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Re:Show HN: One More Letter on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:00AM (#48931570)
I enjoyed this. I’d like unexpected word points but this is nice.

One More Letter #7

5/5 words · 1:34

https://playonemoreletter.com

Mintlify generates an llms.txt and llms-full.txt for all documentation sites. These work really well:

- https://cloud.laravel.com/docs/llms.txt

- https://cloud.laravel.com/docs/llms-full.txt

Re:Zed is 1.0 on Thursday April 30, 2026 @10:42AM (#47963305)
Notepad++ is now on macOS too! https://notepad-plus-plus-mac.org
Hey all, for the last few evenings I (but moreso Claude) have been working on an iOS game called Berroku.

It's a delightfully simple, yet addictive puzzle game. Sudoku Minesweeper. I've long wanted to turn this into an app with achievements, leaderboards, offline play and more.

(Heavily) inspired by Blueberry Trio by Circle Moon Puzzles. https://circle9puzzle.com/bbtrio/

Imgur doesn’t work in the UK, is there a mirror?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026) on Monday February 09, 2026 @09:08AM (#46945357)
Personally:

- The Laravel Artisan Cheatsheet - https://artisan.page

- Cachet, the open source status page system - https://cachethq.io

Professionally:

- Laravel Cloud's "Private Cloud" offering - https://cloud.laravel.com/enterprise

Re:The next generation of Laravel Forge on Thursday October 02, 2025 @06:33AM (#45448029)
Yesterday we released the next generation of Laravel Forge. This is the biggest update we’ve made since we originally launched back in 2014. The web has changed a lot since then, and so have our expectations of what a server management platform should offer. That’s why we added a whole bunch of new features including:

- Instant Laravel VPS servers - Zero downtime deployments - Free on-forge domains - Health checks, Heartbeats, & real-time metrics - First-party Nuxt.js and Next.js support

Aside from being created within 10 seconds, our new Laravel VPS servers - backed by our partnership with DigitalOcean - also offers a cool new feature: Team terminal sessions. You can open an SSH session straight to your server within Forge and also pair with your teammates!

Re:Tweet.new on Thursday October 10, 2024 @10:21AM (#41799128)
Thanks! Glad you found it funny too! :)
Re:Tweet.new on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @05:10AM (#41785897)
Well, there's a few reasons:

1. It's funny. 2. It's actually useful. 3. I'm a dummy.

Hope you find it funny and useful though!

Re:Is Tableau Dead? on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @05:16AM (#39522352)
I've never used Tableau, but heard a lot of hate about it. However, in my previous role, we were big fans of Metabase (https://metabase.com). You can also self-host it, which was a huge win for us.
Re:Companies must stop using Google Analytics on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @09:10AM (#36586193)
Yes, you should absolutely not be using Google Analytics. They don't need more data, your users don't want to see cookie banners and most of you really don't need 99% of the data that you can filter through...

I can't recommend Fathom (https://usefathom.com) enough. They have a huge focus on privacy-first tracking. You don't need to show a cookie banner and you can still track events etc.

If you want $10 credit for signing up, use https://usefathom.com/james but otherwise, https://usefathom.com

Seriously, Google Analytics sucks. Use anything other than that.

At first I was offended by how accurate the SodaStream comment was, but hey... we all want to create our own bubbly drinks.
Re:Show HN: Polestar Finder on Monday October 10, 2022 @02:57PM (#33155160)
Hey HN! I wrote a script to find a Polestar 2 that matched my specification.

Turns out, a lot of people wanted this too so I added a front end to it and now you can be notified when your spec is available.

Let me know what you think!

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