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One last trip to the internet in 2009 with The Rough Guide 14

planetjones — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:41:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.planetjones.net/blog/19-04-2026/one-last-trip-to-the-internet-in-2009-with-the-rough-guide-14.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911636

Points: 1

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One last trip to the internet in 2009 with The Rough Guide 14

planetjones — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:15:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.planetjones.net/blog/19-04-2026/one-last-trip-to-the-internet-in-2009-with-the-rough-guide-14.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837424

Points: 2

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

planetjones — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:24:15 +0000

https://www.planetjones.net

New comment by planetjones in "Say No to Palantir in the NHS"

planetjones — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 09:38:36 +0000

From reading the case studies it seems most of Foundry in the NHS is geared towards operational data e.g. how to utilise capacity within an hospital efficiently.

Palantir does have very strong capabilities to protect data e.g. security markings, not allowing data to be exported.

Data centre in the shed reduces energy bills to £40

planetjones — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 17:18:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rpy7envr5o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45946687

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Apache Fineract

planetjones — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 19:46:04 +0000

Article URL: https://fineract.apache.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44770753

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

CEOs Start Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: AI Will Wipe Out Jobs

planetjones — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 03:46:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-white-collar-job-loss-b9856259

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44451455

Points: 37

# Comments: 40

Ask HN: Are you working in a distributed team?

planetjones — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 17:34:43 +0000

I am curious if you’re working for a tech company, if your product / engineering team is co-located I.e. same office. And if so, do you think this the optimal model. I understand the way remote companies like Gitlab are structured, so the responses I would be interested in are more for ‚established‘ companies where it’s been decided there is a return to office mandate. Do you think this is most effective when all or some of the team is located together? Do teams which split by geography e.g. same timezone split or different timezone split have advantages or disadvantages in your experience.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43585510

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by planetjones in "Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS"

planetjones — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 04:40:07 +0000

Hugo worked for me. And as part of the GitHub pipeline that builds the site and deploys it I can grab some ‘dynamic’ content (from a Notion DB) and render it. Subsequently I added Zapier so that when the Notion DB changes it triggers the pipeline to update my website. The only thing I pay for is the web hosting with dreamhost.

https://www.planetjones.net/blog/03-05-2023/relaunching-my-p...

New comment by planetjones in "Link Blog in a Static Site"

planetjones — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:40:38 +0000

I am user of dreamhost so the images get stored there. I wrote about my set-up on my blog.

https://www.planetjones.net/blog/03-05-2023/relaunching-my-p...

New comment by planetjones in "Link Blog in a Static Site"

planetjones — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 18:46:01 +0000

On my personal site (also built with Hugo) I post images of food I have eaten and media I have consumed. I could use Instagram, Bluesky or X but I want the content to be mine and stay mine. And I am doing it because I like to blog things not because I want the interaction on social media.

https://www.planetjones.net/food.html

https://www.planetjones.net/reviews.html

Apple says it will update AI feature after BBC complaint

planetjones — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 08:12:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge93de21n0o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42620403

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by planetjones in "Passengers at EU Airports Not Allowed over 100ml of Liquids on Cabin Luggage"

planetjones — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 10:20:13 +0000

Not at airports that installed the new scanners. Like London City e.g.https://www.londoncityairport.com/at-the-airport/need-to-kno...

New comment by planetjones in "Passengers at EU Airports Not Allowed over 100ml of Liquids on Cabin Luggage"

planetjones — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 10:16:14 +0000

Better details here: https://transport.ec.europa.eu/news-events/news/commission-e...

Seems even with the new scanners there is some issue why they have to limit items to no more than 100ml temporarily. Maybe waiting for a software update… though if there is a loophole seems weird to wait until September 1st…

New comment by planetjones in "Show HN: Directory of resources for learning German"

planetjones — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 06:20:42 +0000

Dankeschön! The one I am having some success with at the moment is https://www.herrprofessor.com/en/podcast/ as I can listen to the podcasts on the way to work and he explains things in a way my software engineering brain can follow :) Also I didn’t see at first glance https://www.vhs-lernportal.de/ on your site, which is an outstanding resource for free classes that can get you up to B1 level pretty effectively in my experience.

New comment by planetjones in "The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning"

planetjones — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 12:33:07 +0000

Previous HN comments indicated this could just be demo snowflake accounts, which were all compromised from a single individuals account at snowflake. But the announcements don’t seem consistent with this. Do we think propective customers really shared 100s of millions of real customer records for demo accounts? Or more likely the sales person was granted access to production systems by the prospective clients, so their credential without MFA could be used to access many customers real data? I struggle to see how snowflake can blame the customer here; secure by default is something a customer should reasonably expect for their money.

Perverse Incentive

planetjones — Sat, 25 May 2024 15:12:30 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40475497

Points: 18

# Comments: 4

Delta Lake Support for BigQuery

planetjones — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 07:28:38 +0000

Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/biglake-now-offers-native-support-for-delta-lake

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40021235

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Automating the publication of my Out of Ten reviews using Zapier and Notion

planetjones — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 11:36:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.planetjones.net/blog/02-03-2024/zapier-zap-to-trigger-a-github-action-workflow.html

Hacker News: planetjones

One last trip to the internet in 2009 with The Rough Guide 14

One last trip to the internet in 2009 with The Rough Guide 14

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

New comment by planetjones in "Say No to Palantir in the NHS"

Data centre in the shed reduces energy bills to £40

Apache Fineract

CEOs Start Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: AI Will Wipe Out Jobs

Ask HN: Are you working in a distributed team?

New comment by planetjones in "Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS"

New comment by planetjones in "Link Blog in a Static Site"

New comment by planetjones in "Link Blog in a Static Site"

Apple says it will update AI feature after BBC complaint

New comment by planetjones in "Passengers at EU Airports Not Allowed over 100ml of Liquids on Cabin Luggage"

New comment by planetjones in "Passengers at EU Airports Not Allowed over 100ml of Liquids on Cabin Luggage"

New comment by planetjones in "Show HN: Directory of resources for learning German"

New comment by planetjones in "The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning"

Perverse Incentive

Delta Lake Support for BigQuery

Automating the publication of my Out of Ten reviews using Zapier and Notion

Learning resources for curious software engineers