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grok's looks like one of those clocks you'd find at a novelty shop

It must be best for americans to not post salaries

An text-based online RPG (inspired by muds of yesteryear) inhabited by LLM-driven NPCs which takes place in the zombie-infested wild west (side project for about 2 years now, should be live soon ) https://www.blightwood.online

Rails is particularly nice in a cursor-first world (probably true of any elder framework that has strong opinions/conventions).

Really awesome project! Scaling this down to household scale is so helpful.

I was surprised this wasn't mentioned in the article - I assumed this is what they were talking about.

But its `free`

Try to only acquire stuff that looks kind of broken and life becomes cheaper.

A cool video on the topic I found a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ep308goxQ

Missed opportunity to call it Duck Typing™

www.1kprojects.com and transferslot.com exist - maybe they're too small for your situation?

I totally agree. It's been the most insightful book I've read this year.

I also long for the ugly web (for the lack of a better term), and think about it a lot. I often wonder how much of my ego and/or attachment for being an individual is the foundation of this sentiment.

As a developer, I even see this echoing through the tech evolution of web development (inaccessible SPAs which take 4 seconds to load and where you can't effectively use tabs, a sea of popovers and overlays, etc.).

Surely, there will be niche places where this ideology remains (and those communities will become stronger, as a result), but maybe the fact that the ugly web is no longer the only web makes us early internet pioneers feel less special.

Tinder for bodily fluids is just tinder.

There are significant differences between psychedelics and anti-depressants, both mechanically and when it involves long-term treatment planning and monetization.

Although research is quite limited due to regulatory constraints, John Hopkins has particularly interesting research on the subject (https://hopkinspsychedelic.org), with ongoing trials.

I think you're right about the shamanic ideal - at its current state, this doesn't seem to be the kind of treatment you can scale through the form of a pill.

In Germany recording folks without their consent is illegal (or at least not admissible in courts) in many contexts. It is possible to build incentives that don't lead towards mass surveillance.

Very cool! It would feel more fair if my health reset with each wave so that I'm on an equal footing with the new agents.

Great points, the pendulum is still swinging so I expect more and more pro-remote content in the coming years.

I personally prefer mostly remote work, but I think it's much harder to pull off - there are no play books on how to do it and if you don't do it from the start it becomes exponentially more difficulty to execute correctly.

So true! I have 0 visibility into the Hearhstone world, but now I've canceled my pre-orders and my WoW account.

I've built 4-5 web apps over the last 5 years that have required zero/little maintenance.

There are only three reasons I've been drawn into some projects: 1) A bug occurs and needs to be fixed 2) An external dependency breaks something

- Write tests and/or have high confidence in code/infrastructure behavior (using tools you know really well helps). Avoid cognitive complexity in code constructs aggressively. - Limit integration w/ 3rd parties EXCEPT the ones that reduce your goal of zero-maintenance. - Create interfaces/tooling which make automating tasks easy. - Get notified when things break

Democracy is more important than Hearthstone - there are a ton of games to play and a ton of developers that have the ability to show a spine (which public companies may be mechanically missing).

I love the 'tag' alert options at the bottom of this site.

It's kind of interesting how we often use the word intelligence to mean 'experiencing the world like a human.' When we find beings who's experience inches closer to us, we respect them more.

Despite being seen as the stereotypical tech-worker uniform, Patagonia seems to use well-sourced, high quality material (and they have repair centers).

The reverse (physical response > action) certainly seems true. - if you sit and smile for 2 minutes straight, you're more likely to feel at least a little better.

We're all in some kind of delusion as our storytelling minds build up the world around us (and us in it). I believe the author is referring to crafting our delusions in some intentional way (although I don't have great examples myself of this working).

I visited Finland recently and everybody was so proud of the baby box! I hope it gets more popular worldwide.

Interesting post.

I find it interesting how the pendulum of web development tooling goes from A. native tools > B. abstract everything (currently via JS) > A. native tools (or a simulation of them).

I don't have intimate knowledge of Svelte but I, personally, am a fan of any tooling which keeps things as close to the native browser toolchain as possible.

Looking back in 10 years I think we'll see that we're still deep in the wild west when it comes to web tooling. It's cool that so many folks are interesting in making things better.

Is this a different URL that restricts/ignores JS? I'm seeing slashdot.org come in at about 1MB.

Like many websites, if they didn't have ad/tracking scripts, it'd be smaller (slashdot seems to have quite a few).

I've wondered about personal websites.

A lot of them would come in under 500kb, but the list would be huge? I'm still trying to figure out how to best to categorize and think about this list so any suggestions would be appreciated.

I've started making sure the sun comes into the room - I've read somewhere that this is supposed to help keep things clean w/out running the washer as often.