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Re:Pocket migration to Firefox accounts on Saturday February 12, 2022 @03:47PM (#30316254)
> I've wondered about how to exfiltrate all of my accumulated links I've put into Pocket over the past ~7 years or so.

Yeah, this is what has prevented me from moving away. I was a premium user and used to use their search. I’m not anymore but I still want to keep the list around. I still go back and find references that Google doesn’t show anymore.

There are some apps that move data from pocket to kindle or such, but having an import from pocket in a new product would be really nice.

Re:Pocket migration to Firefox accounts on Saturday February 12, 2022 @03:18PM (#30315974)
Somewhat tangentially related. Pocket seems like a dead product. I have been using it since it can out but it feels old, slow and quite behind.

I use it extensively to capture a reading list and then trim it occasionally. Any recommendations for alternatives?

Offline web-rendered article views are a must - something pocket can’t do. And their text mode misses quite a few important details when there are equations or illustrations in the content.

Re:REST Servers in Go: Part 1 – standard library on Sunday January 17, 2021 @06:02AM (#25809779)
Yes. Please take a look at grpc-gateway. You write your specs as proto files and then get handlers and middlewares to implement the endpoints.
Re:REST Servers in Go: Part 1 – standard library on Sunday January 17, 2021 @06:00AM (#25809767)
This is exactly what I started using in my new open source project (not announced yet) and the experience has been amazing. I was wary about it in the beginning but it quickly became clear that this is the easiest and probably the fastest way to get this job done. The community and tooling has come far ahead.
Re:Encouraging a culture of written communication on Monday May 11, 2020 @11:16PM (#23150248)
I've adopted the doc of docs method and it has made my life incredibly easy! I was in a position where I'm a bottleneck of information because no one else in the company new about the product other than me. I wrote a ton of documentation for employees and users but I still was spending upwards of 20 hours every week just answering questions. I built the doc of docs in 2 hours and that has helped significantly. Combine this with always replying with a link instead of a dedicated explanation has been extremely fruitful!
Re:Ask HN: What projects are you working on now? on Saturday March 21, 2020 @06:34PM (#22650813)
I'm building two things:

https://repocounters.com This is a tool to track download history for Github releases over time. I'm working on adding support for Github packages. And Docker is next on the list as well.

The other project is Stilton. Not available yet. It is a centralized certificate issuance server for ACME protocol, primarily targeted for organizations running large number of domains and need TLS certs for them.

Show HN: RepoStats – Track GitHub Release Statistics

Hello HN,I've built a tool to track downloads counts for releases of repositories:https://repostats.yolo42.comI run two Open-Source projects and we host our releases on Github. Github maintains a total counter for downloads but there is no way to track downloads per day.It is pretty basic and bare-bones but works. It tracks downloads per asset, which gives you a good insight into adoption of...

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Ask HN: How did you do with your 2019 goals?

Hello HN folks,This might be a cliche resolutions post but it is always a pleasure to read through the comments every year and seeing what this community is up to. I'd love to know if you had set out any goals (personal, professional, something else) for the year or part of the year of 2019 and how far did you reach.As for myself, I started with 2019 with four personal goals:- Go to the gym 3...

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Re:Ask HN: Best solutions for keeping a personal log? on Sunday December 29, 2019 @09:35PM (#21910328)
Same here!

It is simple, searchable and extremely flexible.

I have a list for each date in a Logbook list and keep dumping all my completed TODOs at work there. It has come in useful a few times already to recall when did I do thing X.

I also have an Inbox list to keep all my thoughts in there, which get groomed once a couple of weeks. The mobile app is a little slower than I'd like but it is the best tools I've found to organize my thoughts.

I also get daily emails from Workflowy which provides a nice timeline of everything I've done or recorded at any point.

Re:Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do? on Friday December 13, 2019 @11:17PM (#21787771)
Indeed, this realization is hitting me slowly.
Re:Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do? on Friday December 13, 2019 @11:13PM (#21787757)
They could surely fork it and take it from there. They would rather want that they own the code-base so that their enterprise customers can be assured that it is a product that they control and own.

My product, unintentionally, solves a lot of problems for the enterprise product that my company sells.

Re:Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do? on Friday December 13, 2019 @11:03PM (#21787720)
Thank you for the comment! I totally get what you and other threads are trying to say and I don't disagree with what you are saying.

I probably should have cleared this out in my original post (my bad) that I do not wish to pursue the legal route. I personally feel that in my case, it will just drain everyone's energy for not much gain at the end. Also, personal relationships matter to me as well.

I'm trying to find ways to get compensated for the time and effort I've put into it. If not financially, then in some other forms. But I don't have any ideas.

Re:Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do? on Friday December 13, 2019 @10:53PM (#21787687)
> What kind of outcome do you want?

I wish I knew myself better.

Maintenance and taking the product forward will naturally become part of my job, so that's a given (and I'm happy about it).

What can I ask more for is what I'm trying to figure out and having a hard time.

I'm generally creative with software and products but I'm really bad when it comes to negotiations and figuring out a good barter.

I absolutely don't want to take the legal route and want to work something out mutually.

Re:Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do? on Friday December 13, 2019 @09:09PM (#21787316)
It is not that they want me to spend work time on it. They want me to transfer ownership of the project to them. That's the part that I do not wish to do.

The way things work at this place, I'll probably end up maintaining the product until I leave my job.

The reason for not transferring over is that once I do that, they will essentially not let me create features that I think can be done better using my product, because they exist in some other product.

Re:Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do? on Friday December 13, 2019 @09:05PM (#21787307)
> I'd like to be compensated for the work I put in on my own time out side of work. (which is well documented from the commit logs, and the fact I wasn't using an employer owned computer)

The company overall is quite stingy and I doubt that they will do this part. I'm trying to figure out what other things that I can ask for other than financial compensation. Someone mentioned Promotion and a positive review is something to ask for, which makes some sense. The only problem is according to my review, I'm already exceeding expectations. So, this project doesn't buy me much.

Overall, they are fine, and kind of, want me to drive the project, essentially because there is no one else who can do that job.

Re:Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do? on Friday December 13, 2019 @06:57PM (#21786768)
The current license is Apache 2.0 so that's not helping.

> Ultimately, nothing prevents you from deleting your public Git repo. You can decide that your project is not available anymore, it is your right.

I don't think this is an option. They can still claim that they want the code because I created something that directly relates to what the company does.

Re:Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do? on Friday December 13, 2019 @06:53PM (#21786743)
I should have thought about GPL when I released the code. But, that boat has sailed. Could they change the license later on if it is initially GPL? I'm thinking about the next project that I'll be doing so that I don't repeat the same mistake.
Re:Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do? on Friday December 13, 2019 @06:03PM (#21786420)
Thank you for your comments!

This would have been natural but the timing of this could not be worse. I just got a raise (last week) and I doubt they will consider anything more. They gave me a raise because I was doing good work for other things. I've serious doubts that there would be any financial barter possible.

I'll probably the lead for the project and my managers are fine with that. Promotion is something that I've considered either so thank you for that suggestion.

Re:Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do? on Friday December 13, 2019 @05:56PM (#21786371)
Apache 2.0.

Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do?

Hello everyone,I created product on the side as a side project in my own time and it has become a huge hit in the community to a point where my employers wants me to transfer the code-base over. The company does OSS and my side-project is also Open-Source.I've developed it on my own time but the product directly relates to what my employer does so I've sort of cornered myself in a bad place. In...

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Re:Show HN: EasyDB – A One-Click Ephemeral Database on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @11:33PM (#21591483)
Any plans to add a Go library for this?

Ask HN: How did you do with your 2018 resolutions?

Resolutions if taken in the right spirit could help.I had decided on the following three goals for 2018:- Run 3 times a week. I was 30% successful at this. I dropped the ball during a time period when I switched jobs. Not only that, I still don't have a regular schedule but my stamina is better than before and I'll spill this one over to 2019.- Read 26 books. I used to read a lot of books in...

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Re:Kong gateway reaches 1.0 GA, now supports service mesh on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:18PM (#18728091)
Kong runs at a critical point in any infrastructure. Having any sort of downtime is usually unacceptable.

To avoid downtime due to Kong upgrades, Kong now supports a blue-green deployment method where for two Kong nodes of version A and version A+1 can run together at the same time as the upgrade is being rolled out, and then switching all traffic to A+1.

Re:Kong gateway reaches 1.0 GA, now supports service mesh on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:08PM (#18727988)
There are a few options to deploy Kong as your API Gateway:

Kong can work as an Ingress Controller for your Kubernetes cluster and run plugins for your traffic at the Ingress layer. Refere to the repo for more details: https://github.com/kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller

You can simply deploy it as an application using the Helm chart: https://github.com/helm/charts/tree/master/stable/kong

Re:Nginx on Wasmjit on Friday December 07, 2018 @11:14AM (#18628854)
There is another layer of abstraction that is heavily being exploited of running layers of kernels. I'm really interested in seeing more advances in this and unikernal approach where if you are running in the cloud, the hypervisor already provides you with a sandbox, so run things at a lower level than necessary. There are certain secuirty challenges that we see because we keep thinking in terms of user and kernal space. If we try to narrow (and slowly remove) the line separating the spaces, we can address these problems in more efficient way than done today for sure.

Ask HN: How did you do with your 2018 resolutions?

Resolutions if taken in the right spirit could help.I had decided on the following three goals for 2018:- Run 3 times a week. I was 30% successful at this. I dropped the ball during a time period when I switched jobs. Not only that, I still don't have a regular schedule but my stamina is better than before and I'll spill this one over to 2019.- Read 26 books. I used to read a lot of books in...

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