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Post by redisman » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 4:35 AM UTC

weinzierl wrote: post #10

Despite that the video starts with "The title of this video won't be exactly right. [..] If it's actually a 100% spot on it's a miracle" the title was exactly right when I saw it the first time. I even screenshotted it. I also wondered if it would work on HN. Is there a limit on the number of times you can edit a title on HN? Obviously there isn't on Youtube, which I find quite surprising.

Post by minton » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 4:47 AM UTC

Sargos wrote: post #116

This "open APIs" feeling where you can build and mash up all kinds of services together to build cool things is how writing apps on Ethereum feels right now. All of the data and functions of other people's contracts are on chain and available to you for use in whatever way you want to use it. It's very powerful and makes developing fun again for me. As an example there is a project called Maker which produces a stabl…

Post by mattl » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 5:16 AM UTC

duxup wrote: post #46

donatj wrote: post #7

I was telling a friend recently about how there was this "golden age" when you could access all sorts of free APIs, and how I still long for this time. I remember the public Netflix API, Twitter APIs and Flickr API with particular fondness. My personal site was a big mashup of all of my data. I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before ba…

It reminds me distantly of an earlier time when just the web was sort of owned ... by the web folk. In the sense that even corporate sites if you found it would have a little corner where the 'webmaster' had a page that mentioned the server, or his cat, or some silly pic. Some sort of character or tidbit before any of the branding drones were really aware of the web. All just because the 'webmaster' was the only one…

Post by asudosandwich » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 5:34 AM UTC

duxup wrote: post #46

donatj wrote: post #7

I was telling a friend recently about how there was this "golden age" when you could access all sorts of free APIs, and how I still long for this time. I remember the public Netflix API, Twitter APIs and Flickr API with particular fondness. My personal site was a big mashup of all of my data. I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before ba…

It reminds me distantly of an earlier time when just the web was sort of owned ... by the web folk. In the sense that even corporate sites if you found it would have a little corner where the 'webmaster' had a page that mentioned the server, or his cat, or some silly pic. Some sort of character or tidbit before any of the branding drones were really aware of the web. All just because the 'webmaster' was the only one…

Post by mauricedenassau » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 6:07 AM UTC

mattl wrote: post #125

duxup wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It reminds me distantly of an earlier time when just the web was sort of owned ... by the web folk. In the sense that even corporate sites if you found it would have a little corner where the 'webmaster' had a page that mentioned the server, or his cat, or some silly pic. Some sort of character or tidbit before any of the branding drones were really aware of the web. All just because the 'webmaster' was the only one…

I used to beg people I met online to host pages for me, give me shell access, etc. I was a child in the very early 90s with basically no money.