Hacker News: andrewpbrett

New comment by andrewpbrett in "Show HN: Write 500 Words a Day"

andrewpbrett — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 21:32:37 +0000

Yes that worked!

New comment by andrewpbrett in "Show HN: Write 500 Words a Day"

andrewpbrett — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 17:16:42 +0000

I wrote 500 words yesterday but the calendar date is still blue... any chance you can take a look @nickagliano? The text appears when I click on the date.

New comment by andrewpbrett in "Working Multiple Jobs"

andrewpbrett — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 17:17:28 +0000

This may be apocryphal but I've heard that "howdy" is essentially a contraction of "how do you do"

Edit: Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdy

New comment by andrewpbrett in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)"

andrewpbrett — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 01:31:25 +0000

Open Food Network | REMOTE | Developer and Sysadmin Positions Available

Stack: Nginx, Postgres, Rails, Angular (moving to Reactive Rails), Ansible

Source code: https://github.com/openfoodfoundation/openfoodnetwork

Founded in 2012, we’re a group of not-for-profit organisations and cooperatives focused on building a new food system that is fair, local, and transparent. We believe a sustainable and resilient food system needs to reconnect producers and consumers. We aim to empower people and communities and give them the tools and knowledge to develop the food systems they need for their community.

This is an open call for applications. After you fill in the form[0] you’ll receive an email inviting you to contribute to the project on Github. Contributions on Github are a key part of our recruitment decision making process - we recruit from our contributor pool.

[0]: https://www.openfoodnetwork.org/become-a-contributor/

New comment by andrewpbrett in "Show HN: Send as POST – share photos and links via POST request on iOS/macOS"

andrewpbrett — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 15:01:57 +0000

Thanks! It currently does save and prefill URLs but you’re right, it’d be easy to hardcode the URL if you always want to use the same one.

New comment by andrewpbrett in "Show HN: Send as POST – share photos and links via POST request on iOS/macOS"

andrewpbrett — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 21:46:42 +0000

Yeah this is what I wrote to receive the images: https://github.com/andrewpbrett/admin.andybrett.com

New comment by andrewpbrett in "Show HN: Send as POST – share photos and links via POST request on iOS/macOS"

andrewpbrett — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 18:37:48 +0000

Thanks for the kind words! That was definitely my intention with making this. It’s open source as well so let me know if you have any feedback or feel free to just fork/PR.

New comment by andrewpbrett in "Show HN: Send as POST – share photos and links via POST request on iOS/macOS"

andrewpbrett — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 17:11:53 +0000

I made this! More background here: https://andybrett.com/writing/send-as-post

Show HN: Send as POST – share photos and links via POST request on iOS/macOS

andrewpbrett — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 17:11:33 +0000

Article URL: https://sendaspost.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16098144

Points: 5

# Comments: 9

New comment by andrewpbrett in "Instagram grows to 1M active advertisers"

andrewpbrett — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 22:16:40 +0000

Has anyone else had the experience of seeing almost zero ads on Instagram since they introduced them? I can count the number I've seen on one hand. I marked the first couple, right after they launched them, as not relevant (they weren't) and since then I think I've seen two, one in the feed and one in their Stories feature.

New comment by andrewpbrett in "Dizzying Ride May Be Ending for Startups"

andrewpbrett — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:01:10 +0000

Spelling - it's John Maynard Keynes, not Keanes :)

Race Report: Antarctica Marathon

andrewpbrett — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 16:53:28 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/exercises-in-character-building/race-report-antarctica-marathon-1f274ec3f562#.2fscmmnit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10478948

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How To Run For 13 Hours

andrewpbrett — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 22:26:04 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@andrewpbrett/how-to-run-for-13-hours-737816851dc6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8160963

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by andrewpbrett in "Ask HN: Idea Sunday"

andrewpbrett — Sun, 13 Apr 2014 23:51:24 +0000

Beeminder, as others have mentioned, handles #1 and #3 pretty well (minus the donation to the KKK part - the money for failing goes to Beeminder).

I built GTBee[1] using the Beeminder API which is pretty much #2. Again, the punitive thing is taking your money, starting at $5 and escalating from there.

This isn't to say that it wouldn't be a fun project to build things that do this though!

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/tc/app/gtbee/id779525180?mt=8

New comment by andrewpbrett in "A dose of perspective"

andrewpbrett — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 23:17:31 +0000

Boom, #88.

New comment by andrewpbrett in "Sam Altman for President"

andrewpbrett — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 23:21:00 +0000

"You could parachute [Sam] into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king." - PG 5.5 years ago[1]

Congrats Sam.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/fundraising.html

New comment by andrewpbrett in "The Couple That Pays Each Other to Put Kids to Bed"

andrewpbrett — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 23:03:10 +0000

Lest anyone think this is exaggerated or linkbait-y, I've personally seen them do this, a lot. For example, a $100 gas purchase was immediately resolved using a method similar to what's shown in the video - had the number come up, $1000 would have changed hands (it didn't, much to my chagrin).

New comment by andrewpbrett in "Zidisha (YC NP W14) Launches A Micro-Lending Platform for Developing Nations"

andrewpbrett — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 19:31:59 +0000

Just made two loans. I really love this idea and Zidisha does a great job of giving you all the information about the project and the person you're making the loan to. Congrats on the launch.

New comment by andrewpbrett in "1000 Days of User-Visible Improvements"

andrewpbrett — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 17:33:59 +0000

There's another PG essay that's relevant to this, "What Startups Are Really Like":

http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html

The URL is apt, since I parse it as "No, really, this is what it's like. So, really, you should do this".

Posting public updates, and having some way to commit to continuing to do so (whether it's Beeminder or something else that works for you) is something you should really do.

ABFlatSwitch: library to customize UISwitch

andrewpbrett — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:02:40 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/andrewpbrett/ABFlatSwitch

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5587029

Points: 1

# Comments: 0