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ddon

362 karma · joined September 12, 2010

founder of www.fotki.com
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ddon··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
Elixir is perfect for stuff like this, very cool project!
ddon··on Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
Thank you for the link, amazing video!
ddon··on It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
Page about usability has distracting snow all over the page :)
ddon··on Xeovo VPN – the joy of a simple sign-up
Check out Mullvad vpn sign up process, they dont even have a password…
ddon··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
https://www.kitecourier.com/pricing is returning 404 page
ddon··on [dead]
Please share modern ways to grow a startup!
ddon··on The Synology End Game
We tried bunch of NAS solutions in the past, and most recent switch is Ubiquiti NAS, so far so good…
ddon··on Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix
Very cool, we use it as MCP server when we develop things using Claude Code... how would using Tidewave Web change our workflow?
ddon··on Cursor raises $900M at $9B valuation
All signs that we are in bubble and it is only getting bigger and bigger :)
ddon··on Show HN: Sim Studio – Open-Source Agent Workflow GUI
Would be amazing to be able to design the workflow using your builder, and then export to code (and choose the language) and then copy paste the code into the project... just an idea.
ddon··on WatchOS 11 Bugs Are Driving Me Crazy
I like a feature when watch detects that one is walking and offers to record the walk from very beginning... but unfortunately this is not always working and there is no way to initiate this manually. Hopefully they will fix this with the next release.
ddon··on Moving away from US cloud services
We switched to self hosted gitea, so far so good.
ddon··on HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere
We switched to Caddy in multiple projects and really happy with it... Certificate generation feels like magic and http3 works great as well. Config files are much smaller and easier to read as well!
ddon··on NASA to launch space observatory that will map 450M galaxies
Yep, it looks like it will be cut and closed, which is truly unfortunate. It’s disappointing to see that science nor innovation are not a priority for this administration. And this doge cutting of funding or even shutting down important projects will have long-term consequences, impacting research, education, and technological advancements that benefit everyone.
ddon··on YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups
sorry, changed to "Anyone on the internet with the link can view" now... please check
ddon··on YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups
Google spreadsheet version of this, may be somebody needs. Also, it has more data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iIu8JATRDfJ91PS_rscS...
ddon··on Revolut tells staff it is launching share sale at $45B valuation
https://archive.is/odiV2
ddon··on Show HN: After years of procrastination I made yet another chatbot builder
In HTML header you set Polish language: <html lang="pl-PL"> but the content is in English, and that's triggers browsers to translate page from Polish!
ddon··on The War on Estonian Forests (2022)
Love CSS and simple layout... check out comments in the CSS file, very interesting.
ddon··on Maccy – macOS Clipboard Manager
Love it, only thing is paste without formatting requires multiple buttons... or may be I am missing something.
ddon··on Scientists Find an 'Alphabet' in Whale Songs
https://archive.is/7prpD
ddon··on Biden's $7.5B investment in EV charging has only produced 7 stations
https://archive.is/YhW7k
ddon··on IrfanView
Probably it was compupic or acdsee
ddon··on Thunderbird Everywhere
So many bugs and issues are not resolved for years in desktop app, and they will spend their resources on mobile apps... probably working on desktop app got boring with years :)
ddon··on Electricity Maps
According to wikipedia, there are no coal powered power stations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Gree...

ddon··on The OpenTF Manifesto
Impossible to read, behind a paywall... why people post stuff to Medium is a big mystery to me :)

Here is how your post looks like: https://postimg.cc/Pvwdw8D3

ddon··on Instagram Threads passes 10M users in seven hours
Link opens an empty white page for me :) May be Threads is down already from this growth :)
ddon··on The State of HTTP in 2022
May be this link will work for you?

https://archive.ph/1gcnQ

ddon··on My newsletter is making $2k per month with 7k subscribers – AMA
How one starts with a newsletter? how did you attract your first 200 subscribers?
ddon··on Hacker News is politically biased
every platform is biased, you want it or not...
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