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Exactly — it doesn’t matter how many “hidden” costs he finds to adds to the cost of owning for the article — the renter pays them all, plus the owner’s profit.

Just this morning I was missing Aperture and mentioned it to my kids. I was organizing some pictures with Photos.app and adding a tag or removing from an album takes about 5 seconds for the UI to visually represent my change. I have a decently big library but certainly not anomalous. Aperture made it so fast to organize and deal with photos.

Yup, the attachments with BOSL2 are really great. You can do a ton without much math at all, TBH.

https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2/wiki/attachments.scad#se...

My city utility provider used secured-server.biz for billing for a long time. I always thought it was hilarious and very suspicious looking.

https://zef.studio

How one defines “distorting markets” is an important question when it comes to defining policy, and not an un-contentious one.

Then one could dynamically and randomly choose which randomness beacon to use! I like it.

Uh... in-app purchases for $24 for a 24-hour license? $80 pay-per-count? The AI marketing images... Ugh.

Not gridfinity compatible, but I have a set of corner pieces that uses a similar concept. The majority of the material can be scrap acrylic, mdf, cardboard, etc. and you just print the corner pieces. Lids and stuff too.

https://www.printables.com/model/57813-boxkit-parts-for-maki...

3d printing is great, but a lot of wasted plastic if you print large organizers and stuff like that.

Part of what I think is rough is the framing of Postgres being "an alternative to Google’s Firebase" in the article. I mean, ok yeah they are both databases in a sense, but they are not the same thing at all. Firebase is a service and Postgres a database technology, and certainly not well-described as an alternative to Firebase by anyone competent in the industry. Lol.

I don't mean to demean "vibe coders" exactly either, but rather jumping on the hype train of using that term for your funding pitch. You're using AI to learn to become a software developer? Great! No problem with that.

But also — if you now have a database involved and you're handling people's data, you better learn what you're doing. A database provider pushing "vibe coding" is not a good look imo.

Oof this bit is rough!

The startup supports Postgres, the most popular developer database system that’s an alternative to Google’s Firebase. Supabase’s goal: To be a one-stop backend for developers and "vibe coders."

Love this! I have been using hledger for a while now and have a pretty automated process for importing exported CSVs. I would love a little more automation in terms of pulling down the data, but on the bright side the manual process provides a good touch point to keep up on accounting regularly in small doses. This is great for just keeping an eye on things on a monthly basis.

I am starting a new business now and intend to see how far I can take plain text accounting in that context. I plan to use mercury for banking and want to automate as much as possible. I would also like to associate invoices that are stored in a self-hosted paperless-ngx instance.

I have found a lot of great content available in Libby and Hoopla. I use my local library card, but am also able to get a card from a nearby larger city library, and between the two I have access to a lot of content and very soon in a lot of cases.

I’m just here to fulfill the Hacker News rule that any post mentioning the Antikythera Mechanism must have a comment linking the excellent Clickspring build videos.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZioPDnFPNsHnyxfygxA0to4R...

Like Sting said, “it's not a chord until the bass player decides what the root is.”

DHH gave a talk about this a while ago with good citations to studies about CO2 concentration and other VOCs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRqh8oLY7Ik

I extremely excited about the future of Swift and being able to use it in new places like Embedded Swift.

As an iOS developer I’ve been getting into some firmware stuff on ESP-32. It’s my first time writing C++ and while it’s been better than I expected, I really miss Swift and especially the safety it brings.

Destin from Smarter Every Day gave a talk that addresses a lot of these issues that I found pretty interesting too.

https://youtu.be/OoJsPvmFixU

I live in Boulder, Colorado. We had the Marshall Fire[1] a couple years ago, which burned down 1084 structures on a day with high winds. These winds are pretty normal around here on occasion, at least multiple times each year.

What's not normal is that last week, our utility (Xcel Energy) decided to preemptively shut off power to 55,000 customers to reduce risk before a forecasted wind event with high fire-risk[2]. They had intended to restore power the next day, but some went without power for a couple days.

The communication and execution of the shutdown seemed poor, and the infrastructure problems that led to the shutdown are still here. The impression I have from comments in local groups is that they are trying to avoid liability and have not adequately invested in fixing shoddy infrastructure that is going to be safe here. People are expecting regular shutoffs to become the new normal. Wind storms aren't going away, fixing the infrastructure would take a long time, and people don't think Xcel is interested in spending the money, even though they can likely afford to.

This has definitely left me thinking about a DIY battery+solar solution to keep my heating system running, as well as fridge/freezers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Fire [2] https://www.cpr.org/2024/04/08/for-the-first-time-a-colorado...

Thank you for making this right! I didn’t think there was any malice in it and it’s nice to know it was a simple mistake.

I’ve also already unassigned my unneeded address and I’m still interested in using fly for some things in the future.

It does feel like this site has everything, but I can’t find a solution here to a problem I had with mine either. I figured out a fix on my own and made this video about it, which I’m pleased has helped others fix theirs too.

https://youtu.be/7fcxoEkgxZk

Posting a notice isn’t exactly the same as communicating with accounts that will be affected by the change. I hadn’t seen anything about it so it was a surprise to me. Would have appreciated a simple heads up - “hey, we’re going to start billing for this”

I just came to HN to see if there was something about this here. I just got my first charge out of nowhere. I’ve had an account there for a couple years and tried it out a long time back but wasn’t actively using it.

I like fly as a service, and I have no problem with them charging, but coming out of nowhere with no prior notice is definitely frustrating and unexpected.

In this case, a web app is hardly going to help me when I’m camping with no internet connection. But a native app with good offline support is exactly what I would want.

And while web apps have plenty of practical benefits, those are mostly from the perspective of the developer. As a user, once an app is downloaded, good native apps are preferable just about every time.

One of my favorite things that I’ve made in terms of utility is a little leather belt holster for my AirPods. I wear it almost every day and enjoy the functionality of it. I made it for the first generation AirPods case, but it still fits the wider AirPods Pro case sideways, so I didn’t have to make a new one for those.

https://zef.studio/projects/airpods-holster

As explosive as the bat was, I feel like the most explosive thing you’ll ever make is your YouTube channel. One of very few instant-subs for me.

https://zef.studio/

Mostly journaling projects in the physical realm. I’ve been enjoying making things with wood, leather, metal, electronics, 3D printing. And some introspective writing, mostly for myself. I have lots more drafts of projects that I’m hoping to publish in the near future.

The vim keybindings that Xcode has implemented work fine for me, but some omissions like using the period character to repeat the last action are quite debilitating.

Love it! Thanks for sharing. I'll check that out later.

I'd love an iOS homescreen widget that shows them every day! I have one for the Wikipedia picture of the day that I enjoy.

I'm seriously considering making one if there isn't one already...