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sharps_xp··on Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days
trying to convert a massive meatpacking plan isn't step 1. it's too big a problem. that's top down. probably easier bottom up -- have a processing plant that only sources from ranchers that grass feed/finish, pasture raise, and slowly subsidize other ranchers to stop sending their product to massive meatpacking plants.
sharps_xp··on Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days
I went to restaurant last night and asked where the chicken was sourced from and their response was "it's not the usual place we get chicken, but it's US Farm Raised Hatched", but I misinterpreted the her answer as a distributor name but then I realized even if I had a name, I probably couldn't figure out past that whether or not these chickens were pasture raised. If food labels are law, why doesn't this apply to where restaurants source their ingredients?
sharps_xp··on Static sites enable a good time travel experience
is there an decentralized org to ensure that all of the js css we use today remain backward compatible decades from now? or are we just at the whim of these browser vendors?
sharps_xp··on Show HN: Bhvr, a Bun and Hono and Vite and React Starter
The main draw for me with elysia was that it maintains bun's perf benefits unlike express. When I got into the weeds of the documentation, their abstractions could use a lot of polish. The lifecycle of a request is not that clear imo and all the hooks you put into it look like hacks rather than integrations.
sharps_xp··on The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API Pricing
i also do the sit down a calculate exercise. i always end up down a rabbit hole of how to make a viral site as cheaply as possible. always ends up in the same place: redis, sqlite, SSE, on suspended fly machines, and a CDN.
sharps_xp··on Show HN: Translate Japanese Manga and Korean Manhwa with Chrome Extension
solo leveling no contest
sharps_xp··on Phlex for Rails Emails: Action Mailer Without ERB
wow this is the first i've seen someone port from sveltkit to rails. can't wait to read that writeup
sharps_xp··on Basketball Is a Solved Sport
i forgot what year but the year the spurs won the championship against lebron would be unusual today. tons of passing not necessarily for the 3 but to just dislodge the defense enough for a guaranteed bucket
sharps_xp··on SQLite on Rails: The how and why of optimal performance
though, sqlite will not be used for the websocket broadcasting
sharps_xp··on Show HN: OneMillionColors – explore, add and customize One Million Colors
i don’t think there’s any other input type you can apply the one million schtick to except color. i was thinking of squared shaped browser native color pickers on a 1000x1000 or 10k x 100 non responsive grid. but after seeing the infra and bandwidth costs from the guy who did checkboxes i don’t think my stack of choice could keep up (RoR) i was really looking forward to utilizing fly’s pause/resume feature
sharps_xp··on Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify: Checkout X
I'm impressed a single individual got to 600K MRR by himself. Only a few people can say that they've done that. Who knows when shopify would've taken their checkout experience seriously were it not for this guy. you can have interesting experience, build temporary things, be proud of it, and move on to the next thing.
sharps_xp··on Ask HN: Co-Founder? Seeking Co-Founder?
I think gas app type growth was cool, but I cannot imagine being on that hamster wheel long term. the goal would to have an exit at the peak and not be like snapchat. that said, I do admire blue chip sites that go viral simply b/c it feeds a global demand very simply (ie., sudoku.com); if wordle didn't sell, they could've easily surpassed their purchase price in a few months.
sharps_xp··on Ask HN: Co-Founder? Seeking Co-Founder?
i haven’t, was going to start trying to make some attempts this year, static sites like istheshipstillstuck and howmuchtoiletpaper. also i don’t know how to answer the monetization question for new sites that pick up traffic quickly
sharps_xp··on Ask HN: Co-Founder? Seeking Co-Founder?
i have a budding interest in making viral apps!
sharps_xp··on An Overview of Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features. Part III
perhaps for most things but probably not to the extent of something like excalidraw, which uses react
sharps_xp··on Go and SQLite in the Cloud
You can put all your writes in a queue to be processed by a finite set of writers. I think most CRUD applications can afford the delay and if not you can pair it with a write through cache.
sharps_xp··on AI Homework
sounds like law school
sharps_xp··on Litestream live replication has been moved to the LiteFS project
i think both fly.io and litestream were projects that spoke sweet words to the average developer wanting to build features without the infra headache, and what made sqlite so appealing was its simplicity. litestream kept that simplicity too. but i don't think the avg developer wants to spin up their own LiteFS. At a glance at the repo, i have no idea how to deploy this thing. It would have served fly and litestream users better to have kept replication within litestream.

just as no one using postgres on RDS will ever leave RDS not b/c RDS is so much better than its competitors but because the hurdle is too great and the migration so risky. right now, fly is the only one who lessens the burden to use LiteFS and as long as they're the only one, the average developer is essentially locked in.

sharps_xp··on Litestream live replication has been moved to the LiteFS project
How do you turn a local-first file system based database into a cloud software product with vendor lock in?
sharps_xp··on A Web UI for Stable Diffusion
if someone can dockerize this, please reply with a link!
sharps_xp··on Learnings of a CEO: Wade Foster, Zapier
I cannot imagine they are getting a good return on 700 people weekly all hands meetings..
sharps_xp··on Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine
i’ve been thinking of doing something similar but for anime and with semantic search (ie., “rudeous getting punched”) but i have concerns about DMCA notices. I also know that search engines have a different set of rules for copyright liability but i couldn’t make sense of them since IANAL.

I might just make it for myself and call it a day.

sharps_xp··on One Good Engineer Is Better Than Three Normal Ones
i could see your argument from 10 to 100, but 1 to 3 is a practical productivity multiplier. There's also risk of the 1 engineer going to another company that thinks the same way but for $650,000 and now you're left with 0 engineers and no development.
sharps_xp··on Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022
where do i send the check
sharps_xp··on Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022
would not buy, doesn't protect against initial config deployment.
sharps_xp··on Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022
depends on how guaranteed is your solution?
sharps_xp··on Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022
who will make the abstraction as a service we all need to protect us from config changes
sharps_xp··on You can create a great looking website while sucking at design
this might be controversial, but i just want to write semantic html and be able to toggle the design. if the design requires additional elements or JS, then it’s way too complex for a solo dev (for me anyway).

i think classless css frameworks really opened up the possibility for backend devs to spin up a project as long as they can write good thoughtful html.

i’m building my own classless stylesheet that i plan to use across all of my projects because todays classless are mostly for content or marketing sites but what i need is more app ui.

sharps_xp··on Google Online SRE Books
whenever i hear or read a google SRE resource, i’m most impressed by their back of the napkin calculations. it’s a skill i wish i had but don’t have opportunities to do it or even validate that i’m in the right ball park
sharps_xp··on Dall-E 2 illustrations of Twitter bios
The generated art is impressive, but there is no drawing that'll replace the one my daughter draws for me. AI generated art can reach and perhaps push the boundaries of what is considered beautiful, but it will never replace the art created by a human. Yes, there is a future for art.
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