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steven_packon Call yourself titles

This is similar advice to one of the Atomic Habits chapters about identity. You might find it a chore to go the gym if you frame it to yourself that way. But if you call yourself an athlete, or just "i'm a fit person" and that becomes part of your identity, it's easier to do. Works for me so far.

steven_packon 9-Euro-Ticket

Did this 20 years ago, it was called Schoeneswochenende Fahrkarte "Good weekend" ticket. You could get all over the country, but real slow. I met loads of people and got invited to people's homes, because they didn't typically see an Aussie backpacker on a local train. Great times, go do it.

steven_packon Tokyo’s Manuscript Writing Cafe won't let writers leave until they are finished

Main take away: we all need to go spend some time in Japan.

steven_packon Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

https://notimeforbooks.com

Was fun for a while and mostly for myself. A few 100 ppl used it, but I found I didn't really enjoy reading that way as I thought I would... especially when Covid killed commutes.

steven_packon Stripe Atlas: the first five years and 20k startups

I had the Delaware registration / California operating setup. The wind down is just as many steps. Cancelling sales / use tax registrations, the SoS registration, making your FTB tax is all paid and then cancelled in both states. Making sure both state and federal returns are marked final and don't close your bank account until you've paid them all.

steven_packon RethinkDB: why we failed (2017)

4. Egress costs from the clouds are non-trivial for large datasets. So now you're locked into both your db and your cloud.

steven_packon Show HN: Asroute – View unique networks traversed by traceroute

-z only shows AS numbers, not names. The point of this is to quickly tell you companies and networks you recognize. Also, mtr requires sudo to run.

steven_packon Show HN: Asroute – View unique networks traversed by traceroute

-A gets you the AS, my tool looks up the name. So you can see "Oh, it goes from Comcast, to Cogent to Google." cool. Rather than ASNs which you don't immediately recognize.

steven_packon Show HN: Read The Count of Monte Cristo and others in installments in your email

That's my baby!

steven_packon Show HN: Trail Router – generate running routes that prefer greenery and nature

Nice job! Two clicks on my phone and first route was spot on.

steven_packon Rust Bay Area Rust Meetup [ Cloudflare] Declarative UI Patterns and CLIs in Rust

  00:00:00-00:06:00 Steve Pack: Intro to Cloudflare
  00:06:25-00:50:30 Raph Levien: Declarative UI Patterns in Rust
  00:56:50-01:19:19 Gabbi Fisher: CLIs in Rust

steven_packon Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

Nice -- thanks for that. Very similar approach. The "5 minutes" or "20 pages" instead of one seems to be ringing through pretty clearly. Might make that an option when you subscribe.

steven_packon Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

Heheh, War and Peace via text message would be commitment!

steven_packon Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

Ha! That's another vote for the "send me 5 pages" or "send me 10 pages" link in the emails.

steven_packon Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

Thank you good sir.

steven_packon Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

Nice. I thought of doing a similar thing, but being a recovering startup guy, I was like, I should totally build this as a platform and let others read books this way. :p

Plus, a big part of why I kept going with it was because I wanted to see how far I could push Cloudflare Workers as a pure app development platform... pretty far it turns out! (disclosure: I work at Cloudflare, although not on the Workers team).

steven_packon Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

Erm... new for me? I typed a 'page per day' in Google and didn't find what I was looking for. In essence, it's serializing books, which has been done for > 100 years. I have some more ideas as to where I'd like to take it though.

steven_packon Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

Thanks Zack! (Full disclosure, I work with Zack at Cloudflare on the Product team). The fact I could build the whole thing on Cloudflare Workers is one of the reasons I took it as far as I did. I like writing code, but i groan at the thought of setting up servers, even on the cloud. My last side project used ELBs with a node server and the whole thing was painful.

Having an API that deploys to ~200 cities instantly and then deploying the UI being as simple as wrangler deploy, pointing at my bundle directory means I could just focus on the fun stuff.

Can't wait to see where we go with this platform.

steven_packon Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

Ah, burned through the free limit on the email service. Back up now. :D

steven_packon Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

Hey there... so I've been considering user uploaded content. I think it could be a great alternative medium for self-publishing. Needs a bit more work, but I'll post back here if I release that.

steven_packon Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

500 is fixed... you can request additional pages from a footer link in the email, but requesting 5 or 10 would be good.

steven_packon Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

I exhausted the free tier on the email service, which unfortunately killed the sign up page. Works now if you want to go again.

steven_packon Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

Oh cool! What was your motivation? I mention the origin story in a comment up higher.

steven_packon Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

Thanks, I only want your email address when you've chosen a book. But yes, you're not guided to that well enough. The UI today is very much a template with some content replaced rather than being designed from the ground up to optimize for the sign up flow. Lots of opportunity to improve that.

steven_packon Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

It has to be public domain (and on Project Gutenberg), which typically means real old. The first book you mentioned is from 1974, so would still be in copyright.

steven_packon Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

It just uses the SendGrid API, I don't run the email server. They have a 100 emails per day on the free plan and while it goes to Updates or Promotions on Gmail, it doesn't get spammed (at least so far).

If it becomes popular, I'd have to upgrade the plan and then you start getting servers with better IP reputations anyway.

steven_packon Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

Yeah the email needs design love. Sure, I'd love to hear from you at steve at notimeforbooks

steven_packon Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

No, but it's a template: https://www.creative-tim.com/product/vue-argon-design-system

Shout out to the designer of that. The had a Vue version with components and it was super easy to modify. Templates have come a long way.