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Show HN: My pinboard-backed link blog

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Post by itsmequinn »

I recently re-jiggered my blog to use pinboard as it's CMS. A cron job runs once every 15 minutes and generates a static HTML file of my most recent 15 posts. Yes it is fairly limited in what it can do, but it's a great simple way to make what I already do on pinboard into a link blog.

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Post by itsmequinn »

ambiate wrote: post #2

Michael, aside from the interesting link blog, your nyu.edu links in the design section are dead. Otherwise, all is working well in Chrome64 25.0.1364.97.

Thank you very much for the polite feedback. This is my first submission and I was expecting worse. I fixed the issue you pointed out.

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Post by idleworx »

That's fairly cool. Is there an actual pinboard.in API available these days, or did you just hack something together? I haven't checked pinboard.in in a while.

I had built http://data.idleworx.com/DeliStream/ a while ago to pull streaming data from delicio.us. Might be time I updated it to pinboard.in (something similar to your project but more real-time and from all users).

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Post by danielna »

Sort of off topic, but I wish there was a better tool for pinboard user discovery. I love the self-selection bias of pinboard in that it's highly tech and the popular links are right up my HN/nerdy alley, but I'm starting to really enjoy the "network" view with the 6 or so people I follow. Trying to parse the list of user profiles for interesting folks at random is way too time consuming.

Anyway, I''m following you now, so there's the super tangential tieback. And nice work!

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

idleworx wrote: post #4

That's fairly cool. Is there an actual pinboard.in API available these days, or did you just hack something together? I haven't checked pinboard.in in a while. I had built http://data.idleworx.com/DeliStream/ a while ago to pull streaming data from delicio.us. Might be time I updated it to pinboard.in (something similar to your project but more real-time and from all users).

Pinboard has an API [1] and maybe even better for your uses they tried really hard to make it compatible with the Delicious API, so adding support shouldn't be much of an issue.

1 - http://pinboard.in/api/

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

This is interesting, I'm also using Pinboard (with some custom ruby code for caching) to power my fairly popular Bootstrap links page [1].

Pinboard has been awesome for this and a few other projects where I use it as a sort of URL import / processing queue. I have a specific set of tags that trigger different actions for the different services, things like taking a screenshot of a URL or posting the link to Twitter via IFTTT (which has good Pinboard support).

1 - http://www.bootstraphero.com/the-big-badass-list-of-twitter-...

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Post by webwanderings »

Pardon but I don't see a point in paying a service to gather/amass links which you don't own in the first place. So I have no idea why service like pinboard exist which charges you to gather other people's URLs.

A tumbler blog is sufficient enough in letting you gather links, quotes, videos, etc, etc, and it is free and fast.

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