aosaigh

This is cringe and feels very much like the BrewDog of music hardware where they dress up cynical marketing tricks as some sort of statement.

I love iAPresenter. It definitely has lists and bullets if you want them. I (mis)use it to create proposal PDFs to send to clients. Even though it’s primarily aimed as presentations, it’s a great way to put together quick documents too.

I don’t understand what it is at first glance.

“Frictionless context switching” doesn’t really mean anything to me.

Spending a bit of time filling in the blanks, it appears it’s a presentation tool where you write slides via code?

You’re up against much more polished Markdown-based competition like iAPresenter, so you need to make the case for why markdown isn’t enough and a more expressive language is needed.

BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd9t

This is crazy. I’m a technical cofounder of two businesses and in both cases the product would be completely dead on arrival if it wasn’t for the business cofounder. They intimately understand the business landscape and have all the contacts and context required to find customers.

> Maybe it's my mother, and she now has to go find where she wrote down her email password because she still can't figure out that 1Password thing I setup for her. Also, she does not have 1Password on this computer (maybe it's a public library).

This is exactly the reason people use magic links - passwords are painful.

I generally don't mind having one or the other, so either password or magic link. What I can't stand is having both in the same login flow:

- Enter your email

- Get sent a magic link

- Open magic link

- Continue and enter your password

- Enter your 2FA as well

- Smash computer

Obsidian and pen + paper

Next.js with SSR, hosted for free with Vercel. I’ve used Jekyll, Django and Craft CMS in the past.

I don't think it's likely I'll be detained if I visit, nor do I think I'd suffer from gun violence. I simply don't want to visit a country where much of the population voted for this current government.

I’m still using pip, what am I missing?

When developers create Electon apps, HN complains about it. When developers then use web serial to avoid having to install Electron apps, HN complains about it.

And before anyone says “just write a native app”, let me know how many small businesses you run where you can afford to employ developers to create and manage multiple apps across platforms?

What is the problem precisely? You don't have enough time? You don't want to say no to the potential client? You don't know where to send the potential client?

These are all different problems and I don't think they'll be solved by building a tool. They're human problems.

- Don't have enough time? Change jobs or go full-time as a freelancer. Alternatively hire someone else to help you out.

- Don't want to say no immediately? Charge them for an initial consultation or roadmap phase that won't involve the lengthy commitment to build.

- Don't know where to send the client? Start networking - find some other developers or agencies that want the work.

An upside of the latest political turmoil is that it’s shown me how apathetic I’ve become over the last 10-15 years. Having seen tech-bro after tech-bro bend the knee recently, it’s prompted me to take more responsibility in my choices and stop giving money to cowards.

I wonder is this a sign of the times? I've (nearly ...) quit all social media and re-embraced my personal website. It's also under construction, but it's going to be the main place I update everything (work, personal, photos, updates etc.). I don't care if no one reads it. It's mine.

I'm not surprised this post opens with a link to /r/DataHoarder. Hot take ... I understand the sentiment that you can't trust content on the web to be there forever, but there is also the other side of the argument which is: compulsively saving data is a waste of time and it introduces a cognitive overhead that you'd be better off without.

Is Next.js really that popular? What else are people building back-end applications with? Are they just NOT building back-end applications and moving to services like Next.js with function-based hybrid backends?

I agree. I have a number of vaults and would love to pay for Sync + Publish to host them online, but I can't justify paying for 3 separate Publish instances.

Say no. If you're like me, you don't want to disappoint people so say yes to too many things and end up overworked.

Pick the things you want to work on, not the things people want you to work on.

I like the log message "BadBadBadChunkRecord". I wonder what BadChunkRecord and BadBadChunkRecord are? Is there a VeryBadBadBadChunkRecord?

I've been trying to replace all my various backups (Time Machine, Backblaze, CCC) to use a single tool (Arq - https://www.arqbackup.com/)

The Backblaze client is the next to go. To be honest, I haven't had too many issues with it, but the restore interface in particular is pretty poor and slow.

I understand that fact checkers and moderators can have biases but surely this new direction needs to be coupled with some more robust bot detection and abuse systems to stop people gaming things like “community notes”

I assume its switch to subscription payments

I'd stop worrying about your skills and start looking for opportunities. Start networking and finding people who have problems that can be solved with software and have a good market fit. Lots of people say "solve your own problems first" but software developers have a very unique set of problems that 99% of people and businesses don't have. Once you start to see how other non-devs work you'll start to see enormous inefficiencies and people crying out for solutions.

It’s a full-stack auth solution for full-stack JS frameworks

As someone developing with both Nuxt and Next, I find these "full-stack" JavaScript libraries and frameworks really confusing and difficult to grok. I understand the benefit of only having one ecosystem to worry about (JS/TS in Node and browser) but I'm not convinced that having backend and frontend in the same codebase is actually a good idea. It might be due to being a more "old school" full stack developer, but this new wave of of SSR-led full-stack frameworks is tricky.

Any other good resources on this? Interested in learning more.

What is causing it to be overwhelming? I use a zero-inbox policy. If it can be answered in 2 minutes I do it then. Otherwise I create a TODO an archive the email. All newsletters go to a particular label and skip the inbox.

I am dying to ditch Adobe and Lightroom (both Classic or CC) but none of the alternatives (Photomator included) seem to have the same quality of library management features as Lightroom (metadata editing, rating, keywords, face recognition etc.). Have any enthusiast photographers actually found a decent replacement?

Django + Celery, Next.js, Vercel and Digital Ocean app platform.

I’m happy to pay to offload as much devops as possible to focus on features. Likewise when choosing a framework: convention over configuration where possible.

What are your needs?

I think it depends on your needs. Any time I've tried to use an "all-in-one" full-stack solution I've quickly run into limitations, whether it's task running, authentication, web sockets, load balancing, redirects. Many of the platforms have limitations that you only run into once you're deeply committed and you've then got to find all sorts of hacks to fill in the blanks. Not saying Next and Vercel is like that per-se, but there is a lot more control when running your own backend services.