I use pinboard daily, not so much to save bookmarks but to browse new content. I wrote a small hacky script to filter out links on "recent" page with more than X amount of other users that have it bookmarked too. It's not all new content but if people are bookmarking it, it must be at least worth a look.
We're currently using Mandrill to send outbound emails, although we've had issues with some API calls, all the outbound emails we sent have been delivered.
Certain things like viewing email content look broken on certain emails which doesn't hurt the business, yet...
It's true though that this service is nearing death as hasn't had an update to any of its features since it merge with Mailchimp.
Looking to change service providers soon, as soon as we figure out how to render emails to html before sending. Mandrill has a `render` endpoint which makes this easy. None of the others have this yet.
A few years ago when Mandrill dramatically increased prices there was a big exodus of HN users. I solicited pricing and transition info from a number of different providers and summarized it here[0].
Can't recommend Foundation for Emails highly enough for rendering html. I found it super easy to use (Moustache templates) and very flexible for managing multiple versions (translations) of a newsletter.
The assignment I had was to write, coordinate translations, produce and send a quarterly newsletter with anywhere between 20 and 35 translations per issue + optional separate content to be included on a country-to-country basis. Production time from drafted newsletter to final send was about 2 weeks.
The Foundation tool felt to me a little like jekyll for email. I had a a lot of fun with it.
> all the outbound emails we sent have been delivered.
You can't trust their interface during these outages, we have been there before, even though their Outbound page says "Delivered" it isn't unless there are SMTP events attached, if it looks like this, your email is queued, not sent: https://cdn.servnice.com/screenie/c1Og3TcrkLFV9Hg.jpg
The weirdest UX problem I've found with Mandrill is that you can't use the browser "CTRL-F" to search an email template unless the text is _currently_ visible. Not sure how they manged to mess up the search functionality for a text box that is intended to have massive amounts of text in it. It makes it harder to do a minor spot edit of a template than it should be. Things begin to make sense now...
I believe this is a performance optimization to limit what's actually in the DOM for large documents. The code editor is fairly common and is also used by Google Tag Manager, but it annoys the heck out of me too.
Not that it's a great alternative, but SendGrid uses Handlebars templates so it's pretty easy to render it yourself using any Handlebars library. You could probably quite easily write an AWS Lambda or similar that fetches a template using their API, populates it with data you post and returns the HTML.
Yes, outbound has been solid for us, too. The issue is inbound. We literally have hundreds if not thousands of customer support agents unable to work because of this.
Already using MJML to design email templates and wrapping <mj-raw> tags around Mailchimp conditional tags like IF:SOMETHING .. |END:IF|. I guess it's time to render the html emails ourselves, merge with params and then use whatever other third party transactional email service.
Not using the archive feature of the site so I can't comment on it, but the rest of the site works as it should.
I mainly use it for discovering new content via "popular" tab and my own hacky chrome extension to filter "recent" bookmarks and display those with N number of users who bookmarked the same link.
Sure it could use with some much needed updates to both the site and the api at some point once Maciej saves the American political system eventually.
You could try going the Hackintosh route. I've had a Dell XPS 15" model (9530) with hi-dpi display (1920 x 1080), 512gb SSD drive (partitioned to two 256gb, one for Windows 10 use when needed).
There are few quirks, webcam light stays on after use, SD card slot not working but the whole Hackintosh community is great at solving problems.
Is it possible to have more than 300 templates per account? We're offering custom transactional email templates to our clients and might exceed this limit. Definitely looking at moving to SendGrid after this announcement.
Previewing content of the last 7 days of sent emails would also be a bonus.
Thanks, but your pricing model is all wrong when it comes to transactional emails. We're looking for something which is more usage based instead of based on number of subscribers. Nice templating though.
At the moment, spectator. But if someone else who stumbles upon this server and has other motives, they could be able to dig further and gain access to DB files.
Then we would be at risk since I assume that's where they store our user credentials needed to login to our website backend and make updates. Although, that will be least of our worries since we can simply reset the username/passwords that have accessed out sites since we have activity logs.
If there's a potential risk that someone could gain access to your system by breaching theirs then I would raise it with them immediately.
As they're accessing your system you can probably safely say you always do a security check on hosts connecting to your system to ensure there aren't problems. In this instance it showed that they have an open FTP server.
I think this is exactly what I needed yesterday when someone asked me is it possible to get a report from Asana into excel (Asana doesn't have this ability, just the json API).
Some poor NSA analyst was caught playing WoW in work and had to develop this enormous ploy to explain his actions as a way to capture chat terrorist traffic in-game. It just blew up from there.
You can choose which API to use: Headless Chrome, Wkhtmltopdf, Libreoffice, etc.