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by jdormit 8y ago
Isn't that a solved problem? Email and password to sign up, everything else after they've bought.
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by jdormit 8y ago
So this is a list of "harmful things" and "less harmful alternatives", with no explanation given as to how each tech has been classified. To take a random example, why is man less harmful than info?
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by jdormit 8y ago
I am writing an ActivityPub plugin for WordPress that will let you federate with Mastodon, PeerTube, etc. If you're interested, I'll be posting updates at @jdormit@mastodon.technology.
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by jdormit 8y ago
Is "dull" a technical term or does it literally just mean boring here?
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by jdormit 8y ago
Zulip on the desktop is a great experience. Unfortunately their Android app is pretty much unusable, which is a non-starter for me.
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by jdormit 8y ago
> “Open Science is not compatible with one corporation owning the platform used to collaborate on code. I hope that expert coders in #openscience have a viable alternative to #github,” tweeted Tom Johnstone, a cognitive neuroscientist at
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by jdormit 8y ago
Also, if you ever find yourself in Portland, ME the Liquid Riot single malt is excellent. They ship it to some other places in New England, but it is pretty hard to find outside of Maine.
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by jdormit 8y ago
High West Campfire is excellent.
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by jdormit 8y ago
That is exactly what she did.
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by jdormit 8y ago
From the project documentation [0]: > The mcron program represents a complete re-think of the cron concept originally found in the Berkeley and AT&T unices "Unices" as in the plural of "Unix"? I've never hear
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by jdormit 8y ago
You are not. To me it comes off like a misguided attempt to impress someone, not an admission of actual wrongdoing. The guy comes off as a creepy asshole for sure, but it's basically just bragging. But really, given everything going on
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by jdormit 8y ago
Yup, hacking on emacs is my procrastination method of choice. It is enough a part of my daily life that I can convince myself that writing a function to generate org mode links from epub files will genuinely make me more productive down the
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by jdormit 9y ago
Why not Clojure on the backend as well?
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by jdormit 9y ago
How did you set that up?
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by jdormit 9y ago
As opposed to the time required to implement, debug, and support a custom solution?
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by jdormit 9y ago
The extension icon should have a number on it that corresponds to the number of comments. My thinking was that you could use that to see if a page had comments or not.
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by jdormit 9y ago
@JepZ, the new version has been approved by Mozilla and is available at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/looped-in
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by jdormit 9y ago
I'm still working out the kinks in the workflow. I believe it is possible to use Figwheel while writing browser extensions [0], but I haven't set that up. I have `lein cljsbuild auto` running in the background to automatically rec
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by jdormit 9y ago
I'm still working on making the changes they requested - once I've finished that and submitted a new version, I anticipate it will be a couple days at most until they make the new version available.
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by jdormit 9y ago
Having given it more thought, and in response to some of the concerns raised in this thread, I removed analytics entirely.
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by jdormit 9y ago
Excellent idea, and a nice summary of the discussion of this from further down the thread. I've opened an issue to implement this here: https://github.com/jdormit/looped-in/issues/4 As time allows, I wil
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by jdormit 9y ago
My apologies, the configuration for cljsbuild was incorrect. It's been fixed now.
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by jdormit 9y ago
Interesting, looks like they got :optimizations :none to work for background scripts but not content scripts (which makes sense). Figwheel support sounds great, I'll look into adding that to Looped In.
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by jdormit 9y ago
Heh, thanks bluejekyll. I appreciate this. FWIW, I am taking the privacy and security concerns raised in this thread seriously. In fact, this type of candid feedback is one of the best things about HN. I anticipate it will take me a few day
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by jdormit 9y ago
It's not a violation if there is consent. I'll grant that I didn't think through the consent process for the extension very well, though.
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by jdormit 9y ago
No. In fact, the development cycle on this was pretty awful - due to browser extensions' strict CSP, I couldn't even compile the CLJS with {:optimizations :none}, so every code change took ~20 seconds to recompile. Do you know any
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by jdormit 9y ago
Cool, thanks for the link! Sounds like there a bunch of security and privacy improvements I can make.
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by jdormit 9y ago
Because DNT was the quickest solution. I'm actually rewriting that part over the next couple of days to be opt in instead (via a popup the first time the sidebar is opened, I think).
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by jdormit 9y ago
I built this as an exercise in product management - even though it is just a little extension, I want to run it as if it were a revenue-generating product so that I can gain experience in that area. Part of that is looking at usage data to
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by jdormit 9y ago
:fingerscrossed: this one doesn't end up in the same bucket. Any idea why the earlier extension was shut down by YC?

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