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What kinds of things have you made with your setup?

Man I’d love it if our backend teams were that willing to make changes for us. So often I stumble across bizarre, complicated business logic in our various client code bases and ask the devs “why is this here? surely this is better put on the backend/already exists on the backed” and am greeted with “we agree, but when we asked the backend teams to make a change on their end they told us it would be done in the next year or two”.

Can we get a Geese variant for when you're feeling angry instead of tired?

Another socially anxious introvert here. I miss in person events so much, digital conventions don’t compare even remotely (please don’t talk to me though).

If you have an iPhone, you can flag certain contacts as allowing "Emergency Bypass". This lets their calls (and text messages if you flip another switch) vibrate and/or ring your phone even if you're in do-not-disturb mode.

Can't speak for Android, but I'm sure it has a similar feature (and due to system access it allows third-party apps, maybe you can do the same for third-party chat apps as well).

I actually do appreciate this teaching style, as long as you do put notes to the established theory and terminology at the end.

It's like that popular Monad tutorial that has you implementing Functors and Monads in order to solve a problem without ever telling you until the end that what you just created were Functors and Monads.

Starting off with the well-known terminology kind of colors the discussion from the beginning--even folks who don't really know what harmonics or timbre or monads or applicatives are probably have some general impression, and that impression could be wrong in a way that prevents them from learning.

iA Writer has a “typewriter” mode that behaves like that.

Context: Craft [0] is another entry in the recently popular category of personal-wiki software. However, it works as more of a service like Notion [1] as opposed to a standalone application like Obsidian [2], and therefore carries the benefit/burden of having to store and sync all user data.

Prior discussion of the service on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25529382

[0] https://www.craft.do/

[1] https://www.notion.so/

[2] https://obsidian.md/

Sure, I should make clear: documentation/wikis are best for who/what/when/where of things like

- What permissions do I need to contribute code to this repo

- Where are the telemetry tables for X event

- Who’s the manager for project Y

- When will my commit make it into production

For the whys and hows that often warrant discussion, while I still think you should have basics documented (How do I add a new screen to this app, why do we call into this proxy service, etc) so that folks have a starting place, and then pursue actual discussion.

Even if the wikis are literally just the most basic associations, I still believe that would clear up a ton of repeated and honestly unproductive discussion time.

There are two ways that I interpret this

* What’s being written down isn’t valuable, so people don’t trust the wiki to have valuable information and therefore ignore it.

* What’s being written down is valuable, but people have been trained to get information elsewhere and therefore don’t bother going to the wiki

I don’t really know how to address the former (“write better!” isn’t very actionable advice), but in my work I see the latter a lot, and the only way you can fix it is socially—if someone asks you a question that’s answered in the wiki, you have to tell them “read the wiki” instead of giving them the answer yourself.

People are lazy, and it’s almost always easier in the short term to just ask someone for the answer instead of looking it up yourself.

What do you like about Dartlang? Every time I've looked at it it's seemed like a rather uninspired language, almost like a slightly more dynamic Java (and an older Java too). I've never used it for anything production though.

The two main reasons I’ve always heard against QT in particular are

1. Non C++ devs don’t want to write C++/participate in the C++ ecosystem at all. While there are plenty of QT binding libraries for other languages, they seem to be of varying and unpredictable quality.

2. QT has potentially difficult licensing: https://www.qt.io/licensing/

Disclaimer: I’ve never used QT.

What's the intended use case for a device like that? Like, ultimately my headphones are still wired into a device I need to carry around, and Bluetooth isn't good enough for me to be able to walk too far away from wherever my phone has ended up.

Notion [0] and recently released Craft [1] are both good personal-wiki applications that support lots of content types directly (from images and videos, to even things like tables and kanban-style boards for Notion), and have good mobile solutions.

Unfortunately, both are proprietary solutions that require paid subscriptions for most of their features and their own special syncing software. Craft also only runs on Apple devices at the moment (they say they're working on a web app).

[0]: https://www.notion.so/product

[1]: https://www.craft.do/

On iOS I’d heavily recommend GrooveBox and (recently-released) Flip for creating tunes on the go. GrooveBox is synth driven, Flip is sample driven, and both are great at working on sketches in your free time. Before the pandemic, I spent many a bus-ride commute making short songs in GrooveBox.

It's super cool how the result of any evaluated expression is also itself an evaluable expression.

I don’t have any information on their tracking methods, but strawpoll.me has been around for years and is relatively popular for polls.

As someone who pretty much only orders vegetarian when doing Indian takeout, these sound amazing.

That’s unfortunate. The libraries I’ve lived near all have used OverDrive and Libby, both of which are great experiences (and it’s also relatively easy to get at the raw epubs).

Bookshop.org is fantastic for sourcing physical books, but I would unfortunately heavily recommend against getting ebooks through it. The software of the company they partner with, "MyMustReads" is absolutely awful in my experience, and I've also not found a way yet to get the actual epub/mobi/etc files out of it and use them on my dedicated e-reader devices.

I wish it wasn't bulked with maltodextrin.

> it's not as bad as it used to be

I can only talk to Panasonic (GX8) and Fujifilm (X100F, XE3), but for both of those it's still pretty awful. Transfers are very slow, especially if you want full resolution, and it's always frustrating to just connect my phone to the camera--the apps are slow and clunky, setting up the adhoc network is flaky, and often times even after connecting it'll suddenly just disconnect for no reason. The XE3 supposedly supports a persistent, bluetooth connection that'll auto connect and auto transfer photos, but every time I've tried to set that up, it sends like the first two photos along and then doesn't work anymore.

I've moved to just using an SD card reader.

I think I played recorder for like two months around 8 years old, but no education beyond that. Didn't have a musical family either. My younger siblings all picked up instruments during their schooling as well and I don't believe any of them have perfect pitch.

Count me in as someone who didn’t know this existed/that I had it until someone else pointed it out for me. I started music in middle school and got frustrated with a friend who couldn’t play back a melody from a video game we both liked even though I could (he was much better at violin so I wanted to hear him play it, haha).

Thankfully, he knew what perfect pitch was and after figuring out the disconnect, explained it to me. I honestly thought he was lying until I asked other folks in the class and found out they couldn’t identify the notes by ear either. I just assumed it was something I learned to do as a part of the class instruction.

I wouldn’t say I have any attached feelings/synesthesia to particular notes besides their western names.

A heads up/warning that you linked to "i" as in eye-bry.tv, which appears to be a scam website.

I’m not sure I understand the context of the video you linked, are you saying it’s not real?

Not exactly. For example, IO actually existed in Haskell before the IO Monad. It essentially used lists injected and retuned from the main function, plus the fact that Haskell is lazily evaluated (so those IO commands in the list wouldn’t be evaluated until main is run): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17002119/haskell-pre-mon...

Verified for myself that it does, thanks! Given how popular FM is I don't know why I missed this prior.

Do you know if they’re required to use the +alias format? I’ve been burnt in the past by bad contact forms silently stripping out special characters out of email addresses.

Any recommendations for email providers that support wildcard addresses (e.g. I can just give someone foobarbaz@y2bd.email without having manually set it up beforehand and it works)? I currently use ProtonMail which does support this, but PM is still lacking in terms of usability. I looked at some of the other well-known mail providers and was surprised to see that this wasn’t as supported as I’d expect (or, at least, they don’t prominently advertise this in their docs).