pioul

I realize crypto winters aren't the times when there's the most attention directed to crypto. However I'd argue that it is when things are calm that it pays the most to analyze the situation, review one's strategy, get familiar with tools that allow to better understand your portfolio and overall markets – tools like Unspent.

I'm launching Unspent after starting working on it full time in 2018, and I'd love to hear what you think!

During 48 hours after posting this comment, I'll be offering a free year of Unspent Pro to everyone posting a comment here, so that you can try Unspent in its entirety. Note that even Free users have access to all features, since Unspent's goal is to help everyone in the ecosystem as much as possible, but Pro users unlock more advanced facets of some interesting features :)

Looking forward to your thoughts!

Location: Grenoble, France

Remote: Would prefer relocation, but ask anyway

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Full LAMP stack, and even larger affection for front-end tech (JS, HTML, CSS); will pick up the latest framework/library quickly

Particular interest for: Simplicity, UX, UI, design, performance, web standards

Résumé/CV: http://pioul.fr/up/CV-en.html

Email: In CV (+ GitHub + personal site)

Looking for: Interesting project with skilled and driven team to share with and learn from, on the web and ideally front side of things.

The mobile web app works great on desktop as well: https://m.timeline.com

Location: Grenoble, France

Remote: Would prefer relocation, but ask anyway

Willing to relocate: Yes, in France and English-speaking countries (preference for UK, US, Canada)

Technologies: Full LAMP stack, and even larger affection for front-end tech (JS, HTML, CSS); will pick up the latest framework/library quickly

Particular interest for: Simplicity, UX, UI, design, performance, web standards

Résumé/CV: http://pioul.fr/up/CV-en.html

Email: In CV (+ GitHub + personal site)

Looking for: Interesting project with skilled and driven team to share with and learn from, on the web and ideally front side of things.

> then at one point the cloud storage solutions truly become interchangeable

I remember one famous Steve saying to Drew Houston that Dropbox was a feature rather than a product. I'd say the need for such a thing as Dropbox made "Dropbox as a standalone product" possible, but in a world where every service starts having its own integrated "cloud" backup service, storage and sync do start looking like a feature.

That's kind of what I've found myself doing with multiple Chrome users.

Each project I'm working on is a different user, with a different set of open tabs, and separated cookies, allowing multiple sessions (e.g., Gmail accounts) to be open at the same time, one in each "project".

It looks definitely better than most proprietary car manufacturer software out there, but now that we're talking about extending smartphones' screens and features inside cars, something more interoperable would have been appreciated. It'll probably come later, just not from Apple.

    Also, putting the emphasis on voice control is great, but I'm really not sure Siri is up to the task.

    If I had to express my first opinion on Carplay, it'd be "new and shiny but probably not functional enough for it to *really* work as advertised".

Another related issue I've been having with the WP Store as a developer:

I made a WP7 app a while back to give a try, based on a site's API that has since been discontinued. Obviously, the app doesn't work anymore, since it was focused on content consumption from that API.

But since then, my developer license has expired. Even though I need to remove the app (somehow new users keep coming), the WP Store won't allow me to do so without an active developer license.

Too bad for the fooled users, I guess.

I believe most users seem to value simplicity over privacy, but actually do care about privacy. What's sad is that they don't get vocal enough about it until private information gets exposed.

Asking for SMS (read/send) permissions is a growing trend among mobile apps (Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Twitter, Google Hangouts…).

Most of the time, they're here to make the app slightly more useful to the end user. But at the same time, you're potentially saying "yes" to a company who might, one day, use your most personal info for bleaker purposes.

It's thus something I've always been fighting against (at least at a personal level): I've stuck to the older, non-requiring-SMS-permissions version of these apps until I could upgrade to a version of Android with App Ops, then Cyanogen.

If SMS permissions is where you draw the line regarding your privacy, either run a version of Android with App Ops, or Cyanogen with Privacy Guard.

I find it sad that companies still think most users value simplicity over privacy.

I like how it can help dive into interesting open source code, as well as the look and feel of the app, but two things are holding me back:

- Like @padolsey, I do need some time to understand what I'm typing; I'm not sure practicing typing and learning from someone else's code are compatible

- More than code formatting, which has already been talked about, programming environments also have a direct impact on what characters need to be typed

So even though that tool stems from a blending of two great ideas (increasing code output, and learning from the best), I'm still pondering whether these two would be best left apart:

- Reading (and contributing to) someone else's code to learn from it

- Optimizing your coding environment to increase your output: great IDE/editor, clever shortcuts and auto-completion, custom snippets…

If you're going to play the "nice guy" card, don't offer the "scholarship" plan only to cheaters, while trying to guilt trip them along the way.

Letting people use your product for free if they can't afford it is certainly a nice thought, but then you should give that opportunity to everybody.

I meant the article I shared on HN, I didn't write it – so props to its author!

Hey, I actually just heard about CurrencyFair today (through the article I posted), and was surprised it didn't have a lot of news coverage thus far.

As a marketplace, reaching a critical number of users must be something to look forward to, even though I'd understand if you wanted to expand to select markets first (the article says 37% of your current users are in the UK, and 20% in Australia).

Since we're dropping links here and there, here's the also free and open source Markdown editor I created. It's also minimalist, and unflavored: http://markdown.pioul.fr/

The source is on GitHub: https://github.com/pioul/MinimalistOnlineMarkdownEditor

Yes, Ghost is, at least to me, superior in numerous ways, and especially for that awesome editor, but I also believe it depends on usage.

The concept and simplicity make me think of Ghost's (http://ghost.org/features/): free, open source, near-minimalist, and self-hosted.

The seemingly only advantage is that Dropplets doesn't require a database, and its landing page is amazingly beautiful, clear, and to the point (though Ghost's "features" page is slick as well).

On a more technical note, click events seem to be propagated up the player on the landing page, closing it when toggling HD for example.