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zorbash··on Exceptions should be Exceptional (2016)
For Ruby there's this book, by the exceptional Avdi Grimm https://pragprog.com/book/ager/exceptional-ruby it's a fantastic resource on the subject.
zorbash··on N26 will be leaving the UK
Indeed, their cards are neat. I no longer use it as both Starling and Revolut have better UX and charges. Some day hopefully startup banks might offer customisation options when you order your card.
zorbash··on Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?
I use and develop https://tefter.io

I tend to organise links in lists. Some examples:

* https://tefter.io/zorbash/lists/ruby-rails * https://tefter.io/zorbash/lists/devops * https://tefter.io/zorbash/lists/elixir-resources * https://tefter.io/zorbash/lists/web-development

zorbash··on Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
There's an electron-based desktop app.

https://github.com/tefter/desktop

zorbash··on Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
Surfing the web is a journey. In the same sense that we store our photos on the cloud and don't want to lose them because they remind us of experiences. The web is no different, we keep exploring and take some souvenirs along the way. Why does everything have to be useful and optimal always? I wouldn't want to rely on Google to keep some nice memories and recall stuff I found useful.
zorbash··on Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
I use https://tefter.io (Disclaimer I'm a founder)

Usually my workflows are:

1. Use the chrome extension to add something

2. Sometimes I add tags or add it to a list

3. If it's related to work I'll add it to my work organisation

For links I come across on Slack, I use the Slack app (https://slack.com/apps/AFBC4A147-tefter) to quickly bookmark any links included in a message somebody posted.

When it comes to bookmarking, plenty of options out there. For me effective collaboration was the feature missing from most of them and that's why we're building Tefter.

zorbash··on Scarfolk
Sounds rad, love it already, thanks!
zorbash··on Scarfolk
Can you please share some more info on this?
zorbash··on Every bookmark manager ever made
We use a combination of heuristics and integrations with the most popular websites. In most cases we'll suggest relevant tags. Give it a go and let us know if it works well for you. We're still tuning it.
zorbash··on Every bookmark manager ever made
Tefter (https://tefter.io) co-founder here. I’m glad we made the list! It’s under the visual-based section, but arguably meets the criteria to be in many more categories.

It’s list-based and tag-based, since you may organise your bookmarks using either lists or tags. It’s also search based, since bookmarks have their contents indexed and ranked and there’s autocomplete. For read-later, we keep archives and you can mark bookmarks as “read later” to read them on the mobile app.

However our favourite feature is the team collaboration. You can create organisations, install the Slack app and add bookmarks and aliases (think golinks.io type of short links).

A mostly complete list of features can be found here https://github.com/tefter/tefter.

Happy to answer any questions.

zorbash··on Postwoman – a free alternative to Postman
I'd argue that the tone is what matters most and not the presence of emojis. For example, this is an example of a particularly bad changelog which isn't sprinkled with emojis. https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v2.5.0/deps/npm/CHANGELO...

Imagine trying to handle a production incident, going through such a changelog, reading "HAHA WHOOPS LIL SHINKWRAP ISSUE THERE LOL".

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zorbash··on Show HN: Tefter – A Social bookmarking app for individuals and teams
Yes, you can import for either Pocker, Pinboard or the browser.
zorbash··on Show HN: Tefter – A Social bookmarking app for individuals and teams
Hι folks, Tefter Co-founder here, happy to answer any questions you may have. We’ve been building this service for a year now and always hesitated to post about it here.

A list of the most important features of Tefter can be found here https://github.com/tefter/tefter

Tefter is our attempt to build a bookmarks manager with social aspects, one which respects your privacy and you can use it to collaborate in teams. We were big fans of del.icio.us and still grieve its demise. We aim to make bookmarking _portable_ by implementing a browser extension and a mobile app. It’s privacy focused in the sense that you can keep your profile private, you can export your data and always choose what you share with others.

We appreciate your ideas and feedback!

zorbash··on Ask HN: What are you working on this week?
Building a social bookmarking app, https://tefter.io This week we're getting ready to launch team collaboration through Slack. Using Elixir for this project it this makes me so happy and productive.
zorbash··on [dead]
Exactly, I even thought of taking a break off Twitter for a few months. It's getting more and more toxic, just like our environment. How can people express such hate, for a 16 old stating what should be obvious?
zorbash··on Fighting climate change may be cheaper and more beneficial than we think
I'm not a vegetarian myself, however I only eat meat products one per week. I can tell you that there's plenty of alternatives that taste good. To name a few Quorn[1] and Beyond Meat[2] and from what I read Impossible Food[3] as well.

So with the help of tech, we'll find less and less excuses not to switch, at least partially, to a plant based diet.

[1]: https://www.quorn.co.uk/ [2]: https://www.beyondmeat.com/products/ [3]: https://impossiblefoods.com/food/

zorbash··on Show HN: Link Drop – Daily newsletter of your bookmarks
We at https://tefter.io are working on an alternative way to discover new content and organise bookmarks.

We started off with a similar idea to linkdrop but then thought there's more to bookmarking than that.

So a user may subscribe to a variety of feeds and users, https://tefter.io/~hackernews is of course one of them and have a personalised newsfeed. From the newsfeed posts can be bookmarked and kept in a "weekend reads" list. Bookmarks can be marked as read. However bookmarks can be easily added from any devise, since we offer browser extensions, mobile and desktop apps, slack integration. One can also import from pocket or pinboard.

Concerning newsletters, we thought they may be annoying. Imagine waking up on a Sunday to an email telling you to read stuff. We're trying to stay in the spirit of HN, sending as little notifications as possible. Our users have better things to do and their attention is important.

zorbash··on Ask HN: Personal Library Manager?
Unfortunately goodreads looks like its on maintenance mode in the last few years. The ability to post updates on books / publications which don't have ISBN is the feature I miss the most :-(
zorbash··on Show HN: Hacker Feed – An iOS app for reading Hacker News
At some point, I built https://tefter.io/~hackernews so that I could read HN but also other feeds and keep them easily categorised and searchable. It's a progressive web app, so it's easy to install on most devices. Give it a try!
zorbash··on I Miss Rails
Especially now, with the beta release of https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view one can be productive writing interactive applications right off the bat. Rails developers should check this out.

I'm stoked about the potential of live view and I'm curating a list of demos of things built with it: https://tefter.io/zorbash/lists/phoenix-liveview-examples

It took me a couple of hours to build my first demo with it, have a look: https://youtu.be/tTPH4DyUaUk and I didn't have to write any JavaScript for it.

zorbash··on Ask HN: Open-source Projects that need translations?
Really cool! Didn't know about ossfriday, will try to give a lightning talk about it maybe at work. What if https://github.com/explore/ had a way to discover projects in need of translations?
zorbash··on Phoenix WebSockets under a Microscope
Thanks a lot for Phoenix and for taking the time to write such an informative comment. I really admire your open-source work.
zorbash··on Phoenix WebSockets under a Microscope
For some channels / topics I let the clients provide a `refresh_interval` parameter upon joining to tackle similar problems. I'm also curious to see your state machine, maybe it's something worth extracting to a middleware.
zorbash··on Phoenix WebSockets under a Microscope
We are happy users of libcluster but there's also https://github.com/mrluc/peerage for automatic node discovery.
zorbash··on Minideb – A small image based on Debian designed for use in containers
Current debian:stable-slim is 55.3MB and is already optimized for containers (see: https://gist.github.com/Zorbash/183b80d37bd0a09434e3a2b1a958...).
zorbash··on Go vs .NET Core in terms of HTTP performance
At this point, if there's evidence for license violation by kataras, why isn't he banned on GitHub?
zorbash··on Software Packaging Guidelines
I agree, I think I'll update the post with your suggestions.

A common pattern out there, is projects keeping some documentation in their repo's wiki and not mentioning it in the Readme. Unfortunately GitHub does not provide a visual hint on how often a wiki is updated in the repo page.

zorbash··on DangerJS: The open source maintainers best friend
Sometimes I interactively rebase the contributed PR commits to be exactly as I believe they should be while keeping the original author. This way when the same person open a new PR will be able to guess the required changes.
zorbash··on Cyclotron: A web application for constructing dashboards
To be honest I don't understand why should a dashboard framework need MongoDB to display widgets from external sources.

[shameless plug] We're also building an open-source dashboards framework https://github.com/kittoframework/kitto

zorbash··on Ask HN: What are examples of GitHub repositories with high code quality?
I was hoping that i'd agree but check the code for Mnesia for example: https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/maint/lib/mnesia/src/mnes...

Numerous functions missing essential code documentation all spread in a single file, with commented out code committed in git.

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