I just finished shipping a weekend project that I really needed:
yt2brave[0], a MacOS app that automatically opens YouTube links in Brave Browser for a better browsing experience on YouTube (no ads). It's compatible for Safari, Google Chrome and Edge. It is magic.
I have to admit that I fell into a rabbit hole, and I noticed that popular tools like fakerjs or gofakeit[0] did not meet my needs.
I needed to generate realistic-looking identities; the person's photo must match the gender, same for the age, the skin color of the person must correspond with the origin of the surname, the first name should be common in the targeted country, and the residential address must be real, among other things.
You would not use this for test data btw, a common use case for this would be for marketing or spamming operations where you need realistic data. My consciense does not accept the later however ;-)
P.S. Nowadays, these fake data generators are too woke to provide genderized first names..
Discourse[0] is a perfect fit for Windmill, IMO. Maybe I'm biased because I don't like Discord for this kind of project. Let the search engines leverage your project.
Ohh, I remember AWStats from 2009 times or so. It's nice, but it doesn't solve what FullAnalytics does. I use Cloudflare Web Analytics [0] as an alternative to AWStats these days (it doesn't require inserting JS too).
If you're concerned about injecting third-party scripts into your website, you can use FullAnalytic's Zero Trust solution [1] to minimize risks.
Hi there! I'm Alfonso the creator of FullAnalytics.
FullAnalytics is a fully managed solution to prevent third-party website scripts like Google Analytics, Segment, Meta Pixel, and others [0] from being blocked by ad blockers. Depending on the industry FullAnalytics can recover up to 40% of previously blocked analytics data [1]. To enable FullAnalytics on your website, you only need to add a JavaScript snippet to your website's HTML code. That's all.
If you have any questions, please let me know here or by email at [email protected].
P.S. We don't like ads and annoying popups too. We want to help those who rely on analytics data (e.g., page views) to make decisions.
I could say that we do that at a high level, but as SaaS for our clients. You can't expect the average person to set up and manage 3 servers (HA) on GCP to get everything running.
> The only way to really achieve this is running analytics through the same domain the users are visiting, best as a path. I suspect this is where the market will go if ad blockers become to pervasive
One-shot jobs are one of the reasons why I moved from Kubernetes to Nomad[0]. It feels overengineering absurdity that there is no more straightforward way to do it.
Nowadays, I'm back to Docker Swarm and loving it. It seems you did something similar before for Docker Swarm [1] btw, nice ;-)
Google Analytics, by default, is not CCPA compliant.
You can take steps for stricter compliance with CCPA, such as: implementing IP anonymization, disabling data sharing, displaying a cookie consent banner on your site, reviewing PII collected and honoring user data access/deletion requests..etc.
Anyways, it is too early for this service to dig into this legal stuff. I prefer to focus on building at this moment.
Hi there! I'm Alfon, the human being behind this service.
getfullanalytics.com is in a pre-beta state, and we plan to release the beta for everybody in the next few days. I just wanted to share it with you all here on HN ;-)
I use a debugger every day. Delve[0] Go's debugger made me love the process of debugging my code – either attaching the debugger to an existing running process or the feedback loop of debugging the test code until make it passes the test case.
Back in the days when I didn't use one, it was a miserable developer experience. Thanks to Go and his great decision of having unit testing built into their standard now writing tests and debugging them is a joy.
Far are the days of not using a debugger because the programing language of choice didn't treat debuggers/unit testing as a first-class citizen. I could say that now I sleep a lot better thanks to coding my backends on Go and having the confidence that I can go as much depth as I want to fix any bug.
Debugging for me is an automatic action like drinking water when you're thirsty; two clicks (set breakpoint and click the debug button) and I'm back into the debugger, again.
I don't know exactly how much traffic it gets because I don't do any type of tracking.
I frequently receive emails from anonymous persons asking for help and even some of them are willing to pay me to set up it for them… so you can imagine what these last ones are using it for.
yt2brave[0], a MacOS app that automatically opens YouTube links in Brave Browser for a better browsing experience on YouTube (no ads). It's compatible for Safari, Google Chrome and Edge. It is magic.
[0] https://www.yt2brave.com