A Personal API • Hacker News Board

Re: A Personal API

#81

Post by NetOpWibby » Mon, Dec 02, 2019, 10:13 PM UTC

gremlinsinc wrote: post #80

I'd like something like this but for communications w/ search, and automation. Think of an inbox for all your starred/saved convos on discord, slack, etc... and all starred emails on gmail... and saved reddit comments or threads. Then being able to schedule maybe once a month posts to slack / reddit job boards that you're 'forhire'... And being to see all messages/replies from reddit and search across all types of me…

This sounds like a good idea for three modules someone could conceivably build.

Re: A Personal API

#82

Post by digisocialnet » Mon, Dec 02, 2019, 10:24 PM UTC

NetOpWibby wrote: post #60

digisocialnet wrote: post #42

check out https://github.com/rigoneri/Syte2

That's actually pretty cool, thanks for the link.

No prob, I tried to refactor it in Vue and using Zeit Now serverless functions but moved onto other things. https://github.com/jake-101/Syte2-4-Zeit2.0

Re: A Personal API

#83

Post by wlesieutre » Mon, Dec 02, 2019, 10:40 PM UTC

NetOpWibby wrote: post #66

wlesieutre wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Each push of my mouse wheel moves the content about one character width. (Firefox 71 on Windows)

That...sounds terrible. I'll look into it.

It appears to give me one pixel per click of the wheel

Re: A Personal API

#84

Post by captainill » Mon, Dec 02, 2019, 10:51 PM UTC

Props to the OP/author for both the article and receptivity to critique regarding UX here in comments.

Re: A Personal API

#85

Post by eximius » Mon, Dec 02, 2019, 11:22 PM UTC

I've thought about this on and off for a long time. Urbit, Solid, Mastodon (anything ActivityPub), SecureScuttleButt, Matrix servers, etc.

The biggest problem as I see it is cost. While I might want to have this for $60/year (or own my own hardware for a little more), the vast majority of people (whose adoption you need), don't want to pay for this.

There are countless other UX and technical challenges, all interesting and largely tractable.

But I'm not sure how to deal with the cost problem. It underlies the failure of essentially all anti-centralization efforts.

Re: A Personal API

#86

Post by neilalexander » Mon, Dec 02, 2019, 11:38 PM UTC

NetOpWibby wrote: post #54

ivoras wrote: post #41

Interesting idea - but it boils down to being a workaround for the lack of persistently connected and pervasively VPN-ed personal devices around us. Yes, we could have a VPS per person being our fixed point on the Internet (and a fixed address...) but wouldn't it be better to return to the original idea of the Internet with devices always connected and routable? It might take an overlay network such as a DHT-like thi…

> wouldn't it be better to return to the original idea of the Internet with devices always connected and routable? Yes. However, I'd still like to do something in the meantime. There's no telling how long an overlay network would take to implement and release.

Such overlay networks exist today, albeit in early form, but functional none the less.

Re: A Personal API

#87

Post by Uninen » Mon, Dec 02, 2019, 11:45 PM UTC

Simon Willisons Dogsheep is also a similar project: https://dogsheep.github.io/

Re: A Personal API

#88

Post by caro_douglos » Mon, Dec 02, 2019, 11:58 PM UTC

keybase.io does a great job of allowing you to "prove yourself" across a plethora of sites/services.

Re: A Personal API

#89

Post by iamaelephant » Tue, Dec 03, 2019, 12:23 AM UTC

Really stupid scrolling, thanks.

Re: A Personal API

#90

Post by peburrows » Tue, Dec 03, 2019, 12:51 AM UTC

karma_fountain wrote: post #14

It's nicer vertically scrolling https://imgur.com/a/6Xw7quy . Just compare the 2 op.

I've browsed hundreds of thousands of websites and used a computer daily for the better part of my life...and it took me ten seconds to figure out how to even scroll the horizontal version. PLEASE stop breaking scrolling, people.