

  Then we have to do some juggling (unless you fancy building node-webkit from source).
You can get the source for node-webkit and build it yourself[1] but it looks to be time consuming and requires a significant amount of disk space.

[1]: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/Building-node-...

msmithstubbs··on Scaling HipChat Using ElasticSearch And Redis
My guess: the 60 messages per second is an average. Monday morning in the US timezones might see several multiples of that. Weekends could be a lot lower.
msmithstubbs··on How to make $100k in Open Source by working hard
It's loading very slowly. Try:

http://www.mikeperham.com.nyud.net/2013/10/01/how-to-make-10...

msmithstubbs··on Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
You can configure this with g:netrw_browse_split. Setting it to 4 will open the file in the previous window.

See :help netrw_browse_split for other options.

msmithstubbs··on Bruce Schneier: Drawing the wrong lessons from horrific events

  I did read it. And I even read the other articles he linked to. 
  You know the one titled _Average Americans don't need assault weapons_ 
Just to clarify: I don't think Schneier is linking to that article. It looks like it is inserted automagically by CNN's publishing platform in the middle of the articles (I assume to try and increase page views and ad impressions.)
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