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by 0xmattf 6mo ago
You reminded me of one of the first interviews I ever had in tech. I took 2 phone screens, and a take home assignment. Last step: Zoom interview with some of the IT team (3 people). It started well, but I slowly started panicking. All three
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by 0xmattf 6mo ago
When I said landing page, I had contact forms and more in mind, not documentation sites. But that is news to me. Interesting. Although for static sites, I always use Netlify or even GitHub pages.
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by 0xmattf 6mo ago
Static pages, sure. But what do you do if you want a contact form or something? Yeah, you can use services like formspree, but then you may end up paying $20/month for that alone. Perhaps I'm just ignorant.
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by 0xmattf 6mo ago
It could be $0 on Render too, but then there's going to be a 3 minute load time for a landing page to become visible, lol. So if you don't want your server to sleep, you're going to have to pay $20/month. Does Vercel do
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by 0xmattf 6mo ago
Personal projects/MVPs/small projects? Absolutely. For what I'm running, there's no reason to need anything beyond that. The point is, I used to just throw everything up on a PaaS. Heroku/Render, etc. and pay way mo
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by 0xmattf 6mo ago
> The only reason to dramatically overpay for the hosting resources they provide is because you expect them to expertly manage security and stability. This and because it's so convenient to click some buttons and have your applicati
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by 0xmattf 6mo ago
Some of them, yes. It seemed like they'd use it. I don't know. Maybe bad execution, or something. Although, maybe I should try again. Perhaps they were busy. I also didn't market beyond reaching out to people (which involved
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by 0xmattf 6mo ago
I don't think it's impossible, but absolutely incredibly difficult. I tried everything. Shopify stores, blogs (even owned a #1 tech blog), local job boards, global job boards, dating sites (which were shut down due to payment prov
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by 0xmattf 6mo ago
One of my all-time favorites. Almost every time I'm involved in a conversation about books, I always mention this. It amazes me how many people have never heard of it.
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by 0xmattf 6mo ago
I just built a Google Chrome chess extension. It is a new tab page full of chess puzzles. It has various difficulties, and a speed run game (solve as many puzzles as you can in 60 seconds). I personally think it's the coolest browser e
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Show HN: A Chrome extension that gives you chess tactics on new tab pages(leetchess.com)
5 points by 0xmattf 6mo ago|0 comments
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by 0xmattf 6mo ago
Thank you! I think so as well, haha. it's something I personally wanted. And oh no! really hate to hear that. I thought it was responsive, but didn't fully test on smaller devices. Sorry for that. I will work on a fix as soon as p
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Show HN: LeetChess – Solve Chess Puzzles on New Tab Pages(chromewebstore.google.com)
4 points by 0xmattf 6mo ago|2 comments
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by 0xmattf 8mo ago
I'm at work, on a work computer, so can't fully test, but yes. I saved this as test.md, opened it in notepad, clicked the link, and it popped open a command line: [Click me](C:/Windows/System32/cmd.exe) Can definite
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by 0xmattf 8mo ago
Honestly, most modern books on Stoicism read like that; I tend to avoid them altogether. Although I will say that Donald Robertson has done a great job with the two books I've read of his (Stoicism and the Art of Happiness, How to Thin
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by 0xmattf 8mo ago
I've been working through the pwn.college curriculum, as well as building https://stoacentral.com . It's meant to be a place to chill, discuss philosophy (Stoicism), and improve yourself. I built it after becoming annoy
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by 0xmattf 8mo ago
Yeah, because, as you said, those are the most widely-known. There's not much literature existing beyond them. However, I did mention Zeno... I'll probably write an update to at least mention the others. That's a good point,
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by 0xmattf 8mo ago
I haven't read that, but I bet it's good. Massimo has been writing on the subject since I learned what Stoicism was. If you're interested, feel free to sign up to Stoa Central. Really, I would love to have some intelligent pe
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What Is Stoicism?(stoacentral.com)
25 points by 0xmattf 8mo ago|16 comments
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by 0xmattf 8mo ago
I'll never forget when silver went down to $11/oz. I immediately went to my local metals dealer to make a purchase. I watched the two owners through the glass windows carrying a huge tote to the back room. When they opened the doo
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by 0xmattf 8mo ago
No worries! For UX, I would personally add the Greek text by default, and remove the hamburger icon from "Compare Translations". I don't know, my brain is trained to see that icon strictly as a site navigation item. If you wa
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by 0xmattf 9mo ago
For sure. I found it by mistake. I was just trying to get to the homepage by clicking the menu icon.
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by 0xmattf 9mo ago
It looks like the Greek text is there. You have to click "Compare Translations" on the top left -> Top Result.
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by 0xmattf 9mo ago
Absolutely love this book. The discourses are great reads as well. It's wild how the human psyche barely changed since the time of Epictetus. P.S. If you're a follower of Stoicism, I've been working on a community platform&#x
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by 0xmattf 9mo ago
Yikes. Is ChatGPT also building the extension for you?
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by 0xmattf 9mo ago
> If you have any interest in memorization or mnemonics, it's a great read. Absolutely. Even if you don't have an interest in the subject, it's worth a read. I honestly picked that book up out of random; I had no idea such
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by 0xmattf 9mo ago
I only read non-fiction; mostly philosophy. Here are some books off the top of my head: * The Inner Citadel/Philosophy as a Way of Life by Pierre Hadot * Plato's dialogues (someone already mentioned a few of them, but the Republic
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by 0xmattf 9mo ago
> I’ve personally used them in text for as long as I can remember. Likewise. I used to copy/paste them when I couldn't figure out how to actually type them, lol. Or use the HTML char code `—` It sucks that good gramma
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by 0xmattf 9mo ago
I was writing a reply, but then saw your comment. It's basically what I was going to say as well. I moved to a new area. Searched for chess clubs. Couldn't find one. So I created one. We now have ~10 people showing up to each meet
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by 0xmattf 9mo ago
I couldn't believe my eyes the first time I opened up a laptop with Windows 8 installed. I had just gotten rid of a Windows smartphone because I hated it. Boom, now it's on my laptop! That made me switch to Linux full-time for the

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