chadpaulson

Yeah, I agree after thinking about it. Connecting other social networks makes it difficult to distinguish Friendster as an intimate and honest platform free of spam.

The intimacy levels can be IRL (when you tap phones), Phone (when you friend via phone number) and Email (when you friend via email address). You could also measure the intimacy hierarchy / rank by keeping track of events (should events become a feature) you attend with other friends.

I agree. There should be a hierarchy of intimacy, as it were, in order to initiate a friendship.

* Tapping Phones * Confirming Phone Number * Confirming Email * Connected via Other Platforms (Facebook, Twitter, BlueSky, etc)

As far as maintaining a friendship by tapping phones, again, I would make the friendships a constant and graph / rank intimacy by how often you tap phones as well as how connected you are to your friend (phone, email, connections on other networks).

I love this framework, pun intended. I made a clone of Atari's Missile Command with it many years ago when the Portal / Mario mashup game made with LÖVE was popular. https://github.com/chadpaulson/missile-command

The market forces (the Jack Dorseys of the world) have made the decision for us. I have since attempted to embrace automatic programming / vibe coding and have seen interesting results. AI is a tool and we are living through the infancy of its evolution. I have concerns, not counting the current DoW drama with Anthropic and OpenAI. The next 5 years will significantly shape the direction of AI and how it is implemented in our workflows and every day lives. I'd rather involve myself and help shape its future instead of pretending it doesn't exist because I don't want to deal with it.

RIP CNN.

I've heard good things about carbon steel. Particularly, nitrided carbon steel. The pans are treated to be non-stick and are safe. It's what Alton Brown, the host of Food Network's Good Eats who also just launched a new cooking show on YouTube, uses.

I use ceramic, but recently learned that nitrided carbon steel pans are the way to go. They are both useful AND safe. Do yourself a favor and invest in one.

https://chadpaulson.com

Merry Christmas!

I think so. Just did a few searches, pretty decent quality. I think it might be an aggregator.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230926013605/https://www.nytim...

The Python user base is perfectly fine. Of course, any additional package installed outside of Django and Wagtail can introduce security risks. Since Wagtail and all of its additional packages incorporates Django's security features, which includes protection against many common attack methods, it is a more secure offering.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/topics/security/

Not to mention security through obscurity, Wagtail is a lot less common than Wordpress. Therefore, not as many attack vectors exist for Wagtail as they do for Django / Wagtail, especially if you keep on top of the security patches.

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/sep/04/security-re...

You had also mentioned you were looking to create a platform for invoicing. There are several Django apps that offer invoicing functionality. I do not have experience with any of them, but below is a good feature matrix which should allow you to drive decisions as you prototype and test them out.

https://djangopackages.org/grids/g/invoicing/

I have used both Django-CMS and Wagtail. Wagtail is much more user-friendly and extensible. You can create Wikis, Blogs and regular content pages with models and maintain it all through a friendly CMS interface that rivals Wordpress.

In my other reply I offer the suggestion of using Wagtail, a Django CMS used by Nasa and Google. It offers up much of the same features and user experience as Wordpress and is much more customizable and extendable.

https://wagtail.org/features/

Django has a CMS called Wagtail, which has some really nice features including custom content blocks which allow you to easily create unique looking pages.

Wagtail has over 15,000 stars on GitHub, is heavily supported and was created in 2014. It has since been adopted by organizations such as NASA, Google, and the National Health Service.

Below is a comparison between Wagtail and Wordpress.

https://wagtail.org/wagtail-vs-wordpress/

I always credit the artists, as well as the Noun Project itself, in cases like this. https://chadpaulson.github.io/react-cassette-player/

The Holographic Universe: The Revolutionary Theory of Reality by the late Michael Talbot is a must read for those interested in exploring this topic.

Here is a video from a UX Engineer on the Google Web Designer team, dated May 2016, which overviews new UI features. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8x6kENKG0M

From the Logojoy How it Works page.

    The last step isn’t actually AI – it’s a genetic algorithm. As you ‘favorite’ logos, we apply a natural selection type process to generate more accurate logos as you scroll. Each logo is made up of hundreds of ingredients (ie ‘funky font’, ‘bold color’, ‘logo has a symbol’, etc.) – these are called traits in the context of genetic algorithms.

There is already a planned Channels integration for DRF to enable realtime API support. http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/mozilla-grant/

Initial plans for the Mozilla grant also included making DRF an official Django project, but details are sparse.

Prince was instrumental in helping inspire Van Jones' YesWeCode. He was a humble and thoughtful genius. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/04/21/prince-va...

There's always room for Jello.

The US is a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

Interesting overview of Edinburgh duck R&D. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bdeNuRF-yE

I suggest having a look at Alt. https://github.com/goatslacker/alt

Valid question. React is actually a UI library, not a framework, and is suited to work with multiple view "backends" including canvas. https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2013/06/05/why-react.h...

I was you ~6-7 months ago. My biggest motivation for evaluating and eventually working with React was its simple philosophy. With it comes a lot of power. The ability to create an accessible application that rendered on the client and server side and didn't even require Javascript in the client to function. https://github.com/chadpaulson/react-isomorphic-video-game-s...

Agreed. There are many labyrinthian Flux libraries and examples out in the wild. The most simple, and underrated, Flux implementation I have come across is Alt - https://github.com/goatslacker/alt.

I'm curious why a library which puts emphasis on a slim Virtual DOM implementation would go through the trouble of accommodating jQuery.