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marconeyon Most people can't juggle one ball

I had both of these, and learned to juggle from Klutz

I recently bought a new copy for my son, but it hasn’t clicked for him yet

Well said, thanks

I’d much rather know and learn about someone’s passion for woodworking, hill walking, flower arranging, whatever they enjoy doing in their free time, rather than having to talk about their (or my!) work.

marconeyon Ask HN: What kind of setup do you run for your children?

The screentime controls as part of an Apple family are great - downtime - time limits per app - approval needed to install apps - communications controls

Highly recommended

marconeyon Ask HN: How do you avoid AI slop on YouTube?

The best change I made on YouTube was to turn ‘Watch History’ and ‘Search History’ off

With no history the algorithm can’t populate the Home tab or the Shorts tab and they are blank

I just rely on the Subscriptions tab and searching

marconeyon Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8

I was a very heavy pocket user and loved it, but around 2019 they changed their Discover tab, so you could no longer see the source of the article.

The pages were listed as ‘Pocket’ source, and they windowed the original article in a pocket page with ads

marconeyon Ask HN: What is the most secure way of baby monitoring?

Have a look a cameras with HomeKit Secure Video, if you are already in the Apple ecosystem

e2e encrypted and stored in your iCloud

marconeyon Show HN: I made a website where you can create your own "Life in Weeks" timeline

Reminded me of DateByDays, similar but the base unit is days instead of weeks

https://datebydays.com/

marconeyon Co-sleeping causes 3 more infant deaths in New York, officials say in warning

brought the total to six so far in 2024, after 10 in 2023

With 25 days to go in the year, this is likely (hopefully) lower than 2023?

marconeyon Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2023

The Wera Toolcheck Plus has been a great addition to my toolbox

Generally now grab it first, when a job comes up!

https://products.wera.de/en/ratchets_and_accessories_zyklop_...

marconeyon Thelonious Monk’s Tips for Musicians (1960)

You must play through mistakes like they're not there, keep the rhythm with your foot and the melody line in your head. Also don't play the hardest stuff you just learned in recitals, play stuff you can do with your eyes closed while holding a conversation.

Brilliant life advice in general, keep your head in the game, carry on and maintain the flow.

marconeyon Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity

Thanks for sharing, hoping I can follow suit and raise an independent free-range daughter who likes me!

marconeyon How I’m successfully overcoming smartphone addiction

Switching to greyscale on iOS really helps reduce the attractiveness of wasting time

Settings->Accessibility->Display&Text->Color Filters

And you can activate with triple-click of side button also

Settings->Accessibility->Accessibility Shortcut->Color Filters

marconeyon How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel?

Reminded me of a great Darknet Diaries episode that involved a lot of tunneling!

EP 39: 3 ALARM LAMP SCOOTER https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/39/

marconeyon Ask HN: How do you not keep track of what you did yesterday (and this morning)?

I use Qbserve [1] after seeing it mentioned in a previous thread.

Really helpful for seeing where time was spent over the course of the day/week. Collected data all stored locally too

[1] https://qotoqot.com/qbserve/

marconeyon Is YC a Monopoly?

The MFN clause can’t be considered more competitive against other seed and angel investors.

It is clearly making their next fundraise MORE complex for founders.

marconeyon Channel 4 subtitles and other services not likely to return until mid-November

Sounds like a tough month for the engineers!

* The fault happened on 25 September when a fire suppressant system destroyed hard disks at a broadcast centre.

An emergency back-up subtitling system also failed. The channel is building a new system from scratch, and said it will fix the problem more quickly than its current prediction of mid-November if it can.*

marconeyon New carnivorous plant discovered in Pacific Northwest

read the title as Coronavirus Plant

marconeyon Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres

Their ‘normal’ lifestyle is as comparatively extravagant anyway, regardless of space travel, just less reported on. It being on cable news doesn’t change that.

marconeyon Everything you need to know about Airbnb's IPO

Far too short/high level to be called ‘everything’ you need to know

marconeyon Show HN: Disciple – Launching our new community platform

Up to now we've been helping communities with their own native apps but today we are excited to launch the self-serve PWA version of our platform.

Gather, engage and monetise your network with your own community platform. Create unlimited groups to segment your audience, sell online courses and subscriptions, promote events and structure content with a content library.

Check us out on PH today too : https://www.producthunt.com/posts/disciple

marconeyon Ask HN: Parents of HN, what are the things you wish you knew before having kids?

Generally choose the path that results in the least stress, and most sleep, for all parties

marconeyon Liverpool Football Club’s reliance on analytics

https://statsbomb.com/

marconeyon This crab could save your life – if humans don't wipe it out first

Radiolab had a great episode on this

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/baby-blue-blood-drive

marconeyon Ask HN: Other news and article aggregation sources?

Their ‘river’ is an even more minimal version, great for scanning a few times a day https://www.techmeme.com/river

marconeyon Ask HN: Best books you read in 2017?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21094755-command-and-con...

Command and Control by Eric Schlosser

A great history of the US nuclear stockpile interwoven with the story of a specific silo accident