Why do so many tools have JSON config files‽ Commenting why… · textlog

Why do so many tools have JSON config files‽ Commenting why… · textlog

🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: 500 chars / 15 lines max · use #hashtags, @mentions and moreemojiformattingtagssearch😀😃😄😁😆😅😂🤣😊😇🙂🙃😉😌😍🥰😘😋😛😜🤪🤨🧐🤓😎🤩🥳😏😒😞😔😟😕🙁☹️😣😖😫😩🥺😢😭😤😠😡🤬🤯😳🥵🥶😱😨😰😥😓🤗🤔🫣🤭🫢🤫🤥😶😐😑😬🙄😯😦😧😮😲🥱😴🤤😪😵🤐🥴🤢🤮🤧😷🤒🤕🤑🤠😈👿👻💀☠️👽🤖🎃😺😸😹😻😼😽🙀😿😾❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎💔❣️💕💞💓💗💖💘💝💟👍👎👌🤌✌️🤞🤟🤘🤙👈👉👆👇☝️✋🤚🖐️🖖👋🤝👏🙌🫶👐🤲🙏✍️💪👀👁️🧠🫀🫁🌱🌿☘️🍀🌸🌺🌻🌞🌙⭐✨⚡🔥🌈☀️☁️❄️☕🍕🍎🎉🎊🎈🎁🎵🎶🎨📚💡✅❌⚠️🚀🌍💻📱🔒🔑example.com orhttps://example.comRegular links[title](example.com) or[title](https://example.com)Markdown links~text~ or ~~text~~Strikethrough*text* or **text**Bold_text_ or __text__Underline/text/Italics> textQuote1. first2. second3. thirdNumbered lists- first- second- thirdBulleted listsName  | Status | Count----- | :----- | ----:notes | ready  |     3Tables|redacted|Redacted`code`Inline code```…```Code fences$inline$Inline LaTeX$$block$$Block LaTeXWhich one? #pollFirst optionSecond optionPollsUse 2–8 unique options.Which one? #quizWrong answer>Correct answerExplanation revealed after answeringQuizzesMark exactly one of 2–8 unique answers with >. Text after a blank line is revealed after answering.Visible text #spoilerHidden textSpoilersText after #spoiler is…
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ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage

ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage

🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I have been experimenting with buying ChatGPT ads for my event seating assignment software. Here are the overall results from 05-Aug-2026 to 28-Aug-2026: Total spend on ChatGPT ads£289.52 Total clicks2,988Average CPC£0.10 Average time on page (Google analytics)7s Bounce rate (Google Analytics)69%Total installs (Google Analytics)14Conversion rate (click to install)0.46%Cost per conversion£20.68 ChatGPT recommends bidding somewhere around by £2 per click, but I bid between £0.15 and £0.07 and was still able to get traffic. However 0.46% is a shockingly low conversion rate. Given what I know…
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Your own personal photo storage

Your own personal photo storage

💥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I haven’t paid for Google photos for a long time, but I know several people that are now stuck forking out $20 or $30 a month just to keep their photo library intact. In many ways it makes sense to pay a big tech company to store your photos, they will have infrastructure and redundancy that you will simply never be able to replicate on your own. However, if you have an older computer lying around and want to save money, it’s now easier than…
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Exit the Cave – by Justin Andersun

Exit the Cave – by Justin Andersun

✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: There’s something romantic about the Cave. About grinding away at something in private. About training with headphones on in our own little world. About stepping away for six months to emerge “unrecognizable” to all those people we imagine thinking about us.This masculine urge to “grind” seems to be gaining popularity. It reminds me of an incredible Under Armour ad for Michael Phelps’s iconic return to the 2016 Olympics which ended with the quote: “It’s what you do in the dark that puts you in the…
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Trending Subreddits for 2021-06-07: /r/notinteresting, /r/interesting, /r/mildlyinteresting, /r/Damnthatsinteresting, /r/interestingasfuck

💥 Check out this awesome post from Trending Subreddits 📖 📂 **Category**: trendingsubreddits ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Over 6 years ago, when reddit was the equivalent of a toddler we launched trending subreddits on the front page. This was truly one of the very few ways to discover new communities. Now we have many ways for you to find the spaces you love - including a leader board, personalized recommendations, improved onboarding for new users and others on the way. With all of that, and with the site continuing to grow, we’ve decided it’s now time to retire this community…
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A note from LWN [LWN.net]

✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The online publication industry, as a whole, is struggling, with challenges coming from multiple directions. Thanks to the support of all of you, our readers, LWN would appear to be doing better than most. But the world has changed around us and, in particular, prices have changed considerably. By now, you probably know where this is going: subscription prices at LWN will be increasing as of September 15. We adopted the subscription model in late 2002; it was one of the best decisions we have ever…
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It’s OK to hardcode feature flags

It’s OK to hardcode feature flags

🚀 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Feature flags (or toggles) are often used to control the visibility of new features in a product. There are a few different ways to implement them, but the most talked and marketed about is to use feature flag management software. The simplest way of course is to hardcode them, though it’s the least written about. While feature flag management software can be powerful, they are also a source of complexity and risk. The blogspam marketing behind them is so strong, that admitting they’re unnecessary feels…
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Why are there no flow batteries with symmetric ferrocyanide electrolytes?

Why are there no flow batteries with symmetric ferrocyanide electrolytes?

🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: If you have looked into flow batteries for any length of time, you will have found that the ferrocyanide/ferricyanide redox couple ( [Fe(CN)6] 4−, Fe(CN)6] 3−) is one of the most widely used in the field. This is because this redox couple has very high redox stability, great kinetics, significant solubility (0.7-1.2M depending on the exact salts used) and a redox potential that is lower to that of the Fe2+/Fe3+ redox couple (+0.22V and +0.5V respectively Vs saturated Ag/AgCl), with high stability under high pH conditions. Potassium ferrocyanide,…
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Fine, I’ll build my own text editor! – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)

Fine, I’ll build my own text editor! – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)

🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: and make it editable with a contenteditable attribute. That attribute has a plaintext-only value that is perfect for code. All content remains within a single text node.<div contenteditable="plaintext-only" autocapitalize="off" autocorrect="off" spellcheck="false" translate="no"> div>Copy CodeAttributes like spellcheck must be disabled to avoid input latency spikes. Want to guess how many days it took me to discover that fix? Days!Using contenteditable gives native text selection and undo history etc. So much accessibility goodness is wired up for free by the browser. The Selection API provides metrics I…
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A world where every interaction is worth having

A world where every interaction is worth having

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: There’s a certain type of service you never forget. You call, and they remember who you are. You talk, and they know what happened last time. You need support, and they help you on the spot. You are busy, and they know when to leave you alone. The type of conversation that makes you feel understood. The type of service that shows that you’re cared for. The type of interaction that's actually worth having. But over the past decade, this kind of service has…
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