Hacker News: bjhess

Self-updating screenshots

bjhess — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:00:39 +0000

Article URL: https://interblah.net/self-updating-screenshots

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908051

Points: 390

# Comments: 62

New comment by bjhess in "Render.com Raises Prices"

bjhess — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:33:47 +0000

Being forced to the Pro plan from our prior Organization plan is increasing our bill by 40%.

Render.com Raises Prices

bjhess — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:02:31 +0000

Article URL: https://render.com/blog/better-pricing-for-fast-growing-teams

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882707

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

Creem Magazine is back in print and online after 33 years (2022)

bjhess — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:32:44 +0000

Article URL: https://sandboxworld.com/creem-magazine-is-back-in-print-and-online-after-33-years/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859831

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Gear Post 2026

bjhess — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:47:37 +0000

Article URL: https://tynan.com/gear2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46912779

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bjhess in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

bjhess — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:01:48 +0000

https://bjhess.com/

We Configure Our Rails Local CI

bjhess — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:09:20 +0000

Article URL: https://goodenough.us/posts/how-we-configure-our-rails-local-ci

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558634

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bjhess in "Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere"

bjhess — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 23:05:00 +0000

EchoFeed is a lovely service to enable this regardless of what service you use to publish on your own site (so long as it supports RSS/Atom/JSON). I've used it to good effect for my blog in the past.

https://echofeed.app/

New comment by bjhess in "Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?"

bjhess — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 07:57:58 +0000

If you’d like to dip your toe in the blogging pool for the first time (or again), I’d appreciate if you gave https://pika.page/ a look. It’s free for your first 50 posts (that’s a lot).

Rails, CloundFront CDN, and Imgproxy

bjhess — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:14:55 +0000

Article URL: https://goodenough.us/blog/2025-10-14-til-rails-cloundfront-cdn-and-imgproxy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45592914

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

RubyMine Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

bjhess — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:25:25 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/1n6jwod/rubymine_is_now_free_for_noncommercial_use/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45112241

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Buttondown's email subscription spam firewall

bjhess — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:03:13 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.buttondown.com/firewall

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201625

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Show HN: Prettier Email Headers

bjhess — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:42:20 +0000

Hi, I'm Barry and I wanted to share this little tool I put together to help us (https://goodenough.us/) better parse email headers as we build Jelly (https://letsjelly.com/).

We wanted an easier way to scan email headers when troubleshooting various issues that we run into with email handling. Email headers come into play when tracking who is involved in a conversation, tying conversations together, detecting spam, and more. Our eyes can get a little watery peering through raw email headers.

This tool accepts a paste of a raw email, then it shows headers and their values in a format that's easier on the eyes. Where possible, definitions are provided for each header. Most of these definitions (and their citations) were gathered by Chat GPT, with some editing by me. Corrections are welcomed!

And, yes, some vibe coding was involved in the creation of this tool.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43845124

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

New comment by bjhess in "You Need Customers to Succeed in Small Business"

bjhess — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:11:15 +0000

I mean, the biggest consumer of AI writing is probably AI scrapers…

You Need Customers to Succeed in Small Business

bjhess — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:47:40 +0000

Article URL: https://goodenough.us/blog/2025-04-24-you-need-customers-to-succeed-in-small-business/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43783487

Points: 43

# Comments: 51

New comment by bjhess in "Ask HN: Which blog platform is suitable for personal blogging?"

bjhess — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:00:49 +0000

I'd humbly offer the service I and the team at Good Enough built, Pika:

https://pika.page

It's humane and built for people, not businesses. It's quite lovely in our opinions!

Show HN: An online guestbook interface that accepts drawings

bjhess — Fri, 17 May 2024 14:45:18 +0000

When we built the guestbook on our company website [1] we received a lot of positive feedback and a big response on Hacker News [2].

Fast forward to today. We've since built a complete blogging and site platform called Pika [3]. We got to thinking that it would be great if people on our platform had the ability to experience this guestbook thing for themselves. While we couldn't send a printer out to everyone, we could make a completely digital, art-based guestbook for folks on our platform.

The guestbook provides a drawing canvas in the browser. When the drawing is submitted, it is then converted to PNG file for display in the guestbook itself.

Please give it a try!

Note: Guestbook entries are not automatically posted to our guestbook. Give us a minute to approve them. (We will immediately delete all troll drawings and messages.)

[1] https://guestbook.goodenough.us/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37941234

[3] https://pika.page/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390506

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

New comment by bjhess in "Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira"

bjhess — Thu, 16 May 2024 04:11:32 +0000

I sure hope so! I missed the serendipity of web 1.0 and then in the past couple of years I realized it’s all still there! In fact, there or more sites than ever behind the sheen of these giant companies.

I hope this next iteration brings a proliferation of tools that can help regular folks take part in that (personal sites, blogging, guestbooks, etc) without getting trapped in a walled garden or social network.

We’re trying to do our part to help at our company (Good Enough) with https://pika.page/

New comment by bjhess in "Show HN: Pika – Simple blogging software"

bjhess — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 22:03:58 +0000

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/User:Raltseye/List_o...

New comment by bjhess in "Show HN: Pika – Simple blogging software"

bjhess — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 15:38:06 +0000

Keen observation! We needed to start somewhere with our messaging, and that place is basically to reach out to people in my own position. Given that familiarity, we could build a message and test it out in this niche.

In some regards I'd love for that niche to be large enough to provide a good revenue stream for our team. The features we'd build would be more obvious to us, and they could be designed for a more technically-skilled audience.

That seems unlikely, though. And while building for the technical folks is enticing, I also would love a world where more people from various backgrounds are blogging. I would love to be able to go read 20 years of blog posts from my parents, or to read blog posts that my children write as they enter adulthood.

We've already done some user testing with non-technical folks and there are, of course, glaring challenges. Building for regular people who'd like to write will be hard work, but we have a team with lots of experience in this area!