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> I learned a lot about JavaScript (and Node.js) by writing shell scripts in Node.js.

Totally! This will give you lot of insights into low-level working of JS. Of course, some Node.js specifics too. Reading from STDIN, parsing strings into structured data etc.

I‘m using WP2Static, a Wordpress plugin. But you can script up something yourself with wget/curl, too.

Comments won’t work. You need a backend and database for that.

I run a Wordpress instance on my home server. An extract job regularly exports a static version of the site. I host it on a DO droplet with a bunch of other static websites.

Not sure how big your company is and how large your influence. But it sounds to me like your new hires would benefit from more guidance and oversight. Those mistakes shouldn’t make it production unless nobody gives a damn.

That doesn’t sound like hiring the only „brightest“.

It's mostly explained on their hiring page [1]. It's a Slack interview, a take-home code test, followed by a paid trial. I've found all stages to be very humane compared to the ice-cold leet code style interviews.

[1] https://automattic.com/how-we-hire/

Automattic has an outstanding interviewing process. Fully recommend!

Got an email today that prices are increasing in May. From €17.99 to €19.99 for the „big“ subscription.

"We don't talk about specific numbers...". And a few paragraphs down the author confidently talks about "that $100B budget". That "article" is devoid of actual content.

Not planning to. It’s my first Swift/iOS project. I neither want to polish it nor maintain it publicly. Happy to share it privately, email is in the bio. I’m planning on a blog post describing the general approach though!

Thoroughly scraping is challenging, especially in an environment where you don’t have (or want) a JavaScript runtime.

For content extraction, I found the approach the Postlight library takes quite neat. It scores individual html nodes based on some heuristics (text length, link density, css classes). It the selects the nodes with the highest score. [1] I ported it to Swift for a personal read later app.

[1] https://github.com/postlight/parser

Reader view is definitely advised! It does link out to some sources, but it’s not quoting any studies.

This article a few weeks ago gives a good overview of the current state of carbon capture: https://cleantechnica.com/2024/02/15/ccs-redux-best-carbon-c...

Kristin Graziani wrote a comprehensive explainer on this in November: https://consequence.net/2023/11/spotify-royalty-model-op-ed/

I‘m learning SwiftUI and built myself a no-frills read-later app. The content is extracted on the device, it tracks the reading progress and lets me archive read articles. It can import links via a sharing extension. For the content extraction, I ported the postlight/mercury parser from JS to Swift. It’s easily my second most used app by screen time now, seems like I hit a nerve. I don’t plan to release it publicly.

Some screenshots: https://franz.hamburg/atoms/2024_Feb09_18:30.html

A bit click bait, the answer is the obvious one: performance and independence.

Things that could have been a tweet (or tweet-sized blog post). But no, it’s a TikTok video on YouTube.

Does that imply that I don’t need to sign up for the Developer Program. I’m building a simple app for myself that I planned to distribute via TestFlight. The $99 scared me off a bit.

This book review of Kieran Egan‘s Educated Mind: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-the-educat...

I haven’t thought much about education and school, but this got me interested.

- A tool for extracting ingredients and steps from recipes [1]

- A tool to transform paragraphs from a single Notion page into a microblog (html + rss) [2]

Both are done with Clojure because they seemed like a good opportunity to try something new.

[1] https://pretty-recip.es

[2] https://franz.hamburg/atoms/

Rolf Dobelli's "Avoid News" [1] reads a bit more flesh out, while striking similar notes. My key takeaway from it, is from the closing paragraph:

> Go deep instead of broad. Enjoy material that truly interests you. Have fun reading.

[1] https://gwern.net/doc/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf

I think that captures perfectly! I've actually written about that sentiment in the past [1]. The tricky thing with a very "fun" language is that you assume that you can solve everything with it. You end up writing a lot of code, when, in the end, no code would have been an acceptable solution.

[1] https://franz.hamburg/writing/clojure-makes-happy.html

Nice work. I tend to do most of my longer reading on an e-reader. PDFs, especially multi-column layouts, are a nightmare with the out-of-the-box offerings from Amazon Kindle or Pocketbook. This looks like something that'll improve my experience quite a lot.

Totally fair. To many people discovery is the feature that the like most about Spotify. If that doesn’t interest you, you’re well off on YouTube.

What? Did a bot write this? This title and article make no sense at all. That's just public-key crypto, no blockchain involved.

Thanks for reminding me about this! I just discovered three interesting blogs within a few minutes.

> Increased competition in mobile browsers.

Google is going to capture most of Safari's market share with Chrome. Users know Chrome, they use it on desktop, it's convenient to use it on mobile too.

> Refocus on Android.

With the iPhone market being what it is in the US, I don't see Google letting that just go.

> Apple’s Search Engine

Honestly, I think they just might do that. They have been moving the "service" direction for some time.

> Chromium competition

Microsoft would have made competition for Chrome if they didn't drop their own engine in favour of Chromium.

The more cynical view.

I know Rust, Service Workers, JavaScript, even heard of SpiderMonkey. Still, no idea what this is about. What problem does it solve?

Spotify is trying to get a foot hold [1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/10/spotify-starts-selling-liv...

That applies the other way around too. That’s called a network effect.

What was it about the internet being five big sites filled with screenshots from the other four…? Let’s turn that up to 11.