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Shorts are pushed on the homepage and in the sidebar. At least in the UI that I see in Firefox desktop.

I sometimes wonder if other people get other UIs than I do. There's technically nothing stopping them from 'tailoring' the UI for different people.

Me too. Youtube must know better than me what to recommend me out of all the videos... still, I get presented the same shite again and again.

To be fair: not everything is shite and Youtube is my favorite social media (especially for discovering new music), but I noticed a big drop in quality from one day to the other a couple of years ago.

The comparison with sociopaths is a good one. On the surface all human behavior, but if you lift the veil even a little bit it becomes clear there's no substance, no conscience, etc.

Read up on Cluster B personality disorders (borderline, narcissism, sociopaths/psychopaths) and you see the similarities. Love bombing, gaslighting, a shared fantasy, etc. It's very interesting and scary at the same time.

Yeah, I noticed Evolution as a standard install on some distros as well. I might look into it, thanks.

Just donated. Have been using Thunderbird for years. I once donated to Wikipedia - and they have billions I heard - so might as well donate to another important piece of software for my digital life.

Now that I read the comments I find out Mozilla might have enough money and a CEO taking in millions. Any recommendations for a good email client on Linux? Just as a backup for now...

Nice!

I've always wanted to build a computer like the iMac G4, with the half sphere, the arm and the monitor. In my street there was a pebble/rock (the size of a rugby ball, pretty smooth surface) laying around near a tree, and I thought of taking it with me as the base for this computer. It's beautiful stone. I should have grabbed it, because now it's gone.

But it required a lot of grinding and sanding to make it ready. I think pouring concrete is a better option for my idea.

Thanks for the inspiration!

Any idea how stupid this title sounds!? It's past exaggeration.

Hey Mony, I want to follow your blog, please have an RSS feed for it if you can.

Hahaha, I get 'The Social Network' vibes from this story. You should read his other posts also. Let's just say the guy has more than enough confidence.

I'm betting on domain names, HTML and email.

From above: "endless job that could kill somebody if you stop paying attention"

> In other words, I try to learn from it whenever it does something I can't do...

So you know it can be full of sh1t on all kinds of topics, and you start learning from it the moment it's 'talking' about subjects you know you don't know about? To me that sounds like the moment to stop, not the moment to start. Or am I missing something?

Been saying this for years. The www is already a social network.

I guessed that might be the reason, smart move. Have you tried a webform in the past which resulted in a lot of crappy submissions?

It might sound stupid, but I'm not a git or github user, I would rather fill in a webform to submit a new website and feed.

Everything clicks nice, so to speak. A nice UI you have there.

I would suggest you explain what it's about in one sentence, just like you explain in your HN profile. The About-page says not so much. You can add some explanation there, or even just one sentence at the top of the homepage (or other pages).

Not to take away from your experience, but I wrote my own simple self-hosted RSS reader and it has no problems at all with around 2000 feeds I throw at it regularly. About 1% of the feeds does not parse for me, probably because of incorrect xml or a bug on my part.

Nice. I like how clicking a tag also makes the word 'tag' light up.

I'm not a native English speaker, but since when became 'lessons' a 'learnings'?

A couple of millennia might suffice. ;) Thanks for the input.

The engraving pen on glass is a good one. Any experience with it?

Thanks! I appreciate the input.

Do you just use regular graphite pencils, like with the HB scale or something?

Thanks for the insight.

Acid-free paper sounds like the way to go. Do you have experience with this? Or is it common knowledge? Just curious!

I also read letters from my grandparents, stored by my parents in a simple shoe box. No special conditions, just light-free and inside the home for decades. They were still very much readable. I did not pay enough attention, but I guess it was blue ink from back in the day that they used.

I could google it, but I would rather ask HN: what are the best pens (or pen(cil)/paper-combination) for keeping written text as long as possible? I had some Stabilo pen which was very nice ergonomically, but the blue ink faded within a couple of years (laying on my window sil in the sun, but still).

My guess is: regular graphite pencil on porous paper is best. Any ideas about further things I have to take into account?

I've done that the past couple of years two handfuls of times. Mostly to people I discovered on HN, with a nice hardware or software project. Only once did I get a nasty reply (probably because I was too much in my enthusiasm), so I'll remember you, you Italian prick. ;)

Most replies are very nice. People really feel seen and appreciated when I compliment them on their cool project and nice write up.

Even if no one replies, I would still send the occasional email, because I want independent websites/blogs to thrive and stay.

I've been calling it 'Really Social Sites' for a long time. ;)

Also from 37signals, somewhere in their first book they talked about the importance of 'evergreen' things people always want, things like 'the speed of software'. As a junior dev I didn't really get the point or thought it was not that important. I browsed further in the book looking for other gems of wisdom, and this 'speed'-thing only stuck in my head for the wrong reason, thinking it was a little obvious for such clear writers with a solid vision.

Only 15 years later - now a couple of years back - I started to realize the importance of this. The apps on my smartphones seemed to get slower and slower by the year. The fast software experiences were a real joy amidst slow apps. I now have an appreciation for their opinion on 'evergreen' things like the speed of software.

I used some strange wording when I read it back, but that's what I meant.

I forgot to say, most of these 2000 feeds I have from here on HN. Please keep posting on your own website/blog and 'share' with RSS.

Nice! I'm also around 2000 feeds in my reader, carefully selected over a couple of years. Only difference: I always click through to the website to read an article.

Now in the process of slowly making RSS my only social feed. Have a hard time of leaving Youtube, but once I embedded the videos of the channels I follow in my RSS reader I see a way of not getting annoyed by the recommendation algorithm on their website anymore.

Does it run Linux?