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p5v··on Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS
I am sorry, but "it's built with Electron" is all I need to know at this point. I appreciate the effort you've put in it, and I am sure that it is a great improvement. After all, I am using VS Code on a daily basis, and it's all about Electron, so I don't think that it will be that much slower than a fully native app. However, there is something about the minimal footprint nature of native macOS that I just can't go around. You just feel the snappiness of it, on a sub-nano-second level.
p5v··on The failed migration of academic Twitter
Content discovery on Mastodon can be daunting, especially if you are a busy academic who doesn't have the resources to stay connected on what's happening all day long. That's why we created Murmel - a service that does all the checking for you and delivers it to your inbox in a compact daily email. I can't wait to see more peoples reaction when they finally get hold of their day: http://murmel.social
p5v··on Google lays off its Python team
I am wondering what this means for the future prospects of their Go team.
p5v··on Why Vim uses hjkl keys as arrow keys
So, legacy reasons, and no real productivity boost, like most people would likely believe.
p5v··on Feedle: A search engine for blogs and podcasts
Hello everyone, co-creator of Feedle here. Thank you so much for letting the world know about our tiny side project! While I tred answering some of people's pressing questions on this thread, I think they deserved a more thorough explanation, so I wrote a blog post instead: https://preslav.me/2024/03/25/feedle-on-the-hacker-news-fron...

Beweare, it's a bit lengthy, but hopefully, it would address some of your concerns and feedback. You can always reach out to me and the team with ideas and suggestions. Cheers!

p5v··on Feedle: A search engine for blogs and podcasts
It's a known issue for a portion of our visitors, which we are working on. For the time being, you can use the direct link to the form: https://tally.so/r/mJ11E7
p5v··on Feedle: A search engine for blogs and podcasts
It's a known issue for a portion of our visitors, which we are working on. For the time being, you can use the direct link to the form: https://tally.so/r/mJ11E7
p5v··on Feedle: A search engine for blogs and podcasts
It's very high on our list. Optimistically, we are going to release that feature by the end of next week.
p5v··on Feedle: A search engine for blogs and podcasts
Co-creator here: we have multi-language support on the backend site, but it is still in a bit of an experimental stage at the moment. Not all posts are being attributed the right language, so we are still experimenting there. For the time being, EN-language blogs are our first priority. That said, we will beta-launch the multi-language support very soon.
p5v··on RSS was released 25 years ago today
As the creator of feedle (https://feedle.world), marking RSS's 25th anniversary hits close to home. RSS was among the first things I added to my arsenal when I first experienced the web, more than two decades ago. It is still one of the undoubted pillars of the decentralized web even to this day, and I've wanted to give my small contribution back, hoping that through sites like feedle, even more people will get to experience the magic that is RSS.

Cheers, RSS! Here is to another 25 years (and more)!

p5v··on Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU
So, we in the EU will reap the benefits, and everyone else will keep abiding Apple’s rules? How is that not segregation and why is not other country doing anything about it?
p5v··on AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models
Is there a standard objective metric that can help determine that the quality of a model has degraded over time. In that case, much like source code, you just revert to the old version.
p5v··on Ask HN: What can today's youth learn from young people of the 80s?
Well, thank you!
p5v··on Video Game Module Powered by Raspberry Pi
“For the video out, we chose the most popular video port found in most modern TVs and monitors.

We can’t name the port’s standard due to strict copyright limitations. Getting certified to use the name seemed like too much work.”

p5v··on Rye: A Vision Continued
How does Rye compare to Poetry?
p5v··on The simplicity of single-file Golang deployments
Regarding the “iota dance,” I wrote my 2 cents on what could be a slightly more robust approach a couple of days ago: https://preslav.me/2023/03/17/create-robust-enums-in-golang/

P.S generic type sets make it even better. I’ll write an update to my post these days.

p5v··on Common Beginner Mistakes with React
Just wait till you hear about HTMX: https://htmx.org/
p5v··on Ask HN: What is your RSS set-up?
If you are new to RSS feeds and still looking around, use a search engine like feedle (https://feedle.world). It is incredibly easy to get you started. Search for a topic you are interested in (e.g., your favorite programming language) and grab the single RSS feed that feedle will provide. You will instantly start receiving quality posts on that topic from different people.

Once you notice a good post or two, you can check the original sources and subscribe to those people directly.

You may notice that the RSS feed gets too "noisy" over time. No problem - go back to feedle and add additional keywords (or exclude some) to narrow the search.

Disclaimer: I am one of the people who originated feedle and brought it to life. Our tiny collective will be more than happy to hear your feedback!

p5v··on Why Do We Keep Building Murmel?
TL;DR: it’s the people

Now seriously - we believe in building tools providing people access to information without the distractions and engagement hooks of social media. There is a sizeable segment of the popoulation that wants the same enough to sustain our product's future. Murmel is where we meet.

p5v··on RSS is back as an underpinning to SlackOps
Honestly, this has been one of the hidden gems that gets so many people to stick with our service Murmel (https://murmel.social). We support RSS feeds everywhere.

It wasn't long before people discovered that and began using our service to deliver relevant stories to their Slack teams and stakeholders. As the author says, RSS is the closest thing to an open MVP-style API that "just works," and hasn't been plagued by a company's closed garden rules.

I am wondering, what else could one use RSS for.

Long live RSS!

p5v··on Can anyone give us honest advice on our app's landing page?
I agree - friends is totally the wrong term here. It implies a bi-directional relationship (like the ones founds in social networks, e.g., Facebook). What we really mean here are the people one follows on Twitter. So, in a way, it is what you think it is - a summary of one's home timeline.

If you have a better suggestion to replace "friends" with, we'll totally take it. I mean, "people you follow on Twitter" would also work, but feels a little verbose, IMO.

P.S. Good point about checking the Twitter guidelines - we'll have a look and make sure to comply. To be fair, though, none of the competing services (including, Mailbrew, the leading one), actually do that either.

p5v··on Photos Always Pointing at the Pointer (2012)
Ehh, the good old college party years :)
p5v··on Can anyone give us honest advice on our app's landing page?
We have recently redesigned our app's landing page, in order to better convey what it is supposed to do. Please, give us some objective feedback - does it deliver the overall idea? What can we do better?
p5v··on Ask HN: Tools to manage Twitter or create a digest?
I am sorry for jumping in that late, but this is exactly what we built Murmel to do (https://murmel.social/) - it would aggregate the most shared links and stories in your Twitter timeline (or a Twitter list), and then send you a daily email digest. We also support RSS everywhere, so you can get those as soon as they become trending.

Murmel is not free, but we offer a full 30-day trial. Come check it out.

p5v··on Show HN: Bulletyn – custom email digests of Reddit, HN, and RSS
This is great! Reminds me of Mailbrew, but with a simple layout, focused on the content itself.

P.S. Have a look at https://murmel.social too - it's something we're building int the newsletter space as well. An effort of taking people away from doom scrolling on Twitter all day long.

p5v··on How to Fix Stuck iCloud Syncing on macOS
Apple’s iCloud syncing has become reliable over the years, but lately, I have started seeing problems again. For reference, check the image below. My Mac will stay stuck on syncing my Obsidian notes to iCloud. I assume that the same file gets somehow “locked”, because multiple devices have access to update it. Whatever the reason, it is annoying as hell. The solution was simpler than I thought ...
p5v··on Ask HN: What's a good site for RSS XML files?
Try ours here: https://murmel.social/feeds/top.rss

It will be a good oppportunity to see how your reader renders tweets (we make a great use fo them inside the content).

p5v··on I'm an addict
One more confirmation that our mission with Murmel (https://murmel.social) is on the right track. I want to see a world where people spend less tiem on social media (doom scrolling on Twitter, in particular), and more tiem outseide, or with friends and family.
p5v··on I spent two years launching tiny projects
More than I could have imagined in my wildest dreams. Including a few businesses that we've created tailor-made solutions for: https://blog.murmel.social/tailor-made-murmel-experience-for...
p5v··on I spent two years launching tiny projects
Same here, and one of them made it into an actual business: https://murmel.social

One of these days, I need to sit down and write th origin story of Murmel, and how I came to it.

Cheers!

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