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zackboeon GitHub just got a small visual refresh

Octicons got bumped to 3.0

https://github.com/github/octicons/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#...

zackboeon Reading local files from Facebook's server (fixed)

It's most likely for the Gopher protocol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29

zackboeon Passwordless authentication: Secure, simple, and fast to deploy

They're working on it! Looks like it's enabled in the most recent version of Canary.

http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/password...

zackboeon A replacement for JavaScript's “alert”

People are assholes because they prefer and use or don't use other libraries over a popular one? What?

zackboeon Show HN: Monitorbook – Easily track anything on the web

On the topic of legality/forbidding scraping, Kimono offers webmasters analytics and control of the scraping users do through its service. I'm not sure if this service is actually live, or forthcoming.

https://www.kimonolabs.com/webmasters

zackboeon GoRails – Ruby on Rails screencasts for web developers

Laracasts by Jeff Way for Laravel comes highly recommend.

https://laracasts.com

zackboeon Ask HN: Why is W3Schools.com a Rock that won't Roll?

You can also use mdn.io/whatever as a sort of "I'm feeling lucky"

http://blog.lazd.net/mdn-io-passive-url-shortening-for-mdn.h...

zackboeon Ask HN: Best WYSIWIG?

Summernote looks pretty nice.

https://hackerwins.github.io/summernote/

zackboeon How Apple Cheats

Google does a similar thing with Chrome and the Hangouts extension[0].

They have two APIs that are available behind a flag or in a dev branch. Panels[1], the always-on-top type windows Hangouts uses, and the notification area icon[2].

Google hardcodes Hangout's extension id in Chromium to allow it to use these features before they're available to the public.[3]

[0]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hangouts/nckgahada...

[1] http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensio...

[2] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=142450

[3] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/c...

zackboeon Ask HN – Simple APIs Without Authentication?

Open Weather Map http://openweathermap.org/

I believe you can make a handful of requests without including an API key, but the free tier is pretty generous.

zackboeon Dyn Decided To Stop Offering Free Accounts for Dynamic DNS

Afraid.org works by allowing users to mark their domains as 1) public, allowing anyone to attach a subdomain to it at will, 2) private, allowing anyone to request a subdomain, and 3) Stealth, a premium feature allowing you to hide your domains from the registry altogether.

I've been happily using it for years, and Josh is very responsive if you have problems or questions.

zackboeon Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1

It still exists, unchanged.

zackboeon Ask HN: What are your essential browser extensions?

Firefox here. Livereload, Pushbullet, Adblock, HTTPS Everywhere

zackboeon Suggest HN: Active user count display

lobste.rs does this rather simply by gradually changing the background color of the logo depending on traffic.

It would probably be relatively easily to implement a similar feature here on HN, but would it be worth it?

zackboeon Ask HN: What's your favorite keyboard for programming?

I use a Nighthawk X8 (MX Browns) for everything.

http://reddit.com/r/mechanicalkeyboards is fairly large and is dedicated to keyboards of all kinds.

http://www.maxkeyboard.com/max-keyboard-nighthawk-x8-blue-ba...

zackboeon Atom

From the page you link to: If you do not want this information reported, disable this package from the Metrics section of the Settings view (cmd-,).

zackboeon Google's Hangouts blunder helped WhatsApp

On Android, you can long press a conversation to enable multiple select and then bulk archive or delete.

Don't know of a way to do this on desktop.

zackboeon Python.org redesign

Comments on this from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7266869

zackboeon This weird keyboard may be the biggest thing since your standing desk

There's a lot of love for the ergodox on http://reddit.com/r/mechanicalkeyboards

Some look really nice.

zackboeon Ask HN: What are the most inspirational blog posts you've ever read?

"how to blog about code and give zero fucks" by Garann Means

http://www.garann.com/dev/2013/how-to-blog-about-code-and-gi...

zackboeon Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

I've been a huge fan of ShareX (previously ZScreen) for quite awhile. I believe it incorporates Greenshot.

http://getsharex.com

zackboeon Ask HN: What are some good programming blogs, especially on web dev?

Paul Irish has compiled a list of "Web Browser, Frontend and Standards Feeds to Follow"

http://www.paulirish.com/2011/web-browser-frontend-and-stand...

zackboeon Can't remember iPhone stock photo site submitted to HN (don't upvote)

Are you perhaps thinking of Placeit? https://placeit.net/

zackboeon Poll: Which hosting provider do you use?

Other: BuyVM. Very happy with them, and they're doing free upgrades to SSD in the near future.

zackboeon Log In or Create Account

I built this one night as a sort of example for GAuthify. Real simple, just checks a user's email against a database, retrieves their unique GAuthify ID, and checks that against the GAuthify API.

http://zackboehm.com/dev/gauthify-phplogin/

zackboeon Music For Coding

I'm a fan of Music for Programming. http://musicforprogramming.net/

zackboeon Tor exit node operator raided in Austria

If I'm remembering correctly, when they 'investigate' they ensure that the setup is identical to it's original form - including the same mouse and keyboard.

zackboeon PHP Fog to be discontinued on December 21st

Which should be getting a nice upgrade pretty soon.