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Re:Hedonism and Entrepreneurship in Barcelona on Thursday February 19, 2026 @10:32AM (#47074898)
Loool. I'm indeed not serious people, the piece is meant to be humorous. I was just experimenting with a gonzo journalism style (hence the title) and drew on my own experiences.
Re:Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next? on Saturday November 22, 2025 @09:52AM (#46015235)
We are building https://fika.bar precisely for that. Niche experts that would love to write, but they don't know how, or don't have time to.
Re:Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next? on Saturday November 22, 2025 @09:51AM (#46015230)
We are building https://fika.bar for that! Niche experts that like to write!
Re:AI Is Eating the Internet on Monday July 28, 2025 @12:36PM (#44712506)
The last two decades of the Internet have been an age of abundance. Creators, advertisers, and consumers benefited from a balance of incentives and a mostly open web. Now, with the rise of consumer AI, that balance is breaking. I explore what comes next in my latest essay.
Re:Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move in to? on Friday July 18, 2025 @02:38AM (#44601862)
Good catch!
Re:Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move in to? on Friday July 18, 2025 @02:37AM (#44601860)
Checking!
Re:Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move in to? on Thursday July 17, 2025 @04:51PM (#44598062)
Hey, this is Pao, the guy building https://fika.bar.

Fika is a place to save, discover and share content built upon 3 products:

- A local-first bookmark manager (Works 100% offline) - A feed reader: With feed discovery from your bookmarks. - A blog/newsletter platform

The only thing it currently does not have is e-reader integration yet. But you get the other 2 products bundled together which make a lot of sense.

Re:Building a Web Game in 2025 on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @08:31AM (#44106305)
Hey! I'm the author of the post, it looks like someone has posted this before me :)
finally! I've been following Johannes Schickling project since Riffle!
Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 on Friday May 23, 2025 @01:49AM (#44070217)
I've been building a pocket alternative that also bundles an RSS editor (RIP google reader) and a light blogging platform.

The idea is basically to bundle the saving, discovering and sharing content through the same product. I've been using it for a year and it works beautifully.

https://fika.bar

And you can see my bookmarks/posts here: https://fika.bar/blogs/paoramen

What do cellular automata, chaos theory, and Mahjong have in common? In this post, I break down how I built Whatajong: a game created in under 200 hours with zero budget—by tapping into the power of emergence. If you're curious how simple rules can create deep, addictive gameplay, read on.
Congratulations for the launch! Looks great!
it would be great to integrate with zod, along the lines of python's instructor
Re:Why is everybody talking about sync engines? on Thursday October 17, 2024 @04:30PM (#41873455)
I don't shit on anything, the first part is just a parody.
Re:Show HN: Handinger – API to extract data from the Internet on Thursday October 10, 2024 @07:02AM (#41797605)
I did a lot of optimizations with a tiered approach: starting from cheap (and egress-free) and then fallbacking into more expensive ones.

Show HN: Handinger – API to extract data from the Internet

https://handinger.com/

A few months ago, I was developing a bookmark manager for https://fika.bar. I needed a way to fetch metadata, screenshots, and markdown content from websites. Since Fika is a donation-based product, I couldn't afford any of the providers out there, so I decided to build instead of buy."Easy," I thought. But weeks later, I found myself building data pipelines, implementing proxy rotation...

( Read More... | 3 comments | 3 points | on HN )
Re:The End Times have come for the Pinboard bookmarking service on Saturday September 14, 2024 @04:49PM (#41542764)
good advice! I will try recording something :)
Re:The End Times have come for the Pinboard bookmarking service on Friday September 13, 2024 @04:14PM (#41534694)
there are plenty of good alternatives nowadays:

- https://raindrop.io/: Also a one-man show, but probably the best bookmarking tool out there.

- https://omnivore.app: Open source and support for newsletters.

For my use case though (I like to curate and share), I ended up building an app (https://fika.bar) to bundle bookmarking + RSS Reader + Blogging.

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