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bpierre··on Mischa's Cursed Webring
Sorry if my comment wasn’t clear, I actually do enjoy browsing these websites. My concern is about the mocking tone I perceive from OP and the webring curator (not sure it’s the same person).
bpierre··on Mischa's Cursed Webring
I don’t see how any of these is cursed really. I think it is fair to assume that most of these websites are the product of work and passion from individuals having put some time and effort into it.

One can perceive them as ugly, outdated, funny, or even pointless (I don’t, but it’s not the point). But using a domain like cursed.lol and a vocabulary like “twisted brain” or “fucked up shit” (OP’s comment) is a bit too much on the side of the mockery / disrespect / immaturity and doesn’t belong here IMO.

bpierre··on Nintendo Plans Switch Model with Bigger Samsung OLED Display
https://archive.is/vI60u
bpierre··on Microdosing study shows the placebo effect of taking psychelics
https://archive.is/cmA76
bpierre··on Community open letter against renaming Wikimedia to Wikipedia
That’s better indeed, thanks!
bpierre··on ESbuild – A fast JavaScript bundler and minifier in Go
I think ESbuild is more comparable with Pax [1] (or Pax + SWC) in the alternatives written in Rust. ESbuild mostly focuses on bundling for now, and does little in terms of source code transformation compared to SWC.

[1] https://github.com/nathan/pax

bpierre··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019)
Aragon One | UI Developer | Remote only | Full time | https://aragon.one/

Aragon empowers you to freely organize and collaborate without borders or intermediaries. Create global, bureaucracy-free organizations, companies, and communities.

We are looking for exceptional UI developers to work with us on Aragon, the Aragon platform and the Aragon apps. Our current stack includes React, styled-components and react-spring. Our team is entirely remote.

Work philosophy at Aragon One: https://aragon.one/#philosophy

More info about the project: https://aragon.org/

Apply here: https://aragon.one/#frontend-engineer

Or ping me (@bpierre) here: https://aragon.chat/

bpierre··on [dead]
Aragon One | UI Developer | Remote only | Full time | https://aragon.one/

Aragon empowers you to freely organize and collaborate without borders or intermediaries. Create global, bureaucracy-free organizations, companies, and communities.

We are looking for exceptional UI developers to work with us on Aragon, the Aragon platform and the Aragon apps. Our current stack includes React, styled-components and react-spring. Our team is entirely remote.

Work philosophy at Aragon One: https://aragon.one/#philosophy

More info about the project: https://aragon.org/

Apply here: https://aragon.one/#frontend-engineer

Or ping me (@bpierre) here: https://aragon.chat/

bpierre··on 35% Faster Than The Filesystem (2017)
It’s kind of the idea behind Yarn’s Plug’n’Play: https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/pnp
bpierre··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)
Aragon One | UI Developer | Remote, full-time | https://aragon.one/

Aragon empowers you to freely organize and collaborate without borders or intermediaries. Create global, bureaucracy-free organizations, companies, and communities.

We are looking for exceptional UI developers to work with us on Aragon, the Aragon platform and the Aragon apps. Our current stack includes React, styled-components and react-spring. Our team is entirely remote.

Work philosophy at Aragon One: https://aragon.one/#philosophy

More info about the project: https://aragon.org/

Apply here: https://aragon.one/#frontend-engineer

Or ping me (@bpierre) here: https://aragon.chat/

bpierre··on The Bitter Truth About Olives (2016)
> but I didn't realize they could write "olives noires" on the package and say "ingredients : olives noires confites". That seems very dishonest.

Exactly, and they also often define the iron gluconate as either a stabilizer or an iron additive, rather than a colorant. They sometimes go as far as putting “enriched with iron” on the front label, suggesting health benefits.

bpierre··on The Bitter Truth About Olives (2016)
It’s sadly both allowed and common in France [1][2], the term they use is either “olives noires” (black olives) or “olives noires confites”.

[1] https://www.carrefour.fr/p/olives-noires-entieres-3560070340...

[2] https://www.carrefour.fr/p/olives-noires-denoyautees-crespo-...

bpierre··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)
Aragon One | UI Developer | Remote, full-time | https://aragon.one/

Aragon is everything you need to run organizations (companies, NGOs, foundations, open source projects…) in a fully decentralized way. It implements features like a cap table, token transfers, voting, roles, fundraising and accounting. Aragon organizations are easily customizable, and they are also extensible by installing third party modules.

We are looking for exceptional UI developers to work with us on Aragon, the Aragon platform and the Aragon apps. Our current stack includes React, styled-components and react-spring. Our team is entirely remote.

Work philosophy at Aragon One: https://aragon.one/#philosophy

More info about the project: https://aragon.org/

Apply here: https://aragon.one/#frontend-engineer

Or ping me (@bpierre) here: https://aragon.chat/

bpierre··on An update on uBlock
Firefox does block auto playing videos and asks the user to explicitly allow it, in the same way access to the webcam / mic / location / notifications is managed.

https://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-users-finally-get-option-t...

bpierre··on GitHub Alternatives
git-ssb, open source and decentralized: https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25RPKzL382v2fAia5HuDNHD5kkFdlP7bG...
bpierre··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)
Aragon | UI Developer | Remote, full-time | https://aragon.one/

Aragon is everything you need to run organizations (companies, NGOs, foundations, open source projects…) on the Ethereum blockchain. It implements features like a cap table, token transfers, voting, roles, fundraising and accounting. Aragon organizations are easily customizable, and they are also extensible by installing third party modules.

We are looking for exceptional UI developers to work with us on Aragon, Aragon Labs, and the Aragon apps. Apart from being experts at building interfaces, our ideal candidates are also decentralization advocates.

Our current set of technologies includes React (web and Native), styled-components, RxJS and web3.js.

Working at Aragon: https://wiki.aragon.one/jobs/

Apply here: https://wiki.aragon.one/jobs/openings/frontend/

bpierre··on Show HN: Sucrase, 20x faster smaller-scoped alternative to Babel
How does it compare to Bublé?

https://buble.surge.sh/guide/

bpierre··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
Aragon | UI Developer | Remote, full-time | https://aragon.one/

Aragon is everything you need to run organizations (companies, NGOs, foundations, open source projects…) on the Ethereum blockchain. It implements features like a cap table, token transfers, voting, roles, fundraising and accounting. Aragon organizations are easily customizable, and they are also extensible by installing third party modules.

We are looking for exceptional UI developers to work with us on Aragon, Aragon Labs, and Aragon apps. Apart from being experts at building interfaces, our ideal candidates are also decentralization advocates.

Our current set of technologies includes React (web and Native), styled-components, RxJS and web3.js.

Apply here: https://wiki.aragon.one/jobs/openings/frontend/

bpierre··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)
Aragon | UI Developer | Remote, full-time | https://aragon.one/

Aragon is everything you need to run organizations (companies, NGOs, foundations, open source projects…) on the Ethereum blockchain. It implements features like a cap table, token transfers, voting, roles, fundraising and accounting. Aragon organizations are easily customizable, and they are also extensible by installing third party modules.

We are looking for exceptional UI developers to work with us on Aragon, Aragon Labs, and Aragon apps. Apart from being experts at building interfaces, our ideal candidates are also decentralization advocates.

Our current set of technologies includes React (web and Native), styled-components, RxJS and web3.js.

Apply here: https://wiki.aragon.one/jobs/openings/frontend/

bpierre··on Ask HN: What is your preferred JavaScript bundler, and why
Rollup is great: https://rollupjs.org/

The configuration is super simple compared to webpack, see their example for a library: https://github.com/rollup/rollup-starter-lib/blob/master/rol...

I’m only using it for libraries at the moment, but I would like to try to use it for apps in the future.

bpierre··on Show HN: scri.ch − Draw, save, share, repeat
I introduced scri.ch 6 years ago here [1], and I am still happily using it almost every day since then. I thought now would be a good time to share it again here, as I think more people could enjoy its simplicity.

It’s 100% built using boring technologies [2], and virtually no feature has been added in the last four years! :-)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2288834

[2] https://github.com/lisezmoi/scri.ch

bpierre··on Ask HN: What online communities offer a high level of discussion?
If you like video games, https://reddit.com/r/truegaming is a good one.

From the sidebar description: /r/truegaming is a subreddit dedicated to meaningful, insightful, and high-quality discussion on all topics gaming.

bpierre··on FlexBox Cheatsheet
My favorite one: http://apps.workflower.fi/css-cheats/?name=flexbox
bpierre··on Let's Encrypt is down
Traefik is having a problem similar to Caddy, where having letsencrypt down prevents it to boot.

https://github.com/containous/traefik/issues/791

bpierre··on Caddy 0.10 Released
How does it compare with https://traefik.io/ (reverse proxy, written in Go, automatic HTTPS / letsencrypt) ?
bpierre··on LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft
In this context, you can see the blockchain as a database, always available, and containing entries (transactions in blocks) that you can not delete. It’s very simplified, see the Wikipedia article [1] for more details about blockchain systems.

The specific features that I find interesting to build an “open trust system” built on top of it, compared to a traditional database, are:

- Transparency: anyone can explore this database, and verify that the software is using it in a transparent way. It might sound not important for something like Uber, but if you build an open trust system that could be used by different services, it becomes very important for authors (Uber, Lyft, etc.) to trust this system.

- Reliability: because a blockchain is distributed, it is always running and available.

- Trust: transactions are immutable and a transaction can not be falsified once confirmed (validated).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain_(database)

bpierre··on LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft
> What would be the incentive to develop such an app in decentralized fashion? What if there are problems between rider and driver, who will act as a middleman to resolve issues? What about basic support etc?

Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough, but I am precisely talking about this: using the blockchain for what it is good at today, instead of trying to put everything on a decentralized system (which is really hard or just impossible for now).

Uber / Lyft and others have a reputation system in place, opaque and developed specifically for their product. It’s an important part, but it is just a brick in the complexity of the services they are building.

I am talking about replacing this brick by an open, blockchain-based reputation service (that doesn’t exist AFAIK). That way, any app developer could benefit from the transparency and guaranteed properties from the blockchain. It could even be easier to use than to implement it as a private system.

bpierre··on LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft
About the trust and reputation issue, I think blockchain technologies could play an important role for decentralized services like this.

I would like to see a multipurpose reputation / trust system based on the blockchain, exposing all the needed features as a simple library and / or HTTP API, ready to be implemented by apps and websites.

I think we are still in a period where a lot of products are built either in a centralized way, or all on the blockchain and decentralized technologies (like IPFS). It makes sense as we are still in the experimentation phase, but it could change in the near future. People could start using the blockchain where it is the most efficient today, as a brick part of a product (e.g. to build a solid decentralized reputation system), instead of being the foundation layer of the product.

bpierre··on Etherplay: Play Skill Games on Ethereum
They posted this article that provides more information, I should have posted it instead. Maybe the HN mods can change it?

https://medium.com/@etherplay/what-is-etherplay-d51424674931

bpierre··on Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
https://scri.ch/ draw => save => share (you can add .png to the URL)

https://gif.gg/ photos => save => share (you can add .gif to the URL)

I made them because they were useful for me, and I am still happily using them almost every day, especially scri.ch: nothing beats typing scri.ch in a browser from anywhere to quickly sketch an idea (except a napkin and a pen of course).

It’s nice to see other people using them too! :-)

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