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Jed Fonner
Personal blog · jedfonner.comproductivitybusiness
Jed Fonner writes JedFonner.com, a personal blog at jedfonner.com about productivity and business. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked posts on moving from Google Workspace to Zoho, and on building a Dialogflow v2 chatbot for a Jekyll site. Commenters cite them as their own writing; none judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Ironically I just wrote[0] about my experience moving from Google to Zoho and, despite the slightly sub-par experience with Zoho, I'm happier now because there are actual human beings at Zoho that I can talk to when I run into a problem. I pay $1.25/mo for peace of mind. [0]: https://jedfonner.com/2022/07/30/switching-to-zoho/
Comment linking /2022/07/30/switching-to-zoho/
on “Librarian's Letter to Google Security”Submitted Ghost meetings are a growing RTO problem but Google could fix it as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhen we were all WFH'ing during Covid, I couldn't stand listening to presenters saying "Next slide please" over and over. We use Google Meet at work and it doesn't provide any way to give others control of your desktop or slides. So I built a Chrome extension that allows multiple users to control a Google Slides presentation from within Google Meet. It's only got about 2K installations, but people have simulated alm…
Comment linking /2020/11/06/shared-slides-clicker/
on “Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?”Submitted Switching from Google Workspace to Zoho – The Good, the Bad and the Buggy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI switched to Zoho when Gmail threatened to kill our legacy Gsuite account I was using for my family. So far I'm pretty happy although not everything is perfect. I wrote up my experience here: https://jedfonner.com/2022/07/30/switching-to-zoho TL;DR: - pricing is pretty good. I use the Mail Lite plan for my kids which provided 5GB and upgraded myself to the 10GB plan, all for just a few bucks a month. - importing ma…
Comment linking /2022/07/30/switching-to-zoho
on “Zoho's annual revenues surpassed $1B in 2021”This. 100x this. At my company I've been on a crusade to get meetings to start at :05 or :35. We already used Google's "speedy meetings" but that works by _ending_ meetings early. The problem is that never works. People aren't diligent enough to actually stop early. But no one will start a meeting before its scheduled time. And if people do join early, they can socialize and build social connections for a few minute…
Comment linking /2022/10/18/better-speedy-meetings
on “Research Proves Your Brain Needs Breaks”I enjoy occasionally blogging on https://jedfonner.com/ It's a simple static site built with jekyll. I'm most proud of the chatbot I wired up to answer basic questions from visitors. I explained how I did it here: https://jedfonner.com/2021/08/03/Dialogflow-v2
Comment linking /2021/08/03/Dialogflow-v2
on “Ask HN: Share Your Personal Site”I just wrote[0] about my experience moving from Google to Zoho. Despite the slightly worse experience with Zoho, I'm happier now because there are actual human beings at Zoho that I can talk to when I run into a problem. I pay $1.25/mo for peace of mind. I wrote this for anyone else considering switching away from Google and I'm also curious to hear others' experiences. I'd also be happy to provide more details abou…
Comment linking /2022/07/30/switching-to-zoho/
on “Switching from Google Workspace to Zoho – The Good, the Bad and the Buggy”I recently switched from using Google Docs to storing my notes in Markdown/Git and making them available just to myself via Docusaurus on a private Gitlab Pages repo. Benefits: 1. Free 2. Securely available from any web browser. Only people added to you repo can access the published notes. 3. Clean interface with solid search capability 4. Versioned 5. Easy cross-linking 6. Can edit locally or on the web, both with…
Comment linking /2023/01/22/private-kb
on “Ask HN: Best way to version control your notes or documents?”