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Re:From RSS to My Kindle on Thursday June 27, 2024 @07:54AM (#40809511)
You can achieve your share option in iOS using shortcuts. If you make a shortcut that sends the content of the share (like the URL of the article) to an arbitrary URL.
Re:Ask HN: How do you manage photos, philosophically? on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @03:35AM (#37671363)
I wouldn’t describe myself as a photographer so take with a grain of salt. A combination of iCloud and self hosted PhotoPrism [1] is perfect for me. My phone automatically backs up everything to both locations so I’m not worried about loosing anything and both do a good job of organizing by date/location/event. I can happily take photos without worrying that I’ll need to sift through them all at a later date. When I happen to use a camera that isn’t my phone (Mavic Mini being the most frequent), I can add the photos to both locations from my laptop. Apple does a great job of packaging and presenting ‘memories’ at a later date.

[1] https://www.photoprism.app/

Re: on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @03:03PM (#34795134)
A build log of an open source version of the Dyson Light Cycle.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2022) on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @01:57PM (#33424839)
Hello! I reached out, but it appears your email ([email protected]) bounces with a Status code: 550 5.1.10
Others have already mentioned good pens to start with, but I want to mention that the paper is equally important. Clairefontain makes great notebooks for fountain pens that won’t break the bank.

The reason for this has to do with paper composition and weight and how free flowing (liquid) ink interacts with the paper fibers. [1]

[1] https://www.jetpens.com/blog/The-Best-Fountain-Pen-Paper/pt/...

+1 for Wave. Have been using it for my needs over the past 12 months with no major complaints. It appears their business model is based on getting you to accept payment for services through their automated invoicing, which they take a percentage of[1].

1. https://www.waveapps.com/pricing

Re:Ask HN: How to make the most out of time at university? on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @09:28AM (#30346841)
If you have the time to join groups that you find interesting, but are not directly related to your topic of study, do it. You will spend the rest of your career increasing your skill set in the domain you chose, but university can be a unique chance to get to learn from all the other domains. In my experience, and your milage may vary, nobody asked about my grads after I graduated. The skills I gained by joining groups outside of CS helped me go much farther than spending that extra time studying I think ever could.
For my use cases, Lightsail containers are far over-priced when compared to the smallest virtual server (which can run multiple small containers). $3.5/month for 1vCPU virtual server or $7 per container for 0.5 vCPU.

There is certainly value in the service offered, but 4x/vCPU worth? That I am not sure of.

Re:Npm Audit: broken by design? on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @10:44AM (#27761681)
As someone who only had just gotten into front end programming after years of backend work, npm has been a nightmare. I haven't experienced the same level of frustration with other package managers (pip, cargo, go mod, etc) as I have with npm.

Is yarn the better option? What is our path forward?