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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Hey HN, thanks for checking out Portabella. To keep it short Portabella is different from other project management software in two key ways: - your core data is end-to-end encrypted [1] - we don't contain any third party trackers [2] P
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Show HN: Portabella – privacy friendly project management(portabella.io)
3 points by alex_portabella 6y ago|2 comments
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
It seems up to me https://howtoxwithy.com/how-to/b35668da-7cbe-456f-8db5-0d645... That's the "Write to a file" item, I can see two Python examples there.
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
No worries, I don't take it personally. Like I said in another comment, Portabella is my main side project. I whipped this up quick because I thought it was a cool idea. I'll be launching Portabella on Product Hunt and Hacker News
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Yeah. Definitely I need to get on the server side rendering train. It's a React app because I know React and wanted to get it out the door quickly (read 6 days) which is overkill for the functionality provided.
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Hey, great idea! I will definitely do that
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Hey, thanks for the honest feedback. Looks alright for me in Safari, the snippets shown are just the ones with the most votes, right now those are all JS. I do agree that the interface isn't 100% intuitive, I'm not much of a desig
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
No approval process. I can see your example here https://howtoxwithy.com/how-to/0b04d75d-e929-4daf-9c0a-57bfa... , just click the arrow button on the JavaScript panel. Definitely agreed on organising better.
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Hey Dave Thanks for that report. I've fixed that issue with the drop down. I'll need to look into the account verification issues. I'm having no problems on my end. I have a the development/bug tracking board here https
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Yeah that's my other project, but good to know. I will sort that out.
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Cheers! I really appreciate it Jesse
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
I'm unsure what's going wrong with your Google login unfortunately. A lot of others have managed to register with no issues. It's possible your Google email is not verified?
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Wow that's pretty sweet, another commenter mentioned learnxinyminutes but hyperpolyglot looks awesome as well. I guess for now while it's small I have to heavily moderate, which I have no problem with. If something is detracting f
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
learnxinyminutes looks cool! I didn't know about it before starting this. I agree with the enterprise knowledge sharing! Every company has many snippets and commands they always use
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
That's true. Definitely need a way to distinguish between the two (browser vs. server) sometimes
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Good points, thanks for posting. I stated elsewhere in this thread but the project is only 6 days old. I haven't had time to code up an /about page, reputation system and user profile pages just yet.
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Can you expand a little on your suggestion? How deep into semantics would you go when describing something? ie. making an http request, do you include DNS, headers, TLS or is it simpler to just say `https.get(url)`
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Totally agree with you. The idea is that you can have multiple examples per language, the highest upvoted one is displayed first, then you can page through the others. You can also comment on examples. But yes, care needs to be taken for su
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
I guess because earning money is nice. This project serves a few purposes: - scratch my own itch. I am missing something like this - test launch on Product Hunt/Hacker News. I developed this in 6 days and I have a larger product I want
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Definitely. I am tracking that here https://app.portabella.io/projects/daa40d3e-655f-4cb4-b4f4-6... Thanks for the bug report!
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Definitely, I still don't have a good answer for this issue. Hopefully something reasonably organic arises where good answers are upvoted highest. Or there could be a way to mark things as using an old version.
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Agree with all this. I still use Stack Overflow all the time, when I google some strange issue I'm probably not going to land on howtoxwithy.com, but Stack Overflow.
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
That was an oversight on my part. If you sign out and sign back in I can edit the database to give you credit.
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Of course Stack Overflow is great. It has a wealth of information, experts and allows for larger questions to be asked than "How do I write to a file", like, "how would you design this database schema". The idea is that
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Seems up to me?
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
No worries! I just updated too. Hope your questions have been answered
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Cool! Yeah that's another good use case. With ecosystems like NPM (ie. ones that have so many packages) it can be really hard to know which library to use. - Is the project open-source? Not open source yet but no reason why it can&#x27
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Hey HN, I started this project last Tuesday to scratch my own itch. It's basically copy/pasteable code snippets for common tasks in many languages. Like many developers I work in different languages and often forget syntax or how
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Show HN: How to X with Y. Engineering questions, answered(howtoxwithy.com)
65 points by alex_portabella 6y ago|76 comments
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
I've recently converted some images to WebP on my side project Portabella [1]. I did it to appease Googles page speed test for SEO. But I agree with other comments in this thread that it's annoying so I might switch them all to JP

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