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Looks nice. Bookmarked it with Pinboard.

eknkc 4y ago
Is pinboard still a thing? I've an account but haven't used it for ages. Maciej seems to have left twitter, http://blog.pinboard.in http://blog.pinboard.in resolves to a placeholder page. Thought it was abandoned at this point.
- markstos 4y ago
  Still a thing. There's an excellent iOS app for Pinboard made a third party developer, called Pins. It was just updated in 2022. https://get-pins.app/posts/pins-v2022.1/ https://get-pins.app/posts/pins-v2022.1/ I don't see a placeholder page at https://blog.pinboard.in/ https://blog.pinboard.in/ I see the most recent blog post. It happens to be a couple years old, but Pinboard is good enough as it is. I didn't subscribe for monthly product blog posts.
  - foxbarrington 4y ago
    Thanks for the recommendation; just purchased Pins. I was using Pinner, but was not happy with it.
  - geeio 4y ago
    I wasn’t expecting the app to be that good! Great recommendation
  - gammarator 4y ago
    Man, I love his writing. > It helped in this process that I was in Japan, since I could do most work at night while my US/European customers slept or wept into their phones or whatever it is people do at night nowadays.
  - sph 4y ago
    Why the heck are there no screenshots on that site? Not even in the home page? I do not understand how many developers forget that the easiest way of converting potential buyers is showing a picture of your GRAPHICAL user interface. One of the best sales boost vs time investment you could ever do for your app, takes literally 15 seconds to do. Sorry, I'm not interested enough to go chasing an App Store link (there's none) or if you shared one in a blog post.
- gexla 4y ago
  Apparently it is, because Pinboard has taken over my search results for certain queries.
- tptacek 4y ago
  He didn't "seem to have" left Twitter. He announced he was leaving Twitter for a year, about 6 months ago. It's literally the first tweet on his feed. blog.pinboard.in resolves to the Pinboard blog. Pinboard works great; I use it daily.
  - Tomte 4y ago
    Pinboard works great for some. For others it doesn't work at all, and, unlike you, we mere mortals don't have Maciej's cell number. :-) The most grating part is where he ignores support mails, Twitter DMs etc. completely, over many, many months, but drops in on HN to talk about Pinboard, still ignoring you in that very thread. Really, this hasn't been going on for six months or so, this has been this way for years and years. I've recently read on HN that it depends on which server your user account is located on, so I guess we can both be correct. Just open accounts until it works for you. :-)
    - tptacek 4y ago
      I don't know about anyone else's Pinboard experience and am not denying anyone's experience, but I use it pretty much every day (I'm surprised by how often I use it) and I've never had a support request. Wait, that's not true, I once asked him to change the way tweet indexing worked, and he ignored me. But other than that: nothing.
  - eknkc 4y ago
    Yeah I did not check his first tweet, I just don't see his tweets on my feed so I assumed he left. I've always loved his writing style and humor so his absence was obvious. Blog still loads a "Ubuntu Apache hey you managed to install this" page for me. (https://link.ekin.dev/scKR1f https://link.ekin.dev/scKR1f) Don't know why. Glad that it's still alive and kicking though.
    - tptacek 4y ago
      You've somehow hit the http:// http:// version of blog.pinboard.in. Chrome won't let me get to that page, but Safari will. The URL is https://blog.pinboard.in https://blog.pinboard.in.
seltzered_ 4y ago
I used my pinboard account to remember kippt (YC S12, closed 2015) - https://blog.ycombinator.com/kippt-yc-s12-launches-inc-the-way-companies-can-build-their-own-private-knowledge-base https://blog.ycombinator.com/kippt-yc-s12-launches-inc-the-w...

Is pinboard still a thing? I've an account but haven't used it for ages. Maciej seems to have left twitter, http://blog.pinboard.in http://blog.pinboard.in resolves to a placeholder page. Thought it was abandoned at this point.

markstos 4y ago
Still a thing. There's an excellent iOS app for Pinboard made a third party developer, called Pins. It was just updated in 2022. https://get-pins.app/posts/pins-v2022.1/ https://get-pins.app/posts/pins-v2022.1/ I don't see a placeholder page at https://blog.pinboard.in/ https://blog.pinboard.in/ I see the most recent blog post. It happens to be a couple years old, but Pinboard is good enough as it is. I didn't subscribe for monthly product blog posts.
- foxbarrington 4y ago
  Thanks for the recommendation; just purchased Pins. I was using Pinner, but was not happy with it.
- geeio 4y ago
  I wasn’t expecting the app to be that good! Great recommendation
- gammarator 4y ago
  Man, I love his writing. > It helped in this process that I was in Japan, since I could do most work at night while my US/European customers slept or wept into their phones or whatever it is people do at night nowadays.
- sph 4y ago
  Why the heck are there no screenshots on that site? Not even in the home page? I do not understand how many developers forget that the easiest way of converting potential buyers is showing a picture of your GRAPHICAL user interface. One of the best sales boost vs time investment you could ever do for your app, takes literally 15 seconds to do. Sorry, I'm not interested enough to go chasing an App Store link (there's none) or if you shared one in a blog post.
gexla 4y ago
Apparently it is, because Pinboard has taken over my search results for certain queries.
tptacek 4y ago
He didn't "seem to have" left Twitter. He announced he was leaving Twitter for a year, about 6 months ago. It's literally the first tweet on his feed. blog.pinboard.in resolves to the Pinboard blog. Pinboard works great; I use it daily.
- Tomte 4y ago
  Pinboard works great for some. For others it doesn't work at all, and, unlike you, we mere mortals don't have Maciej's cell number. :-) The most grating part is where he ignores support mails, Twitter DMs etc. completely, over many, many months, but drops in on HN to talk about Pinboard, still ignoring you in that very thread. Really, this hasn't been going on for six months or so, this has been this way for years and years. I've recently read on HN that it depends on which server your user account is located on, so I guess we can both be correct. Just open accounts until it works for you. :-)
  - tptacek 4y ago
    I don't know about anyone else's Pinboard experience and am not denying anyone's experience, but I use it pretty much every day (I'm surprised by how often I use it) and I've never had a support request. Wait, that's not true, I once asked him to change the way tweet indexing worked, and he ignored me. But other than that: nothing.
- eknkc 4y ago
  Yeah I did not check his first tweet, I just don't see his tweets on my feed so I assumed he left. I've always loved his writing style and humor so his absence was obvious. Blog still loads a "Ubuntu Apache hey you managed to install this" page for me. (https://link.ekin.dev/scKR1f https://link.ekin.dev/scKR1f) Don't know why. Glad that it's still alive and kicking though.
  - tptacek 4y ago
    You've somehow hit the http:// http:// version of blog.pinboard.in. Chrome won't let me get to that page, but Safari will. The URL is https://blog.pinboard.in https://blog.pinboard.in.

seltzered_ 4y ago

I used my pinboard account to remember kippt (YC S12, closed 2015) - https://blog.ycombinator.com/kippt-yc-s12-launches-inc-the-way-companies-can-build-their-own-private-knowledge-base https://blog.ycombinator.com/kippt-yc-s12-launches-inc-the-w...