masnick
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Comment · 1 year ago
The footer lol
> 2022-2025 Owl Rights Reserved
Comment · 1 year ago
I can’t recommend Monarch strongly enough. It is a service that aggregates across bank accounts, brokerage, credit cards, etc.
The killer feature for me is that it provides overall money in/money out, with some good visualizations too. This is nontrivial for anyone using multiple credit cards or bank accounts, and is *critical* information for being a responsible adult IMO.
It also has budgeting, investment tracking tools, etc. But these stay out of your way if you just want to look at overall metrics like in/out over time, or net worth.
I showed my financial advisor and he was so impressed he picked up their advisor product (https://www.monarchmoney.com/for-professionals). So I don’t have to pay for a subscription anymore myself!
I strongly believe everyone should use a tool like Monarch for financial situational awareness.
$15 discount via my referral link (but I don’t get anything because my account is paid for via my financial advisor): https://www.monarchmoney.com/referral/b3q5nmkw2r
Comment · 2 years ago
Seconded. The Yoto is great. It also supports arbitrary MP3 assignment to their NFC cards. It’s all proprietary but has been rock solid over multiple years.
Comment · 2 years ago
I grew up in a small town in the US before cell phones were ubiquitous.
When we started getting cell phones, the numbers all had the same first six digits. The last four were assigned in order of provisioning.
My friend and I got our phones at nearly the same time, so our numbers were like 555-555-1004 and 555-555-1008.
This came in handy when I was going to visit him years later, and my phone died on the plane. I didn’t have anyone’s cell number memorized other than my parents (555-555-1013) and his thanks to the numeric similarity. (We kept the same phone numbers when we moved away from home.)
In this town, landline phones also all shared the same first six digits. Before cell phones got into the mix in the late 1990s, people could (and did) use 5 digits to represent phone numbers: 3-XXXX where the 3 referred to the first digit of the “exchange code”. The next town was 8-XXXX, etc.
Comment · 6 years ago
You should take a look at https://fastmail.blog/2018/09/10/access-and-assistance-bill/. They say it doesn’t affect their customers.
Comment · 6 years ago
I switched from Gmail to Fastmail back in 2013 [1] and haven't looked back.
Fastmail has continued to make significant improvements, while keeping the interface lean and functional.
It seems to me like $3/month is worth it for a service as critical as email.
[1]: https://www.maxmasnick.com/2013/07/19/fastmail/ and discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6069944
Comment · 7 years ago
I wrote more about my Hugo-based personal knowledge base here recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21311156
You can see it at https://maxmasnick.com/kb
Essentially it is a folder of Markdown files with some YAML metadata at the top to define categories. Hugo takes care of rendering the HTML, which is automatically deployed every time I push updates to the ‘master’ branch on GitHub via the GitHub Actions beta. It works pretty well, and allows me to edit on iOS via Working Copy.
Comment · 7 years ago
I'm only interested in password managers with good desktop, web, and mobile support.
Comment · 7 years ago
Essentially zero. It's not well-advertised, and I only started it in earnest earlier this year.
My Technical Notes blog (https://tech-notes.maxmasnick.com), which is a similar idea but much more random in content, does get a fair bit of traffic on specific pages, presumably via organic search traffic. (This is the most popular Tech Notes page, which has had 30k views over the last 4 years: https://tech-notes.maxmasnick.com/ipython-notebooks-automati...)
Comment · 7 years ago
Unfortunately I don't have a good way to reveal the source of my site as there are some things in that git repo that can't be made public.
I too have struggled to find examples of doing more complex things in Hugo. It's such a versatile tool that it's probably pretty hard to document everything in an approachable way.
I may write up how I set up the Hugo portion of the knowledge base as it has worked quite well. If I do, you can subscribe here to make sure you see it: https://masnick.blog/subscribe/
Comment · 7 years ago
I described this briefly in a reply to the parent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21316442
Comment · 7 years ago
Yes, unless you have my weird requirement to use an Apache server, I think something like Netlify or GitHub Pages makes way more sense.