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New comment by trickjarrett in "There Is No Antimemetics Division – A Novel (2025)"

trickjarrett — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 04:06:56 +0000

I have not been a big SCP consumer over the years but I checked the book out and it was a wild ride.

New comment by trickjarrett in "Beeper acquired by Automattic"

trickjarrett — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:30:42 +0000

They provide hosting for Wordpress blogs, and a number of their backend tools have premium versions, such as backups, etc.

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

trickjarrett — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:39:15 +0000

http://www.trickjarrett.com - My link blog and life blog, with occasional larger posts.

New comment by trickjarrett in "Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative"

trickjarrett — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 05:03:00 +0000

I remember hearing this back in the late 90s and I came into my high school biology class and mentioned it. The teacher was kind enough not to call me a moron but he made clear he didn't believe it, and I didn't (and don't) remember where I had heard it back then. Glad to know I wasn't completely wrong for regurgitating that factoid then.

New comment by trickjarrett in "Gripes with RSS after one week"

trickjarrett — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 18:23:31 +0000

I wrote about this exact thing. If they gave me a Google Reader-esque product as part of their subscription service for VPN etc., it would get me to subscribe.

New comment by trickjarrett in "California’s population shrinks for third straight year"

trickjarrett — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 17:38:45 +0000

Agreed. It turns out the data they report from actually has that exact thing in it: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/tables/2020-... -- I believe this change rate appears calculated against their 2020 census data and not the estimates from 2022.

States with most negative change rate: California (-0.9%), Illinois (-0.8%), Louisiana (-0.8%), West Virginia (-0.6%), Hawaii (-0.5%)

Five most positive change rate: South Dakota (1.5%), Texas (1.6%), South Carolina (1.7%), Idaho (1.8%), Florida (1.9%)

Interestingly three states did not have enough change to register: Kansas, Michigan and Vermont.

New comment by trickjarrett in "Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use in 2022?"

trickjarrett — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 17:52:23 +0000

Selfhosted FreshRSS for me

New comment by trickjarrett in "Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative"

trickjarrett — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 23:51:54 +0000

Yes, you definitely can, however running your own instance is not an out of the box process currently.

New comment by trickjarrett in "Ask HN: Anyone remember a joke / meme social network that did one thing?"

trickjarrett — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 16:52:34 +0000

Yes! This was it, thank you

Ask HN: Anyone remember a joke / meme social network that did one thing?

trickjarrett — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 16:47:20 +0000

It's the equivalent of being on the tip of my tongue. I seem to recall a social network that was made as a joke that let you just do the equivalent of 'poke' your friends on it. But I can't remember the details and I can't find it.

Am I going crazy? Or does anyone know what I'm talking about?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31990580

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by trickjarrett in "GitJournal: Mobile first Markdown notes synchronized with Git"

trickjarrett — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 23:48:47 +0000

I don't know why I never considered using git for syncing it. I currently just use some scripts to sync to the server on laptop and on my phone.

New comment by trickjarrett in "Never hose out a Honda Element"

trickjarrett — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 23:50:37 +0000

Wow, I've had one since 2007. I've even quoted that exact line. And yet I've never actually done it and am glad I haven't.

New comment by trickjarrett in "The Hipster PDA (2004)"

trickjarrett — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 16:12:24 +0000

I recently unearthed one of my old Hipster PDAs from college. It was buried in the back of a drawer. Quite the bit of nostalgia as I leafed through it.

New comment by trickjarrett in "Some tiny personal programs I've written"

trickjarrett — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 21:41:58 +0000

Most of mine are one-time use or limited use. I have a few ongoing dev projects for personal use:

- My smaller blog is a (poorly) written CMS that makes a static site. Almost zero reason other than I wanted the experience of building my own CMS, could easily use another tool.

- I have a 'Pick'em' with friends for MLS soccer. It's a fully coded website, definitely my biggest ongoing project.

- I have a tool which looks at upcoming soccer games around the world and recommends the best ones to watch (looking at a number of variables such as relative ranking in the league, historic goals for and against, gambling odds, etc.)

- I have a weight and body fat tracker I use to enter my daily weigh in and see graphs and charts of my progress.

New comment by trickjarrett in "NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android"

trickjarrett — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 04:24:51 +0000

It can, you put the video in background mode

New comment by trickjarrett in "An old photo of a large BBS"

trickjarrett — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 06:37:11 +0000

What a blast from the past. I was just on the very tale end of BBSs but those were wild times. I remember logging into a local PC wholesaler my father worked with because their BBS had what is today a very not-politically correct blond joke on their BBS every day.

New comment by trickjarrett in "To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (2008)"

trickjarrett — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 22:43:24 +0000

This was a huge eye opening moment for me. I thought it was about using a deck, and I always found it less than fantastic. Now that I am making my own deck, it is far more useful.

New comment by trickjarrett in "Bitwarden Extension disabled due to new permissions"

trickjarrett — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:52:22 +0000

I had to approve the update of the plugin due to the new extension for Firefox

New comment by trickjarrett in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"

trickjarrett — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:53:11 +0000

As a programming project and a need for something to constantly fiddle with, I decided to make my own CMS that generates html files for the website. It's far from competing with Wordpress, but I've build out a templating system for publishing, and made a fairly robust admin for setting variables and managing posts etc.

Written in PHP, MySQL, Javascript (leaning on Jquery) and CSS.

I was a web dev 10 years ago, since then I've been working on marketing and barely coding as a hobby.

Later this month I'm going to embark on a rewrite of a webapp I wrote for me and my friends that administrates an MLS (soccer) Pick'Em.

My other project is a soccer match recommender. It pulls in matches, and based on a few variables. I definitely want to improve this at some point, but largely it's again just a side hobby to tinker with. If I find a framework I'm happy with I'd love to make it a small money side project and expand it to other sports so people who are just generic sports fans not sure what to watch, can get recommendations of matches expected to be good ones.

New comment by trickjarrett in "Uber Technologies Makes Takeover Approach to GrubHub"

trickjarrett — Tue, 12 May 2020 19:10:16 +0000

When I first read the headline, I thought it said GitHub and I was very perplexed. Realizing it is GrubHub makes much more sense and is interesting.