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Yes, there is some over-hypeness, and it is winding down. But winding down graph doesn't equate to demand shrinking. It could also be a self-correction temporarily and go back to its true demand and resume climbing. For a product like chatGPT, it is normal to fit into this pattern. The number is merged from two sources: hype traffic and real demand traffic. I believe the real demand is going up.

why is showing your algorithm doesn't work funny?

As a new birder, I learned that birder before my time have much more fun than I do, many rare birds that we seek to see nowadays are easy spotter back then. It is the reverse experience in regard to other aspect of our life compared to time before us.

You should put React library to your title, it makes it easier for potential users.

More detail about the broken coding-font microsite of CSS tricks:

CSS Tricks had built a coding font microsite. In May 2022, less than two months after CSS Tricks got bought, the CSS Tricks microsite was broken, and someone reported an issue on Github[1]. Chris, who would be in an advisory role according to the Digital Ocean announcement, answered quickly:

> I’m afraid I’m not sure what Digital Ocean plans to do with it. I would, of course, vote for it to be re-hosted right at coding-fonts.css-tricks.com — and would be happy to help put it on Digital Ocean App Platform as well!

It was clear that Chris as an advisor wasn’t given any real access to decision-makers at Digital Ocean to make any difference in such a simple matter. It was such a simple and easy matter to solve that a bystander came forward and hosted the microsite somewhere else, ironically on Netlify [2] — a competitor to Digital Ocean.

[1] Github Issue: https://github.com/CSS-Tricks/coding-fonts/issues/116

[2] https://coding-fonts.netlify.app/

Original article link: https://build.typogram.co/p/dont-sell-your-indie-business-to

I got furious following this series of blog buyout by Digital Ocean and seeing them destroy it afterwards. I want to write down a record what they have done over the years and make them accountable for their unethical business practice even after they correct some of the things I pointed out directly. I am curious what others here think of what they did.

Adobe Document Cloud has some nice features that are unique in the market, and are worthy being paid features. But sadly they are hidden under a sea of very basic feature like this one, totally unworthy of a paid feature — this make the good feature less noticeable.

One of the paid feature that I really like is fluid PDF on mobile screen. Most PDF is not very readable on mobile screen, it needs pan and zoom. The fluid feature make the layout become more HTML-like and fluid, and adapt to mobile screen size. That is a feature to monetize. not rotating pages!

I like what the other has said in under another comment — selling software to software engineers is like selling magic to magician. You are a magician, a very unfriendly use case to prioritize. It is reasonable for you to want what you want, but it would be suicide for the business to prioritize acquiring you as a customer.

this is one of the most transparent writing I read about shutting down startup. It is very insightful in a cut-throat way, I really appreciate that.

a bit unrelated but I am confused why library's ebook has a waiting period? I am guessing it is a licensing issue, like how many copies the library bought and are allowed to lend out? I hoped all libraries' ebook are unlimited. Is there an option for libraries to get unlimited copies of ebook from publishers? Is it just too expensive?

Also, the amount of time you can loan a book is also an deciding factor. I noticed openlibrary's lending period is in 1 hour, vs. most other libraries lend out ebook for 3 weeks. The shorter the loan period, the more on-demand it will feel. I may borrow a book for three weeks, but I will only read it for a few hours during these three weeks, so most of the time is wasted. If the moment I close the library app, the book is returned, then everyone's waiting time can be shorten to almost 0. Why don't all libraries do that?

The closest I ever got with vim is with this game: https://vim-adventures.com/ How different is Vim and Emacs' user experience? Would the vim-adventures also apply to emacs?

I met someone at a french conference who told me that their latest foodie experience at a truffle house was that "They can't taste the truffle". They can see it is truffle, but it just doesn't taste anything they associate with truffle. I was no truffle expert then, and didn't have anything to add to the conversation, so I just shrug it off. This article reminded me of that conversation. Restaurants who are honest are punished by this scam.

This is catching a bug early. Eventually this will happen to all gamers of steam when the year 2038 comes. Hopefully developers can fix it before then

I don't like it personally. I feel it is exaggerated, especially the part "I don't have the right words" I would feel awkward if I were on the receiving end — I lost my job, not someone died. Maybe it is just me, I get awkward easily, for context.

It highly depends on the context. Are they 20-something single person working on a high-pay job, or someone older with a family to support and struggling? The response needs to be different.

It depends on what your relationship with them, and their position in job hunting. If it is your co-worker, they got laid off and you didn't. It is awkward. I would just say the normal thing that you would say to people who left their job like moments you cherished with them and things you learned from them, and that you are sorry to see what happened to them. if you think they don't have a problem finding another job, I won't even say the last bit of being sorry, just say it sucks what happened. I really hate fake sympathy.

This is very slick! Regard to editability of text diagram, brainstorming here: it would be cool to have two-way convertibility between text diagram and svg diagram. so users can use drag and drop like interaction to edit the svg diagram, and convert back to text diagram, so it has the best of both worlds. I guess roughly this idea already exists — there is program that converts image to ascii, but it lacks precision, as in the ascii to svg and then back to ascii would yield to different set from the starting point.

I would suggest you take it. Reasons: - if you don't take this, and you don't get in YC, then you don't have any investment. - if you take this, then you get into YC, you can still turn down YC, to avoid the MFN locked into YC price ($125,000 for 7%). Build the company with the $250,000 and hopeful raise at much better term later on.

Good question! I am using paper.js for svg path manipulation.

My guiding principle of finding the balance is that if something I can teach within simple instructions, in a reasonable length to be consumed in an app, I don’t mind adding it in even it seems complicated. A good example is kerning, which is adjusting the space between letters. Kerning is considered advanced level design skill, but the principle is so easy - it is like pouring sand between letter gaps and the goal is to make each letter gap contain the same volume of sand. With this straightforward instructions, all of my user tester kern the logo the way I would have (I am a trained designer). So I added it in.

I want the app to make my users smarter, not dumb down the app in sacrifice of the quality of results.

That is very true! We will definitely make some part of the app free, or even standalone free tool soon!

adding more fonts including hack is definitely something we plan for the next release! stay tuned!

I think maybe a solid 2 days of work in total, but done in small portions, so maybe 16 hours in total roughly. The hardest part is to figure out how to do the recursive stuff (recursively generate a pair of fonts until fonts run out) that took me at least 3 hours to draw the logic on paper to help me think. Recursive stuff always trip me up.

Yes! we think alike. I am planning to implement a database to store this info. I think it would be super interesting to see the result! From an extremely limited data set (Twitter), I see many people are reporting Inconsolata being their winner.

I know the feeling. I dropped React because of the learning curve is too steep for me, eventually adopted vue.js because it is friendlier (from my perspective and learning path, I am stronger in HTML/CSS coming from my design background).

Knowing vue.js, it took me about one or two days to get my first app running and I felt learned after the first app. After that, getting project off the ground is not a hurtle anymore and i can develop new ideas and learn along the way.

I think knowing vue.js (probably React too since I know they are similar) will contribute to flattening the learning curve for Retool. Mostly it is learning 1) set up the data source 2) find places to plug in the data using {{}} syntax

knowing these two things can get one very far.

No, it is not a marketing stunt, I just genuinely want to share how i built it. I am a designer turned coder, so sharing and teaching how to adopt new skills (by others) is what got me here, so I tried to do the same.

I am not affiliated or paid by the tools I used. I start writing about them on my newsletter when I found it useful, and then that leads to this guest post on their blog.

Thanks for your kind words! Yeah, yesterday was such a roller coaster! The comment section is like a gold mine of good features to implement. We took the easy one to implement first, and will continue to add more complex ones!

I am going through the suggestion list and implementing them. The blind mode is just added!

Yes, try the blind mode button, I just added it!

haha, I went even further. I designed a font called CSS Mono, and someone says it is like comic sans of coding fonts in Youtube comments, like in a bad way obviously. lol, check it out https://css-mono.wentin.net/

For the blind tournament, I just implemented it! Give it a try :)

Blind mode is a very good and popular suggestion! I also get the same idea from Twitter! I implemented it, now there is a toggle button to turn on blind mode. Try it out, maybe you will end up with something else this time, who knows?!