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• Redfin to cut 450 jobs after entering rental content license with Zillow

  by vlucas on 2/12/2025, 7:33 PM with 0 comments

• The Emails You Send When Running a SaaS Business

  by vlucas on 9/14/2023, 1:53 PM with 0 comments

• The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work

  by vlucas on 5/26/2023, 1:28 PM with 0 comments

• What I Learned Running a Seasonal SaaS Businesses

  by vlucas on 8/24/2022, 2:36 PM with 4 comments

• I Built a Google Sheets Extension Making $1.6k+ MRR

  by vlucas on 7/13/2022, 2:26 PM with 2 comments

• by vlucas on 7/13/2022, 2:25 PM with comments

• How we built Hydrogen, a React framework for building custom storefronts

  by vlucas on 6/23/2022, 2:18 PM with 101 comments

• The Lottery Factor

  by vlucas on 12/2/2021, 4:57 PM with 0 comments

• We increased our Lighthouse score by making our images larger

  by vlucas on 7/6/2021, 3:23 PM with 83 comments

• Work Hard and Don't Burn Bridges

  by vlucas on 6/9/2021, 2:46 PM with 15 comments

• Public Library Insights One Year into the Covid-19 Pandemic

  by vlucas on 5/24/2021, 5:39 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: SheetQuery: An ORM for Google Sheets and Google Apps Script

  by vlucas on 4/14/2021, 3:46 PM with 1 comments

• Clubhouse Is the Future of Talk Radio

  by vlucas on 2/12/2021, 8:42 PM with 1 comments

• When Fact-Checking Comes to Web Browsers

  by vlucas on 12/18/2020, 4:39 PM with 0 comments

• State of Oklahoma's New Brand Identity / Logo

  by vlucas on 2/13/2020, 5:00 PM with 85 comments

• Layoffs at Mozilla

  by vlucas on 1/16/2020, 4:04 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: BudgetSheet: Import Bank Transactions from Plaid into Your Google Sheet

  by vlucas on 1/1/2020, 3:51 PM with 1 comments

• ReactGate Timeline Document

  by vlucas on 8/27/2019, 4:23 PM with 1 comments

• YouTube is deleting videos on Nazi history as part of its hate speech crackdown

  by vlucas on 6/7/2019, 6:13 PM with 1 comments

• Show HN: Vlid.js – A browser friendly Joi-like validation library in only 3.6kb

  by vlucas on 5/29/2019, 4:02 PM with 0 comments

• The word “dessert” renders as “stressed” in Chrome (bidirectional Unicode)

  by vlucas on 5/2/2019, 9:37 PM with 2 comments

• PayPal TOS Update: Will keep all fees even for full refunds

  by vlucas on 4/24/2019, 3:46 PM with 1 comments

• What to Expect from Sony's Next-Gen PlayStation

  by vlucas on 4/17/2019, 2:02 PM with 0 comments

• The AdTech Industry Is Ruining Web Push Notifications for PWAs

  by vlucas on 2/4/2019, 2:51 PM with 1 comments

• Alibaba Acquires OpenSky

  by vlucas on 9/5/2018, 6:58 PM with 0 comments

• Digg v4 Launch Story

  by vlucas on 7/3/2018, 2:59 PM with 2 comments

• GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme

  by vlucas on 6/5/2018, 8:17 PM with 62 comments

• Steve Wozniak Disagrees with Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking on A.I

  by vlucas on 3/21/2018, 7:35 PM with 0 comments

• It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like 1937

  by vlucas on 1/3/2018, 9:58 PM with 0 comments

• Apple: App Store Newly Streamlined App Ratings

  by vlucas on 9/20/2017, 8:01 PM with 0 comments

• The Incredible Shrinking Sears

  by vlucas on 8/16/2017, 2:20 PM with 0 comments

• Ego Icons: 3,600 Icons with Personality

  by vlucas on 5/23/2017, 3:46 PM with 0 comments

• Stronger Encryption and Decryption in Node.js

  by vlucas on 1/27/2017, 3:35 PM with 0 comments

• The Failure of Public Schooling in One Chart

  by vlucas on 12/22/2016, 6:10 PM with 0 comments

• Selling My Passive Income Stream: JSCompress.com

  by vlucas on 7/5/2016, 3:50 PM with 1 comments

• Show HN: Startup or Pharma? – Is it a startup, or a pharmaceutical drug?

  by vlucas on 4/14/2016, 12:32 PM with 2 comments

• Show HN: Countism – Tally Counter App with Graphs and Averages

  by vlucas on 1/13/2016, 3:13 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: DevData.io – The data you need in the programming language you want

  by vlucas on 7/14/2015, 8:07 PM with 4 comments

• PHP 7 Performance Infographic

  by vlucas on 5/13/2015, 9:43 PM with 0 comments

• The Plot to Kill the Slam Dunk

  by vlucas on 2/13/2015, 2:59 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: MerryList – Create a wishlist with just a URL

  by vlucas on 10/21/2014, 3:30 PM with 0 comments

• An API is a Competitive Advantage

  by vlucas on 9/30/2014, 2:17 PM with 0 comments

• Hiding Variables From PHP's var_dump()

  by vlucas on 8/8/2014, 3:55 PM with 0 comments

• `module.exports` All The Things!

  by vlucas on 6/5/2014, 3:30 PM with 0 comments

• Pulling My Apps From The App Store: Lessons Learned

  by vlucas on 5/2/2014, 2:05 PM with 0 comments

• HippyVM – an implementation of the PHP language in RPython

  by vlucas on 3/24/2014, 5:16 PM with 1 comments

• MacBook Pro Retina 3.5mm TRRS Cable With Audio Input

  by vlucas on 3/10/2014, 2:55 PM with 0 comments

• Using Dokku to Deploy PHP Applications with a "git push" on DigitalOcean

  by vlucas on 2/10/2014, 5:12 PM with 0 comments

• So You Have an Idea for an App...

  by vlucas on 12/11/2013, 8:17 PM with 0 comments

• How PHP's foreach works

  by vlucas on 2/27/2013, 9:23 PM with 43 comments

• PHP dotenv - The easiest way to load environment variables in PHP

  by vlucas on 1/23/2013, 4:33 PM with 1 comments

• Introducing Bullet: The Functional PHP Micro-Framework

  by vlucas on 1/9/2013, 3:51 PM with 2 comments

• Top Rated Movies in Redbox kiosks within 10 miles from you

  by vlucas on 9/4/2012, 3:45 PM with 1 comments

• ChurchMint: Communication and Discovery Platform for Churches

  by vlucas on 4/27/2012, 3:43 PM with 6 comments

• On Preferring Spaces Over Tabs

  by vlucas on 3/15/2012, 4:49 PM with 1 comments

• Correcting tyop

  by vlucas on 3/8/2012, 3:52 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Could a free, ad-supported SaaS app work?

  by vlucas on 2/15/2012, 11:02 PM with 0 comments

• Can .NET make PHP run faster than the official PHP implementation?

  by vlucas on 12/15/2011, 4:29 PM with 0 comments

• PHP's ob_start() pre-allocates 40k memory per call

  by vlucas on 12/8/2011, 6:41 AM with 29 comments

• Interdependency

  by vlucas on 12/1/2011, 3:37 PM with 0 comments

• Excessive Data Usage with the iPhone 4S / iOS5

  by vlucas on 11/17/2011, 3:51 PM with 0 comments

• Introducing Kikuchat: The Self-hosted Team Chat Solution

  by vlucas on 9/7/2011, 1:43 PM with 22 comments

• Online Javascript Compressor rewritten in node.js + UglifyJS (source available)

  by vlucas on 7/26/2011, 1:45 PM with 0 comments

• Stackbox CMS: The Backend is Dead. (BSD)

  by vlucas on 5/20/2011, 2:28 PM with 0 comments

• Why PHP Was a Ghetto

  by vlucas on 4/19/2011, 5:17 PM with 164 comments

• How to Fail at a Startup: The story of Foamish

  by vlucas on 4/13/2011, 8:12 PM with 0 comments

• Protected vs Private Scope: Arrogance, Fear, and Handcuffs

  by vlucas on 4/4/2011, 2:25 PM with 1 comments

• Private vs Protected Methods: The Debate That Never Ends

  by vlucas on 3/28/2011, 7:41 PM with 0 comments

• Private vs Protected Method Debate and Symfony2

  by vlucas on 3/28/2011, 7:39 PM with 0 comments

• Lumberg: A Ruby Gem for the WHM & cPanel API

  by vlucas on 3/24/2011, 4:08 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Anyone interested in a self-hosted team chat app similar to Campfire?

  by vlucas on 3/22/2011, 2:37 PM with 2 comments

• Show HN: Keynot.es - Conference Notifications by Topic (Startup Weekend)

  by vlucas on 2/23/2011, 3:42 PM with 1 comments

• The Type of Employee You Really Want: Porn Star

  by vlucas on 2/4/2011, 5:30 PM with 52 comments

• U.S. Consumer Debt / U.S. Population = $43,100 per person

  by vlucas on 1/3/2011, 5:04 PM with 33 comments

• The Software Manager's "Joel Test"

  by vlucas on 12/29/2010, 7:17 PM with 7 comments

• Git vs SVN in less than 140 characters

  by vlucas on 12/29/2010, 5:02 PM with 0 comments

• Zero to App in Two Weeks with Titanium

  by vlucas on 12/27/2010, 5:08 PM with 0 comments

• The Night Before Launch-Mas

  by vlucas on 12/17/2010, 8:30 PM with 1 comments

• The Rails Guides Clone Wars

  by vlucas on 12/16/2010, 9:36 PM with 0 comments

• If Every Address Had a QR Code

  by vlucas on 12/16/2010, 5:23 PM with 0 comments

• KnightNews Challenge Troll Entry

  by vlucas on 12/2/2010, 3:37 PM with 0 comments

• Resumable, asynchronous file uploads using WebSockets in HTML5

  by vlucas on 11/30/2010, 5:29 PM with 0 comments

• A Great Salesperson Says NO

  by vlucas on 11/17/2010, 4:01 PM with 0 comments

• Zynga Patent: Virtual Playing Chips in a Multiuser Online Game Network

  by vlucas on 10/22/2010, 2:30 PM with 0 comments

• Practical Uses for PHP5.3 Closures

  by vlucas on 10/19/2010, 4:21 PM with 0 comments

• Thoughts on Writing Code for Money

  by vlucas on 8/20/2010, 8:58 PM with 1 comments

• Why I'm Reinventing Disqus

  by vlucas on 7/22/2010, 2:28 PM with 0 comments

• MongoDB Gotchas

  by vlucas on 7/7/2010, 5:44 PM with 3 comments

• NoSQL First Impressions: Object Databases Missed the Boat

  by vlucas on 4/27/2010, 5:06 PM with 2 comments

• "It has come to our attenton that our name may be misread by some"

  by vlucas on 3/17/2010, 8:04 PM with 17 comments

• Why WordPress Should Not Have Won the Open Source CMS Award

  by vlucas on 12/23/2009, 7:14 PM with 23 comments

• Apple App Store Surprise: Giving credit where credit is due

  by vlucas on 12/4/2009, 5:29 PM with 18 comments

• 24 Hour Pitch: Create an Online Startup in a Day

  by vlucas on 10/19/2009, 3:07 PM with 0 comments

• OpenBeta 3 / 24-Hour Pitch - Online Startups in OKC

  by vlucas on 10/5/2009, 3:37 PM with 0 comments

• The One Character Block Comment

  by vlucas on 7/21/2009, 3:10 PM with 37 comments