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Pinboard is an awesome service. If you don't have an account, you should. It's especially refreshing for those (like me) who despise the Internet of JavaScript

by sdevlin 12y ago

Pinboard is an awesome service. If you don't have an account, you should. It's especially refreshing for those (like me) who despise the Internet of JavaScript Bullshit. Pinboard is fast as hell because it doesn't waste your time with flashy nonsense. Second: Maciej is a great writer. If you're not reading his articles (http://www.idlewords.com/ http://www.idlewords.com/), you should be.

voltagex_ 12y ago
This blog stole far too much of my time... it's fantastic. I didn't know he'd visited Australia, would have offered him a beer if he was down my way.
jbish 12y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. Great writing, loved the latest post on the Yemen trip. I hadn't heard about qat (khat) and then stumbled upon it again this morning here http://modernfarmer.com/2014/07/everything-need-know-khat/ http://modernfarmer.com/2014/07/everything-need-know-khat/
smellf 12y ago
Yeah this guy is a really engaging writer. Just because this is HN, I have to call out his post on Paul Graham: http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm It's from 2005 so a lot of the links are dead now, but I was able to dredge up the link to PG's painting: https://web.archive.org/web/20050409001349/http://store1.yimg.com/I/paulgraham_1837_63071 https://web.archive.org/web/20050409001349/http://store1.yim...
goblin89 12y ago
> If you don't have an account, you should. Just a word of caution for those ready to act on this right away: research before paying (unless the price is something you can afford to spend without thinking). After I impulse-bought a Pinboard account (about two years ago), I realized that not always can I save a bookmark immediately—for two reasons: 1) the extension for Google Chrome was buggy to the point of UI not showing up at times, and required logging in every now and then (the extension didn't see any change until I switched to Safari much later—perhaps it was fixed afterwards), and 2) although I use Pinboard somewhat episodically, I couldn't save a bookmark a few times because their servers were down. Even though Pinboard's UI is very clean, and I feel more confident knowing that I paid for the service, and I like privacy-by-default and clean UI, and I admire its founder, I wouldn't recommend it. The primary purpose of a bookmark manager, I realized, is to help you immediately free up your mind by storing an URL, and it trumps everything else.

by sdevlin 12y ago

voltagex_ 12y ago

This blog stole far too much of my time... it's fantastic. I didn't know he'd visited Australia, would have offered him a beer if he was down my way.

jbish 12y ago

Thanks for pointing this out. Great writing, loved the latest post on the Yemen trip. I hadn't heard about qat (khat) and then stumbled upon it again this morning here http://modernfarmer.com/2014/07/everything-need-know-khat/ http://modernfarmer.com/2014/07/everything-need-know-khat/

smellf 12y ago

Yeah this guy is a really engaging writer. Just because this is HN, I have to call out his post on Paul Graham: http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm It's from 2005 so a lot of the links are dead now, but I was able to dredge up the link to PG's painting: https://web.archive.org/web/20050409001349/http://store1.yimg.com/I/paulgraham_1837_63071 https://web.archive.org/web/20050409001349/http://store1.yim...

goblin89 12y ago

> If you don't have an account, you should. Just a word of caution for those ready to act on this right away: research before paying (unless the price is something you can afford to spend without thinking). After I impulse-bought a Pinboard account (about two years ago), I realized that not always can I save a bookmark immediately—for two reasons: 1) the extension for Google Chrome was buggy to the point of UI not showing up at times, and required logging in every now and then (the extension didn't see any change until I switched to Safari much later—perhaps it was fixed afterwards), and 2) although I use Pinboard somewhat episodically, I couldn't save a bookmark a few times because their servers were down. Even though Pinboard's UI is very clean, and I feel more confident knowing that I paid for the service, and I like privacy-by-default and clean UI, and I admire its founder, I wouldn't recommend it. The primary purpose of a bookmark manager, I realized, is to help you immediately free up your mind by storing an URL, and it trumps everything else.