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Re:Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished on Friday February 23, 2024 @05:53AM (#39479126)
In this case the consequence is that the Australian government agency collecting the import tax doesn't get paid. Which means that they don't release the package to FedEx, and that you don't get your package.

FedEx needs to do a better job with these notifications. At the very least they need to hire a copywriter.

Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @05:38PM (#36607533)
https://brntn.me

I'm a web developer, so I end up mostly writing about Python / Django related topics in that space, but really it's anything tech related.

Re:Simple text editor has over 15k monthly users on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @10:11PM (#22253138)
I build a little scratchpad for personal use: https://sesh.github.io/scratchpad/

I guess for the most part these sort of things start off solving a personal problem. Getting 15k monthly users is very impressive!

Re:Mailit: A Tiny Drop-In REST API to Send Emails on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @04:55AM (#14898849)
It's not _worse_, it's just designed for a use case that expects it to only be available to services that are allowed to send email.
Re:Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @05:26PM (#14800197)
Nice work!

Are you using mptt or treebeard under the hood to manage the forking?

Re:Git-recall - Simple and handy tool to easily recall what you've done on Sunday January 29, 2017 @11:20PM (#13518616)
This seems very similar to the (quite popular?) git-standup script.

https://github.com/kamranahmedse/git-standup

As someone that often works across multiple projects, I find the ability to do a recursive search through a directory of git repositories very valuable.

Re:CSS Tube Map on Monday May 20, 2013 @08:22AM (#5737222)
Yes.
Re:Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @08:50PM (#5641825)
Strange feature request: I'd love to be able to specify dietary requirements on a per-meal basic. My partner is vegan, so I'll normally cook vegan dinners, but like to get meat into lunch/the occasional breakfast.
Re:Branch on Monday January 14, 2013 @08:48PM (#5058025)
Are you sure people weren't referring to Medium being similar to your Throwww?

http://medium.com

Re:SimpleCart(js) - Javascript Shopping Cart on Thursday November 22, 2012 @10:51PM (#4820916)
Also asking for trouble with PayPal. Which we all know can cause small stores a world of hurt.
Re:Best Open Python Books on Monday August 27, 2012 @02:16AM (#4437656)
The Django Book, though great, is ridiculously out of date - the print version is written for Django 0.96, the incomplete web version is for Django 1.0, and Django 1.4 was just released.

It's a great resource, and was very useful to myself when learning Django back in the day, but the regular Django docs have far surpassed it on my made up usefulness scale.

Re:How Eduardo Saverin Sold Facebook Ads in 2004 on Monday August 20, 2012 @10:22PM (#4410835)
This used to annoy me (especially when people created events in place of ads) but it's mostly solved now with the ability to promote your posts. That's going to work way better than an ad that your friends are used to ignoring.
Re:Pwdr - an open source powder 3d printer on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @12:30AM (#4348723)
It's very superficial of me, but I wish more open source hardware projects went to this much effort to "sell" their product.

Beautiful page design, well written copy, nice photography and a great looking device.

Re:Pwdr - an open source powder 3d printer on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @12:27AM (#4348713)
Isn't that the whole point of the reprap projects?

You're going to be waiting a while if you're hoping for a 3D printer that you can buil at home and can churn out steel rods, bolts and belts.

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