nickgray

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My friends take turns picking movies. I turned the spreadsheet into a website(jesse.id)
2 points by nickgray 20d ago|1 comments
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by nickgray 20d ago
"It essentially turns a very crappy movie pick rotation spreadsheet that my friends and I use into something that tracks what we watch, who's turn it is to pick, what we rated things on Letterboxd, our reviews, and what movies we
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by nickgray 1mo ago
OP here: I'm not scraping thousands of times per day! Usually just a few times per year.
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by nickgray 1mo ago
Yes! OP here. I did the non-interactive challenge, and yet all those Chinese bots in my article got through (which surprised me).
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by nickgray 1mo ago
Thank you! I need to tighten up my KV compression, which is actually carrying a lot of D1's load otherwise. We also had some bad queries some months, as the pages and database grew, that were counting the wrong things (or extremely ine
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by nickgray 1mo ago
Hey! I'm the OP - thanks for feedback on my writing style. I went ahead and fixed this in the article. It should be updated by the time you read this: https://patronview.com/news/99-percent-of-my-website-traffic...
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by nickgray 2mo ago
thanks for sharing my /friends project! more about it from the About page here: https://slashfriends.org/about Your website has an /about page. Give it a /friends page too. Why do this? Linking out is generou
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by nickgray 2mo ago
This is cool and I like it.
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by nickgray 5mo ago
Cool site and beautiful photos!
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by nickgray 5mo ago
obligatory post of my site https://friendshiprecession.com/
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Show HN: Personalwebsites.org – The Official Homepage of Homepages(personalwebsites.org)
1 points by nickgray 6mo ago|0 comments
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by nickgray 6mo ago
thanks for the plug to my book!!
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Go on an Amazon Fulfillment Center Warehouse Tour(nickgray.net)
5 points by nickgray 11mo ago|1 comments
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by nickgray 11mo ago
Is it a PR exercise? Absolutely. Did it work on me? Also yes. There are Amazon warehouses all across the USA and Canada that you can tour now (for free) to see some behind-the-scenes logistics of how they handle Prime package shipping.
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by nickgray 11mo ago
This catalog is by Corning. Randomly, they have an absolutely incredible museum called The Corning Museum of Glass https://home.cmog.org/ located about 5 hours drive from New York City.
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by nickgray 11mo ago
I attended a presentation by Cloudflare last week about how they helped X (formerly Twitter) improve their reliability and network performance. To my knowledge, you will not find this information anywhere else online. It was presented by Al
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How Cloudflare Helped X Improve Network Performance and Reliability(nickgray.net)
6 points by nickgray 11mo ago|2 comments
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by nickgray 1y ago
I hadn't seen this yet- thanks for sharing!
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by nickgray 4y ago
My general thesis is that you have to do cool stuff to make new friends. Do interesting things to meet interesting people. But it doesn’t have to be hard! The unlock or LPT I’ve found is that hosting a super simple small party- becoming the
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by nickgray 4y ago
^^ this is great advice
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by nickgray 4y ago
Howdy, just saying Thank You for giving my book a shoutout! Tell me if you accept the challenge at the end of Chapter 1 and I'll personally help you out. I think you'll do great. This will be fun.
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by nickgray 4y ago
In this comment: I'll tell you why you should never host a dinner party, how to make new friends, why "cocktail parties" are better than dinner parties (even if you don't drink alcohol), and discuss the macro trends in p
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by nickgray 4y ago
This is really well-done, kudos!! A great resource.
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by nickgray 4y ago
with all due respect: no I disagree and here's why. The number 1 fear of a new or first-time event host is that nobody will show up to their party. People are TERRIFIED to host, they often DO NOT host, because of this. Or, worse, they
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by nickgray 4y ago
Great article. I have hosted hundreds of happy hours, dinner parties, cocktail parties etc. Here are a few things I'd add: - Name tags. Please, please use name tags. They might seem "formal" or "corporate" but they&