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What I Did in 2011

101 points by stilist 15y ago

minikomi 15y ago
> Made improvemetns to fulltext search. Like auto-adjusting keywords for typos? ;)
earlyriser 15y ago
Could you explain more about the message queue? How it was implemented, why do you decided to change it and what's the new setup?
robryan 15y ago
I like this, I really should do the same next year as I look back and don't really have a good record of what I did when and where most of my time went. I know I've added a lot to my app this year but hard to assess whether I spent my time effectively.
swah 15y ago
Would be cool if after July your writing style changed :)
- joshu 15y ago
  He's got plenty of writing style already: http://idlewords.com/2004/05/attacked_by_thugs.htm http://idlewords.com/2004/05/attacked_by_thugs.htm
  - tptacek 15y ago
    So great. "MOTHERFUCKERS!"
- five18pm 15y ago
  If he had been good, he wouldn't have linked to tvtropes in the first place ;).
- phil 15y ago
  Oh, hi there tvtropes.org. Welp, see you all in a few weeks then.
billpatrianakos 15y ago
I remember the FBI raid. That was when I first got truly hooked on HN. That was a really interesting read. I liked how you not only told the story of what's up as it related to the customers but also from a sys admin point of view, detailing what you had to do to get the servers and service running again. I'm glad you posted this. It's a good idea and I'm going to steal the idea if you don't mind too much.
watmough 15y ago
"Finally, you can set up Pinboard to auto-add bookmarks from a variety of sources, including Twitter, Instapaper, Read It Later, and Delicious." Links from people I follow on Twitter would be a killer feature, as would 'links I have already followed' from Twitter. It seems kinda hard to imagine that a one-time $9.58 fee can really cover costs and leave some living expenses left over.
- britta 15y ago
  Maciej has posted a spreadsheet of the technical costs for running Pinboard: http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/09/the_costs_of_bookmarking/ http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/09/the_costs_of_bookmarking/ Also keep in mind Pinboard's optional $25/year fee for archiving copies of your bookmarked pages.
rsoto 15y ago
>>Migrated stored user passwords to a safer format (from salted sha1 to bcrypt). I'm curious on how to do that? I'm guessing you add another field and wait for the user to log in and if it matches, you salt and hash the new password field with the new function.
- daeken 15y ago
  You can do that, but it has the problem that until the user logs in, the password is in a dangerous form. If you bcrypt the salted SHA1ed form, though, you increase complexity slightly but get a complete conversion immediately.
revorad 15y ago
So did you not do any work on marketing Pinboard in 2011 or is this a list of only the technical stuff? I know your blogging is some indirect marketing but I'm wondering what else you did to get more users in 2011.
- obtu 15y ago
  Waited for del.icio.us to implode on relaunch, mostly. The efforts to make it fandom-friendly also stem from that.

What I Did in 2011

101 points by stilist 15y ago

> Made improvemetns to fulltext search. Like auto-adjusting keywords for typos? ;)

Could you explain more about the message queue? How it was implemented, why do you decided to change it and what's the new setup?

robryan 15y ago

I like this, I really should do the same next year as I look back and don't really have a good record of what I did when and where most of my time went. I know I've added a lot to my app this year but hard to assess whether I spent my time effectively.

swah 15y ago

Would be cool if after July your writing style changed :)

joshu 15y ago
He's got plenty of writing style already: http://idlewords.com/2004/05/attacked_by_thugs.htm http://idlewords.com/2004/05/attacked_by_thugs.htm
- tptacek 15y ago
  So great. "MOTHERFUCKERS!"
five18pm 15y ago
If he had been good, he wouldn't have linked to tvtropes in the first place ;).
phil 15y ago
Oh, hi there tvtropes.org. Welp, see you all in a few weeks then.

billpatrianakos 15y ago

I remember the FBI raid. That was when I first got truly hooked on HN. That was a really interesting read. I liked how you not only told the story of what's up as it related to the customers but also from a sys admin point of view, detailing what you had to do to get the servers and service running again. I'm glad you posted this. It's a good idea and I'm going to steal the idea if you don't mind too much.

watmough 15y ago

"Finally, you can set up Pinboard to auto-add bookmarks from a variety of sources, including Twitter, Instapaper, Read It Later, and Delicious." Links from people I follow on Twitter would be a killer feature, as would 'links I have already followed' from Twitter. It seems kinda hard to imagine that a one-time $9.58 fee can really cover costs and leave some living expenses left over.

britta 15y ago
Maciej has posted a spreadsheet of the technical costs for running Pinboard: http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/09/the_costs_of_bookmarking/ http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/09/the_costs_of_bookmarking/ Also keep in mind Pinboard's optional $25/year fee for archiving copies of your bookmarked pages.

rsoto 15y ago

>>Migrated stored user passwords to a safer format (from salted sha1 to bcrypt). I'm curious on how to do that? I'm guessing you add another field and wait for the user to log in and if it matches, you salt and hash the new password field with the new function.

daeken 15y ago
You can do that, but it has the problem that until the user logs in, the password is in a dangerous form. If you bcrypt the salted SHA1ed form, though, you increase complexity slightly but get a complete conversion immediately.

revorad 15y ago

So did you not do any work on marketing Pinboard in 2011 or is this a list of only the technical stuff? I know your blogging is some indirect marketing but I'm wondering what else you did to get more users in 2011.

obtu 15y ago
Waited for del.icio.us to implode on relaunch, mostly. The efforts to make it fandom-friendly also stem from that.