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Re:Ask HN: Who needs beta testers? (February 2023) on Thursday February 02, 2023 @02:49AM (#34623495)
https://audio.phoni.es/

an experiment bringing together Hugo and Internet Archive to provide a rock solid, lightweight and ethical solution to serve audio files.

The main objective is to share loads of audio files (hundreds of gigabytes are fine) without the hassle of Youtube / Dropbox / Soundcloud etc

Contact: https://audio.phoni.es/contact/

Re:Ask HN: An Open Source Alternative to Google Calendar on Friday December 30, 2022 @04:10AM (#34183333)
Nextcloud, synced with Etar on my android phone
To get an overview of these (toxic IMHO) companies, I strongly recommend this episode of Last Week Tonight:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wqn3gR1WTcA

Gitlab provides several web interfaces:

- a basic WYSIWYG when you click on "Edit"

- Gitpod and Gitlab IDE, based on Vs code in the browser, allowing custom settings and extension

The jamstack for sure
Re:Ask HN: Do You Like Your Smartphone? on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @04:37PM (#32088441)
A Samsung S4 Neo, paid 35€, set up with /e/ (an adaptation of LineageOS).

It does what I tell him to do, and I've seen no ads or unwanted notifications since I use it (4 years now)

I prefer localGfonts, "Online tool to provide fonts and css snippets for self-hosting using google fonts"

See https://labs.binaryunit.com/localgfonts/

The French nuclear industry was mostly privatized and is ran now by Areva (rebranded Orano after several scandals)
I disagree, the live server is super practical. Are you sure it takes a lot if energy to the dev BTW?

I especially like Hugo plugged with Netlify CMS. Free, powerful, and robust.

The learning curve is steep but it worth it.

Only caveat though: the "Bus factor" is very low and it's sometime intimidating to contribute on the Github tracker

Totally free Jamstack themes repository: https://jamstack.club

It's a WIP, feedback welcome!

Re:Where can I find a free online spell checker? on Sunday May 29, 2022 @12:49AM (#31546477)
Grammarly is nice (as a non native English speaker)
Re:Show HN: Open-Source Calendly Alternative on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @01:57AM (#31323936)
See also cal.com
Briar maybe?
Re:Ask HN: Custom domain email for professionals? on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @06:30PM (#31090213)
OVH provides email service for 4$/month: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/emails/

The first mail client setup is not obvious though

Re:Ask HN: Working Offline for 8 Hours? on Saturday April 16, 2022 @07:10PM (#31056919)
Doc can be downloaded with Zeal
This firefox extension does a good job most of the time:

https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/single-file/

This is for personal/offline backup in the first place. Do you need the possibility to share the archive?

(Note that gitlab.com has the same feature)
Browser editors like github.dev maybe?
Re:Ask HN: Full-text browser history search forever? on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @06:23AM (#30697103)
Alright, thanks for the update!
Re:Ask HN: Full-text browser history search forever? on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @04:52AM (#30696631)
Promnesia is meant for that (I didn't test it though): https://beepb00p.xyz/promnesia.html
Use Newpipe
The book "Design is a job" by Mike Montero provides precious advice, useful for designer and other members of a web agency
Headless CMSs somehow

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