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booleanon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

I'm working on a feature to create fun timelapse videos of all the routes on the map. It should be released next week.

I'm open to any feedback.

booleanon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

Thanks. I wanted to focus on performance (native app), simplicity, and privacy.

booleanon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

I wanted to visualize all my walks and runs on a single map. I built a native iOS app that fetches Apple Health and Strava workouts and visualizes them. Privacy was a major factor in building the app, so all the data stays on the device. Next version will have a time-lapse video option. Any feedback welcome.

booleanon Fastmail desktop app

Offline support already works in the Brave app. I've been testing it last couple of weeks.

booleanon Fastmail desktop app

What would be the benefit of this vs Chrome/Brave app and how does the memory consumption compare?

booleanon Ask HN: Using LLMs for coding, Is there a preferred language/framework?

Theoretically LLMs should perform better for languages/frameworks that are older and changed less frequently. Framework examples would be Django and Rails. I'd suspect they would do much worse with recent JS frameworks.

booleanon With listining to YC president's 10k Etherum video in 2021 I lost money

Noted in the the video description:

>This video is an opinion and is for information purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice.

booleanon Ask HN: How do you do personal backups in 2023? (Google and Dropbox issues)

I recently started using Arq Backup to replace Time Machine. It does the local backup to an external SSD and cloud back up to Cloudflare R2. I'm happy so far.

booleanon Ask HN: Tech Things to See in Tokyo?

Akihabara

booleanon Show HN: Yet another macOS ChatGPT app

> Coming from web development, learning how to ship a native app was a trip

Can you share your learning experience and overall impressions?

booleanon Ask HN: Urgent: Earthquake Aid in Turkey Needs Free Excel and Tech Help

Thank you for volunteering!

booleanon Django 4.2 Released

The old paradigm is new again. Combining Django with HTMX, you get the simplicity of rendering HTML on the server side and not deal with bloated and over-engineered Javascript frameworks. Flask/Django with HTMX and Tailwindcss is a fantastic combination and my current preferred stack. I also add Alpinejs to this mix for interactivity. Really enjoying the heightened productivity that this setup provides.

booleanon Ask HN: Urgent: Earthquake Aid in Turkey Needs Free Excel and Tech Help

If Excel is really required, I'd also suggest reaching out to Microsoft Turkey directly. They already announced help efforts for the affected region and people (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/leventozbilgin_%C3%BClke-olar...)

booleanon Ask HN: Urgent: Earthquake Aid in Turkey Needs Free Excel and Tech Help

Would https://www.openoffice.org/ work?

booleanon When will signal support signing up without a phone number?

It doesn't look like they'll get rid of the phone number requirement to sign up. However, they will enable usernames soon (probably within a few months). This will give you the option to hide your phone number if you want. Here's a demo from someone who compiled that branch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g81mBMGw6fo

booleanon Ask HN: AI for Personal Notes?

Logseq has a GPT3 plugin: https://github.com/briansunter/logseq-plugin-gpt3-openai

booleanon Ask HN: What tools do you use for your personal knowledge management system?

Logseq. It's free, open source, actively developed, has mobile apps, and most importantly your notes are text files stored on your computer. It replaced the following apps for me:

- Note taking (Bear app)

- Task management (Things)

- Journaling (Day One)

- Bookmarking (Instapaper)

- Personal CRM (Contacts)

booleanon Stable Diffusion 1.4 fine-tuning on real photos for making realistic avatars

I just tested https://astria.ai and impressed with the results. Curious how this is different.

booleanon Ask HN: App for keeping notes on friends/family?

I use Logseq as a personal CRM and have a page in there for most people in my life.

booleanon Tell HN: How to Respond to a Domain Takeover

Please don't use GoDaddy. You can search HN to see why it's a horrible company.

booleanon Ask HN: How can I retire to the Caribbean now?

I'd also check out Expatfire subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExpatFIRE/search?q=caribbean&restri...

booleanon Developers who quit the industry. Why? And what do you do now?

You should be able to make it. Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/ExpatFIRE/

booleanon Ask HN: How are platforms like Buffer and Hootsuite allowed to exist?

Terms and Conditions only apply to small players. Larger players like Hootsuite, Sprout Social, and Hubspot have dedicated teams/people working on partnerships with Meta, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Your standard API limitations don't apply to them.

booleanon Bringing CTO Co Founder with TN Visa

TN visa is employer-specific. They cannot work with your company while under another employer's TN visa. Although the TN visa has no minimum salary requirement, I doubt the application would be approved with no salary.

booleanon Ask HN: Where can I sell my apps?

Some options:

https://microacquire.com/

https://flippa.com/

https://empireflippers.com/

Possibly at Indiehackers.com

booleanon Ask HN: I'm in a position to move to anywhere in the USA, where should I go?

San Diego is definitely not affordable. Housing is catching up with Bay Area.

booleanon Favorite Note Taking Tool

Logseq: https://logseq.com/

booleanon Ask HN: Note taking for initial learning and disorganized/related tasks

I highly recommend Logseq (outliner) or Obsidian. Both are free, support markdown text files, have mobile apps.

booleanon Ask HN: Applying for EM Roles at FAANG?

Depends on the company. Meta and Google have coding interviews for engineering managers. Amazon doesn't.