serializer VS trackawesomelist

Two things that changed my life:

(1) https://serializer.io/ to read HN. It shows the top list in a way that lets you mark all as read. If I check it too often, it just shows all posts as read because they are. Simple and brilliant.

(2) iOS Automation Shortcut starts a 9 minute timer when I open twitter or Instagram. The automation system also puts up a toast popup telling me about the timer. The popup alone helps me realize I'm wasting time and I should just close the app rather than scrolling.

> On HN, the filtering is done by others (mostly: you can filter by “Show HN”, “Ask HN”, new, etc.)

That's why I read HN via Serializer (disabled all other websites), because I don't really wanna curated HN homepage from certain brigades and I wanna choose what I read and what _I_ find interesting. You can also get your individual URL to share across devices, which I find very useful.

https://serializer.io/

My morning routine hasn't changed over the years. I'll scan serializer.io, get the kids ready, work out, eat breakfast, shower, and flip open the work notebook. Then I'll be a few goddamned minutes late to the first team meeting of the day.

Not the project author, but the code for serializer is at https://github.com/charlieegan3/serializer

One is Frontend Dogma’s list of web-based development tools (by tag). Yes, disclosure, that’s a collection I maintain, and it’s not the only one of its kind—there is Tiny Helpers, run by Stefan Judis, and there are others, certainly including some “Awesome Lists,” buried under hyped one-off posts of fractions of the value.

Yes, this is by far the best one in my experience: https://www.trackawesomelist.com/