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This is very cool! I love how no-fuss it is. I'm on a train travelling home, and suddenly I'm in a slipgate.

I was recently thinking about mixtapes. Mixtapes were like a personalized way to discover music, free of algorithms or AI. If I wanted an introduction to a band or genre my friend …

I've built a little demo on the landing page now! Enjoy!

This feedback has been really great and detailed, just what I was looking for! - I've added an option in user settings to turn on a 'Skipped' stack. - Card titles should now all be…

That's a very good point. I've just put up some screenshots on the landing page - it's not a demo to be fair, but at least you can see what using it might look like!

My wife recently started her PhD and while she uses Zotero as a citation manager, she was really missing a tool for keeping track of what she's reading right now/has already read/n…

I made BlogFlock to help myself discover new blogs, and it's been so lovely for that. I think of it as 'RSS feeds in public'. I promise the colour scheme was a coincidence...

This is super nice, and it looks like it's going to have some really great features, well beyond OpenOrb's! Excited to keep an eye on this.

That would be _so_ cool! What an amazing resource that would be.

Alternative search engines are neat, as are RSS feeds. OpenOrb is a self-hosted app which allows visitors to search over a list of blogs you love. If you put your 10 favourite blog…

Today I launched Pointers, a simple, low-tech directory to help share links to your online presence with friends and mutuals. Unlike similar services like Linktree, Pointers is des…

I'm so sorry, I've been doing some digging and I think there's a bug in the way the libraries for this particular board implement a WiFi server! It seems to crash quickly with even…

You're right - this was my impression too! You read a few dramatic posts about being hugged and you get this idea that HN is a behemoth that DDoSes everything it loves. Thanks for …

Not as far as I can tell! Absolutely ashamed to say I did it because it looked cool. I did manage to get the dithered GIF down to 7KB, but I think I could have done the same with a…

That's a really interesting point and one I hadn't considered! I'm reverse proxying it through a larger server on the home network which is public-facing, and that server automatic…

Well, granted, no doubt, but my poor little server routinely crashes after a few dozen connections, and exposing it to HN was the first time it experienced that many. Something is …

I've been resetting it every 2 minutes! This is how regular servers work, right?

There's no better stress test than Show HN, and unsurprisingly, that's revealed that Solar Witch has a buffer overrun bug somewhere which I'm investigating! If Solar Witch is curre…

Solar Witch is a little webpage and server which receives and displays messages, so I suppose it's a tiny message board. It's coded in very dubious Arduino C. It's not a 24/7 websi…

I'm OP, and this was in fact my response to my question! Everyone else is suggesting these wonderful grandiose economic and social changes, and I just want a strongly typed (or, he…

This was just an idle conversation we were having at work. Imagine that one day you wake up and you've been sent back in time, where you are now a researcher at DARPA in the early …

No, I just need to get off my butt and push it!

For a while now, I've been working my way through the reasons why I don't like the current state of social networking with a series of little social coding projects. Pond is the la…

It's just a very little Node thing I made in a serious bout of procrastination, but I'm surprised I've not seen anything like it around before - general, quick to use, easy to shar…