Nicholas

I write about what I've been working on, problems I've solved, and things I'm still trying to figure out. building

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@morganknutson @joshpuckett Golden Gate public beta, works like a charm, thank you

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some thoughts on ipv6

https://t.co/9hOgUIWDaE

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@bauhausclock Logged out, logged in again, and there was a downloader in the overview page. Thanks for the support. Also, very cool screen savers 👌

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Josh Allen, what a player

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For my sanity, Svelte deserves to win

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@aarondfrancis @JosephLoom30487 @Han_Cholo Couldn't agree more

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"Click wallpaper to reveal desktop" 🫠

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@kelnjoroge If anyone has the grit for this challenge, it’s you. Good luck!

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@ninjerii @kelnjoroge Weka kwa MPesa😅 I told you, I see the future. 5yrs down the line.

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@nlanjichi I think so too. That midfield looks broken.

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@NicklasGellner Interesting role. Having a look.

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While contributing to open source projects, I've noticed maintainers really appreciate pull requests that have net negative line counts

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Ticking a compliance box is hitting hard today

[Jake Williams @MalwareJake]

Okay, I'm just going to throw this out there, but maybe - just maybe - a vendor having the ability to change every one of their kernel drivers in the field at the same time without any approval from IT/end users is a model we need to reconsider... @CrowdStrike.

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@MattJamesBoyle @taylorotwell Absolute beast

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@JakeWrightUK Reminds me of the bluetooth in everything era😅

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@zuriks_ Am also convinced on switching from 1password to just the default passwords

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Simple, straightforward products👌🏾

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

Good time to preview the next ONCE product. We're calling it Workbook.

You know, it's really easy to publish short form content on a variety of social platforms. And individual blog posts on a number of other platforms. These are solved problems.

But it's surprisingly challenging to publish books on the web in nice, cohesive, tight, easy-to-navigate HTML format. A collection of 20 essays can be a book. Or a company's handbook can be a book. Or an actual book like Shape Up can be a book.

But usually you have to make a custom web site, or stretch to use a blog publishing tool to kinda-sorta squish separate posts together into a packaged whole. It's really not ideal. We know — we've published a variety of books online, and we've had to go the custom route each time.

Having to go the custom route for something that should be fundamentally simple is a red flag. And an opportunity. It really shouldn't be this hard.

So we're doing something about that. That's Workbook. It's a dead simple platform to publish web-based books. They have covers, they can have title pages, they can have picture pages, and they can have text pages. Each book gets its own URL, and navigating and keeping track of your progress is all built right in.

I'll be sharing much more about this soon, but here's a screenshot on the editing end. This is how you put a book together. Make the pages (there are three styles of pages available), drag them around to put them in the order you want, and Workbook takes care of the rest. A page can be a literal page of text, or an entire chapter — you can set it up however you'd like. Text editing happens in Markdown.

Once you're done, and ready to publish, you'd flip the toggle on the left under the cover, customize your URL (at your domain, of course), and the book is live on the web for the whole world to read.

Workbook will be a ONCE product, so you get all the code too. And for the first time, it'll be entirely free. You don't even have to pay once! You pay zero!

Workbook is our love letter to truly independent, zero-cost web publishing. We'll be republishing all our public books (Getting Real, Shape Up, The 37signals Employee Handbook, etc) using Workbook as well.

That's it for now, more soon.

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I am picking up photography as a hobby. My amateur research so far has led me to the Fuji x100vi. The retro look👌

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@dhicking @adamwathan +1 small and functional