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You may enjoy various pieces of media labelled "slice of life", although this genre is often misapplied.

That last part is what makes "free" vs. "well not actually free" functionally identical.

Just wanted to say thanks for building this.

If anyone is interested in this era of comic books and the society they bred, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon is a smart, excellently written novel.

It covers the comic book culture in NYC in WW2 and the years after, and covers a scenario very similar to this report.

I mean, not according to the laws of physics.

I had The Penguin History of the World recommended to me for exactly this purpose a couple of years ago. It’s quite a tome and I haven’t had a chance to finish it, but so think anything aiming to capture so much in one book will be incredibly dense.

It gets better reviews than you might suspect given the title.

AltStore is great. It’s honestly a fairly elegant solution, and Riley is constantly working on it and his Delta emulator which is equally impressive.

If you have an always-on Mac to handle updates and refreshes, it’s been a near-seamless experience for me for over a year.

I had déjà vu when I read this comment, as I think I tweeted almost word for word your first paragraph when I discovered Craft.

I’m something of an unpaid evangelist for it - it’s pretty close to life changing software for me, as it’s completely changed how I think and write. Glad you love it!

They have an extremely active Slack community that’s well-staffed, and their extremely responsive to feature requests. Their pace of development over the first year of their launch is incredible.

It gets a lot of comparisons to Notion, but I don’t think that’s really accurate. It feels much more focused on writing and note taking for me than Notion - it doesn’t do all the fancy page types, etc. But yes, it is Mac native.

The default storage location is their web service, but you do have the option of storing all files locally. You do lose some collaboration features if you do that.

I followed the same trajectory as you from Notes to Bear, but have ended up on Craft. It might do too much for you, but I’ve honestly never used an app that is both so featureful and some beautiful.

Ahh, interesting! Missed this news. Makes sense.

From a more in-depth article from Ars:

> This "stereo dock" doesn't have a price yet, but it will ship with a preinstalled online radio option, dubbed Poolsuite FM, that Panic says will include "expertly curated Soundcloud playlists that will transport you to a magical, sun-kissed musical zone between the past and the present."

This sounds ... suspiciously like Poolside.fm

I gotcha, it was poorly worded.

My sample size here is extremely small – I know of three people who have used the method (2 read the book, 1 took the seminar) and all three were successes. I don't know of anyone who's done it that hasn't succeeded, but I expect there are tons of those. People who believe in it because it's worked for them are much more likely to speak broadly and loudly about it.

Maybe? I'm not sure? It's a fairly throw away comment, I didn't send it to my editor to check for logical consistency or style advice.

I sort of agree with this, but I do know lots of people – myself to a certain extent – that have had success with mild re-programming, via Allen Carr's Easy Way method[0]. I'm not the type to buy in to this kind of thing, but it did help me quit when nothing else did, and I never felt this sense of longing for something. Nobody else I've known that has had success with that method did either.

I also think it's really unhelpful to talk about quitting smoking in such hopeless terms. If I was still a smoker, being told I was inevitably going to be craving cigarettes for the rest of my life might almost convince me not to quit at all.

It doesn't have to be this way.

[0] https://www.allencarr.com

Agree with some of the other commenters here – this seems really really smart, but only because I live and work deep in Shopify land. It was immediately obvious to me what this means, but there's plenty of Shopify merchants and partners who aren't even aware of the Lite plan, and if they know it's there, are unclear of the limitations.

I can definitely think of people who this would be great for – it's almost like headless commerce for the extreme low end. I'll be interested to see if you build this out further and what you decide to add. I'm surprised more haven't attempted to build full, wholesale replacement of Shopify's frontend outside of enterprise alternatives like Shogun Frontend.

A simple theming system and more customization would be a natural next step.

You certainly could argue, but that doesn't mean it would be a good argument. How far can you take this? Are cars that only take premium fuel also DRM? What about a conduction stove that doesn't work with all pans?

Popular and user friendly are different things.

But they do sell, and Lamborghini or Porsche are not under any obligation to make a cheap car so that everyone who wants one can afford one, nor should they.

Companies are under no obligation to not ostracize potential customers. Do you also think that luxury car companies are shitty and ridiculous because they charge more than cars that "do the same thing"?

It certainly can be. The professionalization of the app ecosystem on Shopify has been going on for years, and it has made it more difficult to make money, but it’s still very feasible. I used to tell developers in ~2012 not to waste time building apps for iOS because the market was saturated, and I could all buy guarantee them that they would make money in the Shopify ecosystem. The pendulum has swung a little bit.

What used to be purely organic, set-and-forget growth has transitioned in to requiring a more tactical approach to see real growth. The top players in the space leverage strong review acquisition strategies to inflate their ranking, listing optimization to increase search traffic, and relationships to get featured spots. If you can’t or won’t participate in these, you won’t see as much growth.

The nature of the ranking algorithms gives an advantage to apps that have already seen success, so the initial success is the hardest part. You can use that initial success to drive continued organic long term growth.

The other thing I warn people of who are thinking about Shopify apps as side income in the support requirements: merchants are, as a rule not sophisticated. This means you generally get a lot of incoming customer support. If your store modified the front end, much of this support will be not directly related to your app, but how your app interacts with the multitudes of apps and themes the merchant may have installed.

Shopify also has rules that require you to offer a certain standard of customer support, and you’ll need to meet them to remain in the store. Support is also one of they key drivers of reviews, which are incredibly important for ranking highly and seeing that organic growth.

Source: built and managed the team behind the Shopify App Store from 2012-2017. Still involved as a participant. Always happy to chat with anyone thinking about the Shopify ecosystem.

I actually really love the idea of browsers tailored towards specific segments. They were made before the dangers of always-on social were super apparent, but I loved the idea of Flock and Rockmelt when they initially came out.

I was actually pretty impressed with this conversation, and even got a laugh out of it at the end:

Me: What is the iPod?

Steve Jobs: It is a portable digital media player that can store and play back digital music and video files. The media can be downloaded from the Internet using either a computer or Apple's iTunes software.

Me: What's the internet?

Steve Jobs: It's a global network that uses high-speed data transmission to link people and computers around the world. Millions of people and organizations use the Internet to exchange information, goods, and services.

Me: Why do people use the internet?

Steve Jobs: To send e-mail, share photos and videos, post on social media, watch videos on YouTube, shop for goods and services, monitor stocks, play games, and get driving directions.

Me: What is the internet best at?

Steve Jobs: Being easy to use.

Me: But there are mean people on the internet.

Steve Jobs: Yes, there are.

Me: What can we do about mean people on the internet?

Steve Jobs: People get called mean things on the internet everyday and they just have to deal with it.

Me: That doesn't seem fair.

Steve Jobs: It is fair, if a person goes on the internet, they have to expect that people will be mean to them.

Me: But there must be something we can do.

Steve Jobs: There are ways to hide and filter mean people. You just need to download a new web browser.

Me: How can I hide and filter mean people on the internet?

Steve Jobs: I can help you, download Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, both are free and open-source software.

Me: then what?

Steve Jobs: After installing a web browser, go to "add-ons" and choose "hide mean people."

I’m only partway through the audiobook and haven’t fact-checked it, both both are covered fairly extensively in [1]. Jump straight to chapter 10 (Growth!) for the start of Chamath.

I’m really enjoying the book so far, and it seems to present a pretty unbiased view considering it was made with access to (and, by extension, some amount of blessing by) Facebook.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/52032133-facebook

In the amounts people usually put in coffee, it is insignificant.

I have no affiliation, just a happy customer, but the Holloway Guide to Twitter is a great, lengthy resource for Twitter at least, probably applicable across platforms for the most part: https://www.holloway.com/g/using-twitter

Nobody is saying it is completely effective.

I'm very fortunate to live in Canada, and can't imagine how much harder it would be to take risks in the states. When I left my stable job to pursue my own small business, my health wasn't even one of the factors I considered. I have never asked for details about health insurance prior tom accepting a job.

That's tough. Not everyone who wants to be an actor gets to be an actor either.

People have to settle for not fulfilling their dreams every day.

If it’s not satire, it’s at least sad. That video made me feel sorry for the mother.