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by Glench 3y ago
Worth mentioning that many studies have shown a reliable decrease in overall nutrient content of most fruits and vegetables over the last century: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-an... Persona
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by Glench 3y ago
I think your reasoning about React is very sound. Also, personally, I only use Svelte in my projects. I love it so much more than React (and I think the performance is a lot better because no vdom). Sometimes love overcomes reason :P
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by Glench 3y ago
copying and pasting from a different thread: I use SQLite/Litestream for https://extensionpay.com ! Serves about 120m requests per month (most of those are cached and don't hit the db), but it's been great! I was c
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by Glench 3y ago
Neat! I'm serving around 120m requests per month for https://extensionpay.com from a 2GB VPS running a single-threaded nodejs process and SQLite as the db. Most of the requests are cached, but still, it's amazing how f
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by Glench 3y ago
Lately I've been enjoying https://val.town for little things that only make sense for me, especially notifications and RSS feeds for things that don't typically have RSS feeds.
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by Glench 3y ago
> Update, February 2022: Two years later, my family still uses BoopSnoop every day. I have added one (1) feature, at my mother’s request. What is that one feature I wonder? Robin, you around to answer?
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by Glench 3y ago
If I were doing something like this now I would probably try to use https://val.town It lets you just write and deploy typescript lambdas by typing into a text box :) The easiest way I know of to deploy an endpoint. It also has
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by Glench 3y ago
I like that you shared this post. I imagine for someone who has only done corporate programming that making a home-cooked meal (in programming terms) would be very refreshing and liberating!
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by Glench 3y ago
This feels very related to the larger research project of “malleable software” that lets everyday people modify and author the software they use for their own needs: https://malleable.systems/ My friend Geoffrey Litt is hea
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by Glench 3y ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-44432-3
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by Glench 3y ago
I use SQLite/Litestream for https://extensionpay.com ! Serves about 120m requests per month (most of those are cached and don't hit the db), but it's been great! I have no affiliation with Litestream but I was conv
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by Glench 3y ago
Haha yes her branding about seitan/satan is great
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by Glench 3y ago
> One of the articles in that same issue was the one that pushed me to finally become vegetarian. Which article was it?
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by Glench 3y ago
My friend perfected seitan nuggets: https://bartlebysfood.com/
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by Glench 3y ago
If you're more handy with code, I'd also recommend checking out https://val.town which lets you quickly create automations and endpoints.
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by Glench 3y ago
Mostly web stuff. See also this great piece about Yahoo Pipes called "My Heart Feeds a Series of Tubes": https://medium.com/message/my-heart-feeds-a-series-of-tubes-...
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by Glench 3y ago
Two books inspired by Tibetan Buddhism were incredibly inspiring and helped my practice a lot: - Awakening Through Love by John Makransky: https://www.amazon.com/Awakening-Through-Love-Unveiling-Good... - The Heart of Uncon
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by Glench 3y ago
I just made an extension that does it! https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/delete-all-google-p...
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by Glench 3y ago
I guess what a lot of people don't understand is that if we want to keep a livable climate (within our carbon budget), basically every car anyone buys from here on out has to be electric. It's that urgent. If we started decarboniz
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by Glench 3y ago
Well for the JS ecosystem there's nothing dominant and beloved like Rails for Ruby, so it makes sense there would be more efforts to create coherent app architectures. Plus, if the boilerplate saves developer time to launch a business
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by Glench 3y ago
I used SvelteKit, but it would be nice if there was something like rails on top of SvelteKit that brought database connections / models, admin screens, etc. SvelteKit is the best combination of front-and-backend in terms of performance
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by Glench 3y ago
Yes! I switched from software to being a therapist. I wrote about it here: http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist/
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by Glench 3y ago
> Both of my "children" are adults in their 30s; either of them could kill me with their bare hands if they chose to. My friend, if this is truly the state of your relationship with your children then I'm so sorry. I wish
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by Glench 3y ago
If I may tease you lovingly for a moment, when you smile at your child do you go "I am unable to detect what is happening!" :P
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by Glench 3y ago
My meditation teacher described two types of meditation practices designed to train your mind to be more loving and compassionate and therefore happier. I'd like to share a little about them in the off-chance they're beneficial. O
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by Glench 3y ago
> It doesn't work for me, of course; I don't believe in rebirth. Are you still able to generate loving-kindness in yourself? If so, then those teachings that don't work for you don't matter.
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by Glench 3y ago
Wow thanks for sharing this!
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by Glench 3y ago
As other commenters have noted, this is MDMA-assisted therapy. Controlled dose, setting, with supportive professionals. But one interesting thing to note: > Least squares (LS) mean change in CAPS-5 score (95% confidence interval (CI)) wa
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by Glench 3y ago
> This is the problem. Putting so much of the burden on the consumer and hardly any on the manufacturers, companies and so on. Between space heating, transportation, water heating, and cooking, about 42% of energy-related emissions are t
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by Glench 3y ago
This is just pure nonsense. Maine is the US state with the highest rate of heat pump installs: > In a state with fewer than 600,000 occupied housing units, the agency has already given out rebates for 116,000 heat pumps > “If they rea

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