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Some quotes from his website which is, by the way, deliciously non Javascript garbagy "The site is reliable. Outages are rare and brief. The site has servers i
by zwaps 7y ago
Some quotes from his website which is, by the way, deliciously non Javascript garbagy
"The site is reliable. Outages are rare and brief. The site has servers in San Jose and Sacramento, for better resiliency in case of a California earthquake."
Front page review:
“One dude in his underpants somewhere who has five windows open to terminal servers.”
"The site has a sane business model that would be familiar to your grandparents."
"As every year, I'd like to thank all Pinboard users, old and new, for their support and their custom. I know there are lots of rival bookmarking services out there.
I will consume them, one by one, like I consumed the pie."
Can't really overstate the coolness of this dude
- notatoad 7y agoHe's also a great follow on twitter
- ceejayoz 7y agoEspecially when someone threatens to report him to "his boss" for poorly representing Pinboard on social media.
- driverdan 7y agoHe was great until he shifted his focus to 98% politics. Most of his posts used to be funny, now they're depressing.
- notatoad 7y agoEh. I'm not sure what the point of Twitter is if not politics
- function_seven 7y agoOh man, so much more. Humor (@loneblockbuster, @3yearletterman), earthquake news (@DrLucyJones, @DrWendyRocks), tech news or announcements (@patio11, @ircmaxell), and so on.
- dorkwood 7y agoI mainly follow developers and artists who post work I’m interested in.
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- jpindar 7y agoIt's the quickest way to get breaking, local, or event-centric news. It's the preferred means of communication for my utility company in the event of a blackout. Some companies have contests for free swag; I've gotten an Atlassian hoodie and some hand tools from Digi-Key.
- ajdlinux 7y agoMaciej is one of the few software people whose political tweets I go out of the way to read.
- elandrum 7y agoCurrent reality is depressing. It’s not like he is distorting it for profit or anything.
- masukomi 7y agopolitics is depressing, but to me his twitter stream is an example of what we should strive for: making a product we care about that can fund other things we care about that people won't normally pay for. In his case it's funding attempts to make US politics less I also like knowing that some of my $$$ is helping him do things like that.
- paulcole 7y agoThe funniest thing I remember was him talking about how upset Germans got when he said he didn’t do invoices. If they persisted, he’d send a blank invoice with instructions to just fill it out however they wanted, which just made them even madder.
- itengelhardt 7y agoWhat? I'm German. This is infuriating. I now have to pay him and ask for an invoice just to experience this :-)
- ido 7y agothe tax offices here require invoices. i personally don't care at all but unfortunately i do need to pay taxes.
- jacobush 7y agoSee, your comment is funny!
- klingonopera 7y agoThis is how the rich and poor are segregated in Germany. The system is to take too much from you, and let you reclaim that, theoretically once you've proven that you had tax-deductible expenses. But it's enough to just "talk" to the "Finanzamt" to already get a baseline €1000 tax-deductible expense, without even needing to show them anything. Which makes me wonder, why not just deduct this from all income taxes, if you're willing to grant it to everyone, without any proof. Sorry for sounding cynical now, but "dumb" and "busy" people are naturally disadvantaged from this system. That's not exactly... helping anyone. Except those who profit from the motto "A sucker born every minute!". But even they'd have more advantages, if their "suckers" had more cash at their disposal...
- marcus_holmes 7y agoAustralia has the same system. They'll give you $1000 without proof. I worked out that it's utterly pointless hoarding receipts and doing all the paperwork, because the difference between what I could claim with paperwork and without paperwork is maybe a couple hundred bucks. Not worth the effort.
- jordan801 7y agoFrom the FAQ Q: What happens if the guy who runs Pinboard gets hit by a bus? A: The bus is likely to be fine. They don't go very fast and are designed with passenger safety in mind. ========================== Love it. Also, I'm looking to quit my job and do small SaaS products for income, and this dude has really encouraged me to pursue it.
- ak39 7y agoAre you the anxious type? (Entry ticket)
- jgamman 7y agoironically the only thing that made me stay away from the service. if he'd added a paragraph that said he'd put some $$ in escrow and some code/instructions with his will/lawyer the site will continue to run with a contractor while the business is auctioned off to one of it's users (or some such) I'd be much happier. as it stands - one guy in his underwear with a service that may or may not exist next year.
- tedmiston 7y agoFWIW IIRC he does have a sysadmin as well who has been mentioned on Twitter before.
- kennethfriedman 7y agoI've been a multi-year Pinboard user, and — since day 1 — have wondered why there more other services more like Pinboard.
- goblin89 7y agoI paid for Pinboard long ago—its vibe did strike something with me. (Back then I was using online bookmark managers, did not have the habit of paying for software, times were different). I stopped using it shortly after I paid for it though. I needed to save a lot of reading I had open in tabs once, and bookmarklet stopped functioning—I went to the main site and the UI was behaving erratically as well, so I figured APIs must be down or something. The reason I left was not so much the outage itself but the fact that I paid for the service, while the free ones were right there available for me (Delicious anyone?). I felt a bit silly paying for the vibe and not something more primary. EDIT: This was years ago, hopefully it’s more reliable now though I haven’t been following them too closely.
- elandrum 7y agoThere is no them.
- masukomi 7y agoI've been using it daily for years and had no notable problems. I do pay for it. The archive functionality has been invaluable. Additionally, Pinboard bought Delicious. The free ones aren't very good about staying in business owing to the fact that they all have costs but no revenue. Thus his claim to eventually eat them all because he has a simple, profitable, business model.
- statictype 7y agoHe's 'idlewords on HN. His blog is also filled with tasty bits like that.
- rimliu 7y agoHis CV has this little gem: > Flounder, Pinboard.in https://idlewords.com/resume.htm https://idlewords.com/resume.htm