HermanMartinus

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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
I literally just published a post on this and how it affects Bear Blog. https://herman.bearblog.dev/the-great-scrape
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
Neat project! I’ve seen a few analytics tools starting to use SQLite over Clickhouse. It’s great for small to medium sized projects, and can potentially scale (but I haven’t tested it over 200k hits per month). I rolled out a similar proje
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
Interestingly enough, this is how I tricked myself into quitting smoking. I withdrew $100, and told my good friend that I’d give it to him if I used anything with nicotine in it. It worked pretty well since it turns that first cigarette int
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
This is so cool! Always good to see projects like this on Hacker News.
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
I can attest to this. I run Bear Blog, and it has seen a dramatic rise in signups month-over-month. My suspicion is that other platforms are getting covered in AI generated content, and while Bear isn’t perfect, there is a lot more curation
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Being Mildly Online(trueblue.bearblog.dev)
3 points by HermanMartinus 2y ago|0 comments
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The Sound of Silence(herman.bearblog.dev)
1 points by HermanMartinus 2y ago|0 comments
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
Definitely. Even if no one reads my blog, the act of articulating ideas in a format that others can understand helps me better understand those ideas and concepts myself. I’m also bias, since I run the Bear blogging platform. There are thou
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
You obviously didn’t read the article and just wrote this comment on looking at the headline and picture. The circling the room twice is referring to an actual dragon fly. Also, it’s not ICE but fluidic motors driven by lithium nitrate crys
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
It has been synthesised. It's a mild stimulant but has a not-so-great toxicity profile. Probably best to leave it with the fibre you need to chew through. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecoline
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
Hey, author here. I decided on the 16 since its support lifetime started this year. If I'd gotten the SE (which I seriously considered since it has a more appealing form factor and touchID) I would only have a 4 year support lifetime a
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Show HN: Bearlytics – Open-source web analytics you can self-host(github.com)
4 points by HermanMartinus 2y ago|2 comments
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
I recently tried to self-host Umami and Plausible, and failed so spectacularly I decided to build a Django/SQLite web-analytics platform myself. These other open-source tools are great, but are incredibly difficult to get running yours
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
This is a very cool demo! Well done! One suggestion for fixing the cursor drift during finger taps is instead of using hand position, use index finger. Then tap the middle finger to the thumb for selection. Since this doesn’t change the cur
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I Build Things(herman.bearblog.dev)
2 points by HermanMartinus 2y ago|0 comments
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
Thanks for the shoutout! For clarity, as a sibling comment has pointed out: while Bear is open-source, it is a platform and not managed hosting of individual blogs. If you're interested in self-hosting something that looks like Bear, t
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
They were supplied with wire strippers. That was the intervention, not just the suggestion of wire strippers.
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
I second this opinion. Here's an older article which is less dramatised and talks about attempted interventions such as trying to get the recyclers to use wire strippers instead of burning: https://www.worstpolluted.org&#x2F
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
I built a 3D scene creation tool for visual artists as a PWA about 6 years ago. It works great, supports all devices, etc. The only issue I've had with it is that iOS hides the functionality to install it in the "Share" butto
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
I haven't been on traditional social media for about 6 years and so the way people keep up with me is via my blog. This way they get an update maybe once a month about what it is I've been doing/thinking about, then they reac
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
Bear blog hosts a bunch of technical blogs, is markdown based, and open-source. https://bearblog.dev
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
There are still lots of blogs, they just aren’t found on search engines. https://bearblog.dev/discover
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
Bear blogs have full access to styling, with about 50 pre built themes. Take a look at the discovery feed and click through a few blogs: https://bearblog.dev/discover
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
And even if it were just LLMs, I use LLMs in my workflow every single day, and I've never used a/the blockchain except for some mild speculation around 2017.
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
Yeah, Bitcoin is dual-edged like that. Harming people and harming the planet.
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
Author here :) You're correct that very few of them are native. That being said, when comparing to a city with no trees vs a city with non-native trees, I think the latter is still superior.
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Cities need more trees(herman.bearblog.dev)
293 points by HermanMartinus 2y ago|163 comments
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
100%
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Plain-Text Journaling(herman.bearblog.dev)
4 points by HermanMartinus 2y ago|0 comments
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by HermanMartinus 2y ago
Essentially, the only thing that causes the price to go up is new people buying into the market. That's the only "value" here. This is why it's called The Greater Fool's theory, is you keep passing the bag over to t

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