simon_weber
The For-Profit City That Might Come Crashing Down
Amtrak 2023 Host Railroad Report Card and FAQs [pdf]
Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive – Liquid Metal
Revel Rideshare
I'm on his side - I think the copy is bad - but he was pretty unhelpful in the thread and ended up getting it locked.
Building an open access fiber network to make Internet for all a reality
It wasn't quick, but it did seem to work. Here's the timeline:
- May 2018: I contact Google about being unable to export my accounting data from last month
- November 2018: after nothing but "thank you for your patience" emails, I complain to the AG
- early February 2019: I get a letter in the mail from the AG saying they'd forwarded the complaint to Google
- late February 2019: Google finally gives me my data [edit: I'd had April originally, but that was a separate request].
A related fun fact: accounting data exports for extensions have been broken for me (and I think all extension merchants?) since April 2018. I had to get the NY attorney general to write them a letter before they would actually respond to my support requests so that I could properly file my taxes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20588493. I'm sure that will be fun this year!
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It works well for me and one other power user, but hasn't grown beyond that. My guess is it's just a failure of marketing -- I make lots of these projects that scratch an itch and then just hope people will find them.
At least it's cheap to run ($2/month for the vps plus <$10/year for the domain).
Google Apps Script V8 Runtime Overview
I used to use https://medium.com/@ashan.fernando/forwarding-emails-to-your... to do this cheaply via SES, but it was a pain to set up for new domains and had some odd behavior at times.
https://improvmx.com was something else I came across, but I don't feel great trusting an unknown service with all my incoming mail.
Zoho works and is free for one user but the webapp is pretty rough to use.
https://forwardemail.net is an open source option but I wasn't sure about how reliable it would be.
Side Project Income 2019
I've since switched to Firefox, which is much better on Android than when I last tried it.
edit: updated; thanks for the feedback!
There's around 1k members right now. I stole the 10k catchphrase from The Listserve. Consider it aspirational!
Yes, people can be selected multiple times, but they must submit a post before they can be selected again.
No, I don't currently plan to release the posts. I might change that at some point but I'd want authors to opt in -- even though the license allows it without their consent I doubt everyone understands that.
A letter from the New York AG got them to respond, but I still need to email them every time I need my data (they get an engineer to run a db query manually, from what I can tell).
I did get an email today that they're migrating to a new system, so maybe it'll work in the future, but I wouldn't trust them based on what I've seen.