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nichol4s

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About nichol4s

Hi, I'm Nicholas Piël CEO of Surfly

You can contact me at nicholas@surfly.com

Recent public activity

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    Another service which tries to fill this gap with a unique offering is https://getadultpass.com/ They basically add 'verification headers' to the original website through a proxy s…

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    Comment #44096700

    I love the 'coffee stain'indicator! How do you rank results? Can you give some rough indications of how many pages you index in total? How many page you crawl each day? Size of the…

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    Comment #44096513

    I'm working on a MCP Server to get Starlight API documentation quickly connected to any model. I have the initial stuff setup, doing some experiments now to figure out how to optim…

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    Comment #44095253

    That blinking cursor gives me nostalgic feelings.Nice. For anyone checking this out, this is not a video, you can actually 'play' with it, just use the keyboard and hit 'p'.

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    Comment #44095058

    Nice - would you be interested in making this into a saas service? We are starting to open up our "automation API" and could maybe work together on bringing your extension to somet…

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    Comment #44095049

    Holy shit, so you are uh building a search engine from scratch. Do you crawl yourself? What is your infrastructure? What is your goal for search.marginalia ?

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    Comment #44095012

    The 'per user' pricing is only for the number of admins/devs they'd need to give access to the platform, beyond that you can scale to unlimited users. And also for this specific ne…

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    Comment #44090917

    Wow - indeed. I see you made something like this already back in 2012. Impressive: https://github.com/Lerc/notanos That is more than 13 years ago when websockets where about to bec…

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    Comment #44090155

    This is amazing - well done, and indeed runs oh-so smooth - even on mobile! I see that the browser is somewhat limited as most sites try to prevent 'embedding'. However, we have a …

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    Comment #44082059

    This is useful - thank you. I'll try to see if I can make this into a Webfuse extension. Edit: that was actually pretty easy you can see it here: https://webfu.se/+hn/

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    Comment #43544085

    TL;DR: We built Webfuse, a Web Augmentation Platform that lets you modify, automate, and collaborate on any web app — without changing the source code. Think “programmable browser …

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    Comment #41067274

    The exec just follows the instructions provided by their CISO, who adheres to the information security standards used in audits. These standards are influenced not only by actual t…

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    Comment #30434282

    Interesting! Something pretty similar to what enable at https://www.surfly.com the difference is that we focus more on B2B types of integrations and stream the actual DOM instead o…

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    Comment #28562978

    The nice thing about this, is that it even keeps the 'dark mode' when you click through to a different link.

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    Comment #27140904

    My understanding is as follows: the Dutch shell company is a parent (holding) company which basically holds shares in a subsidiary. If the holding company owns more than 95% of the…

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    Comment #24932669

    Nice work guys! We do something similar at Surfly but we start the session through our proxy so no extension or changes to the application are required.

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    Comment #24047495

    Surfly | Frontend Engineer, Full stack engineer, Support Engineer | Amsterdam, NL | VISA, ONSITE https://www.surfly.com The ideal engineer for us has Python, Javascript and Go expe…

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    Comment #21686290

    Surfly | Software Engineer, COO | Amsterdam, NL | VISA, ONSITE https://www.surfly.com We're looking for a Python + Javascript engineer with deep knowledge about the web (caches, pr…

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    Comment #21134095

    Surfly | Software Developer, Test Engineer, UI designer | Amsterdam, NL | VISA, ONSITE https://www.surfly.com We're looking for a Python + Javascript engineer with deep knowledge a…

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    Comment #20845432

    Well done! It would be interesting to look at the angle and length of the shadow of one of those towers to estimate the time of day the picture has been taken and verify the hypoth…

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    Comment #17904621

    Surfly | Amsterdam, NL | VISA, ONSITE https://www.surfly.com Join us on our adventure to make the web personal and pluggable. We're looking for: - Developers that can help us build…

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    Comment #17445245

    Surfly | Software Developer | Amsterdam, NL | VISA, ONSITE https://www.surfly.com We're looking for a Python + Javascript engineer with deep knowledge about the web (caches, proxie…