MattieTK

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by MattieTK 6mo ago
EmDash with some aggressive caching and SWR is effectively this, and we're getting closer to that every day. When the cost of maintaining the data part of the CMS is effectively free, you're basically working with a static site an
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Work in content? You should be using AI for alt text(tk.gg)
2 points by MattieTK 11mo ago|0 comments
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by MattieTK 1y ago
I find it a little funny that their blog post goes into a lot of righteous detail on why they don't charge for address space like other providers and then on their pricing page they charge for you to receive or send emails. Receive! Li
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Show HN: A free multiviewer to watch major news events like elections(vidgrid.tk.gg)
13 points by MattieTK 2y ago|1 comments
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by MattieTK 2y ago
This was written a really long time ago by a former WSJ Graphics reporter (Elliot Bentley) who is now at Datawrapper. It is now operated by Muckrock and hasn't seen changes made to it in a while. That's why it doesn't have an
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by MattieTK 3y ago
I'm so mad about Slack removing custom themes as part of this update. Seems entirely pointless given the volume of themes they now provide, it seems arbitrary that they have limited your own choices.
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by MattieTK 3y ago
This is highly reminiscent of the numbers game from the British daytime gameshow Countdown. Contestants are given a choice of six numbers, from which they can choose how many big (25, 50, 75, 100) and small (1-10), and are then given a rand
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by MattieTK 4y ago
Murdoch owns The Times" in London, not "The New York Times" (commonly referred to in the US as just The Times*). In the US his holdings are the Wall Street Journal and New York Post.
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by MattieTK 4y ago
But that's because the definition of a paper of record has changed, not because they no longer align themselves with the current definition. By that traditional definition the only paper of record in existence today is the internet its
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by MattieTK 4y ago
I dropped pinboard.in recently. The interface hasn't had improvements in years, the extensions are all third party, and the API if you wanted to build your own is pretty limiting. The mobile interface is pretty poor too. I'm now m
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by MattieTK 5y ago
I used to work for a major multinational media company. A few years ago the CTO at that media company looked to slash costs. They have a bunch of newspapers all over the world, and they had just acquired an Indian software development agenc
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Roam co-founder rewrites subreddit rules to retroactively justify ban spree(reddit.com)
3 points by MattieTK 5y ago|0 comments
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Valve cancel in-person tickets for The International four days before it starts(twitter.com)
2 points by MattieTK 5y ago|0 comments
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by MattieTK 5y ago
Yeah, sorry, that is what the world is like. It's a shame, but there's a way (as written in the post) that Apple could have accomplished something similar whilst still providing enough data to prevent the advertising arms race. Th
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Apple's Mail Privacy Protection is lazy and hurts small publishers(tk.gg)
4 points by MattieTK 5y ago|4 comments
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by MattieTK 5y ago
This was part of the exciting suggestion of the original Stadia trailers: with the entire game and all the interactions happening in Google datacentres, you would only need to receive a rendered version, and suddenly all this would be possi
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by MattieTK 6y ago
More discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25326232
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by MattieTK 6y ago
There's no new information here, and some of these problems have been solved such as the group identification that happened during the HK protests. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-telegram-exclusi... E
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by MattieTK 6y ago
Something the New York Times have talked about recently is how they repositioned their subscription offers in the opposite direction to Tim's suggestion recently to great success. The whole idea is to offer long trials at reduced price
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by MattieTK 6y ago
Generally they have a lot of media at a low cost. But if you want to support the production of this media, Apple currently take 50% of your monthly subscription as the cost of providing the service. That's even more than the app tax!
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by MattieTK 6y ago
From working in media, another problem with micropayments is deciding on that dollar cost. Without coming up with some administration of value to each article (which I'm not saying isn't worthwhile, it's just not something th
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by MattieTK 6y ago
They added a new setting recently to allow affiliate links like those used for tracking which might include this, try it out.
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by MattieTK 6y ago
Thanks! I had no idea what I was searching for to try and find professional alternatives, so this is helpful :)
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by MattieTK 6y ago
Hi HN! When I was at university (early 2010s) I worked a lot on student media, and got really into what the future of news would look like. Around the same time Microsoft backed a company called LiveStation which has since closed down, but
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Show HN: VidGrid – A large-screen news channel viewer with simple audio control(vidgrid.tk.gg)
3 points by MattieTK 6y ago|3 comments
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by MattieTK 7y ago
Surely this is too lightweight to perform in windy conditions?
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by MattieTK 8y ago
Get a Monzo or a Revolut card and pay with that, top up in GBP, and transfer for free at the MasterCard rate.
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by MattieTK 9y ago
Flag 10: In his introduction to his 'Moon' library [1], he notes that in 'late 2015' he found he was having problems with Vue. If he's the oldest 13 year old he can be today, that makes him in 2015 toying with Vue e
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by MattieTK 10y ago
> Edit: downvotes? how is what he is describing any different to that and anything else other than a buzzword? Doesn't AWS Lambda just run your processes in an ec2 instance? Yes but you don't pay for the hardware specifically,
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by MattieTK 10y ago
deck.news also down

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