Hacker News: gab007

New comment by gab007 in "Show HN: Hacker News on a train station-style flip board"

gab007 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:19:06 +0000

Neat. Now where can I get a real physical flip board, lol?

New comment by gab007 in "How to record and retrieve anything you've ever had to look up twice"

gab007 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 06:22:36 +0000

I am using a combination of Tomboy (desktop), Tomdroid and Markor (mobile) to record info i need later. Simple and effective.

New comment by gab007 in "YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads"

gab007 — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 18:47:32 +0000

True that! That does not absolve Youtube / Google from anything, however.

New comment by gab007 in "Gnome-Look.org Seems Down"

gab007 — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 16:26:45 +0000

Beautiful. On a Sunday afternoon when I was looking forward to change my desktop look :)

Hopefully back soon.

Seems to be the case with xfce-look.org as well.

Gnome-Look.org Seems Down

gab007 — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 16:26:44 +0000

Article URL: https://gnome-look.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35031034

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by gab007 in "Google Timer is gone"

gab007 — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 19:16:40 +0000

I've replaced it with purelymail.com (not affiliated) - and I'm happy with that. Been with the service for about 4 months now. Yes, there is occasional spam, but fine with that.

They offer calendar as well, works fine but I am not using it. Running my own self-hosted instance of NextCloud and using that for cal and contacts.

I do not use any online/web office suite.

New comment by gab007 in "Google Timer is gone"

gab007 — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 15:05:42 +0000

"Google does not care about their users". Well.. I am not sure about that, but there is always the option of not using Google products, or using as few as possible Google products.

- I've closed my G Suite legacy free edition (as opposed to transitioning to paid)

- I've moved away and stopped using Gmail, Drive, Photos and Keep

I am still using maps & youtube - these are a bit tricky to replace.

No hard-feelings, Google is no longer the company/innovator it used to be (remember back on 2005 got an invitation for gmail, and I was over the moon).

New comment by gab007 in "Show HN: Shortwave: Enjoy Your Inbox"

gab007 — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:51:41 +0000

Not for me, but.. A honest question - now, when G suite legacy free edition is closing down, here's a chance to offer a service that's not "piggy-backing" on gmail (or any other provider).

You could "re-create Inbox" by providing email hosting with same/similar features - already lined up on your page.

New comment by gab007 in "Upgrading the soldered-on RAM of a Dell XPS13 7390 laptop"

gab007 — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 06:05:24 +0000

Not an electronics engineer, but have enjoyed the read. If you can pull this off, more power to you.

With soldered storage and RAM onto the boards becoming nowadays fairly common, the author can probably open up a business and do this as a side-job or full time!

Add Chromebooks into the mix, and you'll probably have customers.

New comment by gab007 in "How I got wealthy without working too hard"

gab007 — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 16:37:43 +0000

> "Meetings are the mind-killer"

Could not agree more. They're big-corp specific and if you can avoid them - that would be a big plus for you. I can't. They lack value while being a complete waste of time. You may think it's no biggie - "but I'm getting paid for the meetig time".

True, however - they can wear you down in time, if three-four times a day... and you are still expected to deliver, regardless the time spent in meetings.

That's only my oppinion, I know some folks are fine with long meetings. My view on this is - I am not an entertainer (aka meetings "super-star"), I would like to keep it short & to the point.

Regarding the article, there is some good stuff in there, that may or may not apply to everyone (especially if you have kids).

New comment by gab007 in "Show HN: Paperd.ink – Open-source e-paper development board"

gab007 — Sun, 30 May 2021 09:57:27 +0000

If I may, one suggestion regarding the plastic frame - maybe work a bit on the quality and feel of the frame (unless pictures are of a prototype). I know it may not sound like a big deal, but I think that a good product presentation goes a long way.

Looks very promising, congrats on launching.

New comment by gab007 in "Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?"

gab007 — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:40:14 +0000

noterbox.com

Personal cloud / data capture and management with user's choice of storage.

Stage: proof of concept, with a working demo.

I am a solo technical founder, looking for a co-founder also with technical background. I am based in the UK.

New comment by gab007 in "Show HN: I am trying to start a webring for geeks"

gab007 — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 18:37:34 +0000

Yeah, that or this: "I take pride in having the most accurate prices on the web".

New comment by gab007 in "Entropy in the Universe"

gab007 — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 21:48:41 +0000

That zoom-able image is amazing. Sometimes we forget how big the universe is. And that's just an image of the Milky Way.

New comment by gab007 in "Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities"

gab007 — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 10:09:14 +0000

> One day I’ll have to go out to write something myself.

I resonate with that. I need to be able to add attachments to my notes - ideally with OCR capabilities. Evernote does that, but I've had a hard time finding something else for the Linux desktop.

It's 2019 (almost 2020) and a cross-platform note taking application that does notes + attachments + OCR it's still not available (I am not referring to "workarounds" or "tweaks", attachments as links, etc). If anyone knows one I would love to hear about it.

I am currently using a web app that I have built myself, it does notes and attachments but I am still working on implementing OCR via Tesseract (form images and PDF attachments).

@surfsvammel, if you decide to go that way and start building something, give me a shout - email in my profile.

Structuring data in the context of a decent search engine and hash-tags

gab007 — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:22:28 +0000

Article URL: https://noterbox.com/blog/data-structure-in-the-context-of-a-decent-search-engine/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18532788

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gab007 in "Ask HN: What is/was the most significative perk you had at work?"

gab007 — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 15:02:52 +0000

Yup, absolutely, second that.

New comment by gab007 in "Ask HN: Going in circle – no traction, no investors"

gab007 — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 11:55:51 +0000

> I have SaaS fatigue!

I've smiled at this one. Taking a moment to think about it, it's true.

If you've looked at the presentation, one the things I'm looking at - is to market this as a personal device, for exactly that reason. Thanks for input.

Ask HN: What is/was the most significative perk you had at work?

gab007 — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 18:20:44 +0000

Hi HN,

I see more and more employers nowadays offering "free parking", "located near public transportation" or "foosball tables" as "perks" at the workplace. No disrespect, and I know that some of these cost money too, but what happened to the real ones?

One of the best perks I had at work, was that I had the freedom to work on my own schedule - as long as I put in at least 8 hours per day. The only downside of that was that I had to "step in" if there were issues, regardless of the hour of the day. I would still start the day at 8:00am at the office - it was nice to have the option to start later if you wanted so.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18339774

Points: 9

# Comments: 15

New comment by gab007 in "Ask HN: Going in circle – no traction, no investors"

gab007 — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:10:43 +0000

Same here - I only sign-up for services that are a "need" not a "want". If I implement a "Sign up with Google" feature - would you try the app? Thanks for checking!