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Interesting! I'll give these a look.

Edit: I watched the presentation (which I really enjoyed) and also read the blog post. For anyone with less time, the answer is essentially: don't sync everything, treat the local data like a cache. Sync as much as you can into that cache, and then reach out to the server for other things.

Discussion of sync engines typically goes hand in hand with local-first software. But it seems to be limited to use cases when the amount of data is on the smaller side. For example, can anyone imagine how there might be a local-first version of a recommendation algorithm (I'm thinking something TikTok-esque)? This would be a case where the determination of the recommendation relies on a large amount of data.

Or think about any kind of large-ish scale enterprise SaaS. One of the clients I'm working with currently sells a Transportation Management Software system (think logistics, truck loads, etc). There are very small portions of the app that I can imagine relying on a sync engine, but being able to search over hundreds of thousands of truck loads, their contents, drivers, etc seems like it would be infeasible to do via a sync engine.

I mention this because it seems that sync engines get a lot of hype and interest these days, but they apply to a relatively small subset of applications. Which may still be a lot, but it's a bit much to say they're the future (I'm inferring "of application development"--which is what I'm getting from this article).

I see you can @ people. Does that mean you can get notifications when you've been @-ed? Also, is there the ability to comment on documents? For me these are two killer features to leave a Notion or Confluence.

How does PgDog handle a column like:

`id INTEGER GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY`

Not to be too much of a recruiter, but I started a software consultancy where we get this kind of work. Typically projects that last a quarter, but with some potential for extending (although they also frequently just last a quarter). I actually have a project in the pipeline right now that I'm looking for a dev for (if I can't find one, I'll end up just taking on the work myself).

Email is in my profile if you want to connect :)

My question is...why? What's the motivation here?

All of these projects lack server hardening. I think for most devs it would not be a great idea to just point at a server and let 'er rip. I have a pretty extensive cloud-init script I use for this when deploying to a VPS. I workshopped it by finding existing scripts and having a back and forth with Claude. Feel free to roast it :)

https://gist.github.com/NatElkins/20880368b797470f3bc6926e35...

I'm also a little confused about how to get started. According to the docs you have to embed it into an existing app[0], but the quickstart suggests otherwise[1].

[0] https://lynxjs.org/guide/start/integrate-with-existing-apps....

[1] https://lynxjs.org/guide/start/quick-start.html#quick-start

I see there's Lynx for Web[0]. Does that also adhere to the two-threads model (one for UI, one for background)? Also, is this something that React/Native may adopt itself one day? Curious to know if this is a technique that may be adopted by the React ecoystem itself, or if it's just too far outside the bounds of what React is supposed to handle.

[0] https://github.com/lynx-family/lynx-stack/tree/main/packages...

The author of this website also wrote a fantastic book on functional application architectures. I think everyone can benefit from reading it, even if you're not using a functional programming language.

https://pragprog.com/titles/swdddf/domain-modeling-made-func...

Cool project! Can you explain a little more about how the recommendation algorithm works?

Anybody have any experience creating isocrhones using PgRouting? I have a use case that involves generating isochrone maps for walking, biking, etc. but I'd like to just use Postgres if possible and avoid another piece of infrastructure like Valhalla, OpenTripPlanner, OpenRouteService, etc.

Does anybody have any recommendations on self-hosted ways to create isochrone maps? I've been looking at OpenRouteService, Valhalla, and OpenTripPlanner, but I'm finding it difficult to compare them. Don't seem to be many "experience reports" online.

- https://github.com/GIScience/openrouteservice

- https://github.com/valhalla/valhalla

- https://github.com/opentripplanner/OpenTripPlanner

Probably something like the steps listed in this blog post: https://www.instacart.com/company/how-its-made/zero-downtime...

I upvoted this because I love F#, but I can't say I agree with the conclusions of the author.

Title edited slightly to fit under limit.

Here's a Hugging Face blog post where they walk through how to fine tune a model on your code base: https://huggingface.co/blog/personal-copilot .

Kudos to the founders for shipping. I do think this kind of functionality will become very rapidly commoditized though. But then, I suppose people said the same thing about Dropbox.

Thank you!

Yes. I'm able to log into the platform. You need to navigate to https://app.bench.co. I actually don't remember if they provided that URL, or if I just typed it into my browser out of habit. It may work for everyone who was on the platform.

A bit of research yields this guy as this owner of employer.com: https://x.com/JesseTinsley

As someone who was affected by this, I opted to go ahead and try and get my money's worth (although I have another service doing this in parallel). Also they were supposed to file an S Corp election for me, so hopefully I'll be able to find out the latest status of that. This whole thing is such a mess.

Do you service single member LLCs/S Corps?

Single member LLC, so I don't think Digits is the right fit for me at the moment. Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Gotcha, thanks for that. I'm sure you're a solid company with happy users.

BTW, that link to your X profile returns a 404. It should be https://x.com/kickfinance .

Do you do personal tax returns in addition to business taxes as part of a package?

The fact that they are recommending Kick makes me view that company with suspicion. This whole thing is really leaving a bad taste in my mouth.

Also allegedly they were supposed to file an S Corp election. I've emailed them, but have no idea if I'll find out if it was actually sent.

This is terrible. I paid them ~$4500 to do all my taxes and book keeping (just started my business this past June). What recourse do I have to get that money back?

The YouTube video of the .NET Conf session is very compelling.