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by knadh 5y ago
Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran. Blew my mind (pun intended) and changed my perspective on pretty much everything forever.
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by knadh 5y ago
That's strange. Apart from the fact that the dictionary website renders utf8 Kannada text, there's nothing else to it. Can't imagine how the browser managed to switch its language based on text found on a webpage!
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by knadh 5y ago
https://alar.ink (Kannada-English dictionary) was built using https://github.com/knadh/dictmaker It addresses some of the things you’ve mentioned.
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by knadh 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rockets
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by knadh 5y ago
That the package is downloaded 7 million times a week exacerbates the impact significantly. The CI/CD trend of pulling everything from upstream over and over for builds (despite caching, as the absurd NPM download counts indicate) ensu
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by knadh 5y ago
Life isn't complete until one's made their own static site generator! I had to make two directory websites earlier this year and that exercise turned into a static directory site generator - https://github.com/knad
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by knadh 5y ago
The platform looks slick. Great job! - It would be nice to have a sample book or two featured on the homepage. - About print-on-demand, where is it printed and shipped from? Perhaps an FAQ page can answer some of these questions.
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by knadh 5y ago
That is very surprising to hear. listmonk is a single exe with no dependencies (except for Postgres connectivity). Running the Docker setup is as simple as `docker-compose up app db`. If you don't want Docker, you can just download the
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by knadh 5y ago
What is the difference between downloading and running a bash script vs. downloading and running a binary or a Docker image? Surely, when downloading a piece of software from a (quasi?) trusted source, no developer is going to read all the
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by knadh 5y ago
This is correct. Our listmonk instance has ~7mn subscribers to whom we've to send updates (sometimes mandatory regulatory ones within stipulated periods) every month. The cost of hosting listmonk and Postal SMTP servers (that we scale
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by knadh 5y ago
Unsub has been available from day one. Bounce handling (generic webhooks, POP3, SES+Sendgrid webhooks) is already merged into the repo and will be available in the upcoming release.
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by knadh 5y ago
listmonk has nothing to do with Zerodha's business though. It's a personal project that I built prompted by usecases at work originally. I like AGPL because it increases the odds of improvements coming back to the upstream project
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by knadh 5y ago
1. I think AGPL is a good license for web apps that can also dissuade Elastic/Mongo-like fiascos. Mastodon, Metabase, Grafana, Minio etc. are AGPL and are widely used. 2. We see ourselves as a group of hackers and not really as a corpo
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by knadh 5y ago
Thanks. Will see how feasible a demo is. The app's website shows a few screenshots: https://listmonk.app
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by knadh 5y ago
listmonk author here. Interesting to see it on the frontpage again. Some updates to the linked comment (which is from 2019): - Tons of active development has happened and listmonk crossed 1.0 this year. 2.0 is on the horizon and there are q
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by knadh 5y ago
I donate semi-regularly. Been using Thunderbird as my primary email client (almost) since its release. The installation has hundreds of thousands of mails across many folders, and yet, it is super fast and rock solid.
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by knadh 5y ago
Curious to see sql-jobber here. I'm the author, if you have any questions. > though it's probably not the first one would think of Yep. The model makes sense when you have large databases (for us, it's hundreds of billions
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by knadh 5y ago
I wrote listmonk[1] after running into difficulties scaling existing open source list managers including Mailtrain to millions of subscribers. It is a single binary app that can run on a potato VM instance. [1] https://listmonk.a
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by knadh 5y ago
It’s possible to achieve good deliverability with some effort. Proper SMTP config and a “clean” dedicated IP from a host with no history of spamming. I gave up on the Postfix/Dovecot setup when I switched hosts and figured I’d just rel
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by knadh 5y ago
I've had a personal e-mail ID on a custom domain for a long time that I've connected to everything from self-hosted setups to several providers including GMail. The web UIs have never been an issue thanks to Thunderbird. Last year
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Show HN: Export Telegram groups to static websites(github.com)
5 points by knadh 6y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: A tiny static site generator for publishing directory websites(github.com)
5 points by knadh 6y ago|0 comments
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by knadh 6y ago
An open source newsletter manager web app - https://listmonk.app
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by knadh 6y ago
Mastery is difficult to quantify, especially in terms of code or engineering cleverness. I think, what comes close, is the ability to get way more tradeoffs right than wrong, to hit an optimal balance. Tradeoffs in decision making when it c
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Show HN: Indic.page – A directory of Indian language computing resources(indic.page)
1 points by knadh 6y ago|0 comments
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Alar: The making of an open source dictionary(zerodha.tech)
4 points by knadh 6y ago|0 comments
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by knadh 6y ago
Redis is an astonishingly good piece of software. I've always found its beauty to be the reflection of your philosophies, @antirez. Thank you. Here's to you finding joy in your pursuits!
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by knadh 6y ago
We did indeed. The most critical components have been rewritten and refactored multiple times as we have grown.
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by knadh 6y ago
We do. We have not yet documented this publicly, but will setup something like a Hackerone profile soon.
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by knadh 6y ago
Apologies. This definitely would've been a genuine case of human error or oversight. There is no logical reason to not issue API credits that were promised. If you are still interested, please write to me and I will get the credits add

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