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Show HN: Mashari – a dashboard to manage your projects

https://www.mashari.app/

I built this because I was struggling to keep track of my various projects (and personal stuff). I was using a combination of markdown files to keep notes, Google Calendar for reminders and Chrome bookmarks to allow me to quickly get to a project (or its related infrastructure). I was really starting to struggle and found each morning was getting more difficult to get up to speed with what was...

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Do you have numbers?

i.e. what the "success" was like in each of the outreaches?

My product, TestSmithy (https://testsmithy.com/ ), automates testing AI-generated code (e.g. Vibe coding).

The way I'm acquiring customers is to offer a free Pro subscription worth over $100 to the first 100 early adopters.

By "ZIRP", did you mean "Zero interest-rate policy", "Zurich Integrative Rodent Physiology" or "Zimbabwe Idai Recovery Project" (top 3 results on DuckDuckGo)?
Re:Show HN: GPTDuck – Ask questions about any GitHub repo on Thursday January 05, 2023 @05:37PM (#34267919)
I did almost the same.

And got an error ("Something went wrong, please try again later. If the problem persists, please contact us.").

What a load of rubbish.

I'm regularly getting enquiries but I do DevOps (AWS, Kubernetes and Istio) so I guess my skillset is still in demand.

I guess what's more important for me is the type of work. I'm looking for startup work that's a bit more secure now, if that's possible, lol! Doesn't seem so easy to find.

Re:Amazon EC2 Mac Instances on Thursday December 03, 2020 @10:42AM (#25289889)
Where does Amazon document that 24 hour minimum? I've just encountered this problem but been unable to find anything on that. It makes the On Demand cloud concept completely useless.
Re:The Beauty of Unix Pipelines on Friday June 05, 2020 @03:47AM (#23426043)
Aka The Ugliness of Powershell. Would be fun to see equivalents to these in Powershell.
Re:Roguelike Tutorial: Up-to-Date and Literate on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @03:23PM (#21829015)
Where's the actual game?!
Re:Google One on Saturday November 16, 2019 @06:34AM (#21552131)
Another typically badly explained Google product.

You arrive at one.google.com and all it says is something about your storage. Is that what it's all about?

Here's what it says in the Google Description (you have to Google what one.google.com is to find out what it does - hilarious!).

"Get expanded cloud storage, access to help from Google experts, and more benefits — in one simple plan that you can share with your family."

So, from this it's storage + experts + some mysterious other benefits - and it's about sharing it with your family.

Why don't they at least say that on their front page?! The reason, cos Google don't employ any decent usability experts.

Productive Desktop

Anyone interested in joining me to build a better desktop?I'm fed up of the vast number of UI issues in current desktops (Windows, Mac and Linux).I've used Windows 10 (my corporate laptop), I have 2 Mac laptops (one is a 2018 MacBook Pro with a Touch bar, one is my ancient fully maxed out 2010 MacBook Pro) and I currently use a Dell XPS13 with Ubuntu 18.04.Frankly I'm sick of the lot of them....

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Rails, as any backend system such as Drupal or Symfony, is inevitably a dead end technology.

The web is increasingly moving frontend and the system of 2018 onwards will simply be the M in MVC.

Note, I'm not saying Rails is not worth learning. I'm just saying it's now the Cobol of web technology.

Re:Viral.js – Peer-to-peer web app distribution on Friday July 29, 2016 @03:50PM (#12189458)
Yes.

Happy to argue this ad infinitum but, basically, nothing (let me repeat that - NOTHING) is private once handed over to Facebook.

And that extends to data your friends upload about you.

I'm not talking about anonymous, aggregated data. I'm talking about actual personal private data.

I think this is a bit of "grass is greener" syndrome.

I developed web apps for 14 years before building ios apps for 5 years.

The last couple of years I've worked on both native apps and responsive web sites.

Both can be pains in the ae. But the pain points are different.

Both are moving rapidly. eg Ios: having to rejig xibs to storyboards was annoying.

Css: Supporting older versions of IE has been a pain.

I could go on at length but plenty of people have already done so.

Re:Five Pacific islands disappear as sea levels rise on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @01:38AM (#11672845)
It's a problem that's been recognised for some time. In fact the United Nations had the third conference on this back in 2014. http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/news/sustainable/focus...
Re:The Internet Economy on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @01:26AM (#11672805)
Arguably not. But even with this use case, the Web has got significantly more complex. Local Storage, local databases, GPS access, gesture detection to name a few. That all hits Web performance hard especially on earlier mobile devices.