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by Shorn 7y ago
This is why I avoid the more complex games where you build things (Factorio, Kerbal space program, etc.) Playing them scratches some of the same itches I get from writing software. So I avoid playing them and re-direct that energy into us
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by Shorn 7y ago
Regarding the newsletter/youtube subscription thing: I run a paid service https://kopi.cloud that can do email-to-rss conversion. You give the newsletter or youtube account an address like youtube@weinzierl.kopi.cloud and
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by Shorn 7y ago
With all the "we care about you" emails being flung around because the current happenings, it's motivated me to work on implementing "single click" blocking of burner addresses for my mail forwarding service - http
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by Shorn 7y ago
My side-project ( https://kopi.cloud ) can help with a lot of items from the article's list of stuff for email. It started life as another "email burner service" - but for a weekend hack, I implemented "Email t
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by Shorn 7y ago
I was just adding some on-hover functionality to my side-project's website recently (to zoom screenshots, https://kopi.cloud ) and was thinking I was going to need some "solution" for touch devices. But then I trie
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by Shorn 7y ago
I run a paid service called Kopi that lets you do a similar thing, but it lets you avoid being locked in to your mail provider. One of the reasons I started building it was so I could transition off GMail to something else like Fastmail. I
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by Shorn 7y ago
I've built https://kopi.cloud to try to provide an alternative option in between being locked in to a big mail service and running your own mail servers. It's a consumer-oriented SaaS for taking control of your persona
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by Shorn 7y ago
I run a SAAS for forwarding email addresses in order to protect email addresses by handing out individualised burner addresses that you can block if people start to abuse them with uninvited mail. For a weekend project, I added some functio
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by Shorn 7y ago
Goddammit. The comments are why I browse HN on a daily basis, but sometimes you folks are worse than Wikipedia. I know I shouldn't click that link. /me grumpily clicks link
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by Shorn 7y ago
I use Auth0 for my React frontend. The Auth0 folks themselves say you shouldn't use refresh tokens for single page apps, you can't trust the client-side. Instead of using refresh tokens, they have a "silent authentication&qu
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by Shorn 7y ago
https://kopi.cloud It's an email forwarder that lets you hand out burner addresses so companies/sites don't have your real email address. Kopi supports replying to messages too - so you can have whole conversation
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by Shorn 7y ago
I rarely read the article, this comment surfaced an interesting aspect.
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by Shorn 7y ago
It is wonderful with a bit of butter - but someone needs to tell the Icelanders that! Watching them eat it, it's a true exercise in restraint not to ask if they want some fish to go with their butter. I know it's traditional and
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by Shorn 7y ago
I'm suffering serious Frequency illusion with Chris Voss - I feel like his stuff is popping up everywhere around me (ended up watching two videos yesterday). I find myself actively fighting the impulse to read the book. I can't d
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by Shorn 7y ago
I signed up to Twitter and followed exactly one account: Material-UI (a React component framework). I don't login to Twitter very much, I redirect the email notifications to my RSS feed. Every third email has no content related to Ma
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by Shorn 7y ago
I browse HN via RSS aggregator; so I catch all the articles, the thing is designed for keeping track of what you've read, integrates with daily reading flow along with all the other RSS feeds. Bonus points, my RSS aggregator of choice
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by Shorn 7y ago
What's the logic behind linking from HN to twitter? I would've though it'd be easier to write on HN (and I know for a fact that it's painful for me to read on Twitter). This is a genuine question by the way. I follo
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by Shorn 7y ago
> our application (unknowingly) depended on that Ah, the good old "unrealised infrastructure dependency" - nice to see you my old friend. People that have never been bitten by one of these never built anything worth talking ab
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by Shorn 7y ago
I dislike (dark patterns) and fear (bad implementations) subscriptions so much - I've put off implementing any kind of subscription for a SaaS product I built. I've just decided to let the customer pre-pay for up to the limit I&#x
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by Shorn 8y ago
I have banned myself from playing any "building" games like Factorio, Minecraft, etc. Any time I get that itch, I work on my side-project on AWS. AWS is so big with so many systems, it's kind of like a big complex game. Bu
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by Shorn 8y ago
> thoughts on bulc.club Looks like pretty much the same thing as Kopi, but more polished and without the the forward to RSS functionality. How does "free" work though? Couldn't find anything in the FAQ.
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by Shorn 8y ago
> how do you plan to deal with vendors potentially banning your domains? See other comment, but I do plan to implement a feature where customers can bring their own domain. There's also a roadmap item to expose keywords as "su
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by Shorn 8y ago
> confused by the idea of making a “keyword” .... Yep. I'm working on a "How it works" section that'll walk through the whole process with screenshots, to hopefully make this clear before having to sign up. > usin
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by Shorn 8y ago
> Is there ever a way for a customer to be sure a company isn't misusing their data? I'm interested in this too. But I don't have a practical answer. In terms of knowing if a service is misusing their data, I guess you c
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by Shorn 8y ago
Yes, similar to the gmail + address. If Kopi became popular enough that people found it worth doing this - I think it would be relatively easy to come up with many different approaches to prevent / mitigate this sort of thing. Differe
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by Shorn 8y ago
Screenshots are a good idea, I'll do that. Thank you for pointing out the confusion about keywords. There's a few tutorial-style tips when you first signup that hopefully makes it obvious. But clearly I need to explain it better
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by Shorn 8y ago
Hi HN, author here. I've been scratching this itch for a while, and now I think it's ready to share: https://kopi.cloud * Protect your real email address by handing out generated addresses that you can block in the (mo
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Show HN: Kopi – safeguard your email address and help manage the email firehose(kopi.cloud)
5 points by Shorn 8y ago|12 comments
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by Shorn 8y ago
IDEA really is a polyglot environment. In my side project, there are the following technologies - all of which I use, completely seamlessly, in a single multi-module Gradle project: Infrastructure * Groovy - Gradle - core plugin - with spec
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by Shorn 8y ago
I had previously shied away from React when I had seen it before because I thought it was another templates-in-code approach. I was actually looking for some kind of Javacript equivalent to ScalaTags[1] that I could use in Typescript when

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