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notionparallaxon Walden Pond – Your saved online articles delivered to you as a physical magazine

I make Walden Pond, so if you've got any questions, go for it!

notionparallaxon Reading the web offline and distraction-free

I've been making something for this for a couple of years now, with http://waldenpond.press/

It connects to the Pocket API to get the parsed articles, pushes them through quite a lot of BS4 clean up, then renders them using paged.js. The resulting PDFs are then printed by Lulu.com, and they come once a month as a printed book to read completely offline.

I solved the Medium image issue with CSS as far as I remember. `.medium\.com svg:first-of-type` and then set it to `display: none`.

notionparallaxon Ask HN: What is a creative product you've discovered recently?

I just came across this by accident!

I make WP* for exactly this reason. I'm about to finish a 12 hour edition that I made to test if the printers could handle it (they could) and there's no way I'd have read that much on my phone.

* WP is my iso project

notionparallaxon Ask HN: How do you balance reading books vs. articles

I read mostly fiction books too. (At bed time mostly) For articles I save them them to Pocket, and then every so often I'll edit the list.

I make a zine called https://WaldenPond.press that I get delivered once a month. Then I leave my phone inside and read for 20 minutes or so on the balcony while I have a coffee in the morning.

It doesn't sound like much, but I'm consistently getting through the 4 hour edition in about 2 weeks. Then I switch to just reading my fiction book in the morning as well as at night.

notionparallaxon Show HN: Saved articles, in a zine, delivered every month

Thanks! We don't have any specifically curated lists yet. We've talked about it a lot though.

There is a mega list of articles that other people have saved here: https://waldenpond.press/2020/08/30/popularity.html

There are also some really good curated lists out there, e.g. https://tetw.org/ to plug the gap for now

notionparallaxon Show HN: Saved articles, in a zine, delivered every month

Well spotted. I set that page up before I've even started on the rest of the site because I needed it for the auth, and haven't gone back to it. It'll give me something to do this weekend! Thanks for the reminder.

notionparallaxon What sort of people should there be?

I’m Digitising Jonathan Glover’s book, What Sort of People Should There Be?

It's some early philosophy of what it would mean to live entirely in VR, how designer babies should work, all the cool stuff that was purely academic when it was written, but is pretty close to real now!

The book is here: http://notionparallax.github.io/people/

and if you spot something that needs attention, the repo is here: https://github.com/notionparallax/people

PRs very welcome!