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Dave Taylor
Personal blog · askdavetaylor.comwebbusiness
Dave Taylor's personal blog at askdavetaylor.com covers web and business. Since 2008, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Dave Taylor's blog as sources and screenshots for how-to topics: Facebook privacy and data export, opening search results in new tabs, Safari's old RSS rendering, and a macOS seq script.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Here's an example of what I'm talking about (notice the border): * Finder in 10.4: http://miki.samborsky.de/files/article/2008/LeoIcon/Tiger-Fi... * Finder in 10.5-10.6: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/3-blog-pics/mac-finder-places-m... * Finder in 10.7: http://gavinsmith.me/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Screen-Shot-... And whitespace is one of those things that really helps to make ui usable and clean. You missed "the ri…
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on “GitHub for Mac”Submitted WHAT'S A USED COMPUTER REALLY WORTH? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionPerhaps a more nuanced reason is that you don't know it got lost in some spam filter. Out of sight, out of mind... [1] https://consumerist.com/2012/01/04/how-facebooks-message-spa... [2] http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how-to-check-facebook-spam-emai... [3] http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/entertainment/news/a42460/anot... [4] http://uk.businessinsider.com/facebook-filtered-message-requ...
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on “Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger”Submitted How much equity does a VC take when funding a startup? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThat's not true; there is a very, very specific alert shown before Facebook accesses any phone numbers. I'm not making this up, it's just how it works. Facebook does not get anything "whether you like it or not". They get the information if you specifically allow it, and only if you try to enable the Sync feature. Hell, here's a screenshot if you don't believe me: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/6-blog-pics/iphone-face…
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on “Facebook is scaring me”Submitted Auto follow on twitter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSafari in Mac OS X did a pretty nice job of rendering the feed for a basic feed reader back when it still had the big blue RSS link button in the URL bar, no raw XML to speak of: https://www.askdavetaylor.com/0-blog-pics/safari-rss-view.jp... I used to use this A LOT back in the day, often finding it preferable to many site's native UIs.
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on “The Case for RSS”Submitted Can You Control If Amazon Rufus AI Trains on Your Queries? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionthey existed long before gdpr, e.g.: https://www.askdavetaylor.com/export-data-facebook/
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on “U.S. senators want social media users to be able to take their data with them”Submitted Create a custom Apple iPhone icon for your site as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> You just need to remember to open results in a new tab instead Google[0] and DDG[1] both have user settings which allow you to open results in a new tab by default. Sources are first results which appeared accurate: [0] https://www.askdavetaylor.com/how-to-have-google-bing-search... [1] https://ccm.net/faq/40410-duckduckgo-open-results-in-new-win...
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on “State Partitioning”> nor have I seen one. Once upon a time, nice in-browser rendering of RSS/Atom feeds complete with search and sorting was a headliner feature of Safari. https://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_subscribe_to_rss_feed...
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on “Removing XSLT for a more secure browser”As I say, I think much of the issue here is that he's generalising based on tech books which have higher costs (they're bigger, cost more to print, store and ship), sell in smaller volumes and go out of date faster (leading to far higher numbers of returns). Full breakdown here but the publisher is basically getting about 50% of the list price so your $30 is already down to $15 by the time it gets there: http://www.…
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on “Coding Horror: The Book”In OS X (well, Snow Leopard at least), YOU_ARE_DEAD throws an error because `seq` doesn't exist in OS X and brew doesn't have it. This script does the trick: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/step_through_count_numeric_valu...
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on “YOU_ARE_DEAD, a 1D Roguelike”What a Clubhouse profile looks like: https://www.askdavetaylor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/clu... I don't see anything on the picture of the data sample that isn't on the profile, which appears to be visible to anyone with a Clubhouse account: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/fkWQSg-hl1V2-fwpS2VJy3CGR0... The Clubhouse user ids also appear to be sequential, so this looks like a pretty low effort endeavor.
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on “Clubhouse data leak: 1.3M user records leaked online for free”Which in turn, I'm sure wasn't inspired by this post here (June): http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/6/how-twitter-will-be-worth... Or maybe it came from one of the 1.2 million pages that has the phrase "twitter and payment" somewhere in it but no mention of twitpay: http://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+payment+-twitpay Or inspired by TextPayMe, which did the exact same thing with phone numbers instead of twitter us…
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on “Tipjoy (YC W08) now allows payments via Twitter”I remember when Safari used to show RSS feeds in the title bar and used to render them with a nice filtering UI: https://www.askdavetaylor.com/3-blog-pics/safari-4-view-all-... Would love to get that back!
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on “Style Your RSS Feed”
