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Are You Problem Solving or Capacity Building?(seomba.substack.com)
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Notes on an Open Scraping Database(tomcritchlow.com)
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by topcat31 6y ago
This was a real question FYI. I don't know what that means. Googling "Making sure /usr/local/bin is in my $PATH" leads me here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19202007/making-sure
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by topcat31 6y ago
Mentioned Glitch and Replit in the article - they're great and I love them but there's still something missing about relying on these platforms imho. I think cementing a default coding environment right into the browser would make
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by topcat31 6y ago
Yeah I love Replit and Glitch (not used the others) but I still think there's something missing. They don't feel like standards that are easy and simple to use. Two more points: https://twitter.com/tomcritchlow&#
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Sidenotes in Web Design(gwern.net)
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Permissionless Identities(littlefutures.substack.com)
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Yes and the Contrary Consultant(tomcritchlow.com)
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Show HN: Update to Quotebacks – Bookmarklet and Firefox
2 points by topcat31 6y ago|1 comments
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The Indie Consultant Business Model Canvas(tomcritchlow.com)
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Show HN: Quotebacks is now available for Firefox
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Navigating Status and Power as a Consultant(tomcritchlow.com)
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by topcat31 6y ago
Firstly - good catch. I updated the link. Secondly - I wish I could get ScrollToTextFragment to work reliably. I've tried integrating this into Quotebacks and every time it just works so sporadically that I roll it back. Somehow Google
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by topcat31 6y ago
You're right! Just fixed it. Good catch.
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by topcat31 6y ago
We're working on a FF version! Turns out porting the chrome one is fairly straightforward. Watch this space!
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Quote the Web with Quotebacks(tomcritchlow.com)
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Sparring as Tenure for Indie Consultants(artofgig.substack.com)
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A proposal for an open bookshelf format library.json(tomcritchlow.com)
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Show HN: A “library.json” bookshelf protocol to build a decentralized Goodreads
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After Peacetime – Navigating uncertainty as an independent(tomcritchlow.com)
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What I learned building an web eBook version of a kid's picture book(tomcritchlow.com)
1 points by topcat31 7y ago|0 comments
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by topcat31 7y ago
Also - thank you Github pages & Cloudflare for keeping my site up through a HN bump.
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by topcat31 7y ago
Author here - thanks for all the comments and feedback. Lovely surprise to wake up to this on the HN homepage. Some light additional context - this is part of my ongoing series "The Strategic Independent" which will eventually bec
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by topcat31 7y ago
Author here: yes I have an email list here (infrequent) that I'll post a message to once chapters 3 and 4 are ready: https://tinyletter.com/tomcritchlow
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by topcat31 7y ago
Author here - Yes I would definitely recommend reading Impro over reading my blog post. The basic premise for this series is inspired by the book and I definitely borrow more directly and heavily for chapters 3 and 4 (which aren't qu
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by topcat31 7y ago
Author here - yeah I hear you. I love the hypothesis interactions when they happen on my site but the UI is a little aggressive (especially on mobile). All about tradeoffs unfortunately. FWIW I posted a little UX teardown of the different a
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How to build a “scrollytelling” map using Mapbox and Glitch(glitch.com)
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Occult Advertising or, how ads make us feel uneasy(tomcritchlow.com)
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How (and why) to roll your own frameworks in consulting engagements(tomcritchlow.com)
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Using screenotate to save screengrabs to my personal wiki(tomcritchlow.com)
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