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by conesus 14y ago
NewsBlur's developer here. Just want to point out that this bug has bitten me back in 2.2, a few months ago. I need to be able to replicate my db in order to shard. But the biggest beef I have with this bug is that it doesn't become apparen
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by conesus 14y ago
Nice work! The JS breaks on magnification, but I submitted a pull request to fix that right up: https://github.com/nnnick/Chart.js/pull/27
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by conesus 14y ago
It's the one manual step I have to do. After I provision a server, I copy the IP and stick it in a few places (my fabfile, my hosts file that I then re-copy to every other machine, and my HAProxy config). While I do provision new servers re
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by conesus 14y ago
In that case, there's a preference waiting for you that you're going to just love...
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by conesus 14y ago
You would be better off by just copying features and writing your own code than taking NewsBlur's highly coupled code and trying to forge your own business out of it. I think they reserve that task for developers sent to hell.
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by conesus 14y ago
1. Intentional. Otherwise you'd stare at a blank screen until you click a story. 2. That's an unfortunate bug, but one that will probably get sussed out when I work on scaling over the next month. Dev is largely just a re-skin. They share a
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by conesus 14y ago
You should lock that "dorito" that follows your mouse. It allows you to adjust the currently selected story. It's an indicator line. Maybe I should lock it by default and allow you to click on it to have it follow your mouse...
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by conesus 14y ago
You bet I do: http://www.newsblur.com/api . I would love to hear about your ideas. I feature a number of third-party extensions and apps written against NewsBlur's API on the Goodies page.
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by conesus 14y ago
Originally price, now price + API for deploying new instances. If you check out my fabfile.py script you'll see that I have EC2 setup and ready but I don't use it because it costs more, runs slower, and is a pain in the butt to maintain.
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by conesus 14y ago
As I mentioned on Twitter, if you want a free account but can't get around the paywall, just know that the paywall is extremely leaky on porpoise...
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by conesus 14y ago
I agree it's not a 1-to-1 analogy, but the idea is the same. Knowing you're free to come back to Lotus by using Excel frees you from the chicken-and-egg constraint of waiting until your entire office is on Excel. With NewsBlur you know that
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by conesus 14y ago
This is something I'll be working on soon enough. There are many, many dependencies (not only for the web app, but there are three DBs that you have to have installed as prerequisites - mongo, postgres/mysql, and redis). The real problem wi
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by conesus 14y ago
I was in YC's Summer 2012 batch, so you be the judge. :-)
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by conesus 14y ago
And I just want to remind the technical crowd here that NewsBlur is 100% open-source: http://github.com/samuelclay I've been asked quite a few times why I open-source the code. The answer is simple. Let me use an example from Joel Spolsky
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Three Months to Scale NewsBlur(blog.newsblur.com)
422 points by conesus 14y ago|141 comments
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by conesus 14y ago
You bet! It's OAuth-based import, so when you create your account it's just a click away. Couldn't be easier. EDIT: And OPML is the other option when you signup. It's an easy import process, since it's really quite important to get that par
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by conesus 14y ago
This has been a long time coming. Four years ago I began work on my own feed reader, NewsBlur, and it's now a full-fledged Google Reader competitor. It's also a paid app and has been paying for itself nearly since the beginning. http://www
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by conesus 14y ago
Score one for open-source apps for a for-profit company. I did something similar with my company's Android and iOS apps. They're both open-source and I have a number of users who have improved the app experience for everybody because they w
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by conesus 14y ago
Hmm, that might help. GitHub Link? I'd be happy to take a look!
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by conesus 14y ago
Just to note that you can mark as unread by either right clicking in the story title or by hitting 'u' (get a list of all keyboard shortcuts by hitting '?').
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by conesus 14y ago
NewsBlur does a fantastic job of updating stories when they get updated. Not only do you get the updates but NewsBlur will show you the diff between the original story and the latest story. I'd love to know why you had a bad experience.
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by conesus 14y ago
Glad somebody mentioned NewsBlur. I run NewsBlur and have been aggressive in developing it into a world-class feed reader. Native iOS and Android apps, a nice shared stories feature, and it's actively developed. See for yourself, since it's
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The Year Tech Broke(medium.com)
6 points by conesus 14y ago|0 comments
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by conesus 14y ago
Could not agree with you more. The more advanced I become with a language, the more I like to go back to even basic docs and read the small-print fancy uses for built-ins. This article touches on a number of them, and it's tricks like this
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by conesus 14y ago
That must've taken some courage to play the message in front of both the manager and the salesman. Obviously the salesman should be called out, but that's no easy task.
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by conesus 14y ago
Nicely done, these look like useful functions. I think it would be helpful to split them out as separate downloads so I can integrate them piecemeal.
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by conesus 14y ago
The intention was to allow people to commiserate and understand that this happens to many code bases and there is a path out of the woods. As far as letting the file deteriorate to that length, NewsBlur was a side project of mine for two ye
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by conesus 14y ago
I'll admit, partially it was because I was sitting next to Jeremy as he was pulling backbone out of the documentcloud workspace and into a soon-to-be-released javascript library. Otherwise, the community has embraced Backbone.js and, for b
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by conesus 14y ago
You raise an interesting point. That technique was developed in response to a difficult part of the migration. I had stories coming in for subsequent pages of an rss feed, but I didn't want to re-render the story view until I had a chance t
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Migrating a large JavaScript project from DOM spaghetti to Backbone.js(ofbrooklyn.com)
224 points by conesus 14y ago|113 comments

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