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Children of Time was excellent, so thank for this recommendation.

Perhaps there are some good ideas here, but as soon as I saw Product Hunt as #4 I moved on.

Examples of using the Bluesky API to post, get analytics, and comment in Node.js

Main discussion thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41308599

Summary: OpenAI is planning a raise in the next 12 months, current burn rate is $5B, $2B revenue.

It look like Meta (facebook and instagram) are down for many people. This also affects their API access.

Facebook yesterday, LinkedIn today. TikTok tomorrow?

Looks like Linkedin.com is down.

Here is blog article with further details on the webhook proxy tool: https://www.ayrshare.com/streamlining-webhook-development-ho...

It seems to be affecting both posting on facebook.com and the API

The first program I ever wrote was on an Atari 800XL - in BASIC. It played the theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

I think the point is too many times developers are a penny wise and a pound foolish when it comes to build vs buy. Because they can build, and it is often fun if you haven't done it before.

Though I often don't take my own advice, I try to ask is what I'm about to build core to our ROI/product, is there an existing solution that gets us 80% there, and yes, what is the cost.

If it is not core to the business, won't drive revenue, and cost are not outrageous, which is a company by company truth, then I much prefer to spend X time building new product than recreating an existing product/tool.

One final point - don't forget to consider the maintenance costs, which in the long term often greater then the initial investment. If your CI goes down, you just blew away and savings you were planning on.

It is the same as public markets, but just on a smaller scale. Instead of millions owning a % for $X, you have a few individuals/firms who agree % for $X. And you (the company) can exchange - tender offers, private sales, etc.

"That" is superfluous.

I always use the trick when I write of reading the sentence without the "that"...still makes sense then you don't need "that". Mostly.

A Node.js app that enhances the Firebase emulator logs: pretty format, color, and "quiet" feature to remove system logging.

Just tried Readwise out - very nice! Pocket seems to have stagnated, so very refreshing to see innovation in the Instapaper/Pocket space. I know you all are working on a ton of things, but one suggestion is to add in other SSO options like Google (gmail). Right now I just see Amazon and Email.

Also when syncing with Pocket, perhaps mention it might take a bit to sync and you'll find the article in your Inbox - I thought the sync didn't work, but eventually appeared under Inbox, as opposed to where I expected in recently added.

I've been using Warp since it was announced on HN, and it is great. May favorite terminal yet. Fast, features such as autocomplete so much better than iTerm.

There is a lot of negative thoughts on this thread - would love to hear from the people who actually have tried out Warp and not those waxing on about the indignity of being asked to login to a free product.

Thanks for this - became a big fan of Hurl. Created a guide on Hurl for calling API requests and used the array technique with [Captures]. [0]

[0] https://www.ayrshare.com/hurl-run-and-test-http-api-requests...

A few weeks ago I saw a front-page Hacker News post on a new text based HTTP runner based on CURL and written in Rust called Hurl. Intriguing! We’ve been looking for a simpler way to run and test API requests against our social API. Here is how to use Hurl and some examples.

Really impressed. The ability to chain the http calls with assertions is great. The one thing I would prefer is to set the environment variables also in the .hurl file rather than in a .env file. Also, how do you access the key of a nested object?

All the free alternatives will eventually get rid of their free tier too - could be 1 year, could be 10 years. As the author stated, they had 25 free instances running. They converted over to paid, so maybe they became a profitable client. However, all the users who have 25+ instances and never pay over the course of 10 year isn't sustainable for a business.

Yes! I can ignore suggestions, but when the autocorrect corrects my correction I feel like I'm in a game of whose's on first? Eventually you need to tap another button to keep the spelling you want.

Matt's analytics has been great - and how fed-up he is with the whole show.

Hopefully now launching on Sept 2nd.

Same here.

It is a really interesting question if GitHub is a social network. As the author points out there are many social aspects such as social currency (stars), or is it merely gamification? Colleagues can ask you to review code or ping questions - definitely social, but could you then say Jira is a social network?

Overall I do think GitHub is a social network, but that is because the definition has broadened to include a lot of 2-way group communication tools.

I'm giving Superhuman a second go. So far it is O.K. - I keep going back to Gmail, perhaps because I'm so use to its workflow.

Firestore not only recommends, but requires you to have the index or the query will fail.

I agree there have been a few GitHub actions issues. We've been getting errors with UppTime error due to GitHub actions failing

However, I still think Upptime is amazing! It is simple, under your control, and does the job.

Here is a review I wrote a while back on Upptime.

https://www.ayrshare.com/upptime-monitor-status-website-api/

Great discussion on general strategy vs tactics. I like the point that SEO is generally a task list (tactics).

Often people, and I fall into the trap too, of thinking reading our blog will create a conversion. As the author says: read, click, pay. I can tell you from our own website's stats that almost never happens. However, we have had several paid clients who said they "read a blog post or something about us". Since they didn't directly convert it happened at a later point - nurture as the author suggests.