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I love this analogy.

Really interesting method. I've been calling a similar strategy the library effect. Whenever I work in an environment where other people are productive (or at least look productive) I can focus much better and get in the zone. It's now gotten to a point where I'm actively seeking desks with my screen exposed to the room, so people would be able to see me procrastinate, guilt tripping me to limit this sort of behavior.

This looks really cool, thanks for sharing!

I recently tried to implement a workflow automation using similar frameworks that were playwright or puppeteer based. My goal was to log into a bunch of vendor backends and extract values for reporting (no APIs available). What stopped me entirely were websites that implemented an invisible captcha. They can detect a playwright instance by how it interacts with the DOM. Pretty frustrating, but I can totally see this becoming a standard as crawling and scraping is getting out of control.

It depends on what your setup looks like. If your using tailwind and a headless component library like radix or shadcn. LLMs can provide you with pretty decent looking layouts from very simple prompts. If your using plain CSS outputs can vary widely in quality, at least from my own experience.

This is amazing, thanks for sharing. I'm implementing some of these techniques myself right now, but being able to try out different algorithms and having plugins etc available immediately is really cool! Can't wait to try it out.

How are you dealing with structured outputs?

WPE's core business is "hosting for WordPress websites". If they were to change this to "ForkPress", they'll have to rebuild the brand and search volume behind it. So I'm not convinced that this is a viable solution to their current problem.

+1 for Fedora Silverblue and Bluefin.

Recently made the switch after having a terrible upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04, very happy so far with the use of brew and flatpaks in the OS.

Just added it!

The approach most people use is to tunnel into the server. You install a daemon on your computer which establishes a tunnel to log-into from outside your network. Cloudflare and Tailscale have solutions for this that are very popular among the self-hosted crowd.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/application...

https://tailscale.com/kb/1151/what-is-tailscale

Love self-hosting and really got into it over the last couple of months. I run a bunch of services for my company now and also in my home lab. I use a Hetzner VPS and provision things either via ansible + docker compose files or via https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify/.

The awesome-selfhosted repository is also a great place to find projects to self-host but lacks some features for ease-of-use, which is why I've created a directory with some UX improvements on https://selfhostedworld.com. It has search, filters projects by stars, trending, date and also has a dark-mode.

Very fascinating! For anyone interested, the article on the of books that might be uncovered at Herculaneum, is a great read as well!

https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/23380

I think linen definitely solves a lot of issues OSS communities face when the majority of issues are answered on discord/slack. The need for such a tool should decrease as docs mature however. So maybe a tool to integrate with or update the docs could be cool.

On a general note I think you should link back to your landing page from the navigation of a project. Especially if people enter via a search engine, they are essentially locked within an organization. The only way out is to manually navigate to linen.dev.

Is there a repo you could share for such a setup? Currently looking at similar options for self hosting web apps on cloud providers.

Definitely thought the same. Even for the most realistic ones, something about the eyes always stands out to me. Can't really pinpoint it though, maybe they are too perfect (as in round) or the ratio of pupil/iris is always exactly the same?

Yea for like $100/m. Or instead you have a local db and use a static site generator to host for free.

> In 1758 he fought at Hochkirch (14 October) and Zorndorf (24 August). In the latter action, he was given command of the cavalry on the left wing. He refused to obey the initial orders given to him by Frederick and awaited what he considered to be the proper moment to launch a cavalry charge against the advancing Russians. He quickly routed the enemy cavalry; he then rallied and charged the Russian infantry, but failed to break it.

> He rallied his cavalry behind Zorndorf, waiting for a better moment to attack. Just when all seemed lost for the Prussians, Seydlitz led 61 squadrons against the Russian cavalry, pushing it back into the marshes by the village of Quartschen. He then returned to rescue the Prussian infantry, forcing the Russians to fall back.

https://www.napoleon-series.org/research/biographies/Prussia...

Deservedly so

With live data feeds for sport events already available for years, I think this is either in development or maybe already in use.

Can it get 10x better with the current approach though? As it is trained with content written by humans isn't that a natural ceiling ?

1. Atlas Shrugged - made me understand the complex relationship between politics and the business world

2. The Code Book - gave me a great appreciation for cryptography and its historical importance

3. The Swerve - made me understand how the renaissance came to be and also showed me what great writing and unique research can accomplish

What helped me a lot was the "focus mode" in the digital wellbeing settings of android. I block my biggest distractions (WhatsApp, Twitter, Reddit) from 9-6 and only starred contacts will ring.

Maybe a bit of a stretch going only from this announcement. But Netflix could be an interesting acquisition target for Microsoft.

Great write-up and thanks a lot for pursuing this!

It's such a shame that there isn't more research in this area. There are so many seemingly wondrous effects on human health that would need thourugh testing.

Apart from physiological benefits though, the mental aspect of fasting from my own experience can be quite exciting as well. A 7 day fast was the longest I did so far, but 72h really hit the sweet spot for me. It was like a journey through my mind, I got challenged in very new ways to break the fast and also questioned my purpose in life a lot, as I seemingly live to eat. It was quite shocking to realize how much time I spend during a normal day to: buy food, prepare it, consume, dispose, cleanup etc. The rewards of fasting to me were long phases of absolute clarity and great concentration.

Great piece of advice and very elegantly put!

To add to the social aspect, I like tricking myself into being held accountable by talking or mentioning ideas that are in very early stages. If I never share my thoughts with other people they are almost not real at all.

On top of what other commenters have already mentioned I'd add that it's important not to underestimate the business side of things. Depending on the product and customer, sales could become a massively important topic for your company, basically in all stages...

So while it's a good idea to learn the basics, I think at some point you'll need to hire staff to take care of these areas. Depending on the severity of the position and necessary skills these people might ask for shares.

Playing the guitar! Numerous failed attempts over the last 15 years. My current approach is to just pick up a guitar and "play" without tabs or notes, basically just making sounds I like.

My favorite is TPAI https://www.youtube.com/c/ThePostApocalypticInventor

He has a very interesting series of videos on repairing a wide variety of things he buys from scrapyards in Germany.

I really like the product and the direction this is going! Especially for things like Authentication, DB, PubSub the value proposition, compared to tying a bunch of 3rd party services together or reading a lot of AWS docs (both options will be much more expensive), seems great. So I will definitely try out your service!

I do have some question for a bunch of the other APIs, and maybe this points to an issue I'm having in general with the service right now, it's missing transparency in the specs.

- Are things hosted on some other cloud provider, if so where? What region?

- What about uptime? If I end up building an application with all of these APIs, I do need a bit more confidence that things will be stable.

Some more specific questions

- the crypto endpoint looks interesting, but for me, it would be quite crucial to know where the data is from? How often is it updated?

- For the "Google" endpoint, I'm missing the option to select mobile or desktop results, and also what's the default region? Is this done via a headless chrome instance running somewhere, or just curling results? Do I have to worry that your IPs will be blacklisted by Google if there are too many queries?

- And a random idea for the "Comments" API it would be great to combine it with the "Spam" endpoint that's available for emails.

Really excited to see where this is going though! And I'm definitely going to follow you guys for new features and API additions, joined the discord a while ago, actually.

I really enjoyed this! Can you shed some light into how you've built the game and what your production setup looks like?