tylerdane

Shannon's Information Theory paper

I started working on this in 2021 after quitting my job and squandering my time on silly things. I wanted an app that'd give me some structure. But my first iteration was bloated with notes, tasks, tags, events. It was trying to be an "everything app" like Notion, but it wasn't doing any job well.

So I deleted everything except normal events and just focused on making them fast to edit from the keyboard.

"What I cannot create, I do not understand."

Notes Richard Feynman made in 1961-64 to plan and prepare lectures for Caltech's two-year introductory physics course from the Cal Tech archives.

Alan put Einstein's theory in simple form, taking the book chapter by chapter, with directions on how to read it

"Just keep telling yourself that you're doing something that your brain is going to reward you for several years down the line"

Although I don't like their product...I think the thesis is sound.

When before the public in the pulpit, on the platform, or the stage, forget all rules, or rather make no effort to recall them. Your motto there should be heart-work, not head-work.

"Learning anything is a long term project, and long term projects are necessary for building a sense of control over your circumstances. Almost nothing can be deliberately and meaningfully changed within the scope of a day, but in months, certainly years, a lot of things can be made to happen."

Fav quote: "I have made changes in the world that are beyond what most people thought was possible, and I hope that my judgment continues to be good as to what is possible to change and what is not."

But the modern PC still uses DOS and WordStar lol.

"Well, he doesn’t actually write on an old DOS computer. He did write on an old DOS computer, and then it died. Actually, I built him the computer he writes on now, which is a state-of-the-art machine running DOS and WordStar 4.0." - GRRM's employee

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/interview-jame...

Maybe I don't need $AI_IDE_OF_THE_WEEK after all...

IDK what this guy went through, but the outro hits:

"Keep going, even if that means taking a breather, to ultimately go even further."

Favorite quote: "DON’T BE SCARED"

Location: San Francisco

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It's a fair point. I think loss-aversion over React (Native) is to blame.

Their current client stack is: Web: React Desktop: React + Electron Mobile: React Native + Native

Their commitment to React on so many platforms makes it easy to accumulate bloat. Their need to support lower-level features means they can't avoid native code altogether.

I wonder why they stick with it.

My guess is they don't want to add more hires just for this problem

Their 2018 commitment to RN: https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-sticking-with-react-...

Their 2025 complications with it: https://discord.com/blog/supercharging-discord-mobile-our-jo...

Also curious what works well for others here.

Are limiting the # of machines a user is signed-in on and trial licenses the only use-cases you have for this?

How to keep your users safe and your contributors happy

Gotcha, cool! Share a link to the project, would love to check it out. Definitely an interesting UX design challenge, combining astrological and almanac calendars

Contradictory indeed -- definitely let my eyes take on more than my stomach could process.

Curious to learn more about your calendars. I don't quite understand what you mean by 'see the darkest night hours' or 'all my data is to hand.'

It sounds like you're interested in new ways to visualize calendars, compared to the traditional grids. You might enjoy checking out Lightpad or Circular calendars. They represent time in a more real form, but I've struggled to use them day-to-day.

https://www.producthunt.com/products/lightpad https://www.theroundmethod.com/pages/circular-calendar

26 months of work, including 461 files, 21,905 lines of code, and 171 tests, is now public at: https://github.com/SwitchbackTech/compass.

I started working on this project because I needed a better way to stay on top of my schedule and tasks. As a minimalist, I wanted it to be simple and smooth. I spent the next two years building the foundational features, like OAuth, sessions, Gcal sync, drag-and-drop, and recurring events.

I gave it a helluva shot, but I didn't finish making my dream calendar. But now that my code is public, maybe you can make yours. Thanks to the MIT license, you could even fork it, add your spin to it, charge for it, and grow it into a great business.All I ask is that you let me know once it's ready so I can finally stop using my Google Calendar