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charleshan··on Mountain of Ink
I came across the website a few months ago and bought my first fountain pen and two of the top recommend inks from the site.

Black: Sailor Jentle Black

Blue Black: Sailor Sei-boku

charleshan··on Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life
250221 is probably a better format for your needs ;)
charleshan··on Ask HN: How do you personally stay fit?
I lift weight 3 times a week an hour each day. Look into Starting Strength, 5x5, or any simple programs that focus on progressive overloading. I got to 405 lbs squat and deadlift at 170 lbs bodyweight this way. Measure your progress similar to how you measure your metrics in a startup
charleshan··on Pikachu Volleyball
Oh wow... I used to play this when I was a kid!

Thanks for sharing!

charleshan··on ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format
This is awesome! Push to Kindle (HTML to EPUB) isn't converting the page properly but I'm sure it's coming soon
charleshan··on Google Play Books is down for uploaded books
Link to Google Play Books: https://play.google.com/books
charleshan··on BOOX Palma
TLDR; a phone sized e-ink reader without the phone capabilities
charleshan··on Alexandria: A minimalistic cross-platform eBook reader
100mb per file and supports 1000s of files.

I keep long blog posts that I converted into epub in another account so that I'm less likely to hit the limits.

You can switch accounts with two clicks

charleshan··on Alexandria: A minimalistic cross-platform eBook reader
You can fix the epub error by converting "epub to epub" in Calibre
charleshan··on Alexandria: A minimalistic cross-platform eBook reader
Thanks for sharing.

For those who haven't tried, Google Play Books is really good. It's free, cross-platform (plus web), you can upload epub, and syncs annotations across devices.

I switched from jailbroken Kindle to android e-ink device 3 years ago and I haven't looked back. It's the perfect combo.

Tip: Use Calibre to organize/backup your books and convert to epub

charleshan··on Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program
I've been using it for a couple of years. One problem I have is that the idle cpu usage goes up to 10-20% after a while on my Mac. Drops back to ~1% after restarting the app
charleshan··on Fitnotes: Gym Workout Log
One of my all time favorite apps got an update and I just wanted to share it with the community. I've been using it for 8 years and logged 1152 workouts as of today.

Just a heads up, it's only available on Android.

charleshan··on Show HN: It's 2022 and sharing files from Android to Mac is still a pain
For those who are looking for an open source alternative, you can use Syncthing to share and sync files without uploading anything to the cloud.
charleshan··on Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on?
This comment reminds me of Status as a Service by Eugene Wei.

"Some people find status games distasteful. Despite this, everyone I know is engaged in multiple status games. Some people sneer at people hashtag spamming on Instagram, but then retweet praise on Twitter. Others roll their eyes at photo albums of expensive meals on Facebook but then submit research papers to prestigious journals in the hopes of being published. Parents show off photos of their children performances at recitals, people preen in the mirror while assessing their outfits, employees flex on their peers in meetings, entrepreneurs complain about 30 under 30 lists while wishing to be on them, reporters check the Techmeme leaderboards; life is nothing if not a nested series of status contests."

charleshan··on Hot or Not?
"Visualizing temperatures around the world over the last 75 - 100 years" would be a better title for HN.
charleshan··on Ask HN: How to Read More Books?
> each time I pick up a book I think I can probably do a little bit of work or practice some interviewing skills like leetcode rather than reading

> I tend to read 10 min summaries

You mentioned two things you prefer doing over reading books. Why do you want to read books? Which book do you want to read? What have you tried?

charleshan··on Software Jailbreak for Any Kindle
The downsides are your time spent into doing some research and jailbreaking, and the barrier to update the Kindle firmware freely. But I wouldn't worry about the last point because Amazon rarely adds useful features. As a reference, I didn't find the need to update the firmware while I had the Kindle from 2019-2021.
charleshan··on Software Jailbreak for Any Kindle
Syncthing is available on android
charleshan··on Software Jailbreak for Any Kindle
I answered this in another comment :)

> Onyx Boox Poke 3. TBH it's a bit overpriced compared with Kindle Paperwhite which is what I had but the feature set is comparable to Kindle Oasis. More importantly, I wanted to be able to sync my books, highlights, and notes cross-platform. Uploading epub to Google Play Books lets me do this

charleshan··on Software Jailbreak for Any Kindle
Unless you run some automation on it, it shouldn't affect the battery life. The difference was negligible for me
charleshan··on Software Jailbreak for Any Kindle
I haven't tried this particular jailbreak procedure but when I did it 3 years ago, blocking the OTA updates was a part of the process.
charleshan··on Software Jailbreak for Any Kindle
I used to do this but I realized how difficult it is to organize your books this way. Calibre → Kindle was a much better workflow in my experience.
charleshan··on Software Jailbreak for Any Kindle
Onyx Boox Poke 3. TBH it's a bit overpriced compared with Kindle Paperwhite which is what I had but the feature set is comparable to Kindle Oasis. More importantly, I wanted to be able to sync my books, highlights, and notes cross-platform. Uploading epub to Google Play Books lets me do this
charleshan··on Software Jailbreak for Any Kindle
The Benefits of JailBreaking Your Kindle:

- Customize your lock screen to the recently opened book cover, selected image, or randomized from a collection of images. Amazon added something similar recently but it took them 13 years for something so basic.

- KOReader for reading epub and pdf. Also, you get access to the filesystem so you can organize your books however you want.

- Customizable collections (similar to folders) with Calibre

- Run Python so you can run w/e you want. Some ideas...

    - Sideload books via WiFi

    - Sync notes automatically

The main idea of Jailbreaking is that you own your device and you can do whatever you want with it. However, I switched from a Jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite to an Android e-ink reader about a year ago and I'm never looking back.

Regardless, I'm happy to see this on Hacker News!

charleshan··on Twitter Home made me miserable
I turn off retweet for most people and use chronological feed. This achieves exactly what I was doing without the manual work of turning off retweet for each user. Thanks for sharing!
charleshan··on Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time
This is well made! Easy to understand, challenging, and a hint of variable reward.
charleshan··on Updated to Android 12 and only one notification appears on my lock screen
Also related: https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidQuestions/comments/qqyuqh/af...
charleshan··on A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)
PDF version of the slides:

https://www.slideshare.net/paulsmarsden/google-deck-on-digit...

charleshan··on [dead]
Clickbait title. The correct title is "A collaboration application built with the twilio-video.js SDK and React.js"
charleshan··on 16-inch MacBook Pro
Don't forget that the Touch Bar costs an additional $400 for consumers.

The 2015 model was the best MacBook Pro. Perhaps the best laptop yet.

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