[HN Gopher] One Thing Well - A weblog about simple, useful software
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One Thing Well - A weblog about simple, useful software
Author : sandebert
Score : 118 points
Date : 2021-01-25 08:01 UTC (15 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (onethingwell.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (onethingwell.org)
| bla3 wrote:
| Ironic that this of all sites has a "install the app" banner. I
| liked the premise but left immediately when that popped up.
| ComodoHacker wrote:
| I don't see the banner thanks to uBO, but pumping links traffic
| through Tumblr is a red flag for me.
| Lex-2008 wrote:
| don't they use Tumblr as the blog-engine?
| Cederfjard wrote:
| Yeah this is a Tumblr blog with a custom domain. Not sure I
| understand the gripes from the other posters.
| dqv wrote:
| I don't either. No pop ups and the back button works
| fine.
| beepboop43 wrote:
| Same here but I'm using noscript so I assume that's why.
| alsetmusic wrote:
| OTW has been in my RSS feeds for a few years. Definitely one of
| my favs. The maintainer has had reduced output for a while, due
| to some health issues (used to be three cool finds per day).
|
| I've found a lot of slick command line utilities here. It's worth
| going through the backlog. I hope the maintainer is able to get
| back to the steady stream that initially drew me in.
|
| For those put off by Tumblr throwing a banner, ignore the bs of
| that platform and enjoy the content. There's some gold to be
| found.
| masonic wrote:
| Trapping the Back key is a permanent turn-off. (I'm using Brave)
| rcarmo wrote:
| I loved that blog, but it's been stalled for ages now. No new
| posts in a year(ish).
| HeckFeck wrote:
| All intentionally. The blog did its one thing well and there
| was no more left to be said.
| JohnKacz wrote:
| Not as long as the hiatus[0] several years back. I hadn't
| realized Jack had started posting again since then. Glad to
| rediscover this.
|
| [0] - https://onethingwell.org/post/148042678322/bad-hands-
| hiatus
| dave_aiello wrote:
| Good point.
|
| I have a tendency to focus on new-to-me information on a site
| of this nature, and not notice time since the latest post.
|
| Both are important, although new-to-me is more important.
| colinramsay wrote:
| This looks great, and obviously the website does one thing well
| too. One of the entries is for Bunch [1] which is something I
| spent years hoping to stumble upon only to do so now when I've
| moved to Linux. Oh well.
|
| [1] https://brettterpstra.com/bunch/
| morlockabove wrote:
| The website is a disaster. Fucking with the back button to trap
| you there, INSTALL THE APP!!! popups- how hard would it be to
| use wordpress, or just a static site?
| adolph wrote:
| Does it have a cookie banner and email newsletter modal too?
| bschwindHN wrote:
| The website does not do anything well except annoy me with
| popups and a broken back button.
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