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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by domh »

I just bought my first house, so I am hoping to sink my teeth into some home improvement tasks (drilling, basic plumbing, changing light fixtures etc) - definitely a challenge for someone who's only lived in rentals before.

Also interested in making the home as energy efficient as possible (LED bulbs, better insulation, smart thermostatic valves on the radiators etc). If anyone has any resources to read on this please share! For anything "smart" I'm looking for local-first systems without cloud dependencies.

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Post by atyppo »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #262
jashkenas wrote: post #65

Working at a still-feels-new-to-me job as Graphics Director for Opinion at The New York Times. Our small team publishes arguments and guest essays supported by visual evidence, like these: - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/scien... - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/08/opinion/urban... - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/20/opinion/ancie... But I'm a believer in asking for…

It's really disillusioning to see the top comment in a front-page HN-thread require payment to even be read completely. I can see that this isn't your personal design decision, but there is a literal paywall preventing you from communicating with me. This is absurd.

FWIW, this extension has worked great for me, but it seems that the developer's support is dwindling for it: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/

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Post by jhoelzel »

Msurrow wrote: post #64

I’m building a hostingplatform for fully managed Wordpress sites. By managed I mean both the WP install, but also plugins, themes and other customizations. I have a customer who does marketing, SoMe, SEO and all that (as a small business for other small to medium businesses) but it turns out she spends a lot of time dealing with tech issues from WP sites (plugin update errors, other tech issues the hosting provider d…

i have been beating around this bush for eons and so far my best release strategy is custom build wordpress container where plugins and themes are built in.

The problem i was facing was mostly that almost all of the plugins used in "general", do not come with a testing architecture in any way. How are you going to handle a "rouge" plugin not closing its tag correctly?

I used to have "hidden" control pages where i would render the most used elements with demo content which i could check against. But then you throw things like composer into the game and most of that goes out of the window.

After all these years, my best approach is still making a backup, hitting the upgrade button, and praying :/

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Post by ivyirwin »

Msurrow wrote: post #64

I’m building a hostingplatform for fully managed Wordpress sites. By managed I mean both the WP install, but also plugins, themes and other customizations. I have a customer who does marketing, SoMe, SEO and all that (as a small business for other small to medium businesses) but it turns out she spends a lot of time dealing with tech issues from WP sites (plugin update errors, other tech issues the hosting provider d…

Interesting, I have a similar goal but in the Drupal space. My partner and I have been building Drupal sites for clients for almost 15 years and we keep running into hosting issues for our clients at scale. Most of the "managed" options get extremely expensive very quickly, but they're also not managed from a content/modules perspective.

We're trying to do the best of both worlds and provide a managed (albeit opinionated) install that leverages our experience on the development side with performance and ease of use on the hosting side. Would be happy to compare notes as it comes together. Our website is in my profile and our email is hello@ the domain listed there.

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Post by fathyb »

I'm currently forking Chromium to render directly in a terminal to learn Rust. It lets you browse the web from a server using a stock terminal app and SSH for example.

It's working and I'm currently making performance adjustments. Hoping to share it here with the technical journey in the next few weeks!

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Post by inferense »

josephg wrote: post #102

I'm sick of having to decide between using cloud software and using local software. Cloud software so often needs subscriptions, and if the company dies I lose access to my data. Local software isn't collaborative. I don't want to email files around to myself, or think about versions. So I'm building a software platform for local first applications on top of CRDTs. Its called Replica, though we haven't talked much ab…

I love this approach. I'm trying to bake it in https://acreom.com - a local-first md. editor with sync and real-time collaboration(WIP) + plugin system in future.
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