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While not directly in the Thinkpad name, I have an older X1 Carbon (4th Gen) that has worked really well for me. Extensive travelling, multiple drops, etc. Thing still is solid. Runs Debian really well.

I have only ever owned Thinkpads (until the carbon) and I don't see any reason I would personally switch back to Thinkpad version. Carbons are so small and perfect for my usage.

How many emails do you send with them? I send > 200k and interested to know what their pricing turns into in the 'Enterprise' plan.

Thanks for the link though, good to see other people in the space (currently using Mailgun)

Ah, if only this was fully available ~ 4 months ago.

I transitioned my recipe app with ~ 80,000 images from Cloudinary to a combination of Backblaze B2 + Bunny.net a few months ago. I heavily use the resizing and optimizing features.

It's saved me a ton of money, but if I could have used B2 + Cloudflare with their 0 bandwidth alliance, I could have saved more, I think - haven't done the math though.

In the grand scheme of things, though, I've worked with Bunny now and love the interface, and performance. The one time I contacted support, I spoke 1 on 1 with , I believe, the founder of Bunny. He was cool.

Cloudflare is doing some killer things, excited for that. But glad to see we have small name alternatives to everything (S3 to B2, Cloudflare to Bunny, etc) that can compete on price and functionality.

Good stuff, though! More options the better!

Love it! Fantastic idea.

I am checking out some of the projects now.

Is there still an opportunity to get paid back, rather than keeping it in the system?

I love the idea of the loan continuing through the system for myself (I don't personally need the payback), but I'd imagine there would be some funders / loaners that would like the original system of getting paid back. Is that still a possibility?

I am sending this to a few friends that are really excited about African entrepreneurship (myself included). Great idea!

Great write-up. I've just switched from Cloudinary to Backblaze B2 + Bunny CDN and I am saving a pretty ridiculous amount of money for hosting thousands of customer images.

Bunny has a great interface and service; I'm really surprised how little people know about it, I think I discovered it on some 'top 10 CDNs list' that I usually ignore, but the pricing was too good to pass up.

The team is really on the ball from what I've seen. Appreciate the descriptive post, folks!

This is fantastic! I'd love it if I could pair this with an RSS aggregator to get new, plain-text recipes in my RSS feed every day/week, etc. Right now I get an RSS feed of my favourite recipe sites but have to get through so much junk to see the actual recipe.

I recently went down the rabbit hole of recipe websites while I built a little side project Shopify app for creating recipes on ecommerce stores[1]. Having a plaintext version has been on my backlog to-do list forever, but it seems the vast majority of store owners aren't keen on it. It's been a massive learning experience for me; and I never realized how... bad the recipe website experience was for so many people.

Question: how do you think we, as in us as the people building the current web, can improve the standard recipe display on the web? Obviously removing the 1300 word novel before recipes is a big plus, but what else do you think would improve your day-to-day recipe browsing?

[1] https://recipekit.app/

Look towards Shopify Support Gurus. Paid well, fully remote. As a Shopify Partner I deal with them a lot and have never had a bad experience; while some can't always answer my question, I always speak to a human (24/7 via live chat) and they direct my query in the right direction.

I agree, but I'm currently stuck with a phone that is unrootable (Zenfone 3 Max ZC520TL) so I'm sort of stuck.

I figure at the very least, moving my email off Google is a good first step.

Tutanota is cool but I like having IMAP option which is not available with them. FairMail is a great idea and I'm following development closely for it, but right now it just doesn't accomplish what I need.

DuckDuckGo Traffic 8 years ago

Hah, I posted this because I saw it on Reddit and realized nobody had posted it on HN yet. I wish I was getting paid to shill companies, that would be fantastic!

DuckDuckGo Traffic 8 years ago

"DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources,[45] including Yahoo! Search BOSS; Wikipedia; Wolfram Alpha; Bing; its own Web crawler (the DuckDuckBot); and others.[3][45][46] It also uses data from crowdsourced sites, including Wikipedia, to populate "Zero-click Info" boxes – grey boxes above the results that display topic summaries and related topics.[10]"

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Overview - https://duck.co/help/results/sources

SEEKING WORK - Remote / Singapore / Bali / Costa Rica / anywhere nice

I'm a Shopify Expert from Waterloo, Canada (https://experts.shopify.com/patrick-bollenbach).

This means I...

- Build and setup e-commerce stores on Shopify

- Do in-depth theme customization jobs

- Develop private/public Shopify applications for features not natively supported by the platform

I do a lot of work for startup companies in Asia/Australia, but am currently looking to do some more work for agencies in North America that are looking to get into the e-commerce game, or that have some overflow Shopify work.

Send me an email, we can chat and figure out if I can help you out.

Portfolio - https://bolle.co

Email - patrick(at)bolle(dot)co

SEEKING WORK - Remote / Singapore / Bali / Costa Rica / anywhere nice (give me a good enough reason to travel and I'll be there!)

I'm a Shopify Expert from Waterloo, Canada (https://experts.shopify.com/patrick-bollenbach).

This means I...

- Build and setup e-commerce stores on Shopify

- Do in-depth theme customization jobs

- Develop private Shopify applications for features not natively supported by the platform

I do a lot of work for startup companies in Asia/Australia, but am currently looking to do some more work for agencies in North America that are looking to get into the e-commerce game, or that have some overflow Shopify work.

Send me an email, we can chat and figure out if I can help you out.

Portfolio - https://bolle.co

Email - patrick(at)bolle(dot)co