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Re:The worst job interview I ever had
on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @07:19PM (#48287357)
Yeah, OP just unwinded himself, no filter. You can be truthful and open with friends and family, close people to you. You absolutely shouldn't when talking with strangers.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @02:48PM (#46621839)
Re:I tried every top email marketing tool
on Sunday November 17, 2024 @09:49AM (#42164455)
Great article, it must have been a lot of work (I've been on the very same road), so I'd do the same with some affiliate links.
I ran away from Mailchimp more than 5 years ago when they started with their shenanigans and arrived at the same conclusion: Mailerlite is great. I used to have lots of respect for Mailchimp for being a bootstrapped business and never taking investor money but once they sold their soul, it was game over. One thing the article doesn't mention is the fact that Mailchimp has been moving from an email marketing SaaS to a marketing platform SaaS. From a quick glance at their services, they now offer a website builder, a CRM, ads retargeting, social media integrations---and as a customer, you end up paying for every single feature, regardless of if you want it or not.
Re:As Firefox turns 20, Mozilla ponders how to restore it to its forme...
on Sunday November 10, 2024 @07:59PM (#42103733)
With the manifest v3 debacle they have a golden opportunity in their hands. They can promoting the fact that they work for you rather than advertisers, they could explain what true privacy looks like, regardless of what device you're using.
Firefox on Android used to be a really good product--it supported basically every popular extension there was for desktop, then in 2018-2019 they appeared to start a new revamped project for some reason. I downloaded the beta for it--it was rough around the corners, it had a quite short whitelist of extensions, most of the functionalities were absent, but there were a few improvements here and there. And out of nowhere, a few weeks later they made it the default.
It's been way too long and the app still feels unfinished. It crashes way too much and I can't even move around the icons for the websites in the start page. They've enabled the list of extensions recently but it's a mess. I only use it since it's where I can have uBlock origin.
It feels that every couple of years they have a golden opportunity, but somehow they never seem to know what to do.
Re:Transformers for Ruby
on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @10:49AM (#41300596)
Ankane's Onnx runtime for ruby is so easy to use that makes you wonder why the official repo for js is so difficult to understand. This guy's a hero, although I'm only scratching the surface for what he has done.
Re:Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but no...
on Friday July 05, 2024 @10:24AM (#40883049)
I have a quite big userscript that fixes all the little annoyances I've been finding on the sites I often visit. Is the click area too small? I fixed it. Is there a really big form that when I select a specific value some other elements need to be at a specific state? It's fixed now. Did we get a new business lead and we need to enter all their information to our CRM? I can now paste that info and the form will be automatically filled.
I find usescripts way more easy to update than an extension, so that's what I've been sticking with for quite a few years now.
Re:Never* use Git pull [video]
on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @04:03PM (#40290839)
Great explanation, just last week I was explaining these concepts to a new dev in our team. The visuals are really helpful to get the point across.
Re:Caniemail.com (like caniuse but for email content)
on Monday May 06, 2024 @09:05PM (#40281223)
Best tool I've found is Testi@[1]. It's really affordable and it supports basically everything out there.
* Disclaimer: Not affiliated, just a happy customer.
- [1] https://testi.at/
Re:Show HN: I made a CLI tool to create web extensions with no build c...
on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @01:56PM (#40213954)
IMO MutationObserver's API is a bit difficult to grasp. For simpler cases for getting a callback when an element is created, I use spect[1] or sentinel[2].
1: https://github.com/dy/spect 2: https://github.com/kubetail-org/sentineljs
Re:Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant answers and W...
on Friday February 16, 2024 @08:31AM (#39396744)
I feel like you're arguing against yourself.
Re:What Web Can Do Today?
on Sunday February 04, 2024 @02:48PM (#39253668)
I'm on the fence. While I think some of these features should be absolutely not part of a browser's scope, I think there will always be legitimate use cases.
What I'm absolutely convinced of is for better controls. A little more than a year ago, our government required the banking industry to know their users' locations for some reason. So now the banks ask for my location, otherwise I can't login.
While on a mobile device it would be quite hard to give them a fake location without rooting/jailbreaking, in my browser I could find a reputable, open source extension [1] that helps me protect my privacy.
These kind of controls should be part of each of these features, without risking installing an extension with nefarious intent.
Re:Don't use NameCheap for the .fr TLD
on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @09:22AM (#39204102)
So you got sold a subdomain? That's a new one for me.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2024)
on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @11:09AM (#38843133)
SEEKING WORK | Mexico | Remote Only
4-person team comprised of multidisciplinary roles in development, design, UI/UX and marketing that can bring an MVP to production in just a few weeks. Most of the team has worked in startups for +10 years.
Languages: English and Spanish.
Hourly rates: $54-$64 USD
Our services: https://osom.so/development
Technologies:
- Ruby on Rails
- PHP, Laravel
- JS, Node, Vue, React, Svelte
Services:
- MVP/Prototype development
- Startup rescue mission/scaling up
- UX consulting
- Branding and marketing strategy
Email: development [at] osom [dot] so
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2023)
on Friday December 01, 2023 @03:12PM (#38491661)
SEEKING WORK | Mexico | Remote Only
4-person team comprised of multidisciplinary roles in development, design, UI/UX and marketing that can bring an MVP to production in just a few weeks. Most of the team has worked in startups for +10 years.
Languages: English and Spanish.
Hourly rates: $54-$64 USD
Our services: https://osom.so/development
Technologies:
- Ruby on Rails
- PHP, Laravel
- JS, Node, Vue, React, Svelte
Services:
- MVP/Prototype development
- Startup rescue mission/scaling up
- UX consulting
- Branding and marketing strategy
Email: development [at] osom [dot] so
Re:Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning
on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @01:25PM (#36230033)
It's really weird how it just assumes that the question should be answered as a code snippet in Python.
It's weirder that Google thinks that this is a good showcase of better logic and reasoning.
Re:Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?
on Friday March 17, 2023 @06:04PM (#35203516)
I've been blogging for 20+ years on my personal website [1] (disclaimer: it's in spanish). I started it when I was a teenager as a way to teach myself discipline. I used to write every single day. Now it's a bit of a monthly occurrance but it has done quite a few things for me.
1. Landed me a job, and a few gigs 2. Started new friendships 3. Inadvertently taught me SEO 4. Did a bunch of side projects 5. Gave me my 15 minutes of fame
I only wished I could write more often, but it's been a great journey. I want it to keep going.
Re:F.lux, but for Your House
on Monday November 07, 2022 @02:35PM (#33511128)
I wish something like this existed for TVs. Since I got my eyesight procedure 10+ years ago, I soon noticed I was quite sensitive to lights that didn't affect me at all (maybe my vision was too bad to even notice, don't know). That extreme sensitivity faded off in the first six months, but I still get annoyed by some lights and the first thing I do with a new PC/Phone is setting up Redshift[1] or Twilight[2], and although I'm not a big TV consumer, the times I do watch it, I wonder if there's a market for this kind of features.
1: https://github.com/jonls/redshift
2: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid...
Re:Color fonts on Google Fonts
on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @11:29AM (#32838580)
They're multi-color. For example, you could have a font with a 3D-effect, its shadow and lighting could be different from the actual block. Look at the first image of the post to see what I mean, the big "Color Fonts" text.
Re:Removal of Heroku free product plans
on Thursday August 25, 2022 @12:26PM (#32596055)
> Why does the feedback link on the blog post go to a personal LinkedIn page?
That's how you know they really don't want to hear from you.
Re:Add-on support in new Firefox for Android (2021)
on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @07:21PM (#31914383)
I remember back in late 2018, early 2019 I downloaded the Nightly version, Mozilla had been hinting on a rewrite for a while and I wanted to see what they were up to. This version seemed solid, although a work in progress: you could not customize the listed sites in the home screen, addons were disabled and the settings seemed lacking compared to what we had in the stable release, but work was solid.
Then, out of nowhere, they phase out what we currently have with this half-baked Nightly version. The app updated itself overnight and now all the addons are no longer supported (Violentmonkey was a big one for me as I could customize some websites with a user script), the home page icons can't be rearranged, the history can't be deleted and overall this updated app seems like a worse deal that we previously had.
Mozilla has stopped caring about their products. It seems that nobody in there is dogfooding Firefox, and it shows. They have a big advantage because of Google still not allowing addons on Mobile Chrome, and instead of opening up the whole ecosystem (which previously most of the desktop addons were compatible with the mobile app), they double down on allowing only a very short list of preapproved addons.
Re:Show HN: Prevent your computer sleeping with just a webpage
on Friday April 22, 2022 @03:48PM (#31127125)
Additionally, something to tell me whether my PC will go to sleep or not if left alone. OP's problem happens to me every so often that I need to make sure the PC is indeed going to sleep before heading out.
Re:Ask HN: Share your personal site
on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @08:08PM (#30939060)
https://www.therror.com/
It's my personal blog I've been writing on since 2002.
Re:Ask HN: Easiest way to build a CRUD app?
on Sunday February 13, 2022 @07:40PM (#30327176)
Have you heard of AdonisJS[1]? A couple of years ago we had JS as a hard requirement for a new project, and coming from a Rails background, Adoins was really good.
Re:Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates
on Thursday February 10, 2022 @03:16PM (#30291847)
I actually wrote a userscript in order to hide them.
Re:Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates
on Thursday February 10, 2022 @03:15PM (#30291833)
I haven't actually seen them in a long while, but I'm using the chronological timeline, maybe you should try it.
Re:Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates
on Thursday February 10, 2022 @02:11PM (#30290982)
Twitter has been an absolute mess over the last few years. Through the explore tab, they aggressively promote topics that I have no interest in: k-pop, fashion, reality TV, telenovelas and birthdays. And there's no way to tell them that I don't really care about those topics, you can't even hide them.
The trending topics used to be a very good way to know what's happening. Being the pulse of the planet was achieved. Nowadays, the trending topics are heavily abused. When a streamer or an influencer does something, there's usually 6 or 7 trending topics all related to that person.
And then there are the spoilers. Every major movie release has the name of the characters or actors right in your home page the very same day of the premiere. I had to permanently hide them in my browser, and I've been reducing the usage of Twitter in my phone. I'm very tempted to uninstall it from it and use it only in a PC, although I don't see myself closing my account.
And even though they're alienating a big part of their user base by promoting topics that clearly drive their numbers, they're still not reaching their goals. I wonder what they'll do next.
Re:Customizing Web Search
on Monday January 24, 2022 @10:01AM (#30058400)
One thing I really liked about Firefox was that it used to do two different types of searches. The search bar acts as it does today, but the nav bar used to redirect to the first result. This was very useful because sometimes you just know what you're looking for (as per the OP's example, "tom hanks imdb"), while other times you are going to do some digging.
Now that I'm using Kagi as my main search engine, I wish I could tell Firefox to use another search engine in my nav bar, and when I'm incognito. Mozilla used to let us modify a lot of things (via the UI, or the about:config panel), but from a few years it has been removing lots of customization options.
Re:Ask HN: Best cars without too much digitalization?
on Friday November 19, 2021 @03:03PM (#29281631)
Honda Fit owner here as well, the car is great, but unfortunately it's being discontinued in a lot of places. I think only Japan will still have them, and they even have an EV option.
Re:Mailgun doesn't validate the email headers of email sent through th...
on Saturday November 13, 2021 @03:23PM (#29212867)
Same story here, but being a Sendgrid customer for 6+ years, suddenly the shared IP is blocked as well. After opening a lot of support tickets and getting no response, I had to nag someone here in HN who mentioned working for Sendgrid, he escalated but the response was the same: pay a lot more to get what you used to have.
Migrated to Postmark right away and we've been a happy customer for 2+ years now.