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mat_jack1··on Stolen Buttons
I agree! I remember that we used to joke that at last we didn't need designers to do designs anymore. Colored rectangles were enough for everything!

Which I think was the reason that Microsoft did it that way and Apple tried to resist a bit. But the developer push was substantial.

mat_jack1··on Heroku Is Down
In past instances similar to this one, when Heroku wasn't acknowledging or giving any details it was a case of DDoS. It makes sense to stay quiet to avoid other potential attackers to pile in. Maybe they have found an AWS endpoint that was suffering DDoS attacks and they brought down a lot of people with it. Heroku is surely on AWS, I'm positive that also OpenAI is using something there and all the others affected. Let's wait and see, it will take a few days for sure.
mat_jack1··on We switched from Next.js to Astro (and why it might interest you)
From Datocms here :) We are also actively experimenting on porting our main app. We are doing progress, so far so good!
mat_jack1··on We switched from Next.js to Astro (and why it might interest you)
The Nextjs site lasted 4 years. Before that we had a Gatsby one: https://github.com/datocms/old-website/
mat_jack1··on Ask HN: What have you built with ESPHome, ESP8266 or similar hardware
I'm helping our local Fablab to manage physical access with a series of ESP8266 and esp-rfid https://github.com/esprfid/esp-rfid/ (of which I became maintainer. If you want to use it as well I can help!)
mat_jack1··on Netlify Announces the Evolution of Cloud Platform
Working in a SaaS, I'm always surprised by these companies giving two months notice before shutting down services that are powering pretty significant websites.

This move is going to cost companies using Gatsby Cloud a lot, especially if they had built tooling and workflows around Gatsby Cloud.

Why are they rushing this shutdown? 2 months seems really too little for me.

Also, Netlify is targeting enterprise customers more now, doesn't this two months notice give a bad impression to those kind of customers?

I'm honestly not sure if I am too scared by these quick moves or if it's going to be a real problem for someone.

mat_jack1··on Photographer captures ultra-rare red ring of light over Italy
You mean openai decided
mat_jack1··on Show HN: Customizable, embeddable Chat GPT based on your own documents
Yes, that's what concerns me. Since it's not really clear what's going on, how can we trust a third party service by uploading personal data?
mat_jack1··on Show HN: Customizable, embeddable Chat GPT based on your own documents
Is this Ok to upload all your messages and your contacts to these services? I'm very worried about that, really
mat_jack1··on Firefox Android now supports Tampermonkey
Very useful guide for proper parenting. Thank you!
mat_jack1··on I made a virtual bookshelf
I was thinking to a 3D representation of a library or a zoomable interface. It could leverage our good spacial memory while also allowing accidental discovery of books
mat_jack1··on I made a virtual bookshelf
Sure you lose track, but it's so much easier with physical things to bump into already seen items and recognize them. Or also casually being interested by a cover or by the size of the books.

I feel like there could be a better way to handle lots of digital books/articles/songs/films/photos/etc

mat_jack1··on I made a virtual bookshelf
I'm very interested in visual ways to explore ebooks, papers, articles.

A physical library helps discovering new stuff or occasionally bumping in something. With files you need to be much more deliberate and I feel like you can accumulate a lot without really knowing what you have.

Even if this is a simple visualization it already gives ideas on how much more information you could convey with something similar. Like number of pages, color of the cover, to remind you of the book, different font, etc. A set of cues that can help you navigate in the list of books, at least I suspect :)

mat_jack1··on Ferrari owner Exor wants to build the Italian Y Combinator
check this coworking space: https://toolboxcoworking.com/ there are several tech meetups of nice people and it's also hosting the local fablab: https://fablabtorino.org/

after covid there are less meetups, but I'm sure it's going to pick up again

mat_jack1··on Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?
I'm in your situation, I'm so impressed!
mat_jack1··on Ask HN: What are some of the dark sides of being in the tech industry?
I don't like the idea that tech comes first and people last. That is often the case when the automation is simply meant to replace inefficient humans, without really thinking to the consequences. I'm of course pro-automation as I think it's an improvement for humanity, but I'm always worried about the end result.

Also I don't like that most companies have this kind of double-speak when they say that they are working to improve everyone lives while they simply want to automate work away, avoid rules (simply because Internet is not regulated as the rest of the economy) to make more money than in other ways.

mat_jack1··on Ask HN: Which is the best laptop for programmers under budget?
I've found this website being really good for Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon: http://www.tier1online.com/refurbished-lenovo-thinkpad-x1-ca...

I haven't bought anything myself yet, but quality and price seem very interesting to me.

mat_jack1··on Show HN: HardyPress, zero-maintenance, “static” Wordpress hosting service
Just a curiosity, which CDN are you using?
mat_jack1··on Gambiarra: repair culture (2015)
Felipe Fonseca's critical thoughts about the last 10-15 years of the "makers" movement.

Very insightful reading how the general culture of the movement has changed from a repair-reuse-recycle to a prototype-industrial-capitalistic mentality.

mat_jack1··on Universal.css
It's really funny because I'm working on a real project which uses a CSS which is really like universal.css, and we are thinking of going responsive. Luckily at least this is a joke.

I sympathize with the other commenters with my same problem.

mat_jack1··on Julie Rubicon
It's funny that I've received the notification for the HN500 while I was reading "Mr. Penumbra's 24h bookstore" and noticed it after having finished the book. Clicked the link and the author was Robin Sloan as in the book :)

Apart from the funny combination I just chime in to recommend the book here, I think most of you here would enjoy that.

mat_jack1··on Dark UX patterns are bad for your business
Yes, crazy. I think that most of the people don't think that are dealing with humans through computers. They just deal with machines, so they can try to fool them.

It's also part of the being really rude on the Internet behind the anonimity that we have.

mat_jack1··on Dark UX patterns are bad for your business
I'm astonished that we need to explain that being correct sales people is the way to build relationships.

As if over the web you could fool human beings and get out without being noticed.

mat_jack1··on Reproducible Development Environments with GNU Guix
But then doing that would mean that you split a single system configuration through two different tools, right? I don't think it's ideal in practice.
mat_jack1··on Reproducible Development Environments with GNU Guix
That's a good reason, but I don't understand if the use case scenario is the same or different. And if different, in what?
mat_jack1··on Reproducible Development Environments with GNU Guix
What's the benefit of Guix compared to tools like Chef (https://www.getchef.com/) or Puppet(https://puppetlabs.com/)?
mat_jack1··on ShowHN: a minimal Torrent search-engine experiment (it scrapes trackers for you)
I like the clean interface. No fuzz, beef only!
mat_jack1··on ShowHN: LoveThisSong, insta-share your songs from iPhone to Facebook
It's a cool iPhone app for music lover and for people used to share music on Facebook.

Worth a try.

mat_jack1··on Wordless: stop writing Wordpress themes like it's 1998.
awesome!!!