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by Glench 4y ago
Glad you found my comment and article useful!
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Svelte has been a dream for me: * Styles are included so you don't need a whole other library for doing styling. Automatic component-scoped CSS is great. You can also include whatever your favorite compile-to-css language is. * It&#x27
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This stylesheet has been invaluable for moving fast on my side project: https://extensionpay.com/ One pro-tip though — I found that using unpkg slowed down the page a ton sometimes. I serve the file myself and it's b
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I made a service that lets developers take payments in browser extensions. I made it to monetize my own extensions but other devs have used it to make over $69k and counting which feels really cool. The API is open source, really easy to us
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If you click "edit in Cuttle" you can easily convert all measurements to cm or whatever you want, just multiply the parameters by the conversion factor.
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Have to plug my friend's box generator which lets you draw these kinds of projects visually and then tweak/export parameters in real-time to see how the design changes: https://cuttle.xyz/@toby/Closed-Box-with
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This is just great to read
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I wrote about one which involved quitting tech and becoming a therapist: http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist/ The key moment was during an LSD journey, but I did a lot of work before that that set the sta
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by Glench 4y ago
Here's a long analysis from someone in the climate space: https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/ruggedize-your-life > It feels almost anachronistic to say it — in these days of globalization, international enterta
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by Glench 4y ago
I understand Proof of Stake to be much more centralized and prone to takeovers than proof of work. So if the merge ever actually happens, it would fix the energy consumption issue at the trade-off of security (staking, aka rich get richer).
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Chia Aims to Take on Ethereum, Solana with NFTs. Will They Blossom?(decrypt.co)
3 points by Glench 4y ago|0 comments
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Surprised the article didn't mention Neil Postman, especially Five Things We Need to Know about Technological Change (1998): > The first idea is that all technological change is a trade-off. > This leads to the second idea, which
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by Glench 4y ago
For another perspective on the parent comment: I've gotten some use out of Ayurvedic* diet and lifestyle tips (hailing from ancient India). Here's a balanced article on a ketogenic diet detailing some of the modern science as well
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by Glench 4y ago
My burnout was a useful gateway to a new career outside tech in mental health as well as my first spiritual experiences. You can read about the transition here: http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist/
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I remade the first DOOM level using JavaScript and 64 sliders(twitter.com)
4 points by Glench 4y ago|1 comments
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On the other hand, here is some actual data a guy took in his kitchen showing that the indoor air quality was as bad as the big wildfires near his house: https://twitter.com/curious_founder/status/14817464603789926
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by Glench 4y ago
Svelte has been a dream for me: — Styles are included so you don't need a whole other library for doing styling. Automatic component-scoped CSS is great. You can also include whatever your favorite compile-to-css language is. - It&#x27
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I've found some of common suggestions from Ayurveda to be helpful to structure my energy and motivation: - Eating light at night and more heavily at lunch when digestion is stronger. - Going to bed earlier and waking up earlier to help
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Clickbaity title but TLDR: > A new report suggests that the money Big Tech companies keep in the banking system can do more climate damage than the products they sell. Mostly because banks keep financing fossil fuel expansion projects. O
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Could Google’s Carbon Emissions Have Effectively Doubled Overnight?(newyorker.com)
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> What is the point of using SQLite under a web service? Take a look at the Consider SQLite post I linked. They address your performance questions too. For me, SQLite was a nice way to simplify launching and running my SaaS business and
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Yeah this is an annoying problem. I just run an actual server rather than an "app" platform. I haven't found it that complicated and I pay less monthly which is nice.
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Here's a Twitter thread with some numbers from pieterhg's use of SQLite in production: https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1308406118314635266
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Good point! Although practically speaking I don't mind at all. "Juggling" is too strong a word — it's literally just starting the Litestream process and never thinking about it again. It's nice that it just slides i
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Here's an all-time great post about why you might consider SQLite in production with data about performance: https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite I use SQLite in production for my SaaS[1]. It's rea
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Solar-powered system offers a route to inexpensive desalination(news.mit.edu)
155 points by Glench 5y ago|24 comments
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My meditation teacher used to run peak performance courses for executives, judges, and others, and the main thing he taught was concentration meditation. If you sit still for a moment and try to concentrate on something either internal (the
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Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20220222233114/https://fireinabo...
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This is great. I'd also like to point out that with switching from gas to heat pump heating/cooling you'd probably save even more on your bills and have 0 on-site carbon emissions and likely 0 off-site emissions as your elect
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> This seems like something that might work if all involved were using it. Read the book! There's a story of someone using it successfully while someone is literally physically attacking them (and it stops the attack). > I'd

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