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kennydude

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wordpress web developer https://invisibledragonltd.com/
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kennydude··on A brand new WooCommerce Checkout Experience
Looks like a great improvement for those using GoDaddy's managed services,

For everyone else I'd recommend plugins such as Fluid Checkout which provides a similar style, but while leaving everything WooCommerce in place allowing for incredible flexibility

kennydude··on We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x
You didn't build Mastodon at Twitter-scale.

You built a Mastodon-compatible clone in Spring/Reactor.

kennydude··on Show HN: WordPress, Ghost alternative at $29/Year
Ah fantastic to hear about Ghost picking up these features! Having options is always good :)
kennydude··on Show HN: WordPress, Ghost alternative at $29/Year
How is it the best?

The biggest thing is, is this a sustainable price? And what if I want to move elsewhere?

WordPress is still pretty popular because you can pack up and take your WordPress content and data anywhere (either built-in export/import; or something like All in One Migration)

kennydude··on Salesforce is shuttering Slack’s remote work research group Future Forum
What features are you looking for? I'm sure I've seen the Mattermost/Gitlab team browse here in the past and having something actionable would help them get there
kennydude··on Salesforce is shuttering Slack’s remote work research group Future Forum
What does it need to become a product better than Slack?
kennydude··on YouTube TV raises subscription to $72.99, inching closer to cable pricing
But then YouTube itself also sells Movies/TV. Google really needs to sort out it's giant spaghetti mess of products.
kennydude··on GoDaddy: Hackers stole source code, installed malware in multi-year breach
My stuff is with Krystal who are fantastic. Had a ticket resolved by them on Christmas day within 2 minutes

(i have a discount/referral code if you want it - contact form on website)

kennydude··on Ask HN: Why is it so difficult to find quality Windows apps?
I've noticed this. Personally I keep seeing Gnome/KDE on Linux keeps getting better and better apps, tempted to switch and give it a go
kennydude··on Ask HN: What would be involved in building your own YouTube clone?
Depends what sort of thing you want to do.

If you want something popular, focus on getting people to use the platform. If you want more of a controllable platform, you'll need to build a platform with video transcoding, playback, stats etc.

You could always set up a PeerTube instance https://joinpeertube.org/ and/or customize the code behind that to your needs

kennydude··on Ask HN: EU Bank with Good API?
Maybe looking for a dedicated payout service might work in this regard. Companies like Adyen have Payout APIs
kennydude··on PayPal data breach notification
PayPal, at least for me, forces FaceID and an SMS 2FA to access it at all which is crazy. Probably would be great if they moved away from SMS though :(
kennydude··on Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
> I have yet to hear someone tell people how to find the author on Mastodon. Never.

How does a host say an email address? They might say john@reallycoolpodcast.co.uk

How does a host say how to find them on Mastodon (or ANY ActivityPub based platform)? They might say john@reallycoolpodcast.co.uk

kennydude··on Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
I'm hoping some of the new Mastodon clients come out have great accessibility features.

At the very least, one of the core features of the platform is it (at least on web) highly encourages captions on images for accessibility :)

(I know there is the issue of where people she was following on Twitter may not move over etc, sadly)

kennydude··on Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
Ice Cubes is another great example. Very exciting times! https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp
kennydude··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2023)
SEEKING WORK | North East England | Remote Referred

WordPress/WooCommerce developer with a backend background (previously Django/Python stack), with specialism in custom work with payments, fulfillment, custom pricing etc. Happy to work with clients worldwide so long as communications is fluent English

https://invisibledragonltd.com/webdesign - Please contact via website

kennydude··on Ask HN: How to make a simple business website?
WordPress would be my reconmendation too. As someone who builds websites for these kinds of businesses daily, it allows people to get online quickly in a way which works.

More than anything get some decent hosting (i.e not EIG group/GoDaddy)

(If it's too much effort - more than happy to discuss further - website on profile)

kennydude··on Na-S Battery: Low-cost with four times the capacity of lithium
This would be great also if, during damage situations they are less harmful than Lithium Ion batteries (which cause very hot, self sustaining fires for hours and hours!)
kennydude··on Medium bans user for Chrome extension that opened articles in incognito mode
Hosting your own stuff is always the answer. And keep backups!

Even something like getting some cheap hosting and spinning up a WordPress installation will work well (and is easily backed up, exported off-site etc).

kennydude··on Telegram: No-SIM Signup, Auto-Delete All Chats, Topics 2.0 and more
They could just literally charge the $16 or roughly whatever it is upfront. It means nothing for them to be in a blockchain except waste of resources (ironically increasing their costs...)
kennydude··on DontBuyDell.com
Framework laptops look decent to me - Tempted to get one at some point
kennydude··on Privacy respecting weather app for Android
Some of the color choices look a little ugly, at least by the screenshots.

Also, kinda surprisingly, Android has the capability to allow for different sources of data through different apps providing it. So they could have allowed for choice of weather service through other "apps" (even if those other apps provided no user interface). It's kinda sad how under-used Android can be tbh,

kennydude··on Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS
Advanced Custom Fields on WordPress allows for "click to initialize TinyMCE" on areas such as that which may be a usable workaround for now. Then you only have 1 initializing at a time,
kennydude··on Ask HN: Best and Worst API Documentations?
Recently one of the worst I've seen is a property management system's API:

* Bugs in the implementation

* JSON looks like auto-translated XML without an XML

* Nothing about data types, values for an enum you could expect

On the flipside, Stripe's is one of the best. Although the only issue Ive seen is webhook signature code always uses their SDK which I don't always want to use, and webhooks can't be configured on a per-payment basis so if you have multiple systems on the same Stripe account, all of them get notified of everything (unlike other payment providers!)

kennydude··on Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with Stripe Tax enabled
Stripe's rules don't even make sense on this - OnlyFans uses Stripe somehow
kennydude··on Why are McDonald’s Self Service Kiosks so hackable?
My local McDonald's (at least in the UK) almost always has a queue for the single human taking orders as they mostly use cash. Some of them don't even look at the kiosks as an option, even if prompted by staff. The most you get is a member of staff using the kiosk for them,
kennydude··on I regret my website redesign
Even from a general customer serivce prespective, this sucks massively. Working in web development myself, everything is agreed upon before work to start - not with the agency deciding to include additional items.

It's incredibly shameful from this agency - they really owe a massive apology and should refund for the non-requested parts tbh.

kennydude··on Modern CSV Version 2 Beta is now available
Woah - that's probably one of the best websites I've seen for a CLI based tool
kennydude··on Coca-Cola Begins Introduction of Attached Caps
Or you know glass bottles which can be returned and re-used. Like they used to do. This is just them again pretending to care about the environment
kennydude··on No Fixed Address Bank Account
It's weird seeing this all of a sudden, when Monzo has for a long time not required a fixed address. They require an address just to get your card sent to, but nothing else (so you could get it sent to a hotel, P.O box etc).
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