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Wow, I loved Ziggy Gets Out! This feels like a great medium for children's books, and also for a way for kids (and adults) to express themselves in a constrained way. Reminds me a bit of KidPix.

Second this. I’m amazed by the lack of any Django admin interface to start a task or see how it failed, it seems like such an obvious use case. I’ve tried Celery Flower but I found it lacking. I’m surprised because it seems like such a common use case, and given the size of the Django community I would’ve expected something to exist…

Would second this. I would advise OP to take a sabbatical and recuperate a bit. In the meantime think about what interests you and what is important to you. Deep inside there is a voice that will tell you, you just have to listen hard enough to hear it.

All very interesting and complex questions, I look forward to hearing your findings in 6 years at your PhD thesis defense :^)

This startup Radiant is working on portable nuclear reactors, one application being forward operating bases [1]. After watching that video I’m really hoping they succeed both for military purposes but also for civilian municipalities!

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTgS7tOOzsE

I've only ever played around with it and not built out an app like you have, but in my experience the second you want to go off script from what the tutorials suggest, it becomes an impossible nightmare of reading source code trying to get a basic thing to work. LangChain is _the_ definition of death by abstraction.

Are drones being used in the US as well? This type of labor savings seems like a pretty obvious win. Of course I’m just a CRUD monkey living in the city so I have no idea how farmers actually operate.

Is there a more credible source for this than a tweet?

What incentive does anybody have to be honest about their user agent?

Is LibGen & Sci-Hub at risk of coming down? I know it's a game of cat and mouse, but I was just under the assumption that they were both doing fine relatively speaking. And what makes Anna's Archive better/different?

I think one of the big takeaways for me was aside from deliberate manipulation of media by the government and willing media partners, that journalists also self censor in a way because they are operating in a professional environment and within a certain Overton Window.

Maybe it's not what I should remember most, but it did help remind me that when your livelihood is based on what you say you will be much more measured, regardless of the subject.

Probably why people look to social media or Substack for more independent people who have a longer leash, less on the line, and more to gain, since that's where you get your interesting although many times wrong takes (e.g. Ivermectin for Covid, or Lab Leak Theory)

Thanks for posting that article, quite a throwback -- but first I've ever encountered it. Really great piece. I do think we've all been sold on the entrepreneur vision/lifestyle, but the unsexy reality is it's an insane slog that might not even pay off.

It's always good to get these reality checks from time to time.

Hmm, maybe then maybe put the shares into a retirement account? Basically a government 401(k). Then people will be discouraged from selling because of the tax hit when selling before retirement age. Unless of course they really need it. Which presumably they would also be receiving other government services and payments (Section 8, foodstamps, etc) if they are desperate enough to be liquidating a 401(k).

Probably not a new idea, but something I've been wondering is if the US implemented progressive taxation, and instead of a UBI implemented a stock buyback program where the government buys shares and then redistributes ownership to citizens.

Even though this is totally wealth redistribution (which is politically unpopular, socialism and all), I bet you could market it as super American like Andrew Yang did with UBI as the "Freedom Dividend".

This way you could "work within the system" and still keep stonks going up, but also help redistribute wealth to poorer citizens.

It’s fine not to like that position, and it’s good you’re aware of and are acknowledging it head on. I would say first talk to your team to see if you can get them to ease up and make your current situation better (assuming you want to stay).

If that doesn’t go well, or is not possible, then it’s probably time to start looking elsewhere. And when you interview ask about WLB and gauge how much is expected of you.

Plenty of places where you can coast once you’re settled in.

Personally I would start with whatever backend framework you like (Django, Laravel, Rails, etc) and use HTMX. But if you know your application is going to have a lot of complex client side state (like Google Maps) then I would pick React.

I wonder what the author’s other reservations about Telegram are? Hand rolled crypto is definitely a massive reason to be suspicious, but are there other issues the author is alluding to?

Your hosted resume looks great! That said, I would suggest you remove the email signup requirement and let users make a resume first.

If you're a junior looking for a job, it's always a tough time. Getting your first gig is insanely brutal (college career fairs help a lot). That said, I wouldn't give up and blame AI for "taking our jerbs". I would say the current macroeconomic conditions with higher interest rates have reduced the amount of developer headcount companies can support. AKA companies are risk averse right now, and juniors are a risk (albeit a relatively low cost).

If I were in your shoes, I would just stop consuming the doom and gloom AI content, and go heads down and learn to build things that others will find useful. Most importantly, you should be having fun. If you do that you'll learn how to learn, have fun, build a portfolio, and generally just be setting yourself up to succeed.

I wouldn’t immediately assume malicious intent. Most likely a solo devs hobby project and they didn’t bother with a privacy policy. Nonetheless skepticism is warranted.

Will never cease to be amazed by the performance that Factorio gets.

Would highly recommend you check out Django Ninja as well as Django Ninja Extras. Having done Flask + FastAPI dev then Django, Django Ninja brings the modern feel of FastAPI to the battle tested reliability of Django.

Django admin + the Django ORM are the biggest reasons I haven’t moved to JavaScript Metaframework land. Next.js is great in its support of react and server rendered react for SEO. But where Django wins is that logic will always have to be on the trusted compute environment, the server. JS Metaframeworks approached the full stack problem from the front end and Django from the backend.

Very interesting. I am a pretty heavy YouTube user (and arguably should pay for YouTube Premium), but I have found that this Firefox extension always successfully blocks ads: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-for-y...

If you're open to switching to Firefox, it might not be a bad option!

Better yet, just start smart and send a nice note to a maintainer you admire and sponsor a project for $5/mo!

The best resource for me on IMDb is definitely just the lists of "Top 250 Movies of all Time"[1] or the "Top 50 $GENRE Movies of All Time" [2].

@OP: Maybe just finding a way to curate the most popular open source libraries into lists per language, framework, etc would be helpful? For example, for me I'm not particularly interested in all open source projects, but I'm really interested in Django stuff. Hence why I love looking at the awesome-django curated list [3]. Maybe an application to just rank all packages for a given ecosystem? Just spitballing.

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/ [2]: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&genres... [3]: https://github.com/wsvincent/awesome-django

Obviously coming from Sequoia there won't be an bootstrapped approach, but I'd love to see one for that.

For bootstrappers, the approach I've heard of is simply just nicheing down to find a segment of the market that is big enough to support you, but small enough to not be worth it to bigger players.

Congrats on the launch! I would say though I think you should up your price to at least $9.99. A $3 game makes me think it's low quality, which it's not. So you ought to price your game appropriately.

Maybe this is obvious, but thank you for making the option to export to raw HTML and not just React components! I've been taking a step back from doing things the react way, and have been struggling with design (so much so that I'm contracting out design work) so this tool comes just in time for me! Great stuff!

I've always wanted to get into using docker swarm for a homelab, since I love docker compose for dev/single node production deploys.

Any tips on the minimum hardware or VPS's needed to get a small swarm cluster setup?