Sometimes the best questions come while waiting for a train.In this case Royal Victoria station on the DLR.I looked down the platform and I thought… Where else in London are there pylons? They’re not common in the capital, even round … Read more
I am curious what are the current best practices and offerings for hosting images (or short videos, gifs, etc.) for small to mid scale websites? Currently, I am using Cloudinary but the management interface leaves a lot to be desired. … Read more
The amount of dramatic clickbaity hollow content is only getting worse and kinda saddening me. My only escape is RSS with few hand-picked blogs. But, it seems like the chance of finding new thoughtful and cool blogs are getting closer … Read more
A lawyer helped her file criminal complaints, but the police did nothing more than give her a brochure about online hate, saying the comments did not break the law or they could not identify the perpetrators. Twitter removed some threatening … Read more
I’ve been looking for contract work for the past couple months, and it’s been dire. All the job boards are looking for full time employees, and on Hacker News the only recommendation is Toptal. Is there really no other platform … Read more
Munich, 12 July 2022 — For the ninth time, InterNations, the world’s largest expat community with more than 4 million members, has published the results of its Expat Insider survey. With nearly 12,000 respondents, it is one of the most … Read more
Ask HN: Where can I find small companies to work for part-time? 79 points by ggktk 2 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 39 comments I dislike going through interviews and all the rituals that involve working for … Read more
Continuing my investigation of the USDA Quickstats site I first used here… Notes on inspiration I was first inspired to do this piece when I saw these analogous maps for France: 🚨 Attention, série de cartes très importantes ⤵️ La … Read more
Rough ideas I’ve played with over the last 18 months of running my business – Writing content for your (potential) audience – Hanging out and talking about the topic on reddit/Discord/Slack/HN/Twitter – Setting my hotspot name to my project’s domain … Read more
I recently wrote about the decline of the counterculture—and promised I would have more to say about that matter. The article below is part of this same discussion, because many of the fringe activities of any counterculture operate as part … Read more