Show HN: Slack Night Mode(blog.lacour.me) |
Show HN: Slack Night Mode(blog.lacour.me) |
Your name servers seem to be ns[1-5].he.net, and ns1.he.net doesn't know what blog.lacour.me is:
> blog.lacour.me
Server: ns1.he.net
Address: 216.218.130.2
*** No address (A) records available for blog.lacour.me $ dig @75.75.75.75 blog.lacour.me
QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
{{ no answer }}
$ dig @75.75.75.75 blog.lacour.me
QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
blog.lacour.me. 75275 IN CNAME silvrback.herokuapp.com.
silvrback.herokuapp.com. 156 IN CNAME us-east-1-a.route.herokuapp.com.
us-east-1-a.route.herokuapp.com. 30 IN A 23.23.208.103 host blog.lacour.me
blog.lacour.me is an alias for silvrback.herokuapp.com.
silvrback.herokuapp.com is an alias for us-east-1-a.route.herokuapp.com.
us-east-1-a.route.herokuapp.com has address 54.83.3.141Mozilla's "Reader View" is a fantastic step towards establishing a consistent (and user-configurable) look-and-feel across the web. But its domain is still very narrow and wouldn't apply to Slack, unfortunately. Yet it's the only product I know of that's even working towards this kind of goal.
That could be a future GTK browser :) dynamically downloads a glade ui file and python + CSS scripts to bring the web to GTK.
Their business pricing, which includes SSL, starts at $399 per month.
Or you can self-host with something like http://staytus.co/
Yes you have to set up multi-AZ deployment, but that's super simple on AWS. Add in their new free SSL certs and voila!
Even as a small startup, that's easily worth the time to save nearly $5k per year.
I've had web browsers that default to white screen flashing on new tabs, and most don't respect your native theme.
My current workaround]in Firefox is to disable background images, set default foreground/background and link colours. Set a default font, and ensure font sizes don't fall below a certain size.
Some text inputs have a dark background and a dark font. Which makes things very difficult. I'm typing blind.
Another issue is that many designs use background images where you would expect foreground placement. For example Instagram doesn't work for me. Slack is usable, but some image previews are lost. Other sites that rely upon imagery for navigation can pose a problem. The compose window in Gmail, I have to use mystery meat navigation to work out each button's function. Which is quite poor.
I've tried setting my own stylesheets in browsers where you can, but it's easy to break layouts.
Obviously accessibility is still overlooked by many site designers.
I also don't like being stuck in one browser, so a better cross application solution is preferable, rather than site specific fixes.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/firefox#Unreadable_inpu...
You can customise the colors according to your preference.
I also like the FT Deep Dark theme for firefox.
Not trying to dismiss this. I'd genuinely like to know as I'm often on my computer late at night.
Here is a link to the Github project: https://github.com/laCour/slack-night-mode
I wish the Slack App had a night theme..
It's also very nice that Flux is applied after this so I don't get a dark blue screen.
Oh my god they're `eval`ing url components
That said, I agree with you that there is a reason their pricing is high. It's a more profitable business. Unless you're Netflix it's hard to build a business charging $10/mo. So compete on price, sure, but it can't hurt to find a few rough spots on their product that you can improve. When we launched cronitor.io we at first competed on price but we also had objectively better technology: faster alerting, etc. As we've developed the product we've been able to charge more and it's worked out well.
Sure, you can spin up two, three, four instances in AWS across multiple availability zones. Sure, you can install Ubuntu and manage servers. Sure, you can setup an ELB, or maybe you go the extra yard and configure NGINX. Sure you can deploy an open source rails or node status page app. All wasted energy and wasted cycles that should have been utilized on your idea directly.
I've seen this attitude of extreme frugalness/cheapness and it seems to be a trait that engineers are almost proud of, and brag about. Toxic behavior.
Disclosure: I am myself an engineer, but also founder.
On the other hand, spending more elsewhere, say, to keep good books or to acquire customers, makes perfect sense.