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by tofukid 5y ago
I think what people lament is not JavaScript, so much as using JavaScript unnecessarily. Recreating (and usually breaking) navigation history, recreating hyperlinks, losing scroll position by interfering with it or with infinite lists, recr
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by tofukid 5y ago
I built https://sumi.news so I could read RSS, Twitter, and newsletters peacefully. It started as a local app to fetch RSS, and transitioned to a web app to enable reading newsletters. It’s written in Haskell and hosted on Linod
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by tofukid 5y ago
In addition to the lesser known srcset and sizes <img> attributes, there's also the loading="lazy" attribute, which adds native lazy loading of images. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/
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by tofukid 5y ago
Revue lets you export your subscriber emails. This is cheaper than substack, with less lock-in, and integration with Twitter. Seems like a win all around.
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Twitter to add a newsletter 'subscribe' button to profiles, take 5% cut(mashable.com)
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by tofukid 5y ago
Without new money coming in, stock returns don’t beat inflation. Average dividend return on S&P500 is only 2%. Most people invested in stocks are dependent on stock prices going up to beat inflation. https://ycharts.com/
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by tofukid 5y ago
My followings: https://sumi.news/followings/shared/12d27b01-1d30-452b-9d23-...
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by tofukid 5y ago
With Bitcoin, I don't have to keep my savings in the bank even if I choose to use a bank for other services. As someone whose had their bank account frozen before, this is of great value to me. I could use banks or Lightning like a che
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by tofukid 5y ago
The more useful question is, why does it matter? Let's say we are in a "mega bubble." What are you going to do with that information? On a long enough timeline, everything goes to zero.
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by tofukid 5y ago
"Once the dollar inflow stops, it's over." That's true of anything. If nobody is buying X, you can't sell X. If nobody is buying stocks, stocks are worthless.
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by tofukid 5y ago
What qualifies as “abuse” for a website that simply returns your IP? I don’t get it. You made a free service, and then lots of people started abusing it by... using the service?
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by tofukid 5y ago
Software engineering as an industry generally lacks professionalism. Particularly amongst startups. Being a professional means doing what you say you’re going to do, doing it well, and doing it honestly. In my experience, expecting passion
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by tofukid 5y ago
This goes both ways. Why buy a beer for $5 if Bitcoin is going up? You should just buy Bitcoin instead. Why buy $5 beer if instead you can buy index funds?
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by tofukid 5y ago
What Chamath Palihapitiya hasn’t realized: Content creators don’t want to manage their audience. MrBeast, PewDiePie, etc. got rich and famous without owning their audience, doing marketing, fiddling with Wordpress, etc.
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Ask HN: Why is there no product for specifying software?
2 points by tofukid 5y ago|2 comments
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Supreme Court narrows scope of sweeping cybercrime law(politico.com)
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by tofukid 5y ago
I use https://sumi.news to follow RSS, Twitter, and newsletters, and I’ve built up a list of hundreds of subscriptions over the years.
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by tofukid 5y ago
Yes, that’s a good idea. I will ship that out tomorrow.
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by tofukid 5y ago
https://sumi.news — A peaceful newsfeed. Read RSS, Twitter, and newsletters without ads, algorithms, or distractions.
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How (Not) to Miss a Deadline(seths.blog)
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by tofukid 5y ago
You can use an RSS reader that supports newsletters, like < https://sumi.news >. You get an email you use to subscribe and they show up in your feed.
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by tofukid 5y ago
I use https://sumi.news - it has both a chronological feed of all posts, and a list of only the recent post for each feed. Also it gives you an email to follow newsletters with.
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by tofukid 5y ago
Give https://sumi.news a try. It has both a chronological feed of all posts, and a list of only the recent post from each feed.
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by tofukid 5y ago
Seth Godin has written a short, thoughtful post every day for 13 years : https://seths.blog Also worth reading is Seth’s top 100: https://seths.blog/top-100/
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by tofukid 5y ago
It looks like a functional(ish) reactive programming language, with an embedded database, and an SDK for compiling to JS and cross-platform binaries. Do I have that right?
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by tofukid 5y ago
It depends on the product. You could try premium features (pay to unlock avatars, or an exclusive area/forum, that kind of thing.) The challenge is you already set the expectation that everything is free. Advertising is probably the le
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by tofukid 5y ago
Of course marketing encompasses more than advertising, but there are countless examples of companies that don't do marketing. Less so with major corporations, but more so with small businesses. There are countless restaurants and servi
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by tofukid 5y ago
Apple doesn’t need to market iPhones. Sriracha sauce doesn’t run ads, they make a good sauce. They didn’t even have a website until 2014. Trader Joe’s doesn’t need to write blog posts to convince people to shop there. Everyone uses Figma be
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by tofukid 5y ago
Email notifications are flexible. I can choose to receive notifications only from contacts, search terms, or specific people.
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by tofukid 5y ago
It’s pretty funny that people are so upset at Tether for practicing fractional reserve. What Tether is doing is literally what the entire banking industry did for centuries. The global financial system is just money created out of thin air,

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