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by conesus 14y ago
Awesome, I used this technique to find the dominant color in favicons so I could create a gradient in NewsBlur. See the effect here: http://cl.ly/KElb Here's the Python I use to do it: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/master/u
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by conesus 14y ago
I'm one of those quotes (talking about NewsBlur) and I just tried to give back to an amazing tool in my tech stack by being effusively honest. Honestly, I think they deserve more credit and was a bit surprised that they chose my quote over
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by conesus 14y ago
Actually, it's considerably simpler than that. If you let me know, I will gladly remove the site from the Original view. Alternatively, for sites that employ iframe busters, NewsBlur adheres to their intention and disables the original view
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by conesus 14y ago
As I always like to say in response to our design flaws, "Hey, at least we shipped!" And it's true, what you see is a solid foundation. We're going to be giving it the full makeover soon. The only way we know that it'll be worth it is if we
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by conesus 14y ago
Here's the code for the Android app: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/commits/android . Based on the latest nightlies, we're looking at somewhere in the next couple weeks. Very, very excited, since Android is a very underserved platf
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by conesus 14y ago
This is a big release and I couldn't be happier with how it turned out. That said, the next big launch coming up will involve a design refresh for both web and mobile. I'm meeting with our designers later today and hope to ship the best loo
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NewsBlur (YC S12) launches iPad app, aims to compete with Google Reader(venturebeat.com)
57 points by conesus 14y ago|11 comments
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by conesus 14y ago
Hey the_bear, I really like The Yummy Life. Just wanted to let you know I added it as a default subscription to the NewsBlur iPad app. This just means that if new users subscribe to the Food category, they'll get TYL. There's only 8 categor
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by conesus 14y ago
Comments on top are something I'm thinking about. Tell you what, in order to continue this discussion, would you mind moving it to a new thread on NewsBlur's community forums: http://getsatisfaction.com/newsblur . Just give it a good title
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by conesus 14y ago
The intention is to keep NewsBlur open-source. We'll see how that goes. The other intention is to never have to raise more money, but we'll see how that goes. I have big plans for what I want to build, but to do it, I need seed funding. Aft
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by conesus 14y ago
Also, I can't emphasize this enough, but you should follow NewsBlur's development on GitHub: http://github.com/samuelclay . NewsBlur is open-source for a few good reasons: 1. NewsBlur makes money off hosting 2. NewsBlur greatest benefit is
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by conesus 14y ago
That's one of the tenets of NewsBlur -- by using NewsBlur's training filters, you can hide stories you don't want to see while highlighting the stories you want to focus on.
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by conesus 14y ago
Yeah, I'd say you are definitely the target audience. NewsBlur does three things better than Google Reader: - News reading: With first-class iOS, Android, and web apps, NewsBlur is an easy and organized way to read the news wherever you are
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by conesus 14y ago
I just announced the addition of Roy as a co-founder on the NewsBlur Blog: http://blog.newsblur.com/post/27033939756/introducing-blurbl... . Roy is working on the iOS apps and has been instrumental in shaping NewsBlur's future. He also can
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by conesus 14y ago
Not as far as I can help it. NewsBlur makes money through hosting. And our competitive edge is the network. Giving back to the open-source community is in my blood, especially after my work on DocumentCloud.
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by conesus 14y ago
Yeah, the titles on blurblogs broke in the transition. Will be fixed momentarily. And if blurblogs take off, we will be collapsing comments from "public", but no need to limit growth now when we need it most. But we are planning to limit th
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by conesus 14y ago
You bet, that's what we just launched. Here's my blurblog: http://samuel.newsblur.com . You can share directly from a blurblog or in the Feed view on NewsBlur. We're working to make that more visible in some new designs we have coming soon
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by conesus 14y ago
We just don't shove it in your face. We're absolutely still freemium and we show you the upsell when you first create an account. After that, once you hit 64 sites, the limit at which freemium kicks in. Otherwise, you can go to "Choose your
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by conesus 14y ago
You mean keeping stories indefinitely? Absolutely, it's just a technical limitation right now. At some point we'll move to a real archive.
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by conesus 14y ago
Thrilled to be launching NewsBlur's social features. NewsBlur has become something much bigger than what I ever thought possible when I wrote the first line of code in June 2009 in the New York City underground. We're now two people and YC-
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NewsBlur (YC S12) Takes Feed Reading Back To Its Basics(techcrunch.com)
131 points by conesus 14y ago|38 comments
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by conesus 14y ago
BrainTripping is a lot of fun, but what I love about is that it's one of those ideas that is completely unique. Something I've never heard of before and then get to experience something completely new. Once you get past the learning curve o
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by conesus 14y ago
Latest redis (2.4.15) and using redis-py 2.4.10. Just checked the CHANGELOG for redis-py, which is now at 2.4.13, and voila: * 2.4.11 * Made the INFO command more tolerant of Redis changes formatting. Fix for #217. Doh! Off
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by conesus 14y ago
Preface this by saying that I've been successfully and happily using celery since 0.8, which was over 2 years ago. Since 2.0, it's been rock solid. But then I switched from RabbitMQ to redis and when I added redis slaves, it broke. Here goe
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by conesus 14y ago
Are you using redis with slaves? When I do that, celery throws errors when trying to add tasks to my redis queue.
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by conesus 14y ago
Seems to me that this isn't a fundamental mistake but a featureset they could still add now. Not that it's on the table at Twitter HQ, but I believe that the window of opportunity to give Twitter the ability to read and provide microformats
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Loading half a billion rows into MySQL(derwiki.tumblr.com)
295 points by conesus 14y ago|99 comments
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A better undo with git reset(gist.github.com)
3 points by conesus 14y ago|0 comments
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by conesus 14y ago
node-http-proxy is one option, but I'm just going to wait for nginx's native support.
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by conesus 14y ago
So how do you handle the case of SSL in front of web traffic and web socket traffic? I need to handle both SSL and non-SSL. Right now I just use another port, but my users behind a firewall can't access the websocket.

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