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by dceddia 1y ago
This article reminded me of a talk I gave a couple times that went very smoothly because I pre-recorded the typing parts. Something like this: - record the screen as you type out all of your code as you would do live - don't need the a
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by dceddia 1y ago
This kind of stuff is where my anxiety rises a bit. Another example like this is audio code - it compiles and “works” but there could be subtle timing bugs or things that cause pops and clicks that are very hard to track down without tracin
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by dceddia 1y ago
I’ve noticed this is true of a lot of markets. I think of it like a triangle: a huge base of newbies, a smaller layer of intermediate folks, and a tiny tip of experts. If you’re trying to do an education-based business it’s a lot easier to
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by dceddia 1y ago
Thanks for your insight! That’s great, seems like it’s been a fun project but not like a REQUIRED ongoing project. My first printer was a cheap i3 clone and it was more in the “never works right” category and I was hoping to avoid going bac
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by dceddia 1y ago
Yep this matches my experience pretty well! It’s been a good printer and I haven’t had to do much, and I avoid fiddling and mostly use it as a tool. I’m always eyeing the newer faster printers but I don’t love the cloudiness of Bambu and Pr
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by dceddia 1y ago
I love the idea of building a printer, but I know that my attention span is limited on these sorts of things. As in, I’ll be reliably obsessed until it’s done and tuned, and then I’ll forget everything until the next time I want to use it.
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by dceddia 1y ago
Cloning the repo (running git clone on your computer) is enough because it makes a local copy. Forking merely makes a copy under your account on GitHub though which is not going to survive if they go on a deleting spree.
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by dceddia 1y ago
This resonated with me, something mentioned but not explicitly called out - the author started by working out at home, built the habit and some confidence, and later it morphed into a solid gym habit. But it didn’t start at the gym, and the
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by dceddia 1y ago
I (my parents) got my copy of X-Wing from our local Egghead in the 90s. And Lemmings! I loved browsing that store as a kid.
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by dceddia 1y ago
Today we can still anonymously clone repos.
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by dceddia 1y ago
In my case there's not really one product I can expect everyone to know about, but I think this works well when there's an existing big product in the category to point to as an example.
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by dceddia 1y ago
Sketch, CleanShot, and Jetbrains come to mind as software that uses this model. It seems the most fair to me: pay once, get forever usage of the software, and one year of free updates. After that, additional years of updates are often a dis
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by dceddia 1y ago
This seems like a very useful weather product to supply to pilots. I wonder if anyone is already doing this? I know for instance Sirius XM weather has winds aloft info, but it’s not all that accurate in my (albeit limited) experience. I thi
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by dceddia 1y ago
I know it’s usually taken as a given around here that Electron is slow, and many of the big-name apps using it are cited as examples with good reason. From working on a Tauri app myself for a few years (video editor) I just think the blame
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by dceddia 1y ago
A friend of mine set up a cron job coupled with the Claude API to process his email inbox every 30 minutes and unsubscribe/archive/delete as necessary. It could also be expanded to draft replies (I forget if his does this) and eve
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by dceddia 1y ago
Thanks for running the experiment :)
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by dceddia 1y ago
The title implies (well, I'd say explicitly states with the word "vetting") that restaurants are trying to filter guests, maybe to avoid troublesome ones with uncouth posts online or something. And many of the comments are re
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by dceddia 1y ago
These comments are such a great pointer to the way outrage is engineered.
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by dceddia 1y ago
If it turns into treating it as a “should” then my experience is yes, definitely, that’s a death knell for basically anything. Without the “should” it continues to be fun. The trick is threading that needle.
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by dceddia 1y ago
Yep this terrifies me, 100%. We’re slowly losing the open internet and the frog is being boiled slowly enough that people are very happy to defend the rising temperature. If DDoS wasn’t a scary enough boogeyman to get people to install Clou
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by dceddia 1y ago
Have you hit the point where they have to pay again, yet? My product was originally offered as “one time purchase, one year of updates”, and the customer confusion/anger didn’t show up until I offered a discounted early renewal over Bl
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by dceddia 1y ago
So many comments in here interpreting “lifetime license” as “lifetime updates”. Ugh. As a person with a one-time purchase product I feel the pain of trying to succinctly explain the idea of “one time purchase, comes with updates for 1 year
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by dceddia 1y ago
Yeah! I think an AST is sort of what I'm envisioning here, but with much broader metadata, including requirements and implicit assumptions and stuff. As a concrete example, a random bit of code from the minih264 encoder: /**
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by dceddia 1y ago
The whole book could be the surrounding context, not just a sentence or two, and I think that still fits with the point I wanted to make - that written words are more linear or in the same plane compared to code which is more "mu
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by dceddia 1y ago
I wonder how much of this is that code is less explicit than written language in some ways. With English, the meaning of a sentence is mostly self-contained. The words have inherent meaning, and if they’re not enough on their own, usually t
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by dceddia 1y ago
Nope, there's no forwarding either direction.
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by dceddia 1y ago
It's very reliable, but only on ONE of my fastmail addresses. My Google account predates the fastmail one by a long time. I had a theory that maybe at some point I set up iCloud with both of these accounts (fastmail + gmail) and it&#x2
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by dceddia 1y ago
I have the weirdest calendar problem: if someone sends an invite to my Fastmail account, it gets swallowed up by Gmail. It never shows up in Fastmail, and in the calendar invite it appears as if it was sent to my Gmail address even though i
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by dceddia 2y ago
You basically also end up needing a burner phone number for these too nowadays. Feels like every one of these I’ve tried in recent months starts with “sign up for 10% off” with an email input, followed by “one more step, give us your phone
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by dceddia 2y ago
Your suggestion aligns well with how Ruby on Rails tends to handle this. All of the stuff in your list of workloads would be considered “jobs” and they get enqueued asynchronously and run at some later time. The jobs run in another process,

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