thejoeflow
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Show HN: A better Kotlin stdlib doc reference (autocomplete)
The official Kotlin API docs on the web are not very search friendly: https://kotlinlang.org/api/core/kotlin-stdlib Ctrl+F doesn't work well. It's hard to quickly find the method you're thinking of, especially if you don't remember exactly what it's called.What works better? IDE autocomplete. So this is autocomplete but on the web.The primary use case for this is coding interviews. I've been in...
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Re:Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem
on Friday January 23, 2026 @11:59AM (#46734781)
Isn't the search bad because they can't search email contents? As long as the term is somewhere in the metadata (title, sender email, sender name) it seems to work ok.
I agree though that the user experience isn't great because of this limitation. You kind of have to remember what the title of the email was for what you're looking for. Searching for "flight ticket" results in mixed success
Re:10 years of writing a blog nobody reads
on Monday December 01, 2025 @12:06PM (#46109866)
100%. I didn't mean this to be a "woe is me" piece, despite the clickbait-y title. I just wanted to talk about the merits of publishing your writing without any actual readers. And some lessons on writing I've picked up.
Re:10 years of writing a blog nobody reads
on Monday December 01, 2025 @12:04PM (#46109839)
completely agree
Re:10 years of writing a blog nobody reads
on Monday December 01, 2025 @12:03PM (#46109829)
yea, I'm not saying there's no place for that phrase ever. But overusing it was a bad habit of mine and it ends up being unnecessary filler. My wording there was a bit exaggerated.
10 years of writing a blog nobody reads
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Re:Shopify Is Illegal in Germany
on Friday November 11, 2022 @12:14PM (#33563527)
TG;DR?
Re:The handshake emoji is more complicated than you might think
on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @11:54AM (#27051531)
*Homer Sapiens
Re:Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with in-game cur...
on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @10:26AM (#26238341)
I thought this was an Onion article. Wow.
Re:Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020
on Friday February 12, 2021 @09:21AM (#26113890)
this. They don't even do an exact string match of the artist name, the reason why I can't fathom. I could make a new artist account named "drake" (lowercase d) today and probably show up in a million Release Radar playlists by next week.
Re:Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men
on Thursday January 14, 2021 @04:41PM (#25783026)
it's a reference point? The article isn't comparing to some platonic ideal of what men's testosterone levels should be...it's just pointing out a statistically significant decrease in those levels over a period of 20 years
Re:Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @04:46PM (#22807297)
That's a nice feature. I would also have to start tagging my posts I guess haha.
Re:Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @11:55AM (#22804346)
No - unfortunately you can only do so by clicking on the "Archive" dropdown and browsing through the years/months...something I will add soon though!
Appreciate the feedback
Re:Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @09:16AM (#22802895)
https://thejoeflow.com/blog
I write about...books. I don't think there's much point to reading it unless you've already read the book I'm talking about.
I mostly do it because I found I use to read books and then never talk about them or think about them afterwards so I would just forget about the book after a little while. I figured that writing something down about the book would help clarify my thoughts on it and I could remember it better.
I also wanted to build something with spring boot and kotlin so this was it.
Re:Show HN: Discover and listen to artists performing in your city thi...
on Friday September 13, 2019 @03:15PM (#20965379)
Songkick, and spotify for that matter, already do that
Re:Every Byte of a TLS Connection Explained and Reproduced
on Friday October 12, 2018 @09:09AM (#18201140)
Kind of ironic that their website is using an invalid security certificate?