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Re:Show HN: Briefsky – a free Dark Sky clone for multiple weather APIs on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @03:19PM (#34974270)
For a web alternative, on https://merrysky.net/ you can expand "More charts" on the graph to see barometric pressure.

Show HN: Dev Toolbox – A browser extension with simple offline dev tools

Posted by cnanney on Saturday April 09, 2022 @03:43PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/cnanney/dev-toolbox

Hello HN!I'd like to share a browser extension I made that provides quick offline access to various development tools.Current tool set: Calculate hashes; encode and decode HTML, URI, Base64; convert numbers between different bases; parse and manipulate various time formats; format and inspect IPv4/CIDR addresses; search all v13.1 emoji with quick copying in various formats.It runs entirely...

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Re:Retiring the Netflix Public API on Friday June 13, 2014 @06:44PM (#7891215)
My comment from an earlier post:

I was disappointed to get that email, I have an API key and am using it for an ongoing (small) side project of mine.

It seems counter to everything else Netflix engineering promotes with its tech blog and open source contributions. To be so public and open on one hand, and then shut down the public API on the other seems strange.

Trying to cut down on third-party access to user account functions like managing queues could be understandable, but I hope there is some kind of access to basic Netflix library data. Otherwise people will just turn to custom scraping solutions to get the data anyway.

Re:Netflix Public API Program Closing November 14, 2014 on Friday June 13, 2014 @05:09PM (#7890846)
I was disappointed to get that email, I have an API key and am using it for an ongoing side project of mine.

It seems counter to everything else Netflix engineering promotes with its tech blog and open source contributions. To be so public and open on one hand, and then shut down the public API on the other seems strange.