rmateu's comments

rmateu | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Record voice memo, receive transcription in email

Subscribed to monthly while I figure out if it fits on my workflow.

Anecdotally, it provides higher accuracy in a more relaxed style of narration than Just Press Record or native dictation.

Either way, thanks for sharing. Hoping the side app is working out.

rmateu | 5 years ago | on: Downpour: DRM Free Audiobooks

Been using Bound for a couple of years, it's great. CarPlay is solid and it has upload options for any scenario. I even use https://openaudible.org on my DRM books to play them on Bound, that's how much I appreciate the clean interface.

Hoping for a homescreen widget soon!

rmateu | 6 years ago | on: WARP is here

1.1.1.1 DNS and mobile app have improved my internet experience considerably outside the US (currently in Costa Rica). I'm very excited about WARP and totally buy the "everyday user" premise.

As soon as it feels stable I'm telling my activist brother-in-law in Venezuela to install it and enable WARP. Personally I trust Cloudflare above any ISP. I see myself installing it over holidays to the rest of the family there.

I understand and celebrate HN's high level discussion about concentration of power on the internet and its effects. But at the same time I want to celebrate a geeky company, releasing something cool, with a free tier – and an evident openness about its plans and how it works. Congrats on the launch!

rmateu | 6 years ago | on: Costa Rica has run on 100% renewable energy for 300 days

More recent source in April mentions:

> Only with renewable energies, this country has been operating for more than 6 months. The heavy rains in the region have allowed the country to completely renounce fossil fuels, and to feed almost entirely on the electricity generated from 4 hydroelectric plants – with a little extra help from geothermal, solar green energy and wind projects. With a little more investment, this trend can be maintained over time.

https://thecostaricanews.com/costa-rica-is-running-only-with...

rmateu | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Visualize Git Commits and Pull Requests Across Many Repos

Since December I've been working very hard on measuring developer _output_, software CapEx, and organization level indicators. All with as little overheard to devs as possible. Your thoughts are amazing in distilling the challenges of understanding what you can do measure software development, without succumbing to the financial reporting request of "just have them fill a timesheet".

rmateu | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Keypad Layout Window Manager for Mac

I'm loving this model. Thanks for sharing.

I own Magnet, Moom, Cinch and a few others. I always end up abandoning because the powerful keyboard features get in the way when you're in an actual workflow, and the basic ones make me reach for the mouse.

rmateu | 14 years ago | on: Codename: Svbtle by Dustin Curtis

Maybe because in Venezuela we are bombarded with propaganda everyday about how terrible meritocracy is, it bothers me to see this sentiment here.

As geeks, don't we recognize that The Deck ads are better than Google AdWords? Isn't the MacBook Air currently better than probably any other laptop? Wasn't Gmail the best thing since sliced bread for a long time?

I get it that it's part of the script in a socialist revolution, but in a start-up news site?

Curtis, can be as arrogant as he wants and still have a great product (or be right). Just like John Gruber is a jackass, but one who is usually right and (for the context of this site) has a successful business many us would love to have.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind helping out anybody here (or being helped), but at the end of the day, I want kick all your asses and win. And if I can hire the best of you, even better.

rmateu | 14 years ago | on: ExportMyPosts.com - Backup Your Posterous Blog Data in One Click

I want to migrate to scriptogr.am, but after a weekend of failed attempts modifying [Jekyll Blog Migration scripts][github], I was giving the free market (and my laziness) a nudge.

While posterous demise makes tumblr the winner of the space, I do think its social features/direction really gets in the way for those that just want a simple and fast blog.

Some more links for anyone interested hint, hint, wink, wink:

    * [ import-from-tumblr.js][github 2]
    * [Tumblr to Jekyll migration][github 3]
    * [ Migrating from Tumblr to Jekyll][55minutes]
    * [Markdown to HTML to Markdown to…][pennywised]    
    
[55minutes]: http://blog.55minutes.com/2012/02/migrating-from-tumblr-to-j... [github]: https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/Blog-Migrations [github 2]: https://github.com/rsms/rsms.github.com/blob/master/_scripts... [github 3]: https://gist.github.com/867468 [pennywised]: http://pennywised.com/markdown-train
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