Hacker News: mkerrigan

New comment by mkerrigan in "AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API"

mkerrigan — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 19:55:40 +0000

OpenWeather still has a free tier. https://openweathermap.org/

New comment by mkerrigan in "The Website Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss"

mkerrigan — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 03:04:30 +0000

I find the whole thing funny. There's not so much secret sauce going on here as much as you might think. I've been reading Daring Fireball for a long time but I think anytime you make this suggestion the automatic response is to think there is some shady cabal behind the scenes and that's just conspiracy theory stuff. Anytime someone makes a meta post questioning how HN ranks articles it almost always gets flagged because it's not really on topic.

New comment by mkerrigan in "I won't be renewing my Pinboard subscription"

mkerrigan — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 02:09:08 +0000

I don't have nearly as sophisticated setup as [Gwern](https://gwern.net/archiving), but they provide an overview of how you might go about it. Right now I manually use the extension on as as needed basis, but I would like to get it to the point where I can point a script at a list of urls and both run SingleFile and also upload to the Wayback Machine

New comment by mkerrigan in "I won't be renewing my Pinboard subscription"

mkerrigan — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 20:08:53 +0000

It really depends on your needs. I use Pinboard on many different browsers and devices and I'm not really interested in running my own service. I'll happily pay for the full text archiving but I acknowledge it is not perfect. I have come to the conclusion if you want to retain full text copies of your bookmarks, you need to download the pages yourself. I have been using SingleFile extension but there is also a CLI available.

New comment by mkerrigan in "Nevada’s public employee pension fund invests passively and beats peers (2016)"

mkerrigan — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 07:33:41 +0000

Check out https://earlyretirementnow.com/2021/05/26/the-emergency-fund... from Early Retirement Now. He also links to other posts debunking the need for emergency savings.

New comment by mkerrigan in "Show HN: I made an open source Mailchimp RSS-to-Email alternative"

mkerrigan — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:55:52 +0000

Notifier - https://notifier.in/ is another service I use to convert email newsletters to RSS.

New comment by mkerrigan in "Industrial Design Student Work: "How Long Should Objects Last?""

mkerrigan — Thu, 09 May 2024 05:03:03 +0000

Same thing happened to me so I'm glad I'm not the only one.

New comment by mkerrigan in "How to copy a file between devices? (2022)"

mkerrigan — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 02:35:58 +0000

The bigger issue is on Apple and iOS, the "regular user" doesn't often interact with individual files outside of the app. Even at my work (US airline), there have been recent restrictions added to the workstations so you can't just plug in a USB thumb drive and transfer some files (honestly a no-brainer). But for many people, much of their experience learning about using computers comes from work. If you don't regularly do it at work, how would they learn how to do it outside of work?

New comment by mkerrigan in "Browsers Are Weird"

mkerrigan — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 07:12:36 +0000

The people who work on Brave don't really have anything to do with Brendan Eich's political beliefs. You can also disable the crypto component.

New comment by mkerrigan in "NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month"

mkerrigan — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:25:00 +0000

It's interesting to read the criticisms of NaNoWriMo because they don't really change. I have completed it for 15 years in a row, then on year 16 I sort of hit a wall and this year I am deliberately not doing it. But my friend and I have been doing it since high school. The point is usually not about doing it to become published but rather to have fun. I'm not sure if I would have been able to do it without going to some of the in-person write-ins. I even know someone who met their husband at a in-person write-in.

New comment by mkerrigan in "Paste without formatting on macOS"

mkerrigan — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 16:23:33 +0000

I have been using [Jumpcut](https://github.com/snark/jumpcut) for this purpose. I have it bound to ctrl cmd v, so it doesn't conflict with the normal cmd v