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akshaykumar90

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I am making Savory. Get more out of your reading on the web: https://getsavory.co/

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www.polarsignals.com 1y ago

Best Laid Plans

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iterm2.com 2y ago

iTerm2 3.5.0

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ryanguill.com 2y ago

My PostgreSQL Wishlist

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jack-vanlightly.com 2y ago

S3 Express One Zone, Not Quite What I Hoped For

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tanstack.com 2y ago

TanStack Query v5

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protonvpn.com 3y ago

Which VPN protocol is the best?

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www.foxy.io 3y ago

CloudFront vs. Cloudflare, and how to reduce response times for both (2021)

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Where do you host images for your blog or landing pages?

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daringfireball.net 3y ago

The iPhones 14 Pro (and iPhones 14)

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twitter.com 4y ago

Hiring engineering talent is hard

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brooker.co.za 4y ago

Caches, Modes, and Unstable Systems

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akshay.lol 4y ago

Elon Musk's 5-step process for making things at scale

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getsavory.co 5y ago

My productivity stack with Gmail, Keep and Savory

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getsavory.co 5y ago

My productivity stack with Gmail, Keep and Savory

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getsavory.co 5y ago

Migrating Savory to a serverless back end

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Distributed Systems Lectures by Martin Kleppmann

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www.datadoghq.com 5y ago

Scipio: A Thread-per-Core Crate for Rust and Linux

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medium.com 5y ago

File Descriptor Transfer over Unix Domain Sockets

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getsavory.co 6y ago

Show HN: Savory – Bookmark manager for people with 1000s of bookmarks

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brooker.co.za 6y ago

Reading Research: A Guide for Software Engineers

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medium.com 6y ago

Rebooting Datastores into the Future

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www.ben-evans.com 7y ago

Content Isn't King (2017)

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www.troyhunt.com 7y ago

10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

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twitter.com 7y ago

Azure Functions with path param starting with CON causes 404

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jvns.ca 7y ago

What's a senior engineer's job?

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Great comparison. I am working on Savory which tries to keep it very simple and might be interesting to folks looking to jump off Pinboard: https://getsavory.co/. There is a chrome extension to save links and tags are a first-class citizen. There is no support for archiving or sharing yet, but it is something I want to add soon.

The decision to lay off must be made months ago. The point about setting a new record is to convey and reassure future growth potential to investors and employees (who are also stock holders).

Great writeup. I too have a long reading list - currently at 133.

I use my own little side project (Savory) to track the list. When I come across a page that I don't have the time or energy to finish right now, I save it and add the "reading" tag to it. When I have free time, I can open the reading tag and pick up something new to read.

The best part is that I usually add a couple more tags (e.g. "security" or "economics" etc.) when I save a link. This way, the reading list allows me to filter by topic. It has been an unexpected hack to attack the growing list, since I am usually able to finish multiple articles in a single run, all in the same topic, because there is usually a link between them even when I might have saved them days or weeks apart.

Anyway I like how OP actually has a reading history. I really need to add something similar in Savory. Right now, when I finish reading something, I just remove the "reading" tag and I don't get a neat history.

I am working on something similar to Pocket: https://getsavory.co/. It's early days for Savory -- you can only save links from Chrome so far.

After you install the extension, you simply bookmark your tabs (using the keyboard shortcut or clicking the star icon) and they show up in Savory. The app is centered around tags and we are planning to add more features depending on what users want. I would love to get feedback if you want to give it a try.

I was in the same boat till recently. For me, it was Hacker News that felt like this infinite firehose. I felt anxiety if I did not read HN some day—like information was slipping away from me forever.

This is what I did:

- Rely more on my Twitter timeline. I follow <200 people and have my timeline show tweets in chronological order and I am able to "catch-up" once every day. I only check it in the morning.

- Subscribe to some link-aggregator newsletters, like hackernewsletter, that sends a weekly digest of interesting links every Friday.

- But most importantly, just come to terms with information overload that we all are living through right now and it's ok if you miss out sometimes. If it was important, you will come across it later. :)

I loved delicious and was really mad when Yahoo ran it into the ground. I never found anything like that since. Some time ago I started my own project trying to recreate the tagging experience that was central to delicious. The landing page is still a work-in-progress but feel free to check it out: https://getsavory.co/.