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founder @ borderline.biz and boredreading.com
I love that blogging is taking off a bit again, and I think this trend will last.
I built BoredReading.com a few years ago because I enjoy reading but hate having to curate my own feeds, so this is a done for you kinda app.
People attend meetings for job security, not to accomplish an agenda.
Being seen as important, is important.
You can't solve this without true ownership, and employees aren't owners.
I've been curating some of the last few personal blogs in one place for a couple years now (http://boredreading.com).
It always makes me happy to see more people bring back blogging. I hate that everything is on platforms like substack, and would much rather see a million wordpress or ghost installs.
Found this on Boredreading.com which is an interesting way to discover new blogs!
Registering is free though. People use their email to signup for newsletters all the time. So I feel like it's a fair ask to signup to read some really high quality curated articles with an unparalleled reading experience.
It's funny, you (the user, and everyone else that commented about registering) say it's not worth your time registering, but if you look at it from my perspective, it's not worth putting in all this effort for someone who isn't willing to even register for free, let alone pay for the service that cost months to build.
The articles update every hour, so please check back again. The articles are from blogs that were deemed high quality, but even high quality blogs can churn out filler content. But in general, I think you'll always find one or two really interesting things to read at any given time, if not on the homepage, then on the blogs you follow.
FYI: Don't forget to try the keyboard shortcuts!
If you could email me, I'm trying to see if self-hosting is doable. Thanks! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35404958
OP here: I'm considering it. Can you email me please? (email in profile)
Would love to figure out a way I can work out a self hosted version for those who want it, given there is enough interest in it. This goes to anyone else who's interested in self hosting, please email me! Thanks!
OP Here, I think so. Digging into why it's taking so long to load.
I used this for a bit and I really like it. This could take off. It's fun!
How did you know about my bad luck? :)
It did work this time.
I like people trying stuff like this. The web is too large and too broad for everyone to hangout in the same place. There should be communities and sub communities that are distributed. We used to have forums, but maybe it'll end up being thousands of niche social media sites like yours. Kudos on the launch!
FYI, Got a 500 server error on https://app.pressnt.net/post/create/#edit-here-to-create-you...
It doesn't matter if the solutions exist if engineers don't think for themselves. The last project I worked on was about a dozen or so forms and the code base was thousands of lines of react/redux boilerplate nightmare. That project didn't need to be an SPA, and it could have been built much simpler. Heck it could have been hundreds of lines with jquery & node/express.
I love this quote and I think its apt here, “Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.”
What's incredible is how software engineers have failed over the last decade to truly advance the creation of CRUD apps.
Making a CRUD app in many ways has become much more complicated than it was when I started programming 10 years ago.
Today when I want to build an application, I often find myself frustrated and bemused at the state of things. Not because I find it difficult to write TailWind, or connect my Redux state to a component, but because I would have imagined the increase in the number of engineers would have led to more abstractions that would have simplified the creation of a CRUD app, which is are just glorified web forms.
I wonder if ChatGPT had even stood a chance if engineers were good at engineering. But engineers are really mostly good at boiler-plating code complex enough to ensure job security. Which ChatGPT might excel at one day.
What I would have liked to have seen is a world in which we were good at creating abstraction layers to solve an entire class of problems. But alas, I might have asked for too much.
I've been looking for a remote design + engineering role, but it really seems like most companies are not hiring or just have way too many options to choose from!
I've got 10+ years as a design who is also a full stack engineer (node stack). If you're hiring for a role that is well-rounded product, please message me, I'd love to talk.
Portfolio link in my profile.
I wonder if the moon phase or clouds had anything to do with the lighting conditions.
Matt does a great job of explaining some of the concepts around precision medicine. He also talks about the need for computer scientists to study biology, and the effect it has on field progress.
OP here. Really surprised at the quality of listings. I love how organic these projects are. A few hidden gems:
1) https://www.youraudiotour.com/
Update: Added the tech stack! It's nice seeing what languages people are building with.
It's nice to sell off a project and move on to whatever really interests you.
Regarding the tech stack, it slipped my mind but I will be adding that to the listings so you can buy projects with code written in a language you're comfortable with.
I enjoyed reading the article a lot more than watching the Apple craftsmanship videos it was based on.
The article was very easy to understand for someone with little knowledge about manufacturing processes and did a great job of explaining how much effort and engineering goes into making a great product.
The Apple videos on craftsmanship were overly clinical and fancy, which for me took away from talking about the engineering and effort they put into the product.
Inkscape is a great piece of design software. I've been using it for a good 8 years now to design websites, complex application interfaces, prototype many projects and everything in between. The application has been designed with care and it shows. There is a sense of respect towards the user and you can really enjoy using it for long periods of time. It just fades away and lets you get to work. No fuss.
The interface and workflows are simple, yet extremely powerful if you spend some time understanding the tool. I have used Inkscape exclusively to do all my interface design work during my career.
After moving to OSX, I was put off by the lack of native support. So I tried moving to Sketch and Illustrator. I found Illustrator to be overly complicated and plain bloated. I've always had a distaste for Adobe software and Illustrator maintains that negative image for me. Sketch on the other hand was unstable when I tried it. It had some serious bugs that made it unusable.
I went back to Inkscape and am now used to the GTK quirks & the lack of Retina support. The software itself remains my favorite tool. And I'm excited to see this major update to Inkscape.
Good catch, should be fixed now.
Added an MIT license to the Github repo.
It's $1.97 where I live (Dubai). You should see what that does to the traffic!
The problem there is, I have no idea how to model maintenance costs! The field is basically a hack. If there is a better way, I'd like to do that.
I'm using an exponential depreciation function to calculate the cost of the car in time. The car loses most of it's value during the first few years.