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Yes that worked!

I wrote 500 words yesterday but the calendar date is still blue... any chance you can take a look @nickagliano? The text appears when I click on the date.

This may be apocryphal but I've heard that "howdy" is essentially a contraction of "how do you do" Edit: Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdy

Open Food Network | REMOTE | Developer and Sysadmin Positions Available Stack: Nginx, Postgres, Rails, Angular (moving to Reactive Rails), Ansible Source code: https://github.com/o…

Thanks! It currently does save and prefill URLs but you’re right, it’d be easy to hardcode the URL if you always want to use the same one.

Yeah this is what I wrote to receive the images: https://github.com/andrewpbrett/admin.andybrett.com

Thanks for the kind words! That was definitely my intention with making this. It’s open source as well so let me know if you have any feedback or feel free to just fork/PR.

I made this! More background here: https://andybrett.com/writing/send-as-post

Has anyone else had the experience of seeing almost zero ads on Instagram since they introduced them? I can count the number I've seen on one hand. I marked the first couple, right…

Spelling - it's John Maynard Keynes, not Keanes :)

Beeminder, as others have mentioned, handles #1 and #3 pretty well (minus the donation to the KKK part - the money for failing goes to Beeminder). I built GTBee[1] using the Beemin…

Boom, #88.

"You could parachute [Sam] into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king." - PG 5.5 years ago[1] Congrats Sam. [1] http://paulgraham.com/fundraisin…

Lest anyone think this is exaggerated or linkbait-y, I've personally seen them do this, a lot. For example, a $100 gas purchase was immediately resolved using a method similar to w…

Just made two loans. I really love this idea and Zidisha does a great job of giving you all the information about the project and the person you're making the loan to. Congrats on …

There's another PG essay that's relevant to this, "What Startups Are Really Like": http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html The URL is apt, since I parse it as "No, really , this is w…

We are in fact polling using the GitHub API, but it should be hourly, not daily. Right after I finished this we noticed that we could also do this with a post commit hook, so we're…

Feel free to post details on any errors. Issues page on github is probably the best place, once it's back up.

> Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s office and at MIT contributed to his death. Damning

One design dilemma we ran into when building this out is the "username" endpoint. When a user grants access, the OAuth default is to just pass the token back to the client. But to …