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From the other side, I’ve fairly often written blog posts that I don’t put much effort into and have no intention of reaching the front page of HN, only to see 12 hours later that …

I pay for a tool to convert HTML/CSS into PDFs https://www.princexml.com/ and it seems to work well. I don't have the best idea of how it compares to the various free options thoug…

I tried to grep the code for `api.` to get a sense for all the vendors this codebase is using, and which you'd need to have relationships with to run the code. Here's what I found:…

Deleted this post because I don't think a random screenshot from my email is a good source for people to refer to. A better source might be the bitly terms of service: https://bitl…

Yes! Katie and I made it into a zine because I was such a huge fan of her work on https://ohshitgit.com/ . (you'll notice she's a coauthor of the zine)

That's a great idea, thanks.

That book (Ed Mastery, https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#ed ) is an April fool's joke, but it's a real book and I thought it was actually really good. I've still basically never used…

fixed, thanks!

fixed, thanks!

Like I said in the blog post, I'd love suggestions for other things I've missed that happen when you run "hello world", _especially_ if there's a way to use a Linux spy tool to tra…

Hello! I wrote this post and I have a couple of things to say about this "DNS is not actually hard" take. It took me many years to feel totally comfortable debugging DNS problems, …

note: it was available before, the only change is that now it's in a github repository instead of a zip file that you download from the website

A DNS resolver is both a client and a server -- for example Google's 8.8.8.8 (which this is a toy version of) is a server (you can query it with `dig @8.8.8.8 example.com`), but al…

thanks, I'll take a look

There's this by Andreas Zeller: https://www.debuggingbook.org/ , it's an interactive free book with implementations of a bunch of different debugging tools in Python

Awesome! My mom is from Trinidad so I always love hearing from folks from there :)

The initial 1000 copies ran out, but I just added a few hundred extra so it should work now. (the way it works is that I add 1 copy to give away for every 1 copy sold, but it's a m…

Unfortunately I've done a bunch of research into this and I've never been able to find a print-on-demand service that prints the zines in a way that I was happy with. Print on dema…

As the author, I don't think this really makes sense on the front page of HN since you have to pay to read the zine. I am doing a giveaway for folks who can't afford the zine thoug…

I'd never heard of this, thank you! I was hoping for people to provide more examples of things that have gotten easier in this thread but I'm happy to see one or two at least :)