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One rule to rule them all.

I made the decision to leave Github a couple months ago when I retired and started heavily working on personal projects. I like the idea of radicle and used it for a while, but it's complicated to set up and maintain if you want to run your own seed node and pin your personal projects.

What I ended up with is a version of a static forge - Charm's soft-serve to host the repos and a forked version of the pico.sh pgit static site generator. I added git-bug integration to track issues in the repo and an alternative CLI to git-bug that works better when collaborating with agents.

A static forge site is very resilient to bot traffic because it only renders a limited number of commits, instead of pathologically allowing a near infinite number of URLs for bots to crawl.

https://kilimanjaro.io if you want to see what it looks like.

I’d be interested in seeing those if you’re open to sharing.

Insane how the entire global economy moves things of this value around all day every day and we have no problem with it.

Are you suggesting it's impossible to outsource development work to someone for $220k?

Why doesn't he then do that and pay someone $$ to build it? This is just marketing for whatever this web3 thing is.

Now no one will believe my real name is Gill Bates.

One more thought - any consideration of hooking this to Cloudflare's queue? Then you could optionally connect another worker to that and e.g. persist everything in their D1 SQLite database.

That works perfectly for what I'm using it for. Thanks for building this!

This is great. I'm going to use this with something I'm working on. The edge behavior is just what I need.

When you say limitations are a "relatively small number of clients need to share some state over a relatively short period of time," I read in another comment about a dozen or so clients, but what about the time factor? Can it be on the order of hours?

Been playing in beer leagues for a long time. There's one for everyone - whether it's hockey (my vice), baseball, softball, basketball, etc. - just tons of options.

It's half about the sport and half the people. I've made lots of friends playing hockey at midnight during the week.

Nothing is ready to be shared yet, but when it is I'll announce it here first for beta testers:

https://lists.sr.ht/~scooter/mototripper-dev

You can subscribe by sending an email to ~scooter/mototripper-dev+subscribe@lists.sr.ht. Feel free to send a hello to the list with what you'd like to see. I'm banging away on it every night when I get home from work.

Nothing is ready to be shared yet, but when it is I'll announce it here first for beta testers:

https://lists.sr.ht/~scooter/mototripper-dev

You can subscribe by sending an email to ~scooter/mototripper-dev+subscribe@lists.sr.ht. Feel free to send a hello to the list with what you'd like to see. I'm banging away on it every night when I get home from work.

It's open source so when it's ready you can fork it and call it anything you want. Some of the features are meant to be specific to motorcyclists. And as far as getting the word out, it's easier to make it specific to a particular community since I know where they hang out online and how to get it in front of eyeballs.

I'd love to hear more about what improvements you'd like to see. Nothing is ready to be shared yet, but when it is I'll announce it here first for beta testers:

https://lists.sr.ht/~scooter/mototripper-dev

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Everything has been done at least once. If we don't try to improve on what's out there, no progress will ever made.

I think Osmand works fine for some things but really sucks for planning long, time-bound trips, which is my use case.

This is great. I've been working on an adventure motorcycling trip planning app which has similar requirements of being able to work offline as you ride your preplanned trip.

Yours is a good example of what can be done by keeping it simple and not getting wrapped around the axle with complicated frameworks.

It makes me regret all the time I've spent trying to figure out the absolute best tech stack to use rather than just working on finishing the damn thing.

Let's just accept you can build just about anything in any language. When I see posts like "I built X in Rust," I just assume the process was so onerous that they had to impress others by saying they did it the hardest way possible. /s

Precision in this particular case is the enemy of happiness.

I have a couple apps that only I use or are used by a handful of friends. For hobby projects, I never regret building things that I think are useful but I can't be assed to try to market them to others.

1. Mototripper - live streams my location when I'm on a long distance adventure motorcycle trip so my kid knows I'm still alive and moving. (e.g. <https://www.mototripper.app/track/~knobbies> - a trip through Finland, Sweden, and Norway I took a couple weeks ago.) Built with Sveltekit.

2. Vatinator - an app to apply OCR to Estonian receipts to claim VAT reimbursement. Built with NextJS.

U.S. diplomat. Programming is a hobby and keeping up with the tech sector is relevant to my job.

Here's my question - NYT could charge me $5 and then deduct from my balance on a per-article basis.

Do we need crypto to enable those transactions? If micropayments made sense, why haven't they caught on already with the payment infrastructure 99% of people already have? Micropayments via crypto are just payment with extra steps.

I'm not for/against either one. I'd just like to see a coherent argument against the idea that crypto is a solution looking for a problem.

I use something similar for snapshot testing in Go. It's been really useful for regression testing for anything that can be serialized to []byte. I've used it for CLI output and testing image processing.

https://github.com/BTBurke/snapshot

Agreed. Do not buy Dell. You'll find hundreds of people with the same problem on support boards, but if you call support they will act like you're the first one ever to have a problem.

Happened to me with the battery swelling issue on the 2016 model. I would never buy another Dell after that experience.

Same thing happened to me. Hours and hours on the phone for battery swelling which was a known problem.

I was overseas at the time and they dragged the process out long enough that eventually warranty was up and they told me they wouldn't replace it.

I replaced it myself but I'll never buy a Dell again and recommend others go with Lenovo.

I'll give a bit of a different perspective since I've never worked as a professional developer, unlike the majority of the folks here.

Don't be afraid to reinvent yourself in a completely different industry. I've changed careers three times. I worked as an engineer, then in energy finance, and now as a diplomat. In some cases, it meant a move up, sideways, or even a drastic pay cut and starting over at the bottom.

You'd be surprised how many industries just want people who are fast learners and are willing to put in the work to ramp up quickly.

Pick an industry you think makes a difference. I made my last career move at 37 with a hefty pay cut, and now I'm a lot happier.

In the end, you're not competing with anyone but yourself. You might as well pick something now that you think will meet your long-term goals. And if it doesn't work out like you thought, it's never too late to reinvent yourself.

I have a Dell XPS 13 and have run various flavors of Arch without any problems. I didn't try Ubuntu, however.

Sleep and suspend just work. Battery life is good - typically 5-7 hours. Before this I had no problems with a Thinkpad and even on a MacBook Air (2012).

Maybe I'm just so used to Linux now that I don't notice problems since I've been on it since 1998-ish except for a short stint on OS X.

Dell support is terrible so I can't recommend the XPS. When I had a problem with the battery they wouldn't replace it under warranty since I was not in the country where I bought it, which is total BS.

He's talking about being continuously at sea, which is close to the limit for a fast attack.

The real limit is based on how much food can be carried. I was once out for 50+ days and we had to stack food up in the passageways before we left to make it that long. Near the end, it's just chicken nuggets and bread everyday.

On a normal fast attack deployment, you pull in every month or so to get more food.

I'm a retired submarine officer and spent a lot of time on an LA class fast attack submarine, a bit older and smaller than what the author experienced.

When my parents came to visit one time, I gave them a tour and my mom described living on a boat as like "opening up the hood of your car and crawling into the engine." That's not too far off.

Scratch has been great for my 10 year old daughter. She was off last week for spring break and started learning it on Saturday. By the following weekend she had written 4 or 5 games and was so proud of her first platformer game.

It teaches some solid programming concepts and the ability to easily "remix" (aka fork) someone else's code is a great feature.

The only downside is that now she's obsessed with how many likes she is getting on her games once she publishes them.

I grew up watching those Van Damme movies so I bought it just for the name!