meesterdude

we would love to see you cite some examples

"The brain" is not in any way shaped like a physical object

Our brains are physical object, and the connections it is composed of are also physical.

i've also had success with render.com so far! been running an app & DB for $14/mo for a almost 6 months and it's been solid.

this looks nice and clean - why have you paused development? I see there are 32 github issues

this is a bit exaggerated.

Polymath > A polymath is an individual whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems.

If that's who you are, there's no shame in identifying as so. Don't let hacker news comments gatekeep you.

I don't know about "any minute now" But I would echo the comment that I think they face a lot of turbulence in their future.

My current side project (neighborhud.app) is an iPhone 6 in every room displaying a HUD (heads up display) of recurring things i need to do in that area, inventory, events, and requests. Iphone 6's are fairly advanced devices that are only ~$35 on ebay. This allows for recycling of tech that would otherwise become trash, because it just renders a webpage that's been added to the home screen (so it looks like an app). This bypasses any app store requirements so as long as it can keep running safari it's still of use. I just leave them plugged in with low screen brightness.

For "inventory", it's just a custom state machine that can be scheduled in the past or future. And requests are things an area needs - which can be associated with an inventory item, or free text. This lets me pull up all requests when I'm at the store and see the kitchen needs apples, and the bathroom needs soap, etc.

Right now, I have a HUD for my front door (to remind me of things before i leave) a HUD for my phone/car (when I'm out) and then one for my kitchen, bathroom and hallway. I have the one in my kitchen magnetically on my fridge, so i can pull it off and take picture of food I'm adding. Will probably add one for my office next.

The difficult thing for me has been being the user more than being the builder and just focusing on the real MVP and then picking at it over time.

Working on cleaning it up and then maybe allowing others to give it a go - i feel like there could be some value in connecting people with spaces.

I didn't think Mastodon would make sense for me as any kind of twiter alternative, but then I found someone created ruby.social and now it actually makes sense for me, and offers something twitter doesn't.

seems more outline than database. I also find the colors to be overwhelming. The sidebar ToC feels novel but that is not a huge value add for me. The UX is woefully lacking in expressiveness, and there are no notable gains from not using files/folders/tags. Plus cue all the portability / dependence issues.

So... a miss for me on this helping with abstract thinking.

That said - keep iterating and challenging what is possible, and start talking to "customers".

chia is a terrible idea. investment wise, and also tech. Great theory, but a miss in execution.

- ex chia farmer

this is what desperation looks like

thanks for posting it!

nice find! ;)

It's open source:

https://github.com/ranbuch/accessibility

To put it simply, this reflects an amateur understanding of frameworks. I know where the author is coming from, because I've been there/done that/tried that. It sounds nice on paper, but experience has shown that this is a poor way to approach software development.

I see this kind of mindset with developers who think only about code, and not about solving problems at scale with other people.

nonsense. This is relevant to the authors thesis: If frameworks are bad and everything should be done manually or in a decoupled way - the quality of the work product of the author, should be subject to discussion. Are they hand weaving beautiful prose? or deluding themselves that they can do a better job?

I find it highlights a key discrepancy: if the author had relied on a framework for this, the quality could be far greater at less effort.

Companies who try to build any type of codebase end up with a mess. Always. No exception.

I love how demonstratively wrong this is

so it's a disengineous point to bring up.

In the public eye, Meta is particularly unethical. It's a large part of their current downfall. So I don't agree with you that it is a disingenuous point.

I watch every episode! Good for him.

I wish he would stop pumping the newsletter. I like that he's promoting his own stuff, but he doesn't understand why i watch his channel - it's because they are informative videos, and give me something meaningful to watch when i eat dinner.

I'd love a westernamatry channel, or something similar in being a sister channel. Maybe shorter episodes. maybe just reading news articles and reflecting on them. Lots of formats that could work.

the stories he tells are unique and intriguing - for me that's the value.

Would like tro hear more of what you're thinking! I agree it's important, but it's also secondary to building. Facebook has no tests, for example. Would tests make them more profitable?

But I'm not dismissing testing in unity. I think there are some simple approaches to testing automation that could be done. It would be nice if unit testing made more sense but in reflection i've often found it's the integration of components that breaks or changes, less than the behavior itself.

I think this is a cool idea! But I disagree with your direction. Lets say you do rework everything to be web assembly and not bound to BYOND. I'm sure the 300 people that play SS13 would love it. But I don't think that goes far enough, for the effort required.

I think rebuilding SS13 in unity would overall be a great idea, but there is the problem of how complex SS13 is that would need to be worked. But I think with the right baby steps and SOLID design, it could be done.

But I do feel like any effort to rebuild would not be a huge success. SS13 is fun, but comparatively niche. Though as a mobile game there's a huge market.

hello, i live out of my calendar at work and its not clear to me what this does. Also, $3.5/mo? a yearly plan might make more sense.

Congrats on building something with friends!

We think that no existing platform for point–to-point communication prioritizes the conversations that you actually care about and that really matter.

Anysphere attempts to fix this.

What is the business model behind Anysphere? > Paid monthly subscriptions.

I wish the authors every ounce of luck they can find - there is so much wrong with this project and their approach, I hope they fail fast, learn some useful lessons, and try something else.

Given enough experience / skill you can make any technology fairly enjoyable

Have you never used MongoDB?

    We aren't even thinking along those lines these days. 

recently diagnosed with aspbergers, which i'm sure a lot of computer/tech folk share. Per wikipedia:

    The syndrome was named after the Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger, who, in 1944, described children in his care who struggled to form friendships, did not understand others' gestures or feelings, engaged in one-sided conversations about their favorite interests, and were clumsy.

highlighting this because: I have struggled with relationships of all shapes and sizes, and i used to think it was a result of my own individual failings - but have come to understand that is simply part of my nature. That doesn't stop the struggling, but it does make it more to-be-expected.

rails is awesome, and with hotwire we can reuse slices of the application and cut down required dev time. It's certainly optimized for developer productivity and happiness! been doing it for 13 years and still love it.

Neat! I'm building an app in this space to improve the web browsing experience. Tabs have a purpose and a place, but I think there are some browsing behaviors where tabs are a poor solution - such as when working with collections of browsers, or being able to browse bookmarks more naturally.

Sort of! It's in 3D. Spatial is leveraging the human ability to reason about & remember landmarks as part of navigation of a space and associate information.

they don't have much to see, so hard to say what their implementation is; i think same problem space for sure.