Hacker News: mattbk1

New comment by mattbk1 in "US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent"

mattbk1 — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 01:58:36 +0000

"If we're going to meet at noon, the sun should be straight over head, damnit." Absolutely.

New comment by mattbk1 in "Ask HN: Show your failed projects and share a lesson you learned"

mattbk1 — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 23:14:23 +0000

This looks amazing!

New comment by mattbk1 in "How to run a small social network site for your friends"

mattbk1 — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 19:54:13 +0000

Pleorma is easier to install and less resource-hungry, so the bar for setting up an instance is lower.

New comment by mattbk1 in "Lemmy Release v0.14.0: Federation with Mastodon and Pleroma"

mattbk1 — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 20:30:46 +0000

An instance of Lemmy is free to federate (or not) with other instances on the Fediverse. Each instance can have its own code of conduct. Seems good for everyone.

New comment by mattbk1 in "XMPP, a comeback story"

mattbk1 — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 00:54:30 +0000

Sounds similar to WinLink forms on ham radio, used to make sending structured data easier: https://www.winlink.org/WinlinkExpressForms

New comment by mattbk1 in "Tips For Making a Popular Open Source Project in 2021"

mattbk1 — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 16:23:52 +0000

Please don't joke about suicide.

New comment by mattbk1 in "Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community"

mattbk1 — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 22:22:48 +0000

I understand your pain. Even simple things like moving posts from one channel to another aren't possible for an admin to do in Slack, although this has been basic forum functionality since...ever?

Save Standard Time

mattbk1 — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 15:31:28 +0000

Article URL: https://savestandardtime.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28945911

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by mattbk1 in "Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health"

mattbk1 — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 20:18:42 +0000

What do you see as the "huge tech cost and barrier of entry of mastodon"?

New comment by mattbk1 in "Companies should probably pay $2k per person for open source (2017)"

mattbk1 — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 15:03:29 +0000

When Gratipay existed, they didn't take a cut (financial transaction fees were covered by donor or recipient). They survived on dogfooding[1]. Liberapay operates the same way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food

New comment by mattbk1 in "Companies should probably pay $2k per person for open source (2017)"

mattbk1 — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 20:19:00 +0000

Glad to see you're still around!

New comment by mattbk1 in "Companies should probably pay $2k per person for open source (2017)"

mattbk1 — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 19:21:37 +0000

It also includes the ability to sponsor through Liberapay, the remaining Gratipay fork.

New comment by mattbk1 in "Companies should probably pay $2k per person for open source (2017)"

mattbk1 — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 19:19:22 +0000

There was a lot of pivoting going on near the end, unfortunately. The "companies pay" version of the site wasn't around for very long.

Companies should probably pay $2k per person for open source (2017)

mattbk1 — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 13:57:01 +0000

Article URL: https://gratipay.news/your-company-should-probably-pay-2000-per-person-for-open-source-9205443e209d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28693731

Points: 117

# Comments: 104

New comment by mattbk1 in "I'm working on open source full time"

mattbk1 — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 13:55:28 +0000

As articulated four years ago: https://gratipay.news/your-company-should-probably-pay-2000-...

New comment by mattbk1 in "Porn Spam on Google Maps"

mattbk1 — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 19:50:31 +0000

Cool!

I found an example of a local feed here: https://help.openstreetmap.org/answer_link/25796/

New comment by mattbk1 in "Porn Spam on Google Maps"

mattbk1 — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 15:07:09 +0000

StreetComplete is a great Android app to help update OSM data by asking you questions while you're out walking around. So rather than drawing new features, you're just saying "yes, this is a house/no, there is no wheelchair ramp here/the building number here is 1234" etc.

New comment by mattbk1 in "Apps Getting Worse"

mattbk1 — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 22:42:19 +0000

In a perfect world, all of those would work in an RSS reader.

New comment by mattbk1 in "Apps Getting Worse"

mattbk1 — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 22:41:27 +0000

I would add that Joplin is great because it's plain text. People keep trying to shove OneNote at us at work and all I want is one text box per note, that doesn't move around when I try to edit it.

New comment by mattbk1 in "Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier and smarter"

mattbk1 — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 19:51:14 +0000

This is the big thing hidden behind all projects (renewables, capture, efficiency upgrades) that claim "this is the equivalent of taking 60,000 cars off the road." Think of the savings for health and the environment if we just spent the money trying to get an actual 60,000 cars off the road in the first place.