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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2022) on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @03:54PM (#31587127)

  Location: MA, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Elixir / Phoeniex (PETAL), Ruby on Rails, microservices, APIs (GraphQL / OpenAPI), kubernetes, OAuth2
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tDv2Dck66y-uIrmOobm3-fGWiJtLaZlj/view?usp=sharing
  Email: yetanothersullivan AT gmail.com
Sr. Architect and Elixir developer with entrepreneurial experience. My startup idea wasn't successful, likely because I enjoy being a developer too much. I'm looking to join a team where my skills will be useful and I can continue to learn.
Re:The saddest “just ship it” story (2020) on Thursday May 12, 2022 @09:40AM (#31353986)
I completely agree. A couple months ago I received the same "Ship It" advice on a HN Comment.

I did, but no one came. Marketing feels like an orthogonal skill but can not be overstated enough.

Re:Why to care about privacy after years of sharing data on Monday April 04, 2022 @07:19AM (#30905306)
Burner numbers are close, but if you use the same one for all your contacts it still becomes an identifier, even if you rotate it. An alternative is a proxy service where you get issued a unique pin for each person-to-person connection, so the same phone number gets used by multiple parties. Those both use the existing phone network in better ways. With a VoIP system you don't need numbers, you just don't want to trade them for usernames or some other global identifier. I implemented one approach with Severus, but I'm also looking for alternatives that increase privacy.
Re:Why to care about privacy after years of sharing data on Sunday April 03, 2022 @03:56PM (#30900048)
You can change your phone number though. What if you change it so frequently that it's no longer a key identifier? Why not have a system where you can receive phone calls without a phone number? I believe some of the solution here is to stop having globally unique identifiers.
Re:YouTube cancelled my Nextcloud installation how-to on Saturday April 02, 2022 @07:24AM (#30887373)
Disclaimer: I'm new to SEO so I might have done something wrong

I submitted a sitemap to Google Search Console and they indexed all my blog articles... except for the one about using Plausible instead of Google Analytics

Re:Ask HN: Are blog comments a thing of the past? on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @05:45PM (#30861198)
That's really interesting. Finding the details of this was a bit hard, but I found this article (2007): https://blogger.googleblog.com/2007/12/openid-commenting.htm... Thanks for the bit of history
Re:Ask HN: Are blog comments a thing of the past? on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @05:04PM (#30860746)
How about an OAuth system where you can add conditions like, the user has validated an address in a certain town, or worked for a certain company? What part of the identity would you scope by?
Hi HN, I've been working on this website for far too long. There's still a long way to go, but I think it's at the MVP stage. It can be used to share contact data and have 1-1 chats. I'll be posting more blogs on the privacy model and technical details, but for now I'd appreciate any feedback. Thank you
I also just deployed plausible on Fly.io I wrote a [blog post](https://intever.co/blog/plausible-self-hosted-with-fly) and a created a [github](https://github.com/intever/plausible-hosting) repo to document the process
Re:Do things, tell people (2012) on Friday February 04, 2022 @11:19PM (#30217350)
Fine. I'm starting Severus, which actually deals with "contacts, business cards, email addresses", but with some interesting privacy mechanisms. I haven't quite launched yet, but I've seen this topic come up frequently on HN, and I never talk about it. I need to get out of my comfort zone and talk about it.
Re:Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021) on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @12:58PM (#30089068)
I deployed my company website / blog with fly.io It's a simple phoenix app w/o a DB, and it was trivially easy to set up. After having used K8S for Rails and Phoenix hosting before, their product is definitely something to keep in mind.