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Songkick was not doing well it seems:

> Songkick shut down in October 2017 after earlier declaring bankruptcy. In January 2018, Live Nation reached a $110 million settlement with Songkick to resolve an antitrust lawsuit the startup had filed under which Live Nation agreed to acquire Songkick’s technology assets and patents.

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/ticketmaster-10-million-...

Yes, or an open source alternative such as https://cudatext.github.io/

Nothing. This post seems to be just a promo with the intention to cause some stir and publicity for Blokada.

Right, it's both. It's from the "blog" section of their forum, where they are talking about their product, and promoting their cloud service. A promo is an ad by definition.

I would take this post with a grain of salt. It is mostly an ad / promotion for "Blokada Cloud".

This link currently redirects to blog.google, perhaps it was taken down.

You might be missing the point. Some examples of realtime collaboration in the world of remote work can be: google docs / sheets, project boards (trello, miro), whiteboarding (jamboard, zoom), design/drawing, or even coding (VS code sharing).

And that is not dead either, in fact it is better because you can just self-host https://nodered.org/

You could use at(1) instead, so that you don't need to keep that terminal process open.

Cost perhaps.

It seems to work now. Perhaps you need to get an updated URL.

FWIW you can have a unified calendar today with Google Calendar. Ever since the Sunrise Calendar app [1] was discontinued, I switched to a workflow where I have everything centralized in my personal Google Calendar. How it works:

  * I have a personal gmail account with my events and apointments.
  * Shared a URL from my work calendar (it helps that they use google workspace), and added that to my personal calendar. Especially useful if you don't want to add a work profile in your personal device. Personally the work calendar is all I need to check on my phone when I'm not on my work laptop.
  * Added the Facebook Events calendar URL.
  * Added the Songkick Events calendar URL for keeping track of concert dates.
  * You can also subcribe to anything else you need, e.g. TV shows feed, Garmin's calendar feed, Formula One or other sports' calendars, holidays calendar...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_Calendar

Facebook, Twitter.

I was indifferent to chromebooks, until the Lenovo Ideapad Duet 5 (13.3"). Very cool machine.

I am happier with the 1080p screen on the X1. Better performance, less headaches with non-high-dpi-friendly apps, better symmetry when connecting to a non-4k external monitor.

Just because most of the EVs are software heavy, it doesn't mean that all of them are.

The upcoming Dacia Spring EV is a perfect counter-example.

A meeting that's mainly designed to let the employee give a pulse check, speak freely about annoyances and career path, and provide feedback to their manager, is a dystopian experience?

Also what you are describing on your second sentence is not a 1:1 meeting.

Agendas should be simple, or should I not come with an agenda at all?

An agenda, either shared with the other person or not, is fine. I'd rather have a meeting with agenda / talking points rather than one without. It doesn't prevent people from being able to contribute, as long as you don't monopolize your part.

Related:

- "A simple way to build collaborative web apps" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28209736

- "Downsides of Offline First" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28717848

- "CRDT Resources" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28998767

- "Show HN: SyncedStore CRDT" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29483913

This extension also keeps a history of requests.

How complicated are your requests? If I need to test a POST request with a JSON payload longer than a line or two, I'll go and construct my curl command in a text editor anyway, since the shell prompt / readline is not easy to edit. Once you need to start escaping single or double quotes or html payloads in the request, it quickly gets cumbersome. At that point I ditch the shell as a middleman and use the editor to submit the request for me.

Someone posted https://hurl.dev/ below. It looks like a command-line alternative to this, with a similar format, and support for assertions.

They are not comparable because node-red is a generic low-code programming tool while HA is home automation software.

If you mean how they compare when you plug in node-red to HA and use it for automations, rather than use HA's "native" automations... I believe the consensus is that node-red is more user-friendly in that way, and because it can plug to other things on its own it can provide more flexibility. On the other hand, HA has recently worked on the UI of their automations, and it is already pretty good for simple flows. In the end both of these approaches are great, each with its own pros and cons.

As I have also been frustrated with the direction Postman has taken, I have a great alternative to suggest, if the only thing you want to do is fire requests on demand easily and do not need automated testing.

The VS Code Rest Client extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re... is great for testing and debugging APIs.

You create a "my_request.http" file that contains something like

  POST https://example.com/comments HTTP/1.1
  content-type: application/json

  {
    "name": "sample",
    "time": "Wed, 21 Oct 2015 18:27:50 GMT"
  }

First line is the method and url, then headers, then a newline, then the request body.

Hit ctrl+alt+p, the request is sent and you see the response in a side pane. Everything is encoded and decoded properly.

You can organize your tests under multiple files and folders.

I cannot recommend this extension enough, it has made my life so much easier.

Check out https://obsidian.md/ if you haven't already.

17 July 2017 removed ambiguity but still feels a bit awkward for US people.

Useful, thank you. It appears that this is the setting the Ubuntu / Gnome's "Power -> Power mode" setting changes as well.

Interesting. They used to have bundles of some Increment issues on a topic along with accompanying books, but they don't offer that any more.

The browser edition of zoom lacks a lot of features and also lacks in performance.

It's not like BlueJeans which has a web version pretty much aligned with the desktop client.

That's pretty cool, it reminded me of Windy which is also pretty awesome. In fact, peeking at the source of windy, it looks like it also uses Leaflet!

https://www.windy.com

Thanks for posting, this is interesting. It also reminds me of the file format and simplicity of the REST Client VS Code plugin: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...