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At a previous company, engineering teams selected SLIs and SLOs based on what was easiest to implement and measure. Nobody had devops, SRE, or performance testing experience. Your SLC seems like a really great interactive primer. I imagine a lot of engineering teams need help in this area.

Built a wrapper around the bank2ynab github repo to convert and import non-US bank statements into YNAB. If there's enough interest, I'm happy to enable the YNAB API integration to directly import statements into your accounts. Full list of supported bank formats: https://github.com/bank2ynab/bank2ynab#formats

Can you share some examples of what people are using this for today?

I use Streaks to maintain a list of my top 10 habits. When something's become a habit and I feel no longer need to track, then I archive it.

havent heard of raycast, looks neat! What are the main workflows or automations you use it for?

I got the Stressless Reno https://shop.stressless.com/en/c/recliners/reno I visited a local furniture store that's a certified retailer of Stressless and got to try a bunch of models out. I brought my keyboard with me to simulate how it'd feel. The thing to look for - your body should be so relaxed you almost start napping in 10-15 mins. There should be zero tension in your shoulders or your neck (i.e. chair should not push your neck forward or else you'll get headaches).

Sleep well. Active outdoors 2x per week. Remind myself "Let others be free" - I can't control how others react or choices they make. Say what I want to say and ask for what I really want.

yeah QMK is the best, i have a whole separate layer just to emulate a subset of vim movement using hjkl keys

I have a standing desk but it isn't necessary, it's one item I had tried years ago. It was a cheap one from amazon. I guess it's nice to precisely adjust the height, but I'm shorter so I just set the height to the lowest setting. Having a monitor arm is key so that I can tilt my monitor towards me.

I have the stressless recliner, standing desk, single large monitor, monitor arm to tilt my monitor towards me since I'm reclined, ergo split keyboard which I rest on the arms of the recliner, and a small table right next to my recliner where I put my trackball mouse, phone, and water. The standing desk isn't necessary, it's just what I've had all these years, but it's nice to precisely adjust the height of the desk based on comfort. The monitor arm is key so that my monitor remains parallel to me. Imagine sitting in a normal office chair, the monitor would be vertical - since I'm reclined, I need to tilt it accordingly.

I just replied this to another comment: Kinesis ergonomic keyboard or Moonlander split keyboard. I personally prefer Kinesis but needed a split keyboard for my recliner. Using the kinesis would've had my arms too high up.

Yes! Kinesis ergonomic keyboard changed my life then i moved to Moonlander so i could rest the split keyboard on each arm of my recliner

I'm usually most interested in the top 3 comments

To Microsoft: please build a vim extension for Loop, this would make me switch from Notion.

You could join an open source project in your field

Put "Emacs" in the title, even though you use VSCode

...wish I had that problem.

vim mode

How are you populating the content? How will you plan to stimulate discussion?

Also the problem with formulaic wording, as prescribed in the blog, is that it promotes overthinking about the wrong thing. You overthink the particular phrasing and intonation, rather than thinking about how to improve your relationship with others which would yield substantially more positive results. And when you hesitate from overthinking, people can sense that you're not being authentic or genuine.

This variation is more interesting: use Midjourney/OpenAI to generate a sequence of illustrations and let your child come up with the plot for each illustration. My little cousins LOVE creative games like Dixit because they get to write the story, letting their imaginations run wild, and no 2 stories are ever identical (infinite play).

The more trust and respect there is among a group of people, the more direct they can be with each other, without coming off as harsh.

There is a lot of implicit communication in a relationship with deep trust and respect at its core. You can say less, very directly, and usually get what you want, without offending anyone.

Many millionaires don't feel rich because they don't have enough passive income to cover their expenses. They're stuck on the hamster wheel. If you have $1m in liquid assets but your family's burn rate is $120k/year, then you can't stop grinding because you don't have enough runway to cover even 10 years (not even counting for unforeseen expenses such as medical, emergencies, extended family needing help). $120k/year burn rate is not uncommon in cities and is probably on the lower end of spend if you have kids in a city.

We're thinking of exposing a terraform module in the future to self host script executors with an option to self host secrets storage as well.

  module "my_executor" {
    source = "blotato/executor

    # some params here
  }

The autogenerated UI right now is basically a form, backed by a script, hiding the complexity of creating the frontend and hosting the infrastructure. It reduces the task to implementing a single logical step.

Some examples blotato can be used for:

- Letting a user upload a csv containing customer receipts, grouping them by a particular day and updating an external resource (e.g. a database, stripe, crm, erp, or quickbooks)

- Exposing a form taking internal customer id as an input and cross-correlating it across multiple services such as pulling the last dozen customer messages from Twilio associated with that account id for a particular day