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i love this product and at one point wrote down why https://offbyone.us/posts/why-is-excalidraw-so-good/

some examples would be super helpful!

Interesting! I’ve used materialized reviews for this in the past. I’m curious what the advantages to pg_later are over that.

idk many companies lose a lot of money and are dependent on outside investment for a long time. they clearly have a category defining product that has captured the public’s imagination and changed peoples workflows. i would be very surprised if the server bills made them go bankrupt

this thing is low key awesome. planned my renovations with it and my contractor was blown away. he offered (jokingly) to hire me to make models for other clients

i’ve liked github actions for this. i used it on WebReducer (https://github.com/zekenie/web-reducer)

The answer to "is {{tool}} worth it" is almost always "sometimes"

Typescript is a wonderful tool for many situations. Typescript may not be needed for all situations. There's upfront cost to configuration and tooling. But you get type safety and automatic documentation.

In all my new non-trivial projects, I default to typescript. It has caught so many issues and saved me a lot of time. Not having it feels like driving without a rear-view mirror. But, if I'm just writing a little script, I might omit it.

we switched to a heat pump last year and we’ve been mostly pleased. that said in the last cold snap when wind chill temps fell to -30 (we live in chicago) the entire system shut down! we talked to the installers and they said that when articles like this way “works down to -10” you have to understand that it’s the wind chill temp. also i’m sure there are other pumps on the market that would have faired better. we have a mitsubishi mini split.

D2 Diagrams were on top of HN last week. I wanted to use them on an existing db, but didn't find a way to do that. I made a little hacky tool to do just that

https://webreducer.dev - an event-sourced firebase alternative. You get an endpoint that let's you keep state through a reducer function. Change your reducer function and replay all requests to get a new state. Websockets and http endpoints for clients to connect with

You get it!

Oh and the other difference between this and Napkin is that this is stateful. Return something from the reducer to store a new state object

Thanks! What wasn't working for you? Were the requests not coming in? I think I've fixed that. Sorry about that.... HN peak!

I think this is great. There are a lot of people who can’t do rooftop solar who’d like to, myself included. Hope they can make this work.

Not everyone who gives birth embraces the word, for a number of reasons. Sometimes people have surrogates give birth. Sometimes moms and dads adopt and don't give birth. Sometimes people who give birth don't identify as women. I know people in many of these groups so I tried to write in an inclusive way. It's not that you can't use the word mother! I have a mother. I'm married to a mother. And no one is telling you what you can and can't say! _I_ just chose to use broader language. The amount of weird comments about it is weird IMO.

Adoption, surrogacy, people who give birth but don’t identify as moms, etc

Ok

Totally get it. I guess I’m saying that there’s a parenthetical “in my experience” attached to everything I say. I do not believe being a parent is right for everyone or in all situations. I’m just saying that even though it’s hard, if you want to do it, it’s worth it (in my experience)

Y’a know we live in a complicated world with surrogacy, adoption, people who give birth who don’t identify as women, etc

Fair. Personal blogs are famously objective places lol

You’re hired

For drafting up a will, probably for many people. Software is pretty good at workflow management. For handling a dispute? I don’t think so. Not until apps can achieve some kind of general intelligence. There’s a lot of nuance and judgement.

I wrote a blog post answering a related but different question about bootcamps: https://offbyone.us/posts/things-to-consider-before-joining-...

I feel like there are many paths to computation and I’ve met many people who have become functional technologists from various backgrounds. I think the most important thing to figure out early is do you like programming. Do you like this kind of thinking?

Sort of reminds me of ColdFusion

It'd be awesome if this thing had mermaidjs support. It's native in obsidian and it's such a game changer

Hilarious

First, maybe don't judge yourself too harshly. Sometimes it's OK to go through phases and then get over things. But, I think it's also worth working up your ability to stick to something. When I look back at my own history, I see some patterns. When I stick with things, I usually have routine, community, and a healthy balance in the rest of my life

This is amazing and I will use this.

Hi! It wasn't my intent to be one-sided, just to share my perspective, which I guess you could say is by definition "one sided" :)

The creator of Excalidraw made a comment somewhere else on this page about how well Excalidraw+ is doing.

> The plus plan has been very successful from my point of view, we’ve been able to bootstrap the business and make our first hire. The key realization is that while the unauthenticated open source model works really well for individuals, it’s hard for companies to adopt.

> They want authentication, security policies, private spaces to collaborate, access control, search… all of this requires having a company behind it in practice and the open source model doesn’t work as well.

> The two versions so far work really well alongside each other right now.

I think there are certainly products out there that can't pull this off. And, that's a fair point.

I want to love mermaid so much... i've tried several times. It just hasn't gotten into muscle memory for me yet