OpenWeather still has a free tier. https://openweathermap.org/
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mkerrigan commented on The Website Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss daringfireball.net/2025/0... · Posted by u/jgruber
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.
mkerrigan commented on I won't be renewing my Pinboard subscription notes.kateva.org/2024/09/... · Posted by u/leotravis10
What have you been using for search? The CLI app? What is your download workflow like? Is there an automated way to download a bunch of links, say pulled in from an API?
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
mkerrigan commented on I won't be renewing my Pinboard subscription notes.kateva.org/2024/09/... · Posted by u/leotravis10
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.
> You can avoid the sell low situation by having 3-6 months of expenses saved in an emergency savings account.
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.
I prefer it the other way around: https://kill-the-newsletter.com/
Notifier - https://notifier.in/ is another service I use to convert email newsletters to RSS.
mkerrigan commented on How to copy a file between devices? (2022) grdw.nl/2022/10/03/how-to... · Posted by u/FirmwareBurner
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?
It is not only that I think. The author makes more shallow opinionanated arguments.
Title says 'browsers are weird'.
Edge is for unopinionated Windows users.
Author writes and thinks in labels. Focuses on emotiions and dramas instead of using science and engineering to compare.
It may be a private blog, but it does not appear to be that interesting in merit.
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.
mkerrigan commented on NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month nanowrimo.org/... · Posted by u/rfreytag
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.