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jesalg

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jesalg··on Ask HN: What's the most creative use of IFTTT you've seen?
I've setup alerts when a certain TV show is available for torrenting
jesalg··on Show HN: Global HTTP Latency Test
Very cool! Although just like lot of people here pointed out, I feel like the colors are inverted.
jesalg··on The Next Generation of Gesture Control
This would make for a great device to pair with Google Glass. Minority report here we come! :D
jesalg··on There are 2.4 billion people on the Internet. We should get to know each other.
Very cool. A similar idea had been buzzing around in my head for the last couple of months - you enter some attributes about yourself and on the other end get 1 match per week with whom you should connect with. Great way to meet new people. You guys beat me to it! Would love to see how this evolves.

EDIT:

After filling out the form, I think some things can be combined/simplified to make it easier to parse: - Many twitter users I follow tend to be the authors of the blogs I read as well. Maybe just connect with Twitter and get a listing of all the people I follow? - Also what format should the songs be listed in? or maybe just keep that limited to artists & bands. - Utilize Facebook Graph to pre-populate interests, music, movies.

jesalg··on Show HN: my weekend project, better way to browse reddit
Thanks for your feedback. You bring up a good point, I will consider incorporating favicons of the site somewhere in the corner which should indicate weather it's an external website or a submission on reddit.
jesalg··on Show HN: my weekend project, better way to browse reddit
Thanks for the feedback, appreciate it!

It probably feels a bit slow at some points because it's actually checking each link and trying to pull out a thumbnail via the site's API like imgur, youtube, wikipedia, etc and at other times when there is no API, it's scraping HTML for a suitable thumbnail (which is the most time consuming). But this only happens once and then cached by redis. Also I'm making use of websockets so as soon as one item is parsed its pushed out to the client.

Having said that, there is plenty of room for improvement. I still plan to add some more features when I get more time such as loggin in, up/down voting, and the ability to browse other subreddits as you mentioned.

jesalg··on Mailgun (YC W11) is being acquired by Rackspace
Yup, I was wondering the same. I'm hoping they don't switch out SengGrid for MailGun.
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