What does HackerNews think of shynet?

I am using shynet for a while now. More than enough data for me, blazing fast, and simple.

https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet

Shynet: https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet

The goal is to provide modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS. And it's completely open source.

Full disclosure: I am the primary maintainer.

I have a strong technical background and a passion for digital safety and privacy. I'm especially interested in trust & safety, privacy engineering, human-centered design, tech policy, and open source software.

I'm looking for an internship or fellowship adjacent to trust & safety / privacy engineering.

Some of the projects I’m most proud of are Shynet [0], PrivacySpy [1], PolitiTweet [2], and a17t [3]. I co-instruct CS 106S [4] at Stanford, and I worked on cyber policy for a 2020 presidential campaign. I also work at the Stanford Internet Observatory on both research and technical infrastructure.

Portfolio: https://miles.land

Location: NYC or SF Bay Area

Remote: yes but ideally no

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Python, Rust, JS, Java, Kubernetes, C, OSINT, web dev, and more.

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wnIBWjEPmgdYXQ_EYZRU--KE...

Email: [email protected]

[0] https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet

[1] https://privacyspy.org

[2] https://polititweet.org

[3] https://a17t.miles.land

[4] http://cs106s.stanford.edu

I have a strong technical background and a passion for digital safety and privacy. Especially interested in trust & safety, privacy engineering, human-centered design, tech policy, and open source software. Looking for an internship or fellowship adjacent to trust & safety or privacy engineering.

Some of the projects I’m most proud of are Shynet [0], PrivacySpy [1], PolitiTweet [2], and a17t [3]. I co-instruct CS 106S [4] at Stanford, and I worked on cyber policy for a 2020 presidential campaign. I also work at the Stanford Internet Observatory on both research and technical infrastructure.

Portfolio: https://miles.land

Location: NYC or SF Bay Area

Remote: yes but ideally no

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Python, Rust, JS, Java, Kubernetes, C, OSINT, web dev, and more.

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wnIBWjEPmgdYXQ_EYZRU--KE...

Email: [email protected]

[0] https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet

[1] https://privacyspy.org

[2] https://polititweet.org

[3] https://a17t.miles.land

[4] http://cs106s.stanford.edu

I built Shynet [0], a modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics tool that works without cookies or JS.

I also built a17t [1], an atomic web design toolkit that makes using Tailwind CSS a bit easier from the start.

[0] https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet

[1] https://github.com/milesmcc/a17t

Looking for an internship/summer job/fellowship/whatever you want to call it! I have sizable development experience (at least relative to my age), so I may be able to really contribute to your team. [0]

Especially in human-centered design, tech policy, privacy, systems programming, and security.

Location: Stanford, CA / New York, NY (depending on pandemic situation...)

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: Python, Rust, Elixir, JS/web stack, C, some Haskell, some Lisp, containerization and Kubernetes, general UX work, Linux/public clouds, some cryptography and networking. Some experience with Erlang/OTP.

Resume: https://miles.land, https://github.com/milesmcc, and http://bit.ly/mccain-resume (gdoc)

Email: [email protected]

[0] Check out https://a17t.miles.land (a css library I built) and https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet (my open analytics tool) for samples. I also built https://lensant.com, though I'm less happy with its design.

Looking for an internship/summer job/fellowship/whatever you want to call it! I have sizable development experience (at least relative to my age), so I may be able to really contribute to your team. [0]

Especially in human-centered design, tech policy, privacy, systems programming, and security.

Location: Stanford, CA / New York, NY (depending on pandemic situation...)

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: Python, Rust, Elixir, JS/web stack, C, some Haskell, some Lisp, containerization and Kubernetes, general UX work, Linux/public clouds, some cryptography and networking. Some experience with Erlang/OTP.

Resume: https://miles.land, https://github.com/milesmcc, and http://bit.ly/mccain-resume (gdoc)

Email: [email protected]

[0] Check out https://a17t.miles.land (a css library I built) and https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet (my open analytics tool) for samples. I also built https://lensant.com, though I'm less happy with its design.

Looking for an internship/summer job/fellowship/whatever you want to call it! I have sizable development experience (at least relative to my age), so I may be able to really contribute to your team. [0]

Location: Stanford, CA / New York, NY (depending on pandemic situation...)

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: Python, Rust, JS/web stack, C, some Haskell, some Lisp, containerization and Kubernetes, general UX work, Linux/public clouds, some cryptography and networking. Some experience with Elixir and Erlang/OTP.

Resume: https://miles.land, https://github.com/milesmcc, and http://bit.ly/mccain-resume (gdoc) Email: [email protected]

[0] Check out https://a17t.miles.land (a css library I built) and https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet (my open analytics tool) for samples. I also built https://lensant.com, though I'm less happy with its design.

Looking for an internship/summer job/fellowship/whatever you want to call it! I have sizable development experience (at least relative to my age), so I may be able to really contribute to your team. [0]

Location: Stanford, CA / New York, NY (depending on pandemic situation...)

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: Python, Rust, JS/web stack, C, some Haskell, some Lisp, containerization and Kubernetes, general UX work, Linux/public clouds, some cryptography and networking. Some experience with Elixir and Erlang/OTP.

Resume: https://miles.land, https://github.com/milesmcc, and http://bit.ly/mccain-resume (gdoc)

Email: [email protected]

[0] Check out https://a17t.miles.land (a css library I built) and https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet (my open analytics tool) for samples. I also built https://lensant.com, though I'm less happy with its design.

Looking for an internship/summer job/fellowship/whatever you want to call it!

Location: Palo Alto / New York (depending on pandemic situation...)

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: Python, Rust, JS/web stack [0], C, some Haskell, some Lisp, containerization and Kubernetes, general UX work, Linux/public clouds, some cryptography and networking.

Resume: https://miles.land and https://github.com/milesmcc

Email: [email protected]

[0] Check out https://a17t.miles.land (a css library I built) and https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet (my open analytics tool) for samples

This looks great! For what it’s worth, I also maintain an open source (and self hosted) website analytics tool called Shynet [0] (someone else mentioned it in this thread, but thought I’d share here as well). Really great to see more options in this area!

[0] https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet

All open source:

https://count.ly/

https://github.com/vesparny/fair-analytics

https://goaccess.io/

https://www.kokoanalytics.com/

https://github.com/sheshbabu/freshlytics

https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet

Props to the author for moving to an analytics tool that's more respectful to users.

For anyone who is interested in doing the same, I maintain an open source (and self-hostable) analytics tool called Shynet [0] that works without cookies or requiring any JS.

And to be clear, it isn't a SaaS -- the only way to run Shynet is to self-host it.

[0] https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet

It’s great to see more alternatives to GA, and to see those alternatives getting attention.

For those interested, one other FOSS analytics tool is Shynet [0]. Modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS. It also looks pretty slick. Disclosure: I’m a maintainer.

[0] https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet

Props to the author for ditching Google. I just want to point out that there are a LOT of non-Google analytics options out there; leaving Google Analytics really isn’t too hard if you’re willing to take the leap.

Plug: those who want a modern client-side analytics tool that’s free, self hosted, and open source might consider Shynet [0]. (Disclosure: I maintain it.) It’s a bit simpler/cleaner than Matomo, but exists in the same category.

[0] https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet

I haven’t used it myself, but I saw that this was released in April: https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet . At least one author is an HN user.