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thomersch_on Show HN: Itsy-bitsy static site generator

I've built pagewerk which takes files from one directory and wraps a jinja2 template around. No configuration needed. https://github.com/thomersch/pagewerk

thomersch_on Find your public IP address from the command line

You only need that if you are behind a NAT and on IPv6 there is no NAT. Simply use ifconfig.

thomersch_on Ask HN: what features do you want in a geocoder?

God, no. Everyone is trying to build a Geocoder and everyone is failing, because no one is actually realizing that geocoding is probably the most complex topic in GIS.

"Yeah, let's put some Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL and it will work out fine." No, it won't - you have no idea. And of course you won't believe me, but let me list some problems you will have that you don't realize right now:

* There is a lot of different charsets. Latin, kyrillic, there are umlauts, RTL, weird abbreviations, language standards that you don't know, because you don't know enough about foreign cultures.

* It's a shitload of data: OpenStreetMap is expanded about 700 GB large (not including history). And you will want to have autocompletition or autosuggestion, so response times will have to be < 100 ms.

* Ranking. Your user types "Tokyo". Is it the restaurant next to the user, is it the capital of Japan or is it some village next to Shitfuckistan?

No matter what, it will take you about a year to get any usable result. So I suggest you to look into Nominatim (the standard geocoder of OpenStreetMap which has actually got a lot better) or Photon (a geocoder based on the Nominatim DB, but with auto suggestion).

thomersch_on Updating Torrents Via Feed URL

Do you already know Bitlove http://bitlove.org? It turns classic podcast RSS feeds into torrentified podcast feeds.