jamiedumont

I’ve noticed a lot of changes on the site recently, which I believe is powered by Ghost which makes messing around with feed links a more advanced (for lack of a better word) tweak than many platforms as you download/upload a routes file. I’m a 10+ year developer and have found myself chasing route changes in Ghost with trial and error.

I thought the two sounded similar, then I saw at the bottom they both have come from the same two founders. Nice to have a straightforward alternative to NextDNS to recommend to relatives.

This is very close my personal struggle; summarised by “I can do anything except one thing”.

Agreed. We bought my wife an NC last year when the criteria was “cheap, petrol, naturally aspirated and Japanese”. The criteria was in response to my Land Rover (Discovery / LR4) which is none of those things and becoming a bore.

After stealing the MX-5 whenever I get the chance I now wish we could run two. That would make family trips troublesome though…

I have a small flask - about the volume of a cup of coffee - made by Kinto. It can deliver those surprise burns hours after filling. It’s almost too good, and has been relegated to long road trips or post-surf coffee where I know it’ll be >3 hours before I want to drink it.

A large vacuum bottle with ice cubes on a hot summers day is hard to beat too.

That was my sense too. Used it for a few similar programs today (like converting HTML to Markdown but parsing certain <figure> elements to shortcodes) and scaffolding a Rust web app.

It's done a reasonable job — but rips through credit, often changing its mind. Even strong-arming it into choosing an approach, it wanted to flip-flop between using regex and lol_html to parse the HTML whenever it came across a difficulty.

If you're a US developer on whatever multiple of $ to the £ that I earn it might make sense, but burning through $100p/h for a pair programmer is a bit rich for my blood.

I did this recently when a blog post described the exact, very niche issue I was having with a production server. This post described the symptoms of the issue clearly and included a flow-chart of required fixes. There was no preamble, just clear guidance. It was more an incident management manual than a blog post, and it saved me a lot of Googling under considerable stress.

I sent the author a quick thank you, explaining how it helped me in my hour of need. Exactly as others have said here, it goes a long way to making the effort of blogging worthwhile!

And if you can't read German, it's very similar to the IR35 [0] rules that we have here in the UK.

Effectively... "Don't work as a freelancer for a company if they are your only client. That's employment."

[0] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/understanding-off-payroll-workin...

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Thanks! I've always been a surfer, but split my time with other activities. Post-accident everyone thinks I'm scared of getting back on the bike — maybe a bit? — but genuinely my first thought post-crash was how long I'd be out of the water. It was a clarification of what I truly enjoyed, and an excuse to double down on being in the water.

I'm now doing anything and everything to get in the sea and improve my surfing. Lengths at the pool for strength and endurance, free diving (and spearfishing) to reduce the anxiety of those big hold-downs. It's been liberating choosing just one sport to be good at.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. That post-ORIF pain being worse than the break was my experience too. Even with the plate I became quite paranoid about shifting the screws because it provided so much immediate stability I was worried I was able to do things that may loosen the screws.

A hook plate sounds horrible! Mine is a simple straight plate, bent into a helix shape to follow the natural rotation of the bone. I've got almost full mobility, although that shoulder does seize up quite readily. Not sure whether that's the plate or just remnants of the reduced mobility post-crash and post-surgery.

I've been told to expect two weeks of surgical healing and a further 4 weeks of babying it and avoiding impacts. I'm hoping your removal being tougher was due to the different plates. Would quite like it gone and to get on with my life now.

Mine felt immediately worse after the ORIF. After two weeks getting comfortable in their new positions, all the ligaments really resented getting wrenched back into place.

Good illustration was that my run of the mill, 45 minute surgery ended up taking 4.5 hours.

It’s good to hear that everything felt good after your plate was removed. At 18 months post-surgery, I’m in a really good place where I can do most anything I want. Only occasionally experience discomfort if my son headbutts the plate or a backpack strap rubs on it. I was in two minds about having it removed as it would be a step backwards to post-surgical, but the likelihood of me doing something stupid again in the future means it’s worth it. Rather have the fuse that a clavicle is rather than fracture my sternum!

I shattered my collarbone - and I do mean shattered, ~8 pieces - in a mountain bike crash September 2023. I went over the bars after the back wheel of my hardtail caught a berm. Landed on my head and shoulder and compressed it laterally inwards by about 2 inches.

Even with this mess, it was hotly debated for around two weeks whether I needed surgery. A good chunk of my collarbone was trying to push through my skin and the other half was fusing to my scapular and was starting to compromise nerve function. Even then, because the non-surgical route is now considered the standard, I was meeting resistance to have an ORIF. It seems that the about turn from surgical intervention has been so strong that getting ANY surgical intervention is a battle.

I eventually came across a surgeon who took one look at me (never mind the imaging) and scheduled me for surgery. ~18 months later I’m now on a waiting list to have the plate removed, and strangely have gone off cycling… Surfing has happily taken its place.

I bought a 16 Pro after the camera on my previous iPhone stopped working. Despite being a camera-led purchase - and I do care about the camera on my phone - I would have bought this 16e in a heartbeat over the Pro.

Using fish shell has largely solved my gripes with complex commands. It’s not AI autocomplete, but it remembers the complex commands perfectly, so I only need to work it out once. It’s suggestions are also uncanny - the right command and just the right time.

My German peaked during an exchange, where after a few weeks of it "washing over" me I was using the language more naturally, even if still making frequent errors. Equally my French peaked when I was working around lots of French tourists, so I'm very onboard with this exposure-based approach.

Nuenki is pretty much what I was looking for - plus it's a good shove to make switch from Safari to Firefox (a change I've been meaning to make).

I've heard of Anki as a learning tool, but not tried it. What makes it miserable?

I'll be sure to checkout the Reddit and YouTube links too. Thanks for the help internet stranger!

Can’t argue with that! :D

I’ll confess to being ignorant on the science. For instance I know that many of the local guides don’t use oxygen, but attributing that capability to time at altitude (“training” for lack of a better word) or genetics (on the back of generations of “training”?).

Either way, I like the thought experiment! :D

I'm only pointing out that those SaaS starter kits existed over ten years ago, and I've got the invoice to prove it! :D

There was a time about ten years ago I worked with a few people who had climbed Everest (one multiple times) and a handful more that were due to in the next couple of years. We worked in a climbing shop, and the regulars were all experienced climbers, working only to save enough for the next expedition.

The topic of oxygen had come up and almost everyone was all in favour of it until one guy explained he wouldn't be alive had he decided to use oxygen. He got cut off between two camps in bad weather, and were he relying on oxygen he would have likely run out; and subsequently passed out and died in the cold. As he was instead properly acclimated, he could ride out the storm as long as he stayed warm, which was relatively easy because he didn't need to worry about oxygen consumption.

Whether his story was true or not, it highlighted that it might be better to "be more" than "have more". The idea has stuck with me since, and whenever I'm faced with the choice between a shortcut past problem using some external resource or taking the longer, slower route of learning it/training properly I always go for the latter. It's not sexy, but has served me pretty well.

It's been an interesting thought-experiment these past few months as the talk around AI has become deafening. I know I'll be on the wrong side of history eventually, but I still prefer to "earn my turns" to borrow a metaphor from backcountry skiing.

I've not encountered "Brave New World" but I love (and can see) the metaphor!

34 year old who grew up on Guernsey (small island south and independent of Britain but with very much the same values) and went to a state-funded Grammar school for secondary and can't relate to all of this, but certainly most. The details are different but I agree that the education offered is subpar and the "socialisation" argument is bullshit. School left me feeling more isolated and alone than I've ever been.

Hate to break it to you but this trend of selling people a system to make money where the seller is actually enacting the system they’re selling is older than the internet.

I can recall online versions in 2012 - that I’m ashamed to say took me for some money - were not just in existence but popular and fashionable the way indie hackers is now. Nothing new.

I've been evaluating and building out small prototypes with all the usual suspects for backend Rust work. So far I've reluctantly agreed with the hive mind that Axum on balance is the best choice, despite being lower-level than I'd like.

Other contenders were Loco (but was TOO much like Rails) and Rocket (whose macros only started to bother me after writing more Rust).

Your framework seems to perfectly match my criteria of "batteries-included, but not too prescriptive". Great addition to the ecosystem!

This is a brilliant endeavour and incredibly well executed! I’ll certainly be bookmarking it to share with others.

I’ve recently decided to start adding to my website with just hand-written HTML, and slowly migrating the back catalogue. I love its directness, its ability for ad-hoc changes to a page and its robustness. After trying almost every system for publishing on the web under the sun; I’ve concluded HTML is the right tool for the job, even if it means a little extra work up front.

As a retired developer I’m happy to tinker with Rust or SQL or something embedded when the mood strikes, but when I want to write, I just want to write - and HTML kind of lets me do that. I think if more people saw HTML as a document to author rather than just a build target then we’d have a lot simpler systems. This mindset has resulted/allowed for a huge dumbing down of average computer/web users and huge headaches for developers. I can’t think who all the complexity we’ve brought into the world serves 99% of the time.

This resource might be one of the things that nudges us back on track.

I’m solidly reinventing the wheel by building my own cut-down version of Ghost, cut with a minimal platform such as Blot, Bear, Mataroa, etc; using classless HTML as the source (rather than mobiledoc).

Aim is for a static-site development/writing experience but with a dynamic app to allow for email subscriptions, payments, etc.

Not building it as a business, just to meet my own needs.

Agreed. Annual is usually paid upfront in exchange for the discount you receive.

I paid for a year of Ghost Pro and realised after only a few weeks that I’d really rather use something else. It’s my mistake and there’s no comeback.

I have an annual Adobe subscription that I’m keeping around until the renewal - just for the last few jobs I might need it for - rather than cancelling. Maybe I’m just a sucker for sunk cost fallacy?

Are the Russian Soyuz still being used as ISS-taxis?

Does that put European developers building for Apple’s platforms at a disadvantage?