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Wouter33

416 karma · joined March 23, 2013

Product maker & founder.

Shopwarden.com - twitter.com/woutervanlent

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Wouter33··on How Bear does analytics with CSS
Nice implementation! Just a heads-up, hashing the ip like that is still considered tracking under GDPR and requires a privacy banner in the EU.
Wouter33··on Valve is not willing to publish games with AI generated content anymore?
No bad intentions with the title, was just using "banned" since Valve used it in their response to the Reddit poster. Change it to whatever you think is better! :)
Wouter33··on Valve is not willing to publish games with AI generated content anymore?
Valve is quite clear about their reasoning. Since AI models use all kind of sources for their training, they don't want those assets on their platform because they are afraid of copyright claims.
Wouter33··on The only Buddhist region in Europe
https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldAndBaldrDossier/comments/judnlm...
Wouter33··on PHP in 2021
PHP is just very simple and powerful. Check out levels making 100k per month with a single php file: https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1381709793769979906?s=21
Wouter33··on Engineer Converts Used Van into Mobile Laundromat, Offers Free Loads to Homeless
Here is a video explaining his setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE8rgFAOXgY
Wouter33··on Why can’t you buy a good webcam?
I think the fan is for the G-Sync module!
Wouter33··on Show HN: Boltstream – Self-hosted full end-to-end live video streaming platform
Lot's of people are using restream.io. Good solution to stream to multiple places at the same time.

Doing you own single-tenant stream is hard to manage and scale in general.

Wouter33··on Cloudflare keeps sending emails over a year after account was cancelled
Same experience here. He didn't listen to my feedback and didn't answer any of the Workers-related question i emailed him on his request.
Wouter33··on Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you
They charge 5% besides any Stripe or Paypal fees. The users connect their own Stripe and Paypal accounts and Buy Me a Coffee charges a platform fee.
Wouter33··on Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019
You can set a lifecycle rule for the bucket to delete all objects after a number of days. This way they wil be deleted automatically.
Wouter33··on Mandrill has been down for over 30 hours with no explanation
Mailchimp just sent out an update per mail: https://pastebin.com/6TN10AZB

TLDR: One of their five Postgres clusters went into read-only mode due to an Transaction ID Wraparound issue. Restoring this can take up to several days (!).

Wouter33··on YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course
Good catch! Thanks!
Wouter33··on YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course
Heads-up: There is no overview/confirmation page at the end of the signup process, so no reviewing your answers before submitting. Just found this out the hard way!
Wouter33··on Firefox 59 released
Same. Totally bogs down my maxed out Macbook Pro on some HTML5 video.
Wouter33··on Meta: Stop using the black bar
Agreed. I was already trying to click on it. Eventually found this topic via the search.
Wouter33··on Creating a cheap and scalable landing page on Amazon
Thanks, good idea! Will definitely do that!
Wouter33··on Panic Status Board is being discontinued
We have been looking into a good solution for our office dashboard last month. Evaluated a lot of solutions like Geckoboard, but eventually ended up using Databox.com. Beautiful dashboards and also mobile apps.
Wouter33··on Show HN: Repuso – Social testimonial widgets
Hi HN!

I've been working on Repuso the last few months after a similar service closed down. After their closing down notice i whiped up an MVP in a weekend and started testing it with some users of the old service.

The last few months it grew into a mature service which lets you showcase social media testimonials with a single line javascript widget. All Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Zendesk and Delighed user feedback can be displayed on your most important pages to increase the conversion of your website.

Wouter33··on Redis Geo
One of our applications has user generated content with a geolocation attached to each of the items. For several selections we want to show the top 10 nearest items. If they are only a few, the radius has to be very large to have some items in the result set.

Currently the Geo module only supports a range up to 20.000 km. So your idea does not work at the moment. I agree that those items are not really "nearby", but to be consistent through out the application it would be nice to be able to select without a max distance.

Wouter33··on Redis Geo
Great Salvatore! Could you make the max distance parameter optional? Sometimes i just want the nearest items, even though they could be on the other side of the world.
Wouter33··on Redis Geo
Dynamic Redis (which is a Redis Fork that lets you add modules to it) is a great find! Especially with the Geo module added.

I needed a limit parameter for the Georadius method because i wanted a result set sorted by distance in a large radius, but not have thousands of results send from the redis server to my webservers. Anyone interested in such a parameter can use my little fork for the Geo module:

https://github.com/wouter33/krmt

Wouter33··on Aurora - New MySQL-Compatible Database Engine
As i understood this your database storage is replicated to multiple places, but it still runs on one instance. It does not have failover to those replicated places. You'll have to launch multiple instances for that just like RDS. So cheaper, no.
Wouter33··on API for website like iMDb, Showing Series Date/Time and Movie Release Date
https://www.themoviedb.org/ with their API is the way to go. Pretty good up to date and a large collection.
Wouter33··on Startup School Europe Warmup
Nice! Just signed up.
Wouter33··on Startup School Europe Warmup
Same here:

https://twitter.com/woutervanlent

https://www.linkedin.com/in/woutervanlent

Wouter33··on Startup School Europe Warmup
Arriving in London City around 20:00. Definitely up for something like that!
Wouter33··on Ask HN: What projects are you working on?
Of course you're putting some kind of trust in a third party. But the idea here is that you do that with all your good intentions and have a better alternative than just plain listing the address. It is up to us to prove our reliability, got some ideas on how to do that, but love to discuss that with you!

Apart from that it could also provide a service to your customers with the webhooks you utilize.

Wouter33··on Ask HN: What projects are you working on?
I'm working on a service which provides (obfuscated) aliases of your users e-mail addresses on your own domain. It only requires some API calls to generate the aliases and eliminates e-mail servers or servers to process the e-mails. Started working on it after a request of a fellow HN'er.

Check it out on: http://mailobfusc.com

Wouter33··on Passwords in plain text
Exactly! That's what i thought. Mailing a password to a user on changing it is maybe not the safest, but it does not mean it saves it plaintext to the database. They can just send out an e-mail when updating the password to the database and then never use the plaintext version anymore.
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