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I’ll often check the finance-related articles on Abnormal Returns, and the non-finance Saturday links usually lead somewhere interesting.

https://abnormalreturns.com/

Re:St. John’s Reading List: A Great Books Curriculum on Thursday February 02, 2023 @03:03PM (#34632236)
> how are you going to know about the grand themes unless someone tells you about it?

SJC grad here. The Program encourages you to encounter the works for yourself and see what _you_ think the themes/ideas are.

You’re lightly discouraged from reading the translator’s preface, since they share their own opinions. Different students bring different translations of the material, and additionally the language class that lasts all 4 years of undergrad is basically asking what translation is, is it possible.

I’ve used Fanurio[0] in the past and it works well. It won’t win any design awards, but it’s cross-platform (Java) and covers all the features without a subscription.

[0]: http://www.fanuriotimetracking.com/

Re:Capsule: the nano (WASM) functions runner on Sunday October 02, 2022 @12:19PM (#33057298)
Interested in this! thanks for the clear examples in the readme
Re:The architecture behind a one-person tech startup on Friday April 09, 2021 @12:42PM (#26752752)
It’s still in the early stages, but Blitz[1] is a Rails-esque framework that expands on Next.js to add things like authn/authz

[1]: https://blitzjs.com/

Re:The architecture behind a one-person tech startup on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:54AM (#26747441)
Any personal experience with Supabase? Looks cool
Re:Financial Statements: A Beginner's Guide on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @10:11AM (#23832152)
Nice overview. Khan Academy[1] actually has some resources on the basics of financial statements as well.

[1]: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-fi...

Re:The Apollo Explorer on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @06:30PM (#23695530)
Looks neat! Will this ever be something that we can run locally (similar to the GraphQL Playground)?
+1 for KeePass. Native apps have been great on all platforms (I recommend Strongbox on iOS).
SCM Breeze[1] is one of the first things I install whenever I set up a new dev machine. Setting up bash aliases for git commands like `ga=git add` is nice, but SCM Breeze takes it one step further and automatically numbers each file in the git output. Then you can do `ga 1 2 5`.

[1]: https://github.com/scmbreeze/scm_breeze

Sorry, why?
If you’re looking for more full-featured middleware functionality targeted at Lambda, also check out Middy:

https://github.com/middyjs/middy

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019) on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @06:08PM (#19567660)
Heads up, your site is broken in Firefox.
Re:Ask HN: What are some great personal blogs/portfolios? on Friday February 08, 2019 @01:00PM (#19116909)
Looks like he's just wrapping the GoodReads RSS feed in his GraphQL server: https://github.com/jefflombard/jefflombard.com-v4/blob/maste...
Re:Writing copy for landing pages on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @08:44AM (#18715510)
"Everybody Writes" by Ann Handley is a great resource along these lines. Includes general writing advice and useful content-specific tips. For example, make the About Us page on your site not a dry description of the company, but of the company in relation to the visitor, giving more background information on how you help solve their problems.
Re:Show HN: Jumprock.co – HTML Forms for Static Sites on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @08:38AM (#16482854)
Things like this and Formspree are great for setting up a one-off site. If you get to choose the hosting though, Netlify offers form submission handling as part of their free tier, with email/Slack notifications, API access, and data export.

https://www.netlify.com/docs/form-handling/

Re:Red Lang ICO on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @09:29AM (#16115105)
Perhaps we could update the title to "Red language goes forward with ICO, releases whitepaper"?
Re:Learn to use Awk with hundreds of examples on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @10:23AM (#15550332)
Definitely check out the rest of that repo as well; it's a gold mine!
Re:Sublime Text 3.0 on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @09:49AM (#15238194)
I've found GitSavvy to work quite well: https://packagecontrol.io/packages/GitSavvy
Re:Firefox Send: Encrypt and send large files on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @01:33PM (#14903207)
Looks interesting, but a quick glance through the site and the primary GitHub repo doesn't give much information about the project. Is there any differentiating factor here besides being CLI-first?
Setting up your own resizer using sharp[1] is pretty simple. Just make sure you install the module in a Lambda-compatible environment, so it can build its copy of libvips (native C library) correctly. I built and deployed my image thumbnailer on a CentOS VM.

[1]: https://github.com/lovell/sharp

+1 for node-lambda. It's a lot simpler than Serverless when you just want a little help with testing/deploying.
Re:Acme Klein Bottle on Sunday April 02, 2017 @12:19AM (#14015757)
One of these was given to me as a graduation gift. Included with the order receipt were photos of him wrapping up the Klein bottle, holding it up and smiling with it, and the receipt was signed with a note saying, "Congratulations!" It's possibly the best present I've ever received! In case you see this, thank you Clif!

Because of this I read The Cuckoo's Egg, and it was pretty great too. What a cool guy.

Re:A book series on JavaScript on Saturday June 25, 2016 @06:53AM (#11975922)
This is a good list! Thanks for the links to Regex Crossword and RegexOne - they look useful.
Also check out the successor to Rebol that's under development and seeking to be a "full-stack language," Red: http://www.red-lang.org/
Re:0h h1 – A little logic game on Thursday November 13, 2014 @08:26PM (#8605312)
This just killed my productivity and made my day.
Re:The Art of Unix Usability (2004) on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @09:12PM (#8593619)
And I had heard of userstyles.org, but not read any of practicaltypography.com. Many thanks for introducing me to a concise, well-presented collection of typography best practices.