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ripexz

29 karma · joined December 9, 2016

Platform Team Lead & Software Developer @ Teamwork.com, working on side projects in my spare time.

Reach me at:

ripexz@gmail.com

Twitter: @ripexz

GitHub: ripexz

Website: https://www.ripexz.com

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/ripexz; my proof: https://keybase.io/ripexz/sigs/CB97PZ_JuVOUysZ0GV3HP4o7w0UAs90efXj-AybxFtU ]

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ripexz··on Don't touch my clipboard
I've gotten into the habit of "pasting as plain text", i.e. cmd/ctrl+shift+v for any rich text editor.
ripexz··on GoatCounter – Simple web statistics, with no tracking of personal data
Indeed, I've been using goaccess for a while now (https://stats.logpasta.com/) and it suits my basic needs at least seeing what CLI version the few actual visitors I have use.

I haven't had much luck with their "live" report though so I have a Cron job running every few minutes to regenerate it.

ripexz··on Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up
Wild guess here but maybe those specific types of batteries went up due to popularity of vaping as they're standard in most mods.
ripexz··on Web.dev by Google
They're already "broken" on Chrome for a few versions now, we switched all `.dev`s to `.localhost` in dev environments at my company.
ripexz··on Ask HN: How much time do you spend on “marketing” your open source projects?
Yep, isitmaintained.com uses issue resolution time and open percentage of issues/PRs as the metrics: http://isitmaintained.com/project/pubkey/rxdb :)
ripexz··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
Working on the next iteration of https://www.sketchdaily.io - a free educational sketching web app.

Also a mobile game for solving abbreviations (currently website is just a placeholder https://www.wtftag.com)

ripexz··on Show HN: API to check where a TV show or movie is available
Clickable link: https://market.mashape.com/utelly/utelly

Also this should probably be in Show HN rather than Ask :)

ripexz··on Show HN: SketchDaily.io – Free educational and fun sketching tool
I guess I got carried away with the usual dev stuff, "oh well need an account to keep track of sketches", "oh better require email address so they can reset their password", "hmm better confirm it so bots cant spam sketches and fill my s3 buckets" and so on... I've just gone through the signup process myself - for the nth time, and felt myself that after submitting that first sketch it didn't feel right that the next step is to leave the page and confirm an email address...

I did make the confirmation optional previously, I think first step will be to go back to that and work from there towards a signup-as-an-edge-case approach.

Thank you, you've given me a lot of food for thought.

ripexz··on Show HN: SketchDaily.io – Free educational and fun sketching tool
I see where you're coming from - definitely not an easy problem to solve though, from my experience other free learning web apps can't do without accounts either.(Duoling, Codecademy, etc).

Maybe my views are outdated about this, but I haven't see this done without registration, sure I can store stuff locally in the browser/device but the second you switch, your data is lost.

I guess I could make it easier for the latter security-naive user by offering SSO with Facebook/Twitter/what-have-you but in the end it's just glorified signup, a better UX sure, but working around the same problem.

If you can give me examples of other apps that have done this well, I'm all ears, this is very much a learning experience for me and I'd like to take away as much as possible.

ripexz··on Announcing CoffeeScript 2
With Vue.js you can use Coffeescript (alongside others) as well as SCSS, Pug, etc in single file components using lang="coffee" attribute in the script (or style or template for the others) tag. Need to add a couple more dependencies to your package.json but it works like a charm.

https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/single-file-components.html

ripexz··on Show HN: SketchDaily.io – Free educational and fun sketching tool
So with your feedback in mind, I've reworked the onboarding/signup process and you start with a sketch first and sign up to save it, give it another chance if you have the time. :)

https://www.sketchdaily.io/#get-started

ripexz··on Show HN: SketchDaily.io – Free educational and fun sketching tool
Thanks for your feedback, I think the first route is more suitable as it's supposed to track your progress and daily streak so some sort of signup is needed.

So I'll work on that next, probably a random easy sketch you can draw without signup and as you submit it, you submit a signup form.

ripexz··on Show HN: SketchDaily.io – Free educational and fun sketching tool
Thanks for the feedback, I see where you're coming from.

I guess I got carried away working on what's behind the login wall, but better onboarding/signup is the next thing I will work on.

ripexz··on Show HN: SketchDaily.io – Free educational and fun sketching tool
I've been tipping away at this side project for over half a year (in full-time employment), but it's finally at a stage where I'm not ashamed to make it public.

By no means finished but it's first time I've shipped a side project from start to finish so it feels good :)

ripexz··on Ask HN: For those moving away from React what options are you considering?
We've been using Knockout.js at my company for the last ~4 years but we're in the process of switching over to Vue.js, or at least use it for new projects.
ripexz··on Ask HN: Can anyone recommend a lightweight project management tool?
Full disclosure - I work for Teamwork.com, but I use the Teamwork Projects[1] free plan for a few of my side projects and haven't found an easier alternative, you can adjust the "lightweightness" per project and just turn off stuff you don't use, then again I am more familiar with it than other tools so of course it will be more straightforward to me.

[1] https://www.teamwork.com/project-management-software

ripexz··on Ask HN: Privacy policy of HN
Wrong thread, dude :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14695265

ripexz··on HN is my new Facebook
That's hilarious, is there a newsletter by any chance? I couldn't find one on the site.
ripexz··on Ask HN: Any startups working on clojure and Bitcoin/Ethereum?
Except everybody hates Status for their terribly executed ICO which basically DoS'd the whole Ethereum network.
ripexz··on Ask HN: Passive income ideas for solo developers?
Not OP but got it from the GitHub repo: https://www.patreon.com/learnanything
ripexz··on Ask HN: How do you host your side projects?
You could try browser fingerprinting[1] for identification and as a second measure (if the spam is coming from the same machine) at least you can prevent them creating further posts.

[1] https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs2

ripexz··on Show HN: A Browser-based Blockchain
0915B6F6E83B04457190ECF0E4EEDEEDBCFE1E2B

Would love to be in the cool kids club

ripexz··on Ask HN: How do you gain weight?
Yoga?
ripexz··on Ask HN: Cheap options for simple landing page?
Here's the relevant post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13126228