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thejoeflowon Proton spam and the AI consent problem

Isn't the search bad because they can't search email contents? As long as the term is somewhere in the metadata (title, sender email, sender name) it seems to work ok.

I agree though that the user experience isn't great because of this limitation. You kind of have to remember what the title of the email was for what you're looking for. Searching for "flight ticket" results in mixed success

thejoeflowon 10 years of writing a blog nobody reads

100%. I didn't mean this to be a "woe is me" piece, despite the clickbait-y title. I just wanted to talk about the merits of publishing your writing without any actual readers. And some lessons on writing I've picked up.

thejoeflowon 10 years of writing a blog nobody reads

completely agree

thejoeflowon 10 years of writing a blog nobody reads

yea, I'm not saying there's no place for that phrase ever. But overusing it was a bad habit of mine and it ends up being unnecessary filler. My wording there was a bit exaggerated.

thejoeflowon Shopify Is Illegal in Germany

TG;DR?

thejoeflowon The handshake emoji is more complicated than you might think

*Homer Sapiens

thejoeflowon Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with in-game currency

I thought this was an Onion article. Wow.

thejoeflowon Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020

this. They don't even do an exact string match of the artist name, the reason why I can't fathom. I could make a new artist account named "drake" (lowercase d) today and probably show up in a million Release Radar playlists by next week.

thejoeflowon Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men

it's a reference point? The article isn't comparing to some platonic ideal of what men's testosterone levels should be...it's just pointing out a statistically significant decrease in those levels over a period of 20 years

thejoeflowon Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

That's a nice feature. I would also have to start tagging my posts I guess haha.

thejoeflowon Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

No - unfortunately you can only do so by clicking on the "Archive" dropdown and browsing through the years/months...something I will add soon though!

Appreciate the feedback

thejoeflowon Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

https://thejoeflow.com/blog

I write about...books. I don't think there's much point to reading it unless you've already read the book I'm talking about.

I mostly do it because I found I use to read books and then never talk about them or think about them afterwards so I would just forget about the book after a little while. I figured that writing something down about the book would help clarify my thoughts on it and I could remember it better.

I also wanted to build something with spring boot and kotlin so this was it.

thejoeflowon Show HN: Discover and listen to artists performing in your city this week

Songkick, and spotify for that matter, already do that

thejoeflowon 404 Found

and then????????

thejoeflowon Every Byte of a TLS Connection Explained and Reproduced

Kind of ironic that their website is using an invalid security certificate?