Hacker News: joewils

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

joewils — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:47:42 +0000

New comment by joewils in "How robust against spam should side projects be?"

joewils — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:25:23 +0000

I've found most spam comes from bots operating from certain countries. Filtering traffic by IP address will stop a lot of spammy traffic. I've used a combination of GeoIP and IP address catagorization to limit the impact of bots on my side-projects.

Bot Protection: https://github.com/growlfm/ipcat

GeoIP Evaluation: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geolite2-free-geolocation-data...

You can dig deeper using dedicated services for URL and image inspection.

Image Evaluation: https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/detecting-safe-search

URL Evaluation: https://cloud.google.com/web-risk/docs/overview

Show HN: I made an app to manage and track dynamic QR codes

joewils — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:57:52 +0000

I built this tool for myself. I need a simple tool to produce, manage, and track QR Codes along with their related campaigns. Most existing tools require a paid plan to unlock tracking and management features. It's a nominal personal cost to share it with other folks. Enjoy.

Tech stack: Ruby, Sinatra, SQLite, Litestream, Fly.io

FAQ: https://qrpotato.com/faq

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42730104

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by joewils in "Wordpress.org Login: "I am not affiliated with WP Engine in any way""

joewils — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:48:28 +0000

https://www.classicpress.net

New comment by joewils in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)"

joewils — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 17:48:02 +0000

Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Ruby, Python, SQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript

Résumé/CV: https://joecode.com/resume/

Email: joe@joecode.com

I'm a data janitor who prefers writing boring software using boring technologies. I'm particularly good at turning piles of spreadsheets into data-driven dashboards.

New comment by joewils in "Ask HN: What's the best charting library for customer-facing dashboards?"

joewils — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:58:55 +0000

If print friendly reports are a requirement, I'd go with QuickChart (https://quickchart.io.)

Static charts similar to chart.js, but without all the javascript. I've found static charts are much easier to work with once print CSS layout becomes a requirement.

New comment by joewils in "SQLite-Web: Web-based SQLite database browser written in Python"

joewils — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 21:36:40 +0000

My favorite web-based SQL editor and browser: https://www.adminer.org

Single PHP file. Super simple setup and configuration.

New comment by joewils in "The backpass ban: football’s best rule change"

joewils — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:24:52 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20240123152245/https://theathlet...

New comment by joewils in "EHTML Docs"

joewils — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:38:37 +0000

How does this library compare to Turbo/Stimulus?

Happy to see competition in the world of "minimal JS" frameworks. Have you done a comparison with Turbo/Stimulus from DHH and company?

New comment by joewils in "How Bear does analytics with CSS"

joewils — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 17:40:35 +0000

This is really clever and fun. I'm curious how the results compare to something "old school" like AWStats?

https://github.com/eldy/awstats

New comment by joewils in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

joewils — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 16:42:07 +0000

https://joecode.com

Mostly links to various articles and noise I find interesting along with a photo journal of my school bus conversion project.

Not a lot of words. "Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?"

New comment by joewils in "Show HN: BillaBear – Self-Hosted SaaS Subscription Management and Billing"

joewils — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 15:25:30 +0000

What's the reasoning behind the lack of transparent pricing?

> "How much does BillaBear cost? To get pricing email sales@billabear.com."

New comment by joewils in "Show HN: Haven – Run a private website to share with only the people you choose"

joewils — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 16:15:44 +0000

mawise,

Where you thinking of sharing your code under an MIT license similar to Rails or something else?

I looked for a LICENSE file, but didn't find one: https://docs.github.com/en/github/building-a-strong-communit...

New comment by joewils in "Show HN: ThePDFApi, a Chrome Based PDF Generation API Hosted on AWS"

joewils — Thu, 31 May 2018 15:16:02 +0000

Generating PDF's from HTML is a huge PITA. I really like what you've done.

re: "is it clear upon viewing the landing page what the product is about?" Yes. I think your landing page copy reads well, but could use a bit of polish. Emphasis how well PdfApi solves common margin and background rendering issues compared to other alternatives.

re: "are there any questions that you have that are not answered on the page" I'm not sure you need to answer all of a users questions, but considering you are targeting startups and developers, I'd focus on building out your API documentation.

re: "would this product provide value to you if your startup needed to generate PDFs" Potentially, but considering your audience (developers/startups) I suspect most of us would tackle the issue locally with a Chrome headless setup.

re: "what would you use instead" I've used the following to generate PDF's from HTML: * Chrome Headless * WKHTMLtoPDF

This is good work. I like what you've done. Build out strong API documentation with multiple code snippets and examples to improve your developer marketing.

Show HN: Riverlot is a daily fitness news aggregator

joewils — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 14:42:30 +0000

Article URL: http://www.riverlot.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14587324

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by joewils in "Show HN: F.I.S.H. – Mashup of data sources to help explore state of Washington"

joewils — Mon, 08 May 2017 19:54:07 +0000

love the idea of building a geobox for filtering. I'll look into it. thanks for the feedback.

New comment by joewils in "Show HN: F.I.S.H. – Mashup of data sources to help explore state of Washington"

joewils — Mon, 08 May 2017 19:51:11 +0000

Good suggestion. It's on my TODO list.

New comment by joewils in "Show HN: F.I.S.H. – Mashup of data sources to help explore state of Washington"

joewils — Mon, 08 May 2017 19:50:41 +0000

Thanks @ccallebs. re: API, The Beer Mapping Project has you covered: https://beermapping.com

New comment by joewils in "Show HN: F.I.S.H. – Mashup of data sources to help explore state of Washington"

joewils — Fri, 05 May 2017 15:00:12 +0000

F.I.S.H. is a mashup of several data sources to help me explore my adopted state of Washington.

I'm using data provided by the United States Geological Survey, TrailAPI.com, The Beer Mapping Project, ReserveAmerica, Mapbox and OpenStreetMap to build an application to map a few of my favorite things: fishing, camping, hiking, mountain biking, and beer.

Your feedback and wisdom is appreciated,

-joe-

Show HN: F.I.S.H. – Mashup of data sources to help explore state of Washington