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by holler 5y ago
This is precisely why I opted to exclude voting and "likes" from Sqwok ( https://sqwok.im ). From the outset I wanted to build a discussion site that was entirely focused on live conversation, without the gimmicks that h
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ah, true... touché Realistically if we get to that point the landscape of "startups" will drastically change
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at the point where 1/2/3 are possible, what value does the startup have when anyone else can ask it to do the same thing?
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by holler 5y ago
haha, well, that's how I can best describe when I get hyper-focused on something and tune everything else out... it can be unhealthy sometimes and throw my sleep schedule off. clicked your prof, nice site! where do you surf in SF? htt
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That implies that everyone wants to work, AND that the people who are homeless at the margin want to live in a house. Case in point: I live in a "nice" area up on a hill in my city and there are multiple homeless who sleep&#x2
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by holler 5y ago
very cool, I may just try that out for my website, thanks!
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neat! was thinking how this could be used as a way to handle default avatars for a website by hashing the user name
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luckily for me it only took out non-prod but still... annoying!
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Just ran into this after debugging why my stacks started failing. How is this a good business move? Their default response on the many github issues wreaks of salt. Thank you for sharing this url as I was frantically looking to see if there
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by holler 5y ago
> and the size of our extension code to cover for slate bugs/omissions or to extend the behavior in general is now many thousands of lines long yikes, but if it's working now then just tech debt for the future. I initially inve
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by holler 5y ago
> You could actually browse most forums without logging in Working on a public discussion/chat app that's a bit more forum inspired with no walled garden. If you're interested it's in my profile.
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> We got 1,200 downloads in the first 24 hours. that's impressive!
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your product was a public chat? how did you market it/what was your plan for it?
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by holler 5y ago
I'm building a public discussion site ( https://sqwok.im ). So far I've learned a few things: 1) Most people will happily give you feedback. Some of it will be good, some of it you won't agree with, but keep an open
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> that a event based editor is the technical better choice could you expand on this? what's the high level
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Nice. I recently wrote a custom contenteditable component/parser used for chat and elsewhere in https://sqwok.im and ran into a bunch of the same issues. I ended up switching everything to use regex with rigorous testing as
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by holler 5y ago
That video creeped me out! I mean, we'd be screwed. Luckily there are no known astroids, let alone moon-sized ones, heading towards Earth that we know of. But if we discovered one, even with ample lead time, what could we do?
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by holler 5y ago
Funny enough, him describing the ploy while sort of mocking it as it happened led to an enjoyable moment in that episode (imo). It showcased his humility, and ability to make the most out of a situation while not taking himself too seriousl
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by holler 5y ago
https://sqwok.im is new but not that many people yet, still being worked on
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> The thing could simply blow up on the launch pad, for goodness sake! exactly, I’ve wondered why they don’t build e.g. 2 or 3 of them in tandem since it’d likely be cheaper/easier to do up front vs after the fact if things went wro
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by holler 5y ago
totally, if you'd like to hear more about it feel free to reach out.. I'm happy with the pattern I'm using and it feels pretty extensible.
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I would say my favorite things about Starlette are: - refined - it feels like all the lessons from DRF were put into Starlette. - lightweight - minimal dependencies, isn't built specifically for relational data (no orm or other constru
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by holler 5y ago
I'm using Starlette on it's own, with a few other deps likes Marshmallow, and it's been enjoyable and hassle-free. In the past I've done significant django/flask/DRF work and really feel like Starlette is the s
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by holler 5y ago
If you're looking for an alternative to Reddit, check out https://sqwok.im - realtime: every post has built-in slack quality chat w/markdown support. - open: the site is completely open for anyone, if you want to chat,
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Really enjoyed, thank you for sharing. It was interesting to learn how emojis are composed from component parts. I'm wondering where that will lead to in the future? Will we have a vast built-in library of emojis of ever increasing com
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by holler 5y ago
CNN has gone so far downhill imo due to this. In the past five years I've seen a shrinking gap between news and opinion, where articles w/o the label are very clearly editorialized. It lowers the quality of the product and at leas
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thank you for sharing. > The admins have horrible reputations for abuse, censorship, editing user comments without consent. To me this really just reeks, particularly the habit top sites have of tinkering with user content, or filtering
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even better, imagine they openly dictated what was agreeable
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Ghost looks pretty good and that was my original choice, may revisit it before I start writing :D
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> Having your readers nagged to subscribe to Medium is a bad look. totally agree, but conversely it can be good for SEO, which is a fourth reason I forgot to mention. using medium automatically plugs you into their ecosystem which could

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