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Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by cxcorp »

DarrenDev wrote: post #30

I use a JSON formatting tool a lot ( https://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/ ). I do wonder sometimes about pasting sensitive data into sites like this, and what they might be doing with it. Strange in a way, that companies spend so much effort restricting how we handle sensitive data, and then you copy and paste it into any website with an input box and no one seems to care. Fingers crossed and all that. These sit…

I usually use the Prettier extension with VS Code to autoformat JSON locally - then again, I already use both anyways on a daily basis.

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by carlio »

newbamboo wrote: post #42

Search. Google’s monopoly and political and legislative corruption are the only things going for it. The world deserves a less evil search engine, ideally one that works like google did about 15 years ago.

https://duckduckgo.com/ ?

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by causality0 »

I want progressive bookmarks that save where I was on the website even if I don't open them again for a year. Like if I was reading a blog from beginning to end I want to bookmark it once and have the bookmark update every time I open the next entry.

I want a complete website archiver I can launch from a browser. Something like HTTRACK but works with modern sites full of embedded content.

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by barefeg »

bloopernova wrote: post #23

I want an automated work timeline tool. There are things I do that are semantically linked, grouped by timing. For example: I get an issue in Jira "enable AWS feature for project X". I search for AWS and Terraform documentation on those subjects. I edit code on a feature branch named for the Jira issue. I save links and notes into my Emacs org-roam knowledge base. I test the new feature. I submit a PR. I edit documen…

I also dream of environments where all the things can interact with each other. Currently there’s a lot of services for almost everything, but little ability of connecting things

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by barefeg »

Qem wrote: post #13

Bayesian filtering for news sites. Say I follow a news site, but I'm not interested in all published articles. Only in some topics not covered by existing categories, or hard to specify by keyword search. It would be helpful to have a filter, analogous to a spam filter, that I would train presenting examples of what I like or not, and it would eventually learn what interests me, saving me the effort of sifting throug…

Like a federated search with learned recommendations?

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by lordgrenville »

DarrenDev wrote: post #30

I use a JSON formatting tool a lot ( https://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/ ). I do wonder sometimes about pasting sensitive data into sites like this, and what they might be doing with it. Strange in a way, that companies spend so much effort restricting how we handle sensitive data, and then you copy and paste it into any website with an input box and no one seems to care. Fingers crossed and all that. These sit…

I used to use online tools until I discovered python -m json.tool

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by fikama »

causality0 wrote: post #44

I want progressive bookmarks that save where I was on the website even if I don't open them again for a year. Like if I was reading a blog from beginning to end I want to bookmark it once and have the bookmark update every time I open the next entry. I want a complete website archiver I can launch from a browser. Something like HTTRACK but works with modern sites full of embedded content.

There is a feature in chrome named "link to highlight" which allows you to copy a link to a highlighted text in the given website. It wouldn't fully replace "progressive bookmarks" but I found it helpful.
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