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> This is a picture of me in 2009, right around when I started Pinboard. I'm standing on a balcony in Botosani county, Romania, in the poorest county in the Eur

> This is a picture of me in 2009, right around when I started Pinboard. I'm standing on a balcony in Botosani county, Romania, in the poorest county in the European Union. I had no idea (based on his name) that Maciej started Pinboard in Romania.

ccozan 13y ago
Neither do I. Impressive. Never used Pinboard, but I'll take a look. PS. And actually Bulgaria is the poorest, Romania does better.
- RexRollman 13y ago
  I am not a Pinboard "user" but it is a great way to find stuff to read. The system has a very nice url system. For example: https://pinboard.in/t:minimalism https://pinboard.in/t:minimalism
  - kmfrk 13y ago
    Indeed, and it'll be grown increasingly into a platform for subscription-based consumption, when the Pinboard Reader is launched. You can basically create your own reddit feed of tags, even if you don't intend to use the bookmark feature - which is quite excellent.
    - jfb 13y ago
      As a long time pinboard user, I devoutly hope not. It's a great service for antisocial people like me, and I'd be disappointed were it to develop that "social" layer of oily mucus.
      - kmfrk 13y ago
        You can already subscribe to tags. It's not social in a sense that you can interact directly with others, but it does have a secret feature of sharing your bookmarks with others by making them public.
  - mjs 13y ago
    I'm a pinboard.in user, but I actually find the URL scheme annoying, at least compared to delicious. I find it much easier to type http://delicious.com/username/tag http://delicious.com/username/tag than http://pinboard.in/u:username/t:tag http://pinboard.in/u:username/t:tag
    - jarek 13y ago
      The argument has been that by specifying what each URL part is, you can build a link to https://pinboard.in/t:minimalism https://pinboard.in/t:minimalism in the first place. Is delicious.com/minimalism the tag minimalism or the user minimalism? And what is delicious.com/settings? In practice, delicious gets around this by making all-user tags accessible at http://delicious.com/tag/iphone http://delicious.com/tag/iphone, but then you can't have a user named "tag". Or "tools", or "help", or "about", or "terms", and there's probably more and they might change every now and then.
- omilu 13y ago
  wow your in for treat, pinboard is fantastic
- strivesc 13y ago
  Bulgaria didn't have as high a standard of living as Romania at the time, 2009, but Botosani county on Romania's Moldovan border was the poorest county in the EU. Whether or not it still is, I do not now.
- shock 13y ago
  He is referring to Botosani county being the poorest in EU, not the count_r_y Romania. Fell for it too :)
kijin 13y ago
A Polish immigrant to America starts a one-man business while traveling (staying? working?) in Romania, gives it an Indian TLD, and moves back to America to work on it full-time. And only a short while ago I'd been reading his blog about Argentinian cuisine. 50 years ago, people would have found this mind-boggling. The Internet truly is global.

ccozan 13y ago

Neither do I. Impressive. Never used Pinboard, but I'll take a look. PS. And actually Bulgaria is the poorest, Romania does better.

RexRollman 13y ago
I am not a Pinboard "user" but it is a great way to find stuff to read. The system has a very nice url system. For example: https://pinboard.in/t:minimalism https://pinboard.in/t:minimalism
- kmfrk 13y ago
  Indeed, and it'll be grown increasingly into a platform for subscription-based consumption, when the Pinboard Reader is launched. You can basically create your own reddit feed of tags, even if you don't intend to use the bookmark feature - which is quite excellent.
  - jfb 13y ago
    As a long time pinboard user, I devoutly hope not. It's a great service for antisocial people like me, and I'd be disappointed were it to develop that "social" layer of oily mucus.
    - kmfrk 13y ago
      You can already subscribe to tags. It's not social in a sense that you can interact directly with others, but it does have a secret feature of sharing your bookmarks with others by making them public.
- mjs 13y ago
  I'm a pinboard.in user, but I actually find the URL scheme annoying, at least compared to delicious. I find it much easier to type http://delicious.com/username/tag http://delicious.com/username/tag than http://pinboard.in/u:username/t:tag http://pinboard.in/u:username/t:tag
  - jarek 13y ago
    The argument has been that by specifying what each URL part is, you can build a link to https://pinboard.in/t:minimalism https://pinboard.in/t:minimalism in the first place. Is delicious.com/minimalism the tag minimalism or the user minimalism? And what is delicious.com/settings? In practice, delicious gets around this by making all-user tags accessible at http://delicious.com/tag/iphone http://delicious.com/tag/iphone, but then you can't have a user named "tag". Or "tools", or "help", or "about", or "terms", and there's probably more and they might change every now and then.
omilu 13y ago
wow your in for treat, pinboard is fantastic
strivesc 13y ago
Bulgaria didn't have as high a standard of living as Romania at the time, 2009, but Botosani county on Romania's Moldovan border was the poorest county in the EU. Whether or not it still is, I do not now.
shock 13y ago
He is referring to Botosani county being the poorest in EU, not the count_r_y Romania. Fell for it too :)

kijin 13y ago

A Polish immigrant to America starts a one-man business while traveling (staying? working?) in Romania, gives it an Indian TLD, and moves back to America to work on it full-time. And only a short while ago I'd been reading his blog about Argentinian cuisine. 50 years ago, people would have found this mind-boggling. The Internet truly is global.