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https://davi.sh/blog -- Mostly technical content, but every once in a while I write about something else that grabs my attention. I'm still trying to make writing regularly more of…

I moved from Emacs org-mode to Obsidian with the help of the obsidian-tasks plugin, which lets you write queries for tasks similarly to Dataview. I used a few of those queries to b…

Stripe was founded by Patrick and John Collison. I’m guessing you’re confusing it with Square, another payments company, which was co-founded and still run by Jack Dorsey.

The closest I've found is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Relations_Act Not guaranteed "mutual defense" of any sort, but the US at least has committed itself to helping …

I think we can look to mobile to see how feasible this might be: consistently over the past decade, iPhones have matched or exceeded Android performance with noticeably smaller cap…

I believe he's referring to this article[0] which was discussed on HN yesterday. [0]: https://sahillavingia.com/work

The meme on Twitch started with Twitch Plays Pokemon[0], which went viral back in 2014. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_Plays_Pok%C3%A9mon

If you're used to SPA-style frontend development with React, Vue, or any similar framework, then yes, this will probably be a big mental/development shift. Turbolinks (the project …

Just found this module as a GitHub action: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/s3-sync Shouldn't be too difficult to hook this up to a build command for hugo, jekyll, or whichev…

You could use GitHub actions to do the build and send it off to some CDN to deploy, or if you were self-hosting the whole thing, you could have a Flask app listen for a webhook and…

Netlify CMS uses the GitHub (or bitbucket, etc) API to modify your repository with the new/updated content. You can self-host the entire system, or have netlify handle the GitHub a…

I think it's difficult to say how many merchants went from hosting their own e-commerce site that engineers built for them from scratch, and transitioned to Etsy, Ebay, etc., layin…

Looks like your profile just has an hnchat verification code, but would love to check out the project and help out if I can. It sounds really interesting!

Looking through the code on github found a .py file handler in the works: https://github.com/remoteinterview/zero/blob/master/packages... Any idea of a timeline on this feature? I …

Thanks for sharing your story, Sahil. Something I was wondering: do you think that Gumroad could have gotten to where it was without raising money to begin with? You mentioned sale…