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holic··on Launch HN: The Buttermilk Company (YC S18) – Homemade Indian Food in 5 Minutes
Can you share more about the "sustainable packaging"?
holic··on Augmented content creation: Harry Potter
The comic version of this is pretty great, too: https://twitter.com/sketchshark/status/941096945308770304
holic··on Ask HN: I would pay X for Y
This is something I've considered doing for years after dealing with the likes of Clickbank, etc. I'd love to pick your brain for your requirements. How can I get in touch?
holic··on World's oldest person Emma Morano dies at 117
Fun fact: The population of the world grew ~5x in her lifetime, from ~1.6B to ~7.5B.
holic··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
This is awesome! Would love it if I could punch in my address/zip and get an idea of what to plant (I don't know what my climate qualifies as).
holic··on Preact, a fast 3k React alternative
Compared to React, what isn't available in Preact?
holic··on The Dokku Trap
Wait until you run out of disk while running PostgreSQL with dokku. That's an adventure I don't want to have to repeat.
holic··on Things I would build if I worked at GitHub
Last I checked, this doesn't actually work with the way *.github.io is set up.
holic··on Things I would build if I worked at GitHub
While that's true, I think the discussion in that issue has gone more towards HTTPS support for custom domains.
holic··on Things I would build if I worked at GitHub
Great tip, but unfortunately that doesn't work for private repos.
holic··on Things I would build if I worked at GitHub
Maybe a more apt title would be "Things I would fix if I worked at GitHub". :)
holic··on Dear Google Mail Team
We've been seeing a huge number of messages sent through Google Groups via our Google Apps domain flagged as spam. I'm not sure what has triggered it lately, but it's almost impossible for us to communicate through our Google Groups email addresses anymore.
holic··on Ask HN: What project are you currently working on?
Currently working on a SaaS to help online furniture retailers (and eventually any retailer) increase customer engagement, conversions, and lower returns.

On the weekends, I'm working on a super easy photo-prints-on-demand service: https://keepsakemail.com/

Connect to Instagram - pick photos - enter payment and shipping details. One flat rate shipped anywhere. Reply to your email receipt and mention this HN comment and I'll refund half of your payment as a discount :)

holic··on Ask HN: What project are you currently working on?
Awesome. I nearly built something similar a while back. Glad someone's finally doing it!
holic··on Show HN: Quality photo prints of your favorite Instagram moments
Thanks! Happy to refund your purchase under $10 if you'd like to try it.
holic··on Show HN: Quality photo prints of your favorite Instagram moments
Many of my friends and family use Instagram and I wanted to surprise them with photo-quality prints of their Instagram photos. I couldn't find a super simple solution that would let me do this, so I built one over a weekend or two.
holic··on Pdfmake – PDF printing in pure JavaScript
Thanks for clarifying!
holic··on Pdfmake – PDF printing in pure JavaScript
Side note: Under the hood, PhantomJS uses wkhtmltopdf. You can probably save yourself some overhead using the wkhtmltopdf binary directly.
holic··on Stripe enters Asia with Japan beta launch
How do taxes work in that case?
holic··on Fun with your friend's Facebook and Tinder sessions
In Chrome, you can view and manage cookies here: chrome://settings/cookies
holic··on New npm website
Looks great!

Search could still be vastly improved by adding some sort of "activity" rating that factors in last update with number of recent downloads and sort search results by most active. That way we can make use of well-supported and/or actively maintained modules rather than dead ones.

holic··on Incident Report – DDoS Attack
Curious to hear more about this.
holic··on AngularJS 1.3.0
I felt the same, and then I found Vue: http://vuejs.org/
holic··on Twilio Adds Low-Cost, Two-Way MMS Picture Messaging to Its API Cloud
I built a little prototype for a 24-hour Meteor Hackathon:

https://callmemaybe.meteor.com/

Unfortunately, the Connect API was a bit confusing to implement, so you actually have to paste in your API key.

My goal is to rewrite it soon with basic features like call forwarding, blocking, etc.

holic··on Bukkit no longer available for download. Hit with DMCA takedown.
Bukkit was a modding API built on top of Minecraft, using CraftBukkit as a bridge between the Minecraft server JAR and the Bukkit API.
holic··on VUE: Mobile Analytics. One Line of Code Now in Private Beta
Name conflict? http://vuejs.org/
holic··on Show HN: Configure domain redirects and URL forwarding with a simple DNS record
redirect.name is never part of the actual redirect. It's only the documentation site. It's always your domain that is serving the HTTP redirect.
holic··on Show HN: Configure domain redirects and URL forwarding with a simple DNS record
ALIAS/ANAME records are non-standard. They are like CNAME records in that they accept a hostname value, but they ultimately resolve as an A record.

See: http://support.dnsimple.com/articles/differences-between-a-c... http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/services/aname-records/

holic··on Show HN: Configure domain redirects and URL forwarding with a simple DNS record
My company is currently offering "web forwarding" to our customers for free, but this service outsourced to the same third-party that provides our DNS hosting. While the DNS service is rock solid, the redirection service has had many shortcomings including delays in updating redirects, caching issues, etc.

This was one of a few ideas we had for bringing this in-house. I've seen other DNS-configured redirection services, but nothing with the flexibility we'd need to offer our customers to match what they're currently getting. I thought I'd do a quick mock-up of the idea and put it out there to get some feedback.

holic··on Show HN: Configure domain redirects and URL forwarding with a simple DNS record
It shouldn't. Nor should it affect SPF records and the like.
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