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This is similar advice to one of the Atomic Habits chapters about identity. You might find it a chore to go the gym if you frame it to yourself that way. But if you call yourself an athlete, or just "i'm a fit person" and that becomes part of your identity, it's easier to do. Works for me so far.
Did this 20 years ago, it was called Schoeneswochenende Fahrkarte "Good weekend" ticket. You could get all over the country, but real slow. I met loads of people and got invited to people's homes, because they didn't typically see an Aussie backpacker on a local train. Great times, go do it.
Main take away: we all need to go spend some time in Japan.
Was fun for a while and mostly for myself. A few 100 ppl used it, but I found I didn't really enjoy reading that way as I thought I would... especially when Covid killed commutes.
I had the Delaware registration / California operating setup. The wind down is just as many steps. Cancelling sales / use tax registrations, the SoS registration, making your FTB tax is all paid and then cancelled in both states. Making sure both state and federal returns are marked final and don't close your bank account until you've paid them all.
4. Egress costs from the clouds are non-trivial for large datasets. So now you're locked into both your db and your cloud.
-z only shows AS numbers, not names. The point of this is to quickly tell you companies and networks you recognize. Also, mtr requires sudo to run.
-A gets you the AS, my tool looks up the name. So you can see "Oh, it goes from Comcast, to Cogent to Google." cool. Rather than ASNs which you don't immediately recognize.
That's my baby!
Nice job! Two clicks on my phone and first route was spot on.
00:00:00-00:06:00 Steve Pack: Intro to Cloudflare
00:06:25-00:50:30 Raph Levien: Declarative UI Patterns in Rust
00:56:50-01:19:19 Gabbi Fisher: CLIs in RustNice -- thanks for that. Very similar approach. The "5 minutes" or "20 pages" instead of one seems to be ringing through pretty clearly. Might make that an option when you subscribe.
Heheh, War and Peace via text message would be commitment!
Ha! That's another vote for the "send me 5 pages" or "send me 10 pages" link in the emails.
Thank you good sir.
Nice. I thought of doing a similar thing, but being a recovering startup guy, I was like, I should totally build this as a platform and let others read books this way. :p
Plus, a big part of why I kept going with it was because I wanted to see how far I could push Cloudflare Workers as a pure app development platform... pretty far it turns out! (disclosure: I work at Cloudflare, although not on the Workers team).
Erm... new for me? I typed a 'page per day' in Google and didn't find what I was looking for. In essence, it's serializing books, which has been done for > 100 years. I have some more ideas as to where I'd like to take it though.
Thanks Zack! (Full disclosure, I work with Zack at Cloudflare on the Product team). The fact I could build the whole thing on Cloudflare Workers is one of the reasons I took it as far as I did. I like writing code, but i groan at the thought of setting up servers, even on the cloud. My last side project used ELBs with a node server and the whole thing was painful.
Having an API that deploys to ~200 cities instantly and then deploying the UI being as simple as wrangler deploy, pointing at my bundle directory means I could just focus on the fun stuff.
Can't wait to see where we go with this platform.
Ah, burned through the free limit on the email service. Back up now. :D
Hey there... so I've been considering user uploaded content. I think it could be a great alternative medium for self-publishing. Needs a bit more work, but I'll post back here if I release that.
500 is fixed... you can request additional pages from a footer link in the email, but requesting 5 or 10 would be good.
I exhausted the free tier on the email service, which unfortunately killed the sign up page. Works now if you want to go again.
Oh cool! What was your motivation? I mention the origin story in a comment up higher.
Thanks, I only want your email address when you've chosen a book. But yes, you're not guided to that well enough. The UI today is very much a template with some content replaced rather than being designed from the ground up to optimize for the sign up flow. Lots of opportunity to improve that.
It has to be public domain (and on Project Gutenberg), which typically means real old. The first book you mentioned is from 1974, so would still be in copyright.
It just uses the SendGrid API, I don't run the email server. They have a 100 emails per day on the free plan and while it goes to Updates or Promotions on Gmail, it doesn't get spammed (at least so far).
If it becomes popular, I'd have to upgrade the plan and then you start getting servers with better IP reputations anyway.
Yeah the email needs design love. Sure, I'd love to hear from you at steve at notimeforbooks
No, but it's a template: https://www.creative-tim.com/product/vue-argon-design-system
Shout out to the designer of that. The had a Vue version with components and it was super easy to modify. Templates have come a long way.
Thanks for this... No errors in the logs, so time to review the error handling code!
Or you could click unsubscribe in the email.