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

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Post by jnbiche »

raimille1 wrote: post #20

Building www.heynay.com and you should definetly check it out and critique it if you have time :)

Heynay looks very interesting and promising. Very attractive design.

In terms of critiques, I know this seems like a petty critique, but it's important: make sure to check your spelling and/or improve your spelling in English. The word is spelled "definitely", for example. Since you're representing Heynay, it's important to give a good impression, and I can tell you that major spelling errors will give a poor impression to the majority of the population, particularly among exactly the people you want to impress.

Again, it's a petty criticism, but the small details like spelling are well worth paying attention to, as they serve as useful signals to many people.

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

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Post by archimedespi »

School! And robotics team stuff.

I'm currently polishing a Slack chatbot for engineering-notebook-chatops, working on some boards in Eagle for a universal, multicell NiMH charger, and also hacking on my fork of ReplicatorG (I'm trying to clean the code up, it's a bit WTF-y right now).

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

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Post by cdvonstinkpot »

Just launched https://crypt0.space/, a new bitcoin & litecoin mining pool. Working on adding MixPanel analytics, & advertising with the right orgs to try and get my first users to use it. Have a 0.027 BTC bounty to get someone to connect a couple miners to it & test it so I know it works.

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

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Post by archimedespi »

cdvonstinkpot wrote: post #23

Just launched https://crypt0.space/ , a new bitcoin & litecoin mining pool. Working on adding MixPanel analytics, & advertising with the right orgs to try and get my first users to use it. Have a 0.027 BTC bounty to get someone to connect a couple miners to it & test it so I know it works.

Ooh, I might check that out! Unfortunately any miners I'd attach wouldn't be anything permanent, or even good as far as hashes/sec.

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

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Post by NumberCruncher »

cdvonstinkpot wrote: post #23

Just launched https://crypt0.space/ , a new bitcoin & litecoin mining pool. Working on adding MixPanel analytics, & advertising with the right orgs to try and get my first users to use it. Have a 0.027 BTC bounty to get someone to connect a couple miners to it & test it so I know it works.

Opening the url on my phone I get a security warning. Kind of bad marketing...

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

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Post by stevekemp »

I have a service which allows git to be used to manage DNS. The way this used to work was that you'd host your DNS records in a github/etc repositories, configure a webhook to point to my server, and then your updates would trigger DNS-updates.

Rather than fighting to understand webhooks from the various git-hosting services I've decided that volume is low enough that I should just host the git repositories myself.

I've spend a few evenings preparing for this transition, updating documentation, and reworking my codebase to avoid all use of webhooks.

It's a fun update, which will simplify the service for new users, but keeping both systems in use at the same time makes it a little more complex than I'd like. I guess I need a flag-day in a few months where I drop the old webhook support.

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

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Post by strick »

stevekemp wrote: post #28

I have a service which allows git to be used to manage DNS. The way this used to work was that you'd host your DNS records in a github/etc repositories, configure a webhook to point to my server, and then your updates would trigger DNS-updates. Rather than fighting to understand webhooks from the various git-hosting services I've decided that volume is low enough that I should just host the git repositories myself. I…

That is very cool. Any chance a company could run that tool on premises? I think there is a market for that.

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

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Post by stevekemp »

strick wrote: post #29
stevekemp wrote: post #28

I have a service which allows git to be used to manage DNS. The way this used to work was that you'd host your DNS records in a github/etc repositories, configure a webhook to point to my server, and then your updates would trigger DNS-updates. Rather than fighting to understand webhooks from the various git-hosting services I've decided that volume is low enough that I should just host the git repositories myself. I…

That is very cool. Any chance a company could run that tool on premises? I think there is a market for that.

Given that it ultimately pokes around with Amazon's route53 infrastructure I'm not too sure that there'd be a gain if the site/processor were available in-house.

Even if the manipulation were local, the Amazon API would be remote, and not within a company's control.

Interesting idea though. Most of the backend is portable perl and easy to pull out..

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