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steveharmanon Show HN: NocoDB – Open-Source Airtable Alternative

Please forgive the total-noob question but once I've hooked up to say a mySQL db - can I write to the db as well as read from it?

Thanks

steveharmanon FlutterFlow: Low-code Flutter apps

Where is FlutterFlow with supporting UI import from the design realm (Figma, Sketch etc) ?

steveharmanon Notion API – public beta

https://anytype.io

Distributed, open source and aiming for public beta in the summer.

steveharmanon A Man Found 15,000 Bees in His Car After Grocery Shopping

Perhaps he missed the date?

April 1

steveharmanon Ifconfig.co – Hacker-friendly “What is my IP address”

Very sad to say, there is a massive hole in its upkeep with recent events.

In EU? true Region England

steveharmanon Figma to React

Another one to watch:

https://www.supernova.io

steveharmanon NFTs Are a Pyramid Scheme and People Are Already Losing Money

Filecoin is a possibility here (based on and created by the IPFS folks)

steveharmanon How my school gamed the stats

I used to work in the UK care sector. The regulator there gave no notice of their arrival, they just turned up.

Which feels like a far more effective way of seeing the real world operations of a school or care facility.

steveharmanon Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders

We often lose our satellite TV signal in poor weather (bad rain). I wonder how Starlink is affected in similar conditions?

steveharmanon Turn to RSS Feeds to Regain Control of the World Wide Web

Can anyone recommend an RSS app for Mac & Android that allows me to sync my feeds and their read/unread statuses between the two platforms?

steveharmanon Penpot Alpha Release – Free and Open-Source Design Plattform

I'd love to see this succeed, but while Figma is pretty much free for most cases.... ?

steveharmanon Poll: Switching from WhatsApp

Matrix

steveharmanon Slack is down

"It was working fine when we sold it to you"

steveharmanon Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted in Switzerland

I hadn't heard of Migadu until today but am now moving my domains from Google (thanks!). An interesting point to note about their pricing plans and policies in general - is that they're "flexible".

Foe example there's a 200 email per day "limit" on the cheapest plan, but each plan comes with a 25% tolerance.

Similarly the storage "quota" on each tier.

I just asked Migadu's support about whether there was a 10GB option available, as 5GB was too small for mea and 30GB too high / costly. "Sure," he replied in under 4 minutes - "there's actually no fixed storage limit on each plan, please see https://www.migadu.com/pricing/#how-do-storage-limits-work" And sure enough - 5GB, 10GB, 15GB... all would be possible on the "5GB tier".

If you get close to or exceed the 30GB quota of the next tier up, their systems contact you and suggest upgradng which sounds pretty reasonable.

I'm just going to check if Apple or Google are quite so accomodating...

steveharmanon Clover: An all-in-one notebook

Needs to have browser plugins for desktop and "share to" option from mobile, for noting web content / URLs.

Hopefully it will.

steveharmanon NetSurf, a multi-platform web browser

Do some pages on the website need a little love for the copyright date?

steveharmanon OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh

My new Ryzentosh is faster (single core Geekbench results) than any of Apple's hardware (iMac Pro, Mac Pro...)

Yet it cost less to build than the Apple charges for Mac Pro wheels.

steveharmanon A dev, designer, and a PM are asked the same question: What is UX?

Spoiler alert; The answer currently appears to be 500.

steveharmanon DHH: The HEY stack Vanilla Ruby on Rails, MySQL, redis, stimulus, elastic search

Has anyone managed to find a needle in the HEY stack?

steveharmanon Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writing code

"Honeycode – Build Web & Mobile Apps Without Writing Code"

For the sake of clarity, couldn't they have come up with a name that didn't include the word "code" ?

steveharmanon An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

"On April 1, MindMed announced...".

Haven't their marketing droids heard of April Fool's Day? Or is it just a UK thing...

steveharmanon Ask HN: Shopify self hosted e-commerce alternative?

Magento is still free isn't it? And by adding M2EPro your products & inventory can also list on Amazon and eBay's global sites at the same time that they're on your website.

M2EPro is also free up to a certain (quite high) monthly sales volume

steveharmanon Facebook to let users turn off political adverts

This has "Users interested in political advertising should opt IN" written all over it.

But I imagine that wouldn't sit very well at caring-and-considerate Facebook HQ as it would dent the bottom line

steveharmanon Show HN: Findka – Personalized recommendations for any type of content

I love the sound of this. But wouldn't it be productive for users to initially "seed" a category (say, Movies) by entering a handful of films they liked and ones they didn't like?

Rather than being at the mercy of suggested movies which, in my experience of using Findka, 80% I hadn't watched. Thus I couldn't like or dislike so the system carried on showing me more and more content suggestions that weren't increasing in relevance as they had no input data.

I'm sure by simple maths over extended use I would inevitably see movies I could express a preference on, but I must be on "Refresh 50" now and only managed to vote on a tiny number of suggestions.

Also in the name of speeding up the process of identifying movies (or whatever) that I liked and disliked, would it be possible to like/dislike all three suggested items per screen before moving on to the next batch? atm as soon as one "vote" is placed the system throws out three more - when I could well have wanted to express a view on the other items that were presented.

Findka is a great idea btw! :-)

steveharmanon OpenCore Computer attempts sale of Hackintosh systems

I give them a fortnight, allowing for a little delay with postal services and Apple's legal team possibly working remotely on the cease & desist.

steveharmanon Belgian man has been receiving pizzas he never ordered for years

"stupid Flanders" (TM)

steveharmanon CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]

If the apparent penalty for murdering a member of the public is only getting fired, I can't see anyone higher up in authority giving a rat's @rse if an officer just grabs someone and arrests them without warning.

steveharmanon Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

Use a mobile app client for HN instead of a web browser?

I use Materialistic on Android and its dark mode is great

steveharmanon How to avoid Amazon: guide to online shopping

I wonder if it is thanks to Amazon that so many other online retailers are now offering service "as good as Amazon".

Because they have to. It certainly wasn't always the case.

steveharmanon Phone Cloning

Back in the day I found a guy who cloned the identity of my analogue portable cell phone with my in-car cell phone so they both behaved as the same number. When one rang, they both rang.

In theory when I answered a call on one, the network would be signalled to say I'd picked up and it would stop telling the other to ring - but once in a while the other phone would keep on ringing .

iirc phone cloning may have been illegal here in the UK at the time...