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webrender··on Google is discontinuing Inbox
You cannot create custom categories, you're limited to the 5 options Gmail provides you.
webrender··on Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git
I've been using Fork: https://git-fork.com/ because of its 2 primary advantages over SourceTree: • Dark mode • Tabs
webrender··on MapTiler: Map overlay, cut map tiles for Google Maps, GIS layers and mobile apps
I used MapTiler to generate a graph of the largest connected nodes on the Disqus network: http://webrender.net/disqus-universe/

Found it fast and easy to use. Couldn't believe how difficult it would have been to render the tiles otherwise.

webrender··on Scooter startup Bird is seeking a $2B valuation
worth noting that the Transit app already aggregates all the options you mentioned, although it redirects to each respective app for payment.
webrender··on Software engineer salary numbers in the US
These numbers seem low, based on both anecdotal evidence, and compared to Hired's 2018 tech salaries map: https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2018
webrender··on Automate GitHub Pages with IFTTT, Glitch and Jekyll
I could be wrong, but I believe WordPress' sharing features are built to share your WordPress posts out to other social networks - this tool is made to do the opposite, to take your posts from other forms of social media and import them as posts on your blog. I don't believe WordPress has that native capability - although it's worth noting that IFTTT natively supports posting to WordPress and other social networks as an action. Previously, my site was on Tumblr and I used IFTTT's Tumblr actions in a similar manner.

In my opinion, the primary advantage Github Pages has over a CMS like Wordpress is simplicity and lack of cruft. WordPress is an extremely powerful tool, but 95% of blogs, mine included, don't need the features that WP provides - and more importantly, the added code and serving overhead that comes with it.

When I've done WordPress development in the past, a lot of customization can be done on the theme level but sometimes you need to adjust the model around which a page is served and it can become confusing and complex with WP's expansive codebase. With Jekyll, it's easy to see every file and how those files combine to create my site pages. It's also easy to serve locally and I can rest assured that Github will build my site in the same manner as it's being built locally.

Finally, I would assert that I have much finer control over my source using Github Pages compared to WordPress - my site, in its native form, is literally a repository which I can move and rebuild on any number of platforms without any backend configuration. And that same repository is automatically open-sourced and built on Github without my having to maintain a build system. I never have to worry about migrating a database, I never have to worry about plugin updates breaking my page, and I never need to worry about PHP vulnerabilities compromising my data. When I look at Github Pages, I feel like GH really managed to abide by KISS principles, saying "what is the MVP for a blogging platform" and providing that in a clean & performant manner.

webrender··on Automate GitHub Pages with IFTTT, Glitch and Jekyll
There's a couple different reasons I ended up going with this solution for my site:

1) Most of the time, integrating social networks into your site means either a) using widgets that are hard to work into the main site flow or b) having a backend to pull and integrate social media posts for you. This solution essentially provides B without needing to maintain a backend.

2) When planning my site refactor, Github Pages appealed to me because of its speed and simplicity. This lets me preserve the site automation that would previously have required a CMS, and because the site is static and hosted by Github, I don't need to worry about bandwidth or usage limits.

webrender··on Ask HN: How to make money while commuting to work?
I negotiated with my company to count my commuting time as work time, since my bus is not crowded and I can always get on my laptop and work with a hotspot. So in a sense you could say I make money while commuting because it counts towards my working hours. I also get part of my afternoon back :)
webrender··on Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech?
Your last paragraph, I feel, is focusing too much on the individual, direct contribution and ignoring the effect a person staying at home can have on their family. By taking care of their auxilliary needs and letting them focus on their core tasks (work, school, etc.), the increase in productivity of the family as a whole can exceed that of a direct individual's contribution. I think of it as a project manager for the family - they don't directly contribute to the development of a project, but they handle the overhead that would otherwise thrash their developers.
webrender··on An off-grid social network
It sounds like that's what the 'pubs' mentioned in the article are for: https://github.com/staltz/easy-ssb-pub
webrender··on Ask HN: How does Quora auto login work?
The email links definitely contain tokens - not only will they log you in but the articles they generate on the page will reflect the order of articles in the email you received, as opposed to the most recent articles on your feed.
webrender··on Intel driven MacBook Pros have secondary ARM processor for Touch ID and security
This is already in place - by default macOS does not allow apps to be installed which do not include a signed Apple developer ID. The setting can be turned off in System Preferences.
webrender··on The surprisingly complex reason you never see emoji URLs
You can bring up the emoji picker in most input fields with ctrl-cmd-space on osx, or by using the onscreen keyboard in windows.
webrender··on Show HN: 10kTower, a Tower Sim game in 10k
Hey, I'm glad you like it and thank you for the input! That's a really good point - I've pushed this commit forward which resolves this by only counting occupied floors in quality-of-life calculations - in other words, if a user makes a bad floor decision in the future, they can delete that floor to undo the decision and figure out what went wrong. It probably won't deploy to the contest site until tomorrow, though.

https://github.com/webrender/10ktower/commit/a6b8fe2234f713e...

webrender··on Show HN: 10kTower, a Tower Sim game in 10k
Made for the 10k Apart contest, the goal of which is to create a gracefully degrading website experience whose initial download (before XHR) is 10k or less.

Contest site: https://a-k-apart.com

Source code: https://github.com/webrender/10ktower/

webrender··on Bay Area wages soaring but still can’t keep up with housing prices
This is inaccurate. Most bars in SF are open until 2am, and The Endup is open all night and into the morning.
webrender··on Disqus now compatible with Google AMP
AMP is just a methodology which encourages a restricted subset of HTML, CSS, and JS implementation. They've chosen to implemented because the specific subset they've chosen to support eschews particularly slow-to-load features. Yes, it's Google's methodology, and yes they are planning on pushing it by highlighting AMP sites in search results - however, it's not really doing anything special code-wise besides enforcing said methodology.
webrender··on Google Trips is a killer travel app for the modern tourist
Trello is an amazing tool for vacation planning. I like to have each column be a day in the itinerary, with cards for each event or mode of transportation. The app lets you download boards offline, so you can store relevant reservation info under each card.
webrender··on Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer?
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/278622
webrender··on Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer?
I'm surprised no one here has mentioned Amazon or eBay arbitrage. Completely legal and you can create a script to do the work for you.
webrender··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
Disqus | Full-time | San Francisco | Onsite

We love the internet, and the colorful characters and interesting conversations that make up its diverse communities. Disqus exists to make better communities and an even better web. Today, our product ecosystem includes our established comment network (over 3 million websites that cover pretty much any topic imaginable), a growing advertising network, and our owned and operated platform. Originally founded in 2007 by CEO Daniel Ha and CTO Jason Yan, we’re changing the way people get into discussions about the things they love -- or are just curious about. Come join us!

https://boards.greenhouse.io/disqus

- Data Engineer

- Engineering Manager

- Frontend Engineer

- Senior Backend Engineer

- Senior SRE/Devops

- UI Engineer

- Product Manager

webrender··on Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a1Df6dg2Pby1UoNlZU2l...
webrender··on Three Years of Logging My Inbox Count
I feel like Google Inbox and the concept of snoozing emails helps a lot with this. A lot of emails that lie around in one's inbox are there because other people are blocking the task; snoozing the email allows for an "Inbox Zero" state while pushing off priorities until their proper due date, when they can be archived.
webrender··on Inside the D-Wave Fridge [video]
highly reccomend reading Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and software. The author basically starts from how a telegraph works and extrapolates modern computing from that starting point. Great read, and helped me understand exactly what you're referring to, understanding classical computers down to the metal.

http://amzn.com/0735611319