marcuskaz

Do you have a school age child? My inbox is flooded with school updates, fund raisers, random questions, and is double when my two kids aren't at the same school.

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- How builds and deploys are configured

- The simple aspect of connecting a GitHub repo and you get auto deploys

- Auto creating branch environments that make testing as easy as a new link

- Just configuring users and permissions and not seeing IAM anywhere is a huge win

My billing admins don't do any of this stuff.

Developer experience matters. This is what Vercel figured out and why their admin screens are sooooooo much better than anything AWS or Google creates.

100% - Is it all custom site? Looks like a Next.js app

I got tired of fighting with note-taking systems. Every time I tried a system like PARA or Johnny Decimal, I'd spend too much energy thinking about filing notes plus when I needed to find something, I'd forget which bucket I put it in and end up grep-ing for it anyway.

So I built Jotit, a command-line app that just lets me dump notes quickly without thinking about where they go. I then use AI for search and to create summaries. Now I can query my notes in instead of trying to remember my past filing logic. Plus the summaries works surprisingly well: I can take messy notes all week and get a clean work summary on Friday.

Likewise, why doesn't git clone automatically cd into the repo?

> I am interested in are hosting my own RSS feed reader, an ebook library, and a password manager

You can do that on a Raspberry Pi Zero for $15, and for $12 you can get a 128gb microsd card, plenty of storage. It'll take up minimal power and fit in an Altoid tin.

I agree, his literary work is unique, and does take a bit more work to read, and with that it includes additional meaning behind it. For example, in The Road often times it doesn't even matter if its the boy or the man saying it.

However, I wouldn't take his advice on how to write for clarity. I too often found myself rereading paragraph, "wait is this description or dialogue", "who said that" - this is not what you want in scientific papers

Sorry, but he takes it too far. McCarthy's omission of punctuation makes his books difficult to understand who is saying what, and a challenge to follow especially with dialogue. The Road and No Country for Old Men both do not contain quotation marks for speech, and he omits the common speech tags like "he said" or "she exclaimed" which makes it a challenge to know who is saying what. It is a choice and the art form he's choosing, but is far from writing for clarity.

I suppose I want the article written for the experienced developer, convince me why I should try something different than the huge defacto standard that is git. I'm totally open to trying something new, but need a compelling case.

Beyond `jj undo` everything else in this thread feels just as complicated as git.

> Jujutsu is more powerful than Git. Despite the fact that it's easier to learn and more intuitive, it actually has loads of awesome capabilities for power users that completely leave Git in the dust.

Like? This isn't explained, I'm curious on why I would want to use it, but this is just an empty platitude, doesn't really give me a reason to try.

The string formatting article definitely has been my most popular post for years. I'm glad you found it useful, and thanks for the kind words

I finally compiled and expanded on all my various blog posts, tutorials and other Python goodness into a book: Working with Python. It is available as a free pdf download at: https://mkaz.blog/working-with-python/

It's grown over a dozen or so years and when I finally decide to compile into a book, everyone now uses AI and no longer read and learn from books but instead through LLMs.

Agree, it seems like a mismatch of features and audience.

As someone who doesn't know much about working out or what exercises to do this sounds like a good app. I need help, but picking based on muscles is off. My thought and goals are not by muscle group, but losing weight or getting more toned.

Conversely, someone who knows what muscle groups they want to target, probably already has some sense of the exercises to target and thus less likely to need the app.

For sure, yours is far more elegant and nice to use.

Mine takes minimalism to an extreme :-)

You can also create a writing space in your browser using a data URL, paste the following into your address bar and boom! instant editor. You can bookmark it and will always be available.

``` data:text/html, <html contenteditable> ```

Plus bonus ephemeral, close the tab and your notes are gone with them. Here's an old post with examples using data URL adding style: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6005295

You're right, fixed. Switched it to use innerHTML.

Here's a dead simple note "app" - it's a single html file using CSS and JavaScript, a whopping 62 lines. Uses content editable and localStorage.

Demo: https://mkaz.github.io/browser-pad/

Source: https://github.com/mkaz/browser-pad/ - though I suppose you can just view source on demo too

I used mostly Claude 3.7 but recently been trying out Gemini 2.5 Pro which works really well too. AI really makes projects like this easy, it's a basic tool and doing simple tasks of converting or selecting data.

I added as an issue here: https://github.com/mkaz/libro/issues/4

It'd be relatively easy to add, I don't have an example format

A basic command-line tool to track your books read, show some basic stats and charts. All stored in a sqlite3 database and you can import from a Goodreads export CSV.

I believe they are saying for the rest of the web, where all the information and millions of web pages. If no one goes to those web pages anymore and digests all the info via chat interfaces (ChatGPT, Google instant answers, etc...) then what's the point of having web sites.

I think pointing at HTML and CSS is odd, having complete individual sites that no one visits is the impact

NotesHub is one-time payment of $4 and Obsidian is $50/yr

> You can find all the problems of Software in Woodworking

Including the questioning of the tools you use, and people telling you "you're doing it wrong".

Thank you, an excellent tool and works well so far. It was a nice easy setup, you already convinced me to purchase the lifetime pro to say thanks. Gotta support indie developers in an ecosystem I use.

A minor bug I noticed, you don't have media controls on the demo video on your website. I had to right-click and select play, clicking the video didn't start it either.

Probably, looks like I'm going to hit my bandwidth limits on Vercel hobby tier. ;-)

I think I might of lost it over various site migrations. I added it back to About page.

My photos linked above are licensed under creative commons, so feel free to use any. I'd be interested in helping with the project too and can supply higher res if needed.

Thanks! The majority of them are digital, most with a Fujifilm camera either X-T1 or X-PRO2 depending on when they were taken. I do shoot a fair amount of film, so a couple will be Kodak Portra. I prefer the film aesthetic so my digital presets aim for that look.

Not a book, and a bit self promotional, but I have a small photo series I worked on https://mkaz.com/silicon-valley/

Also, look for Silicon Valley '07 by Gabriele Basilico, it's a photo book - not a huge coffee table book but pretty good with about 80-100 photos from 2007