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jglovier

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I'm a designer at GitHub. I write stuff at http://joelglovier.com
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jglovier··on Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
Looks like you can export any board as JSON by going to Board Menu > More > Print and Export (from http://help.trello.com/article/747-exporting-data-from-trell...).

There's also a Chrome extension to export a board to a spreadsheet: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/export-for-trello/....

jglovier··on Introducing review requests
Great feedback. Thanks for sharing.
jglovier··on A layman's proposal for addressing the fragility of DNS
Also, FTR there is no intent to boast here, merely sharing an idea and trying to elicit discussion about a problem which I admittedly do not fully understand.

I had hoped that starting with an admission of plausible fallacy would deter such judgements, but I guess you never can underestimate the power of HN to bring out the moral superiority of others.

jglovier··on A layman's proposal for addressing the fragility of DNS
Git has a very scalable solution for a large volume of changes and establishing change set as current (via SHA). What is different about the DNS registry than any other codebase that Git could not handle?
jglovier··on Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (October 2016)
Thanks! The demo has a relatively small data set, but keeping it fast as production data grows is one of the challenges we're working on right now.
jglovier··on Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (October 2016)
Thanks for the heads up!!
jglovier··on Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (October 2016)
HospitalRun (http://hospitalrun.io/)

HospitalRun is an offline first, Ember based, Hospital Information System for charitable hospitals in developing countries.

> What do you hope to build this month? We are focused on ongoing work toward reaching the 1.0. For a list of outstanding issues, see this GitHub milestone on the frontend app: https://github.com/hospitalrun/hospitalrun-frontend/mileston...

We're in need of folks with the following skills: Ember JS experience for general app development; internationalization and localization; New Relic instrumentation experience; automating deployments from GitHub; HL7 experience; product and UI design for lots of CSS and UI cleanup (https://github.com/hospitalRun/design); design systems experience for working on a styleguide and pattern library; docs writing for app documentation; web and marketing design for the hospitalrun.io site (http://github.com/hospitalRun/hospitalrun.github.io)

To contribute, check out our CONTRIBUTING.md file on GitHub (https://github.com/hospitalrun/hospitalrun-frontend/blob/mas...) and join our Slack team.

HospitalRun is open source under the GNU general public license.

jglovier··on Announcing new tools, forums, and features
Very unlikely. We hope that Projects will be the best place for people to coordinate work on a GitHub repository, but that doesn't really limit Trello's value much. They'll continue to offer lots of value as a great way to coordinate work for many contexts outside GitHub repositories.
jglovier··on A whole new GitHub Universe: announcing new tools, forums, and features
This all applies to github.com the website, and will ship separately in upcoming Enterprise releases per our normal Enterprise release schedule.
jglovier··on Announcing new tools, forums, and features
Great idea. Thanks!
jglovier··on Announcing new tools, forums, and features
>projects. replaces trello, waffle.io, zenhub and many other similar services.

This is really not about replacing those services, it's more about building a better foundation for integrators like Waffle and ZenHub to build on.

jglovier··on Ask HN: Who needs contributors?
Yes. Several of the CURE International (https://cure.org/) charitable hospitals (including a few in sub-saharan Africa) are already running it.
jglovier··on Ask HN: Who needs contributors?
HospitalRun (http://hospitalrun.io/)

HospitalRun is an offline first, Ember based, Hospital Information System for charitable hospitals in developing countries.

> What do you hope to build this month? We are focused on ongoing work toward reaching the 1.0. For a list of outstanding issues, see this GitHub milestone on the frontend app: https://github.com/HospitalRun/hospitalrun-frontend/mileston...

We're in need of folks with the following skills: Ember JS experience for general app development; internationalization and localization; New Relic instrumentation experience; automating deployments from GitHub; HL7 experience; product and UI design for lots of CSS and UI cleanup (https://github.com/hospitalRun/design); design systems experience for working on a styleguide and pattern library; docs writing for app documentation; web and marketing design for the hospitalrun.io site (http://github.com/hospitalRun/hospitalrun.github.io)

To contribute, check out our CONTRIBUTING.md file on GitHub (https://github.com/hospitalrun/hospitalrun-frontend/blob/mas...) and join our Slack team.

HospitalRun is open source under the GNU general public license.

NOTE: We are hosting a two day hackathon at GitHub HQ in San Francisco on September 23 & 24th. Apply here if you are interested to join us: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScY8IzsHNXuSnwJamdO...

jglovier··on Introducing unlimited private repositories
Sorry to hear this change is frustrating for your team. If the new model doesn't work for you, can stay on the old structure. We're not automatically migrating anyone, so you can stay on the old plan. If we ever do decide to phase out the legacy structure completely, you'll still have 12 months from that point before you have to move over. (We've updated the blog post to reflect that clarification, too)
jglovier··on GitHub responds to Dear GitHub letter
Nope. We'd been working on our response ever since Dear GitHub was published. It just took a little time because we wanted to think long and hard about our response - beyond just the words we used to respond – and actually consider how we are interacting with the community, and where we can make demonstrable improvements. It is just coincidence that the ESLint thread happened this week, and our response came out today.
jglovier··on Inside Automattic's Remote Hiring Process
Not saying your conclusion is necessarily accurate (though I don't disagree), but anecdotally my own experience was similar. I interviewed for a design position with Automattic 3 or 4 years ago and made it to the contract stage, and ultimately had to decline because the $25 contract gig was just so off-putting. Not to mention the super-intimidating terms and intellectual property agreement that came with the trial gig.
jglovier··on Open source software for developing world hospitals
Yeah, that's a fair criticism. Still a lot of work left to do on that effort.
jglovier··on Open source software for developing world hospitals
>Mobile first is a basic requirement in developing countries.

When you say "mobile first is a basic requirement" you're thinking about a specific context of software intended for the general population of people in those countries.

However, with projects like HospitalRun, the general population is not the audience, Hospital staff and administrators are, and even in developing countries they still primarily use laptops and tablets at the Hospital.

jglovier··on Open source software for developing world hospitals
>What surprised me most is that the UI does not seem to be mobile responsive, and does not work well on smartphones. I would have guessed that in developing countries mobile use would be hugely important?

The UI is still a massive WIP, but I am working on making it fully responsive down to tablet size. Our goal is to accommodate viewports down to tablet because in hospitals where the software will be run (and is already running in a few CURE hospitals) medical and administrative staff will be using it from laptops and tablets.

Viewports lower than 600px are not currently a consideration, however, as we don't currently have a legitimate use case for the software on phones.

jglovier··on Open source software for developing world hospitals
Responsive work is on the roadmap and coming soon. However, the current intent is for the project to be fully usable on tablets, but not necessarily on phones. The hospital staff in our use cases will all be using the software from either a laptop or tablet.
jglovier··on Open source software for developing world hospitals
Because design patterns, basically. I designed this page and have never seen codio.com before so I'd say it's just a reflection of common design paradigms for marketing pages.
jglovier··on Two HN Announcements
Will the ycombinator.com banner ad finally be replaced with an HN symbol that links directly to the index? :-p

Also, a while back I made a little Hacker News logo concept. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4731140) If you're thinking responsive redesign work, just hollar. ;-)

jglovier··on San Francisco Hotels Are World’s Priciest as Rates Surge
The stat chart cited in the article says "average hotel cost", so perhaps SF has far fewer hotels in the lower-end category compared to the other cities listed?
jglovier··on Sign up for a first look at GitHub Desktop
While you're waiting for access to the Desktop preview, check out the current GitHub for Mac (https://mac.github.com/) and GitHub for Windows (https://windows.github.com/). I use GHfM everyday in tandem with CLI, and the basic visual diffing is great.
jglovier··on Grooveshark Shuts Down
My best guess is that the playlist data (and any other relevant user data) is probably the reason the legal action even happened. What's honesty more valuable to whichever company is primarily responsible for the suit: the profits said company stands to gain now that Grooveshark is out of the way, or the behavioral user data of 10 years of internet music streaming on a front-runner service? My bet is on the later.
jglovier··on GitHub Enterprise 2.0
Deep link for the lazy: https://enterprise.github.com/features#pricing
jglovier··on GitHub Student Developer Pack
Screenhero is amazing. I'm using it all the time for pairing these days.
jglovier··on Atom Is Now Open Source
>The original FAQ implied that Github would try to market Atom commercially.

We were leaving all options open during the beta.

The adoption rate was incredible (contrary to suggestions to the contrary), and in the end the Atom team decided the best thing GitHub could do with Atom is give it to the community - not because of any sneaky reasons, just because that's how we believe it can do the most good in the world.

jglovier··on Cookie Bomb or Let's Break the Internet
> Is there an equivalent to status.github.com for github.io?

If you want to check the status of your own GH Pages hosted site, you can go to your repository for the page, then go to "Settings > Health" and you can see a basic status for Server Status, Usage, and Repository Integrity.

jglovier··on [dead]
I agree with you both. True - OP has a good point that it's worth getting the "community vibe" on a discussion/article to form a solid opinion of the subject. But also agree with you that interesting stories are worth sharing - regardless of how controversial they may be.
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