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You simply must try https://www.mysaffronapp.com

It really successfully imports and de-clutters recipes from any and all recipe sites I've thrown at it. Ben Awad, the programmer behind Saffron, actually posted about their scraping technique on HN to significant success: https://www.benawad.com/scraping-recipe-websites/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23142220)

Their UX is unmatched, they've got apps for iOS and Android in addition to the web app itself. Undoubtedly one of my favorite pieces of software.

> unJewgled Chromium

What the fuck?

I had my first encounter with The Elm Architecture through the Go Bubble Tea library (https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea). What a revelation. Such a drastically different way of thinking about UI.

Here it is on Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1426587396343099397.html

Yes! You just have to get it set up properly in the config (I remember reading about it in the docs or mailing list somewhere).

I use Hetzner, personally.

Did a bit of a cost analysis here: https://figbert.com/posts/moving-to-hetzner-from-digitalocea...

I try and use native clients or TUIs rather than webmail. I'm current using Mail.app and aerc and having a blast.

I have literally never (to my knowledge) been rejected by one of the big boys (i.e. gmail or outlook). Was quite nervous about it in the beginning, but I haven't run into any issues.

I have had a number of bumps:

   1. In exchanging emails with someone with a custom domain, I found there SPF record was broken and thus my server was rejecting their emails. I've weakened my policy and now their mail goes to my Junk, which I then manually move to my inbox because I'm lazy and don't want to set up a custom rule.

   2. I wanted to subscribe to the Tarnsap mailing list, and had to decrease the minimum TLS level for outgoing mail to "none." Dr. Percival believes TLS on SMTP is "silly" (which, in the sense that all email is insecure, is true, but in the sense that email with modern security measures is better than nothing, is in itself a "silly" opinion).

   3. I had some server downtime recently (https://figbert.com/posts/wrong-way-to-switch-server-os/) and couldn't receive emails, which sucked. But that was on me.

I highly recommend giving it a go!

I've been using Maddy now for about a month for my email, and it's incredible. The dev says it's not caddy for email – but in my experience, it's certainly been that easy.

I've got to write a longer article about this, but self-hosting email is incredibly liberating. I now own my entire digital identity. I can work on open source projects with developers around the world completely while relying only on my own capabilities.

This is the most cyberpunk think I've read all week. Yes please.

By default, Kindle is a closed box. I love it, but the ads and tracking ruin a beautiful product.

KOReader gives me a great experience, sans the privacy violations, and with an incredible amount of additional control over the device. I love it.

I use Calibre to manage my ebook library. I share it across devices (and with a couple friends) using Syncthing[1], and read the books using KOReader[2] on a Kindle. I get my books either from Z-Library or by ripping the DRM off of books purchased from Amazon.

Genuinely the best reading setup.

[1]: https://syncthing.net/ [2]: https://koreader.rocks/

> Alternatively, if you run an Internet Of Things company that locks and unlocks doors over an API, if that API goes down, people could be locked out of their houses during emergencies!

Alternatively, don't develop an IoT door lock that will lock people out of their houses if the intern accidentally fucks up in production.

Neil Sardesai is a joy to follow – I highly recommend it. He probably knows more about internal macOS APIs than the devs.

I'm looking into doing something like this. Seems calming.

I just jailbroke my Kindle the other day – PaperWhite 4. Loving KOReader, and looking for more things to run. Awesome to see that there are still modders out there.

Starts the article:

> [not-publicly-disclosed-but-substantially-less-than–30]%

Later in the article:

> a 3.5% fee with all those downsides is substantially worse for both me and my customers than a flat 15%.

I wonder what Paddle's fee is...

Uhh this sounds awesome. Is it open-source? Can I find it somewhere?

Sorry about that! I realized after I posted that it was probably not the right way to describe the article.

TLDR: I like it.

Working with SwiftUI is fantastic – I always had trouble getting the storyboards to work properly (not really a nocode guy). The rapid changes and control over every detail that SwiftUI provides, while at the same time managing the things you don't need to handle yourself (such as with the Spacer struct), is really a big step in the right direction for Apple.

With that said, there's still a lot to be done – it doesn't totally feel finished. When you run into these missing bits – like a loading indicator – you have to write wrappers around UIKit components.

Kind of a circular activity, but I'm working on an app to help me be productive in quarantine. Planning on making a "Show HN" announcement in a week or to, but for now you can find details at: https://txtodo.app

Mind throwing me the name of or link to the program you used to unpack the .app? I'd like to do that myself, and remember stumbling on a program that did that, but can't recall the name.

how dare

Exactly my question! Seems to me like they are pretty similar products – to the point of "clone" status, as the two editors have the same blocks in the same colors and seem to be functionally identical. The only difference I can see is that the advanced features of Snap! appear to be only slightly more accessible than those of Scratch (plus the change of "sprite" to "costume," and Gobo's growth of a horn and extra foot).

For those that cannot access the link: https://home.unicode.org/announcing-the-unicode-standard-ver...