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yanokwa

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About yanokwa

You can email me at yanokwa@gmail.com.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #46221756

    I think open-source leaders who want sustainable resourcing should focus on building obvious paths for people who find ongoing value in their project to contribute. That to me is t…

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    Comment #46213190

    I run [ODK]( https://getodk.org ). It's a offline mobile data collection platform that has been an DPG since 2022. In practice, being a DPG makes your project slightly easier to ch…

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    Comment #44557075

    https://mmonit.com is what I use for stuff like this.

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    Comment #43343276

    Some of these are from 2023. Have any of their graduated proposals shipped into a browser? I'm trying to get a sense of their visible wins so far.

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    Comment #39835434

    In the US? Ally offers savings accounts with great rates (usually 50% off prime, so currently 4.25%) and in my experience is a fantastic bank. Way better than credit unions I’ve ba…

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    Comment #39739842

    People who are into shoes (e.g., sneakerheads) do clean their soles.

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    Comment #39563759

    Yup! Mozilla uses this very structure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation

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    Comment #38089596

    Try OrbStack. Should be much better on battery life.

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    Comment #34784928

    I wonder if the sports/talent agent model could work here.

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    Comment #34274789

    You could also use https://nextdns.io . It’s basically pi-hole in the cloud.

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    Comment #34085989

    ET adds a layer between application and TCP sockets that persists connections. https://eternalterminal.dev/howitworks has more. If you are mostly on unreliable and high-latency con…

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    Comment #34069759

    I've switched from Mosh to Eternal Terminal ( https://eternalterminal.dev ) because of its excellent native scrolling support.

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    Comment #34069734

    ChangeDetection https://changedetection.io . Self-hosted website change detection.

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    Comment #33862163

    I don't have a dog in this fight, but just to answer the question. https://elonsbrokenpromises.com and https://elonmusk.today have examples of promises Elon has made that have not …

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    Comment #33664177

    I'm one of the founders of ODK[1]. It's an open-source offline data collection app that, according to WHO[2], helped eradicate wild polio from Africa. It's become the de-facto app …

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    Comment #33597884

    See https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZJZbv4J6FZ8Dnb0JuMhJxTnw...

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    Comment #32835331

    The Khan Kids app is pretty great

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    Comment #31522206

    I don't disagree and we work hard to provide guidance on best practices and software to support implementation. Ultimately, in the contexts in which we work, the organizations are …

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    Comment #31521843

    The vast majority of users are staff who are hired to collect data for a non-profit. The vast majority of servers are self-hosted by those non-profits. It's very opt-in in that reg…

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    Comment #31520984

    I'm founder and CEO at ODK and we are hiring ( https://getodk.org/jobs )! ODK is an open-source mobile data collection platform. The common use-case is a data collector in the fiel…

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    Comment #31237401

    ODK | Software Engineer | Remote | https://getodk.org/jobs ODK is open-source software that helps users build powerful offline forms to collect the data they need wherever it is. I…

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    Comment #29708080

    See https://lunar.fyi to change brightness via keyboard

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    Comment #29670468

    I run a Discourse hosting company that makes about $2k/month. https://unisonhosting.com

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    Comment #28615480

    I’m curious, have you done an ABX test recently? My wife swore up and down she could hear the difference too. An ABX test with expensive headphones in a quiet room across a few dif…

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    Comment #22112071

    I'd love an invite!