jkcorrea

(slightly OT): Has anyone been able to replace Notion with Obsidian in a work/team context?

I find there's just enough missing things around collaboration/permissions/sharing that makes Obsidian a non-starter for work, even for the small team I have. Also seems it just feels a bit more "scary" for non-technical users to onboard onto on than Notion.

And if I can't use it for work, I'm not going to use it personally because I don't want to juggle multiple notetakers.

I imagine Obsidian is way more efficient for sharing context between you and agents and wish I could take advantage of that, but I also need to be sharing that context with my team

if scaling laws and context windows continue, why not?

A modern SQL client for web devs. Deeply integrated with your workflow (vscode, drizzle, supabase, etc), a nicer more schema-aware GUI (think Airtable), and smarter ways to save queries and export/share them.

A lot planned, not much built. Just started so follow along if it sounds useful! Also see my prior thoughts on the topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41286912

Sqratch - https://github.com/jkcorrea/sqratch

idk why you’re getting downvoted. you’re absolutely right and not disparaging in any way. sometimes hn can’t see the forest for the trees…

Oh yes I've been trialing Metabase but didnt know about Superset, thank you!

This category of tools definitely scratches a big part of the itch here. But you still end up needing a db client for a long tail of other tasks. So now your db knowledge is spread across 3+ tools: shared queries/charts in Metabase, personal queries in Postico, schema defs and SQL files in your code repo, Notion, etc.

I think you've got an opportunity to consolidate all that into 1 tool in the same way Postman did for APIs

Postgres in particular makes a lot of schema information available, but very few database clients make full use of it. Completely agree. Also just the industry consolidation around the pg ecosystem in general will lend itself to better tooling potential (e.g. Supabase's LSP project).

I am currently working on a mobile-first Postgres client. Great that you're working on something new here! If I may ask - why mobile-first? That's not something I've particularly needed tbh (sample size of 1 of course)

I'll also add, my gut preference would be for a tool built independent from Supabase. I don't/can't always use Supabase/postgres and even if some future Supabase db client was opened up to connecting to any db URL, I don't know how much I'd trust it not to be optimized for Supabase at the expense of the rest of the ecosystem if that makes sense.

Not that that should stop you from trying of course :)

looks interesting I'll check it out, thank you!

First off, love everything Supabase is doing. Keep it up. A few blunt things off-the-bat:

1) pg.new is neat, but honestly I don't see why I'd use it when I can do the same thing directly inside my drizzle schema dir using Cursor's Composer UI, which has full context on my project. I know not many are using Cursor right now, but it's hard to fathom these kind of features don't become part-and-parcel of code editors soon..

2) I actually find it painful to have to login to Supabase on the web to manage the database. I never use the table editor, snippets, etc. I want a native app I can CMD+Tab to.

Don't mean to be rude, just objective so you can feel my pain as a user.

In terms of the Notebooks, yeah I meant like Jupyter Notebooks. I've experimented with having a shared Notion or markdown files committed to repos in order to

A) save & search for snippets of SQL for the team/future me

B) document the "why" along with each step in a playbook.

The issues with this are

1) its detached from our normal workflow and quickly becomes outdated relative to our schema/business needs

2) to run the queries you have to copypaste back into a SQL tool

3) queries are hardcoded for certain values. If I have a report I run daily, every day I have to go in and manually update the `row.timestamp BETWEEN 'YYYY-MM-DD' AND 'YYYY-MM-DD'`, or if its a customer support workflow I have to replace the customer's ID everywhere. I'd rather have variables at the top I can reference throughout the queries, either as a code block like in Jupyter NB, or maybe some variable UI a la Insomnia/Postman

excited to see what you guys roll out! Supabase is always pushing the DX in this space into the future, so thank you

Not sure about Azure ecosystem but huge fan of https://clerk.com/.

Trying out https://stack-auth.com/ which just launched on HN, mostly out of OSS solidarity

love it! any plans to allow for sharing custom indexes with friends/family (or would that run into regulations)?

Slightly OT: Been wanting to get back into drums after a ~15 year hiatus. Electric kits still seem pretty pricy - does HN have any recs?

Unfortunate the author 1) wasn't made aware of just how mind altering of an experience it can be and 2) seems to have been misled that this treatment can simply "cure depression" on its own

It's my experience that psychedelics can help open your mind to different perspectives and spot unaddressed issues (I believe they're issues you just aren't "allowing" yourself to see/address), but to just take it in a clinical setting and expect it to work some magic on you.. Idk.

K can be incredibly dissociative in recreational doses & this person was given ~10-20x a recreational dose - with very little warning of the gravity of the effects. I can totally imagine why it was such a terrifying experience!

I agree with another commenter about the importance of mindset and setting. For most people, even getting to the point in their lives where they can & are willing to take psychedelics (non-clinical settings) is a long journey that shouldn't be discounted. Not saying we shouldn't pursue it in more clinical ways, just that the journey & mindset BEFORE taking the drugs is just as, if not MORE, important than the drugs themselves

I believe the implication is there will now be less incentive for app developers to ship for App Store when they can get 80% of the way there with 0% of the “hoops” to jump through (I.e. Apple guidelines)

But that’s what folk beliefs essentially are: “on average this is going to happen”

Isn’t that inherently what happens when you play telephone across time and cultures? You end up with stories stripped down to the essence, the most important advice from those who came before us boiled down.

Are you advocating that when we find what works for us we don’t share that finding with others? I think that’s exactly what’s wrong with the “science is the only right answer” mindset..

Yeah I think the article is a bit of a strawman: if you take ED to be more broadly “issues around sex” I think you’ll find a lot more people agreeing of the correlation

Just browsing the replies here I see many guys saying effectively “Well I watch tons of porn and my penis still works” which is kind of a level 1 analysis on how porn might be affecting their brain

Laughing with people is bonding and generally seen as a good long term strategy for life (creates friendships, gives meaning, etc)

Replace all instances of laughing with friends with masturbating alone in your room and tell me that’s a good, meaningful life you want to live

Call me crazy but I don’t need every life decision to be backed by peer reviewed studies. I’m perfectly happy using my intuition to tell me that e.g. yes the more I jerk it to a pixels on screen portraying (often unrealistic) sex the more I’m conditioning myself to have issues with the real thing.

I know a number of highly intelligent people in the sciences who make decisions like this (searching/waiting for Science to tell them what’s right) and who laugh at me when I follow intuition/folk knowledge.

Don’t get me wrong, academic research is an amazing thing. I follow many research backed protocols for fitness, diet etc. But I also think when it comes to systems as complex as our bodies, there’s much collective wisdom in our intuition and societal traditions that science hasn’t and may never catch up to.

Congrats on the launch! Just yesterday I was pondering if I could do something like this for a saas I’m working on: I’d like to offer users the ability to extend their dashboard in certain ways (a la WP/Shopify plugins), but those ways require extending the ui AND the server code.

Extism seems like a great fit for this, I’ll definitely be checking it out :)

Problem is all the pragmatic people you want answering your questions are too pragmatic to spend time reading and leaving comments on the internet

Never say never but I don't think it's very easy to build a broad and helpful community where the factors you listed aren't at play in people's motivations.

I find better help going into very specific communities for the technologies I'm having issues with. Discord servers are a great example

“make conscience of the idle rovings of our braines” and “enter… those darke closets of thy heart”

I've been battling a few addictions recently. None so severe that they impacted my health or relationships in any major way, and so I lived with these habits very functionally for most of my adult life.

It's incredible the kind of grip a habit can have on you. Despite how much I tried to change, that grip only grew tighter. It wasn't until I joined a 12 step program and met people who were like me that I started the process of unwinding. Making conscience every thought that led to my negative behaviors was the first step. The next giant hurdle was de-identifying with those thoughts and behaviors, which for me was probably the hardest part.

Probably the best tool for me right now is like the quote says, to just really examine your thoughts and honestly tell yourself why you're having the craving/urge. If you can really be honest about it and recognize your addiction is only going to make the situation worse, I find you can start to "dampen" the craving. It suddenly isn't as appealing.

It's not easy though, for every time I can successfully introspect and tell myself an honest, hard truth, there's 10 times I tell a self-lie and let myself believe it simply because to know otherwise would be too big a burden to bear in that moment

I didn't last long in the 12 step program, maybe it's not exactly for me. But a lot of what's talked about in this article is also part of 12 step: self-awareness, daily journaling and gratitude, spiritualizing others, having a community to go through the process with, etc. Even though I didn't continue with it, the few meetings I attended were honestly life changing and I highly recommend anyone who thinks they may have an addiction problem (pro tip: if you arent sure but a specific behavior came to mind, you probably do) to try one out. There's plenty for all kinds of addictions, turns out you're not alone

Wow thank you, these are incredible!! Will try and get to as many of these as possible

Off topic: I'll be visiting Rome & this beautiful structure in a couple weeks (extended layover). Does HN have any recs, historical or otherwise?

I assume they're referring to the 50k record limit & 5 req/s Airtable has

Yes!! It's like SRS but I've noticed it works for much more than flashcards/learning language type learnings - even works for physical activities like you mentioned.

I first noticed this for myself wayy back when I was learning how to ride a bike. I remember falling and falling and then giving up, coming back a few weeks later and nailing it on the first try!

Then again I noticed this as a youth while playing video game campaigns. I remember not being able to defeat Bowser in Luigi's Mansion or something, giving up, then returning in a week to handily defeat him.

I think it's after noticing this in video games that I began to internalize it as a learning strategy.

From then on I never really crammed for tests (which also benefits you on test day as you're not sleep deprived or stressed) or stressed out over pushing past any walls I would hit like you mention. Instead I'd focus on gradual learning with LONG breaks to absorb (not actively, just put your attention to something else and let the information "download asynchronously/on background" so to speak).

More recently I've begun to speak up about this learning style and, as I've begun mentoring junior employees or teaching friends technical skills, I've realized this is a foreign concept to many. So fascinating :)

"Baffled" was a bit strong I guess. I enjoy a lot of different language/ecosystems (.net, erlang, typescript if you can call it an ecosystem) and see lots of reasons why you may build on them.

Also recognize starting a project with what language/tools you know best is often more important than picking the most optimal one for the job.

Learned to dev in Rails, went to work in big tech building internal tools in Python (mostly Flask), Node, and Go, and am now happily building my own startup in Rails.

I honestly am baffled as to why anyone would not choose rails for most web apps, let alone basic CRUD apps. Maybe Django would be an alright substitute, I just dislike Python as a language/ecosystem. And the Rails core and gem ecosystem is just so mature at this point, any new feature you need is just a gem install away (hyperbole a bit).

In the end, it's not a huge deal which stack you go with and great, successful companies have been built on all of these and even weirder stacks. Just wish the world settled on one so we could double down on the tooling around it :)

Those are far from pathetic, in fact some of the most real and valid reasons. Mental health is so important.

But holy crap did I feel exactly this when working at bigtech. 1-2hr commute plus long days and short weekends it can all blur together so quickly. Winter especially was the worst when it was dark out long before I left the office.

On the sleeping note - have you been tested for sleep apnea before? I'm young, slim and healthy but felt exactly that way (sleep 12+ hrs on nicest bed I could find, humidifier and air purifier and all, but still not feel rested & needing to go to my car during work to take a nap..). Low and behold I tested positive for sleep apnea, and I've heard CPAPs can be night and day for many with it.

Asking with some self-interest for a project I'm working on:

Is there anything in particular about the project that's frustrating/time-consuming? Or just the whole thing altogether?

Projecting a bit here, but your dilemma seems to resonate really well with this essay, especially when you mentioned "indulging in the fantasy": https://www.trevormckendrick.com/essays/future-you-masturbat...

Pains me to hear it makes you dislike yourself, means next to nothing from a stranger online, but you're obviously smart, passionate, and care about your (potential) users' experiences, which is pretty admirable by itself. We see so many stories here of epic devs/biz persons moving mountains and executing their visions, but I'd be surprised if the large majority of them didn't go through a rut like what you currently are facing at least once.

Oh fascinating, you and GP must be "destination not the journey" whereas I feel very much the opposite like you say. Never realized there's a distinction.

Is it like that you need external validation, or to know you'll please other people with a piece of music you right? What if it's just to make yourself happy? I'm terrible with music though, I can't imagine writing something new is easy at all even before you get in your head about the outcomes.