nateweiss

The city of Merida in Mexico might also be an option.

I subscribe to the paid service and use it from time to time. I think it's quite good at what it is supposed to do: convert a "plain" screenshot into a particular type of presentation-ready image.

Like many utilities, there are countless other ways to get to a similar result, but I personally don't want to think through exactly what tools and adjustments would be needed. So, for me, $5/month is a good value to get a task off my plate every once in a while. Thanks for making it!

Looks cool! Would this also work for "explainer" type videos, showing how to use a software product or similar?

If yes, you might consider a page or callout about that use-case, as it might attract some additional users. Just a thought.

Looks like they also offer the book for $3 “la la carte” (without a subscription) which sounds reasonable.

Hi, bought the zine, it's great.

PS Separately, if you ever felt like it, it would be lovely to have a poster (or similar short thing in your style) about CSS Selectors specifically, to give to our customers. (To use our stuff, it's good to know about selectors but don't need to know about styling/positioning and such.)

Great resource, thank you for curating this list!

Personally I’m excited to switch to the Mozilla branded VPN. I expect it will be a good try at a VPN service, and it will hopefully be a way for them to make a bit of extra money. If it fails, it fails and I’ll pick another.

There are companies launching on HN and employing people on HN all the time. Those companies may or may not survive the long haul. I don’t see how I can sensibly demand more of a promise from the software and services that I buy, vs. what we (collectively) promise to our own users or customers.

"It now takes something like 4 taps to get to the point where I can correct or otherwise edit the URL in my mobile browser (Safari)"

Just FYI, you can touch once in the URL bar to set focus to it (the whole URL will be selected), then touch and hold down on the keyboard (which will then act like a desktop touchpad) to move the cursor around to edit the URL.

I find this handy, though it took me a while to get used to it.

I personally like American Giant [1] and Flint & Tinder [2].

Neither has as wide a selection as GAP, and are more on the casual side, but have stuff that can work as business casual. The latter is menswear only, so if you're female not so useful.

[1] https://www.american-giant.com

[2] https://huckberry.com/flint-and-tinder

I find that olive oil combined with a bit of butter works pretty well in non-nonstick pans. I start with maybe a teaspoon or so of olive oil in the center of the pan and let that heat up a bit, then add a small amount of butter and wait for it to melt and bubble, then crack the egg directly over the puddle of oil/butter. This has worked well for me, even in otherwise testy pans like worn-out nonsticks, iron skillets, etc.

I like "Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design" by Jenifer Tidwell. Less of an instruction book, more of a catalogue of how you might (or might not) present some given type of information. Good for browsing through when you're feeling you haven't hit the right organizational approach/metaphor for the task at hand.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449379702

Thank you for Fine Uploader. It's been really helpful.

A my-fault anecdote: I submitted a PR for a minor new Fine Uploader feature, and when a few followup questions were asked about documenting the new feature, I never got around to completing the tasks.

So, at least in my case, I intended to contribute and did "most" of the work, but failed to make the time to bring my PR over the finish line. Perhaps there were a bunch of well-intentioned-but-ultimately-not-usable contributions like mine, and maybe they also contributed to the frustration.

I try (but sometimes fail) to remember that so, so much of the stuff I use every day to maintain my livelihood was created by others, for the free use of others. But it's such an embarrassment of riches that sometimes one forgets to be thankful and that's when the feeling of open-source entitlement sets in (at least that's how I see it).

In the past I maintained a bunch of little plugins that got a decent amount of use, but it was a long time ago (1990's) and I think the culture was different. There was some criticism, but most people were very appreciative and if there was something they wanted added etc, they would just solve it on their end without any complaints or drama. There was no PR type workflow, arguments over licensing, or expectation of awesome docs/support for a free thing. I'm not saying I want to go back to that per se, but when I think about maintaining that type of project now, it sounds fatiguing instead of exciting.

Not sure what my point is... I guess just to say thanks and that I can totally understand why you'd want to stop supporting the code. But it is used and appreciated, and the fact that you nurtured it for so long is an achievement on its own. Cheers!

While you are fielding little requests, I'd personally like to be able to collapse/expand the areas in the "Location Bar" pane/drawer on the left (where branches/tags/stashes are listed). For instance, I often have a lot of local branches and would like to be able to focus on them rather than the remote branches. As it stands there isn't much vertical real estate for each of the lists, and there doesn't appear to be a way to resize/collapse them. SourceTree on Mac treats these as collapsible in an accordion-like way, which I personally like, but I'm sure there would be other good approaches too.

Not a huge problem because there's the cool branch list/switcher at top center, so maybe will find myself working with the Location Bar hidden mostly.

Same here. I expect to actually use SM, but even if I don't, happy to contribute a bit more to the folks who make ST (which I use all day, every day).

Great photos, thanks! Reminds me of the "the world’s only Greek Revival subway ventilator" in Brooklyn:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/58_Joralemon_Street

Yes, this is my situation, I work from home so it was a pretty easy transition to working in a rural area.

It can be a culture shock though. Even something like Internet access can be very different from what you're used to, in addition to the nature of your relationship to your neighbors and so on. To anyone considering it, I'd recommend trying it first somehow (rent a place for a few months or something, maybe partly during the area's "off" or "shoulder" season if applicable, so you see what it's like when the good weather ends, etc). It may or may not work for you, but if it does it can be a really nice change.

Agreed, I just paid my upgrade fee and it seemed too small.

I feel ST could have a checkbox during checkout to add an additional $50 or something in that range. "I'd like to be a supporter for an extra $50". I'm pretty sure I would opt-in to that, but maybe I'm just saying that now because there isn't such an option....

Let me know if you'd like a contribution to cover postage for people.

This doesn't directly address your question I suppose, but one thing that I have found to de-stress myself in times like this is to take a moment to consider the achievements you've made (with no formal training, etc). You're clearly super competent, can solve all sorts of problems, and a natural leader. This is great for you long-term. You will most likely have tons of great job opportunities in the future, which will most likely allow you to have the lifestyle you wish in the future. To me anyway, that can be a de-stressing line of thought, because while your current situation may be stressful, you can genuinely look at it and say that it is temporary (how temporary, I don't know). Even if the stress may be somewhat baked into your job now, you'll be able to address it in the future by getting yourself an awesome position. Easier to shake the present off if you realize you're in for a great future.

The Boaty McBoatface incident reminds me, with a smile, of a similar incident when Kraft (Australia) turned to the public to name a new variant of Vegemite. The winning name was "iSnack 2.0" which sure seems (at least to me) to have been intended as satire/commentary. Anyway the product launched under that name to much ridicule, before being later renamed Cheesybite.

Interestingly, the name Vegemite itself was also originally "crowdsourced" back in the 1920s [1], so the effort had some tradition behind it. Perhaps "Vegemite" also sounded really silly back then.

I think (but not sure) that it's still for sale in Australia... in any case it is/was delicious, regardless of the name.

[1] http://adage.com/article/global-news/crowdsourcing-wrong-veg...

It's really a neat little store, and some of the pencils are super cool. It has the feeling of a record store or maybe comic book store, full of treasures that may or may not speak to you on a given day. I'd encourage dropping in if you're in the area, plenty of good nerdy fun to be had.

I got a box of pencils that you sharpen on both ends, one end is red pencil and the other is the "normal" black/graphite color. Great for drawing little UI mockups and such.

How about MOL - one letter back for each letter, as HAL was to IBM?

I agree with this recommendation. It's a good book.

We found that we could still go into their console, SSH into the boxes (from the browser-based thing), and reboot the boxes from there. When they came back up, they worked. May have just been good luck, just happening to come back up on hardware that's not behind the bad routers or whatever it is.

Edit: Also, we found that our instances were reachable (they mostly provide a JSON-based API over HTTP), in the sense that they were getting the incoming HTTP/HTTPS traffic that they normally do. But the responses were not getting back out to whoever requested them... lost on the way back out or something.

Cool, nice work. I personally think the pricing is quite reasonable as well. I have a project I might be able to use this with in the near future. Thanks for showing!

Minor typo in the left-side TOC of the docs... "devlopment" (missing an e).

Cool, thanks. I have already played around a bit with adding some hover effects etc, which is indeed straightforward since I can just use a plain old selector as you mention, etc.

I need to mess around to see if there is a straightforward way I could get a reference to the underlying data item (the row in the .csv for many of your examples, etc) from the context of a callback that fires on say $('bar').hover() or what have you. Will look into it.

Anyway thanks for answering, and nice work.

I too would like to know if anything is planned for built-in support for things like hover states, tooltips, etc, so that users can inspect/explore/drill-into the data shown in a Variance-powered chart.

FWIW, my next-door neighbors, who were dairy farmers for many years, felt quite certain that it would be a very harsh winter this year. Their prediction was based on a few natural indicators: the fact that old apple trees along our road were bearing fruit for the first time in a while; and the coloring of a certain type of furry caterpillar (sadly, like a typical city transplant, I don't recall the details at the moment). There was also something about where birds were placing their nests.

My lovely neighbors are full of observations and predictions like this, sometimes preceded by references to the Farmer's Almanac... what one could call "country wisdom" with perhaps a smile on one's face... but it really seems like they are usually right about such matters. They were so convinced of the harsh 2013-2014 winter that they decided to leave for two months of it, which they haven't done in like 50 years or something--which turned out to be a great call. Of course it could be coincidence or random chance, and I probably don't hear about or remember the times when the predictions are wrong. But I do love that there are other constructs for measuring and predicting weather other than what we typically hear about from the weatherperson on the news.

While simple, I believe Panel and Listgroup are new components; nice to have those nicely implemented and styled in the framework. Will be handy for me. In many ways I think Bootstrap helps the most with the little things like this. I am very appreciative of this terrific framework being made available for us to use.