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Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet on Thursday December 25, 2025 @04:23PM (#46387124)
I've hung on to spellign.com for a bit over twenty years now. Creation Date: 2005-10-19T05:59:21Z

The name still makes me giggle. I'd love to build something relevant and silly enough to put there, but I haven't found it yet.

Suggestions are welcome! :)

In France, fish isn't usually considered "meat" (viande).

In my child's school, there are only three dietary choices for the kids who eat at the canteen:

* No pork / sans porc (for the muslim or jewish children)

* No meat / sans viande (but there's still fish!)

* Everything

Re:The "Frankfurt Kitchen" on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @03:07PM (#44250744)
For those in the UK, you can see a Frankfurt Kitchen on display at the new V&A East Storehouse in London:

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O121079/frankfurt-kitchen...

Have they included real profiles in the screenshots of the "Discover profiles" menu and the list of likes? If so that's pretty irresponsible even with the faces obscured.
Re:Stop Using Plastic Cutting Boards on Saturday October 21, 2023 @06:15PM (#37970977)
I'm quite possibly missing something, but this is baffling to me (Text S1 from the paper) [1]:

> All the chopped carrots were carefully transferred to the glass wash tray. As shown in Figure 2,

> 500 mL of ultrapure water was used to wash the blade and the chopping board further to transfer all the particles in the same glass wash tray.

Who would expect contaminants left on the blade and the board to be counted alongside those in the chopped food itself? I suppose it's difficult to rigorously separate the chopped and the chopped-upon, but the distinction seems essential to support, or not, the hypothesis about human consumption.

[1]: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c00924?ref=PDF

Re:Test Anything Protocol (Tap) on Thursday October 05, 2023 @04:38PM (#37783994)
Also not to be confused with Google's Test Automation Platform (continuous integration system) [1].

[1] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

Re:Ask HN: A network device that doesn't exist? on Thursday September 14, 2023 @09:17AM (#37508601)
Something which goes further than this, but works very well for my use case and would probably suit others in the WFH crowd: OpenMPTCProuter [1]

This handles failover between connections and also aggregates them using MultiPath TCP to maximize bandwidth & overall reliability at the expense of increased data usage and the cost of running a machine somewhere with a decent connection, even a cheap VPS.

I'm using it to aggregate ADSL, Starlink and 4G, resulting in a stable 250mbps/50mbps connection.

* [1] https://www.openmptcprouter.com/

Re:Show HN: Generate a Git Repo from a Google Doc on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @03:19PM (#34974263)
Forgot to say that it's open source (AGPL) on GitHub [1]. I find it handy just being able to run `git blame` on a doc, but I'm sure it could be made more useful. Contributions are welcome!

The only benefit of the hosted version is that the OAuth setup is already done. If you're ok registering an OAuth app with Google (instructions in README.md) then it's trivial to run yourself. Given that there's no fine-grained permissions on Drive - it has to ask for read only access to your entire Drive just to access one doc - I completely understand wanting to run it locally.

[1]: https://github.com/repography/doc2git

Show HN: Generate a Git Repo from a Google Doc

https://doc2git.repography.com/

doc2git is a simple web app which lets you generate a Git repo from the revision history of a Google Doc.Every revision to the doc becomes a commit to a plain text version of the doc in the Git repo, with the correct author and time.It's web based since it has to do the OAuth dance with Google to use the Google Drive API, but it runs completely client-side from then on.

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This is similar to the Structure dashboard in Repography [1] which is a web app I built, with the added advantage that it's kept up to date automatically so you can embed it in your README.md and not have to keep updating it yourself.

[1] https://repography.com/app/0/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/s...

Re:Figuring out round, floor and ceil with integer division on Saturday November 26, 2022 @03:36AM (#33751027)
I was surprised by the observation that Python rounds towards even numbers, so round(0.5) = 0, but round(1.5) = 2.

This is indeed clearly documented [1], I guess I never looked closely enough. I found some discussion on the dev-python list [2] which shows at least I'm not the only one surprised by this!

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#round

[2] https://groups.google.com/g/dev-python/c/VNf8TABiB9k

Re:Launch HN: Payload (YC S22) – Headless CMS for Developers on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @03:56PM (#32667497)
That is all useful info, thanks.

For the enterprise offering can you give a rough idea of pricing without having to book a demo etc.?

Re:Launch HN: Payload (YC S22) – Headless CMS for Developers on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @03:29PM (#32667157)
As someone who's been actively looking for a headless CMS recently, I'm curious about how you compare yourselves to Contentful [1]?

From a quick look the key difference is that Payload's backend can be self-hosted, but Contentful is SaaS only.

You've said that you're targeting enterprise customers and mention an SLA in that respect. Does that mean your enterprise offering is also SaaS only?

[1] https://www.contentful.com/

Re:Happy 12th Birthday, Rust on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:06AM (#31766201)
As Graydon Hoare notes in the comments on GitHub this wasn't the first repo so the real history goes back even further. He's also shared a "prehistory" repo [1] which is interesting to browse. The first commit [2] in _that_ repo is from 2008 but Graydon mentions starting work back in 2006.

Anyway in a sense this repo represents Rust in the real world rather than in gestation, so seems apt to call it the birthday.

[1] https://github.com/graydon/rust-prehistory

[2] https://github.com/graydon/rust-prehistory/commit/1969e085e3...

Gource is great indeed, it can be really mesmerising watching projects with long histories.

To add a couple of "pretty" alternatives (full disclosure: both mine):

- Repography[0] makes posters from the same data, with a few different designs

- Work/Artwork[1] is the same concept but even more abstract

[0]: https://repography.com/

[1]: https://workartwork.org/

Re:Magical SVG Techniques on Friday May 27, 2022 @05:47PM (#31535321)
I likewise couldn't resist doing something silly with an SVG animation on my profile [1], and I also have a micro startup [2] generating such SVGs periodically to serve as dashboards you can embed in your README.md. I'm interested in more of your predictions!

[1] https://github.com/arraypad/

[2] https://repography.com/

That was my motivation too. Usually with a few seconds of figuring out which bits of the page are ads and what I can safely select and copy!

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