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I would like to try this out, but am not willing to go through the current setup process. You should add a way to be notified when you are done with the first version of the app. I would gladly give my email or twitter.

This is even more in the weeds, but if you turn off sync, google services, page preloading and use a non-google default search engine, what's left for them to track?

Isn't Chrome just as private as Safari or Firefox with the right extensions to block tracking and other common issues?

I understand that most people won't know which extensions to install or how to install them, but for tech savvy people, isn't Chrome with Privacy Badger and HTTPS Only just as private as Firefox, with a much better overall browsing experience?

Does anyone have experience using this with Home Assistant? I've been meaning to try it for a while now.

It might be nice if someone started a collection of all the open source Slack improvements that were shut down or died off so that other developers can pick and choose what they like and continue evolving Slack in a somewhat distributed way.

http://www.sblack.online/ also had some neat ideas.

Yeah, I have considered that. What were you thinking for a pixel width?

I'd really love to add the markdown links from BetterSlack, but I worry that is more likely to anger Slack, since it would be introducing JavaScript.

Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll look into it.

What do you think otherwise? I’m a big fan of betterslack :)

I just release a similar extension that I'd love feedback on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17877737

It's focused on simplifying Slack's interface so that it's easier to focus. It also only uses CSS and doesn't interact with Slack at all, so it is not against their terms of service.

Tight is a Chrome extension I built that increases readability, removes many redundant/useless buttons, improves the page layout and modernizes the overall style of Slack.

It is open source (https://github.com/RileyTomasek/tight) to encourage community contribution. Suggestions and pull requests are highly encouraged!

Tight was heavily inspired by and owes great thanks to Refined GitHub [1] and Refined Twitter [2].

[1] https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github

[2] https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-twitter

I'd love to hear more about this from someone with legal expertise.

It makes no sense for them to claim that every extension published on the Chrome store needs to comply with their acceptable use policy...

If that were true, then wouldn't 1Password and any other extension that uses a content script also be considered unacceptable?

I can't thank you enough for what you have started. I have been using HA for over a year now and enjoy it more every month.

Have you guys thought about, or talked with anyone else who has thought about trying to make HA, or a subset of the HA functionality, accessible to non-technical people? I often show my setup to friends and family and the first thing they ask is "how do I do this?", and I normally have to tell them they can't really do it themselves.

"Always on", except when they are down, which has been a monthly occurrence lately...

There is also this https://status.slack.com/calendar, but they seem to grossly under report the actual downtime...

[edit] note that including this outage, they are reporting to have missed their monthly uptime guarantee 3 months in a row.

This might be an interesting service for companies that are paying for software with uptime in their SLA and want to hold them accountable. It would probably pay for itself pretty fast, considering how often companies like Slack are down...

This seems to disagree with what shoo has found above. If the downtime is based on the percentage of customers that are down, you would never be able to know that only from your own monitoring. Also, how could you prove that your monitoring is correct when making a claim?

I guess the follow up question is how do we assure companies like Slack aren't grossly under reporting their downtime?

I don't disagree that they are useful, just that they must be carefully considered and applied in situations where appropriate — not treated as a law that applies to everybody, all the time.

The same thing is true for diets, exercise, self help, etc. Turns out humans are pretty complicated and there is almost never a single solution that works for everyone, all the time.

This seems to be a very common theme in these type of books and the people who praise them.

Is this definitely a bug? Seems more like something a hacker or disgruntled employee would do...

This is neat! It's cool how powerful Spotify's API is.

I built Amplitude [1], which uses Spotify's recommendations API to create artist based discovery playlists, if you need more new music than Discover Weekly provides and also Rediscover [2], to save your discover weekly playlists so you don't lose songs.

[1] https://amplitudeapp.com/

[2] https://rediscover.rile.yt/

sorry about that. linkedin changed their pdf export a bit yesterday and it broke our import. should be fixed today or tomorrow.

would love any other feedback you have. did you end up completing a resume?

Here is my resume: https://standardresume.co/rileyt

It's built using Standard Resume [1], a tool that I built with two designers to answer exactly this question.

I would love any feedback on the resume style, as we are contemplating adding a few alternate styles to choose from.

[1] https://standardresume.co/

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I have been working on a project using Apollo and React for both web and native and it has been a real pleasure. Apollo + graphql has made so many things that would have been a huge mess with redux and a rest api so much easier and cleaner.

Jest used to have a lot of problems and was poorly maintained.

Over the past few months, that has changed entirely. Improved speed, lots of bug fixes, snapshot tests and general ease of setup with React projects have all really helped.

Jest is now the test framework I would suggest for anyone starting a new React project.

what do you think gave the collages more value than a playlist on something like spotify? i definitely think they felt more valuable, but cant place exactly why.

Rediscover doesn't require an IFTTT account though so it is much easier.

Sorry, i meant that they arent talking all of that into consideration for each weeks playlist -- im sure they are tracking it.

I have heard talk of this before, it would be great to get an answer from someone who works at Spotify. I wonder if saving the tracks in the playlist and not creating the backup until the next week would get around that? There is no way they are track all plays, saves, playlists, skips for every user over all of time.