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I’m wonderfully surprised by how often people can have an idea and create something as lovely as this in a short amount of time. The web may have its flaws, but it also empowers this.

Just downloaded the game and I love it. Also love that it’s built with Godot. Nice work and congrats!

This is insanely cool. I’d love to see this post getting more love because building a generative art drop is a ton of work. Looks like this cuts out a huge chunk of the work.

This is a top-notch comment.

I love this. I have used Eleventy, Hugo, Gatsby, and Jekyll. All of them feel like overkill. I want to write my own HTML. I want to write posts (and maybe some simple pages) in markdown. And I want to be able to render a list of posts/individuals posts. This hits all of those in a really simple package. Nice work!

This is really cool. I find myself generating cover images for social media for blog posts and then re-using the image and changing the text overlay often. I’ve done this manually in figma, and I’ve been hesitant to use other solutions because of the price. Your pricing is more aligned with small project needs/budgets, which is nice.

I just recently released my first iOS app written in SwiftUI and HackingWithSwift was such a lifesaver. Glad to see others find it as valuable as I did.

Great job on this app. My son has ADHD and struggles mightily with repeating tasks each day. Downloading it on his iPad to see if it helps!

I remember when I first was considering going full time on my side project. I was convinced that with $200k I’d have enough runway to make it work. I met a VC at a party and even mentioned that plan to him. He laughed (rightfully) in my face.

Our brains are not equipped to predict the money it takes or time it takes for a business to become successful, because the variables are too great. Selling your house would be like me raising $200k. It’d buy you a year. But at the end of that year, it’s still very unlikely that your business will be paying for itself, let alone paying you a salary.

I recommend to anyone who will listen that they do not get a graduate degree in the arts unless they are financially comfortable to do so. I love writing, but I didn’t get my MFA until I was making enough money to get that degree with the full knowledge that it probably wouldn’t pay for itself.

Yep. I find it odd that the article doesn’t even mention IPFS. Brewster Khale is a big proponent of IPFS, so that would have been a perfect opportunity to bring it up.

IPFS has its flaws, but content addressing and immutability are powerful.

I grew up in Tucson, AZ. A grass yard was a foreign concept to me. Everyone had rock landscaping in their front yards and either dirt or rock in the backyard.

If you are chasing RFPs, propose and build everything that checks all the boxes. If you are a product company and building for people who will hopefully love your product, it’s your job to understand the customers, understand the data, and build the right solution rather than building ALL the solutions.

More than 10 years after quitting smoking, I was standing on a balcony in NYC with a few friends from Italy. They lit up as we drank and talked, and while I didn’t have a true desire to smoke one with them, the thought crossed my mind. What would it be like? Just one cigarette to remind me of when I was young? I think buried deep in our minds once we’ve started smoking and no matter how long after we quit is this question of what it might be like to try it one more time.

This is one of my favorite topics. I agree with it all, except that it is possible to have serendipitous moments through distribution on a platform like Medium. My Medium content is now generally only for companies I work for, but I still get personal emails and invitations for work, podcasts, connections, etc from them. That said, I’d prefer these come from traffic tied to my own blog.

This is fantastic! Building an importer is not fun at all. Really smart product.

Ghost has some of the best self-hosting documentation out there. I self-hosted for a while but decided I didn’t want to deal with upgrades and wanted to support them as a company. So I’m paying for a manager solution.

I love this process, especially the design portion. A long time ago, I read Sketching With CSS, and I think it took me down a bad path. Lately, I’ve been creating designs for my apps in Figma before writing any code. It’s definitely, as you mentioned, saved me a ton of time on accidental redesigns. I just bought RefactoringUI by the guys who did Tailwind, and it’s great. Highly recommend it.

https://www.refactoringui.com/book

This is really smart. It’s sure to be blocked by Apple at some point, but until Apple supports proper web notifications and stops fighting against web standards, workarounds like this need to exist.

Hi HN!

Perligo[1] is a passion project of mine that came about as a result of my experience during my master's program in creative writing. Much of the program was held online, so our critiques were all managed on discussion forums. It worked...but not well. I wanted writers to have a digital-first critique group solution.

There are other writing critique group apps out there, but most of them are public and require some sort of credit-based system to upload work. With Perligo, it's designed just like a critique group you might join in your local community or like an MFA program's critique group. All groups are private and memberships are invite-only. Group members manage their submission schedule and ensure participation.

Perligo gets out of the way of the community and group building part of the process so that it can focus in on the critiquing portion of the process. I remember having to download six or seven different PDFs to get all of the feedback on my writing during my master's program. And then I'd have to go and scroll through a bunch of disparate, non-grouped comments on a discussion forum to get the general feedback on the story. I wanted to streamline that process with Perligo.

Upload your work, and the group can add line notes. Group members can reply to each line note (i.e. a Highlight) in a thread similar to how we experience threaded messages in Slack. Group members can also add general, long-form feedback in the Conversations tab. And one really powerful components of the app is the ability to toggle feedback on and off. For members who want to provide feedback without the influence of others in their group, they can toggle everyone else's feedback off and focus solely on their critique.

Anyway, I hope you dig it and I can't wait to hear what you all think!

1. https://perligo.io

This is fantastic. I just learned the basics of Go by building an SDK for a friend’s REST API. I’ll tell you what, you want to learn a language, build a client SDK. You’ll hit so many crazy issues, you’ll be forced to learn how things work.

That said, I’ve got a long ways to go, and I’ve already plowed through six chapters of the book. Nice work!

While I finally bit the bullet and learned redux a couple years ago, I tried for a long time to avoid it. It’s overly complex for the tasks it is often trying to solve.

I like this solution because it’s simple, testable, and global.

When I got my masters in creative writing, the program director told us, almost daily, not to expect to make money from our writing. We would not be getting rich. It was a harsh, but realistic view. His point was that we should be writing for the right reasons. You shouldn’t be creating so that you become the next Stephen King. You should be writing to express your views and commentary on the world around you.

This is 100% the key. I learned to code in my 30s, but I had been trying to learn for a dozen years before that and nothing stuck. Until I had a product I absolutely wanted (or had) to build, it was impossible for me to have the motivation to learn and have the concepts stick. But once I had that product in mind, everything fell into place.

It’s fascinating to me that the CD didn’t enter my household until the mid-90s. It speaks to exactly what the woman in the video said about cartridges and tapes. I can’t say that I know why it took more than a decade for CDs to become common place, but I do find it fascinating.

John August, a well-respected writer and host of the ScriptNotes, built and uses Highland: https://highland2.app/screenwriters.php

For better or worse, I think Basecamp started this trend. Not necessarily with the content they have created and sold, but with the ideas that get misunderstood. I think it was Jason Fried who said people should be selling their byproducts, which amounts to remixing content, selling what you’ve learned to others. This works and is good practice for some things, but it gets extended into so many other things that we get an “information product” economy where the information is the only product instead of the information being a byproduct of the experience you gained by building something else.

There was a time where I ran a sports blog and embedding tweets from journos covering the sports in question was common. The iframe widget was always terrible. Wish I had this back then. Nice work!

I agree with all of this. I also think Medium is a social media site (as is HN), guilty of the same things the author calls out.

Pretty good research on the same topic from this firm a few years ago: https://baymard.com/blog/drop-down-usability

“Always wear a backpack.”