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Omg this is so true! I installed a package globally, but then my interpreter was using another version of python, which doesn't have the installed package. It took me an hour to fi…

not sure if some temporary generational convention can make it to RFC lol

Hello my fellow developers, I built dbdocs to relieve the pain of spending centuries documenting database and maintaining such documents. A little bit of background: I used to work…

This is just the book I need! A little bit of context: I am a product manager and I have been working with data analysts and engineers for a few months, and even though I have trie…

Hello HN folks, I’m Alan, co-founder of Summerian, a book summary app. I have used a lot of book summary services before and the biggest pain point for me is that the summaries are…

For Automation maybe you could try IFTTT to pull data from one service to a google spreadsheet. Since it has dates associated with the data, you can later match them with your curr…

I didn't realize this!

Merry Christmas makers! My wish for HN this year is the ability to redirect to a website rather than to a post, then I have to click it manually (I'm using iPhone)

A little bit ... "redder", right?

The biggest concern of me with journals is that I'm always afraid that one day the developers will stop developing it, and all my data will be gone. Therefore, I choose some reliab…

Definitely! After we are done with the native versions :)