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Adding this to the list for one of my side projects[0].
[0] https://www.wealest.com/articles/via-negativa (or Antifragile)
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Dominion-Christian-Revolution-Remade-...
It recently dawned on me how we have a staggering amount of art available in these archives (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/, https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en, the Met, etc). It's truly staggering. Can't wait to use these images for my side project[0].
At its heart, this was borne out of a desire to fashion technology to help integrate us, enabling a tiny bit more proximity and place amongst our fellows, rather than "uproot" it (as we can all too easily disintegrate, and treat ourselves as purely online beings in incorporeal cyberspace).
Think "Small Is Beautiful" (or really anything by Wendell Berry).
Appreciate you looking & for the candid feedback-- this is a rough "first draft".
I appreciate you taking a look and for your feedback!
Thank you taking a look and for dropping feedback!
I've come to think that in the future, the bottlenecks in the development lifecycle will mostly be related to the decisions of Product. In other words, if nearly everything is cloneable by Claude, CRUD is no longer a moat.
So: in the "efficient cloning market" hypothesis, everything able to be eaten by mimesis, who pushes the limits of "craft and beauty"?
Therefore, I've been wanting to grow in my sense of taste: having a palate for beautiful things and letting more of my life be characterized by their presence.
To that end, I built Flâneur; it's a simple site / newsletter that delivers a handful of beautiful things from museum archives across the world. It's very simple, but I found it to be a delight to work on and use.
Do have a look and send me your thoughts. Cheers! sm
I was just playing around with Tiptap last week and build a (very dumb) AI rephrasing app here: https://authored.co. Took a bit to get used to the ProseMirror API, but was a fun experience!
This is exactly what I've been after with my side projects. Thanks for the encouragement to continue even when things are slow-going, makes me remember it's a feature not a bug.
Shameless plug, but: I've been working on a site that was inspired by CYOA (although not exactly the same): Storylocks.com [https://www.storylocks.com/]. It's a simple way for multiple people to write stories together. Fiction writers unite!
Shameless plug, but: I've been working on a site with similar aims (although not exactly the same): Storylocks.com [https://www.storylocks.com/]. It's not exactly IF, but a simple way for multiple people to write stories together. Fiction writers unite!
Umberto Eco[1] would call that a success :)
[1] http://gregorianstorage.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-to-justify-...
This is spot on in my experience.
As I grow in my career as a software engineer, it's funny how much more often I notice that the things that set one apart in the field is a level-headed understanding of the fundamentals and a calm resolve to take into consideration what's worked in the past, much more than one's ability to "chase the shiny".
Honorable mention of the Lindy Effect [1] here - one of my favorite ideas from Antifragile [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect [2] https://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-Ince...
I suppose another such solution, for a patient with a given medical condition X, is to have a very large pool of doctors and see if any of them have condition X (with similar age, background, etc).
Then one could compare how treatment varies when doctors treat themselves with the same issue.
"Physician, heal thyself."
Scanning through the vulns on GitHub Advisory Database, it looks like it still contains many that DA brought up as unhelpful at best (e.g. “Regular Expression Denial of Service”).
As to your reflections, I'm wondering how Stripe ingests these various emerging patterns around the world (especially as you expand to unfamiliar territory) and prioritize bringing them into your products?
IOW: if N trends at various stages of the adoption cycle are happening 7K miles away, how do you think about placing different bets on each, especially when the cultural moments may be wildly different than, as yet, Stripe understands?
Cheers! SM
As an aside, it always jars me when a site hijacks default browser scrolling functionality. In my experience, making it as fast as possible is a _far_ better use of dev resources than figuring out how to make scrolling unique (no matter what the marketing department says).