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by holler 4y ago
It can be helpful to frame things from a perspective of self-discovery. You may uncover new truths about yourself and the world that you would otherwise never have found. It builds character, good luck!
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by holler 4y ago
Congrats on having the courage to make a change! > it was the thing that took my crushing anxiety away. Paradoxically it's also the thing that creates the crushing anxiety when abused. One day at a time, be kind to yourself, life is
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by holler 4y ago
The old school Guestbooks were so cool. I also uploaded my first website around the same time, on the topic of how to take care of Green Iguanas, and somehow a zookeeper found it and left a comment in the guest book. Felt like a rockstar th
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by holler 4y ago
Congrats on your success! That makes sense re: discussion boards. Moderation is a tough problem. Years ago I worked at a regional newspaper and had to deal with the comment section on news articles, total mess. They eventually shut them dow
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by holler 4y ago
Hah I agree completely. I saw it as a B movie take on Bladerunner x John Wick(?). It definitely wasn't a shining star but was at the same time entertaining. Bladerunner & Ex Machina are both in their own league. I was just ponderin
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by holler 4y ago
Whoa! You're the author of Gnod? I've used your site gnovies.com and gnoosic countless times and recommended it to friends! Really great tool and I discovered both movies and music I otherwise wouldn't have found. Example I i
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by holler 4y ago
Hey, we'd welcome discussion on those topics over on Sqwok. https://sqwok.im/p/ReSGugPjqF4lhw - "Any recent interesting books, you've been reading?" https://sqwok.im
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by holler 4y ago
Curious how you ended up with that demographic?
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by holler 4y ago
> Walking in the forrest have two benefits; it’s less chance to get hit by a car, and it’s more quiet of a background for when I unmute. More than that, it's very cathartic and peaceful. I used to live next to a big park on the Puge
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by holler 4y ago
> Companies that optimized their supply chains to have more margin made more money and won... as long as the supply chains were all running perfectly. But once COVID happened, it became clear that those businesses had no resilience. Good
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by holler 4y ago
I wonder if Instagram adding text would push some people away who want it for the original use of photos? It already feels extremely bloated and unusable with latest shopping stuff (to me).
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by holler 4y ago
Author here of Sqwok, it's a hybrid microblog/public chat app meant for having live public conversation around a topic. Each post has a chatroom instead of comments, with expected chat features and more. Not trying to build a Twit
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by holler 4y ago
What incentive would Twitter or Hacker News have to support the protocol?
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by holler 4y ago
Just replied to your latest tweet with alternative I'm building ( https://sqwok.im ). It's a slight twist where each post includes a live public chatroom instead of the reply model Twitter uses. Slightly different experi
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by holler 4y ago
the pill/rounded corners make it feel plushy, but are discordant with the square edges of the rectangular video, overall making the design feel off.
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by holler 4y ago
Not yet but I am curious how that might work? I do want to build an api soon and planning to make some changes to the Posts, add rss, other stuff.
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by holler 4y ago
I welcome all to check out Sqwok ( https://sqwok.im ). It's been a labor of love and it continues to be developed with a goal of becoming an excellent place for live public discussion. Personally I'm interested to see wh
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by holler 4y ago
That was my first thought as well. Perfect font sizing, clean & elegant design.
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by holler 4y ago
I'd love to get feedback on my project sqwok.im and whether it may interest you.
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by holler 4y ago
I created https://sqwok.im because I wanted an open, indexable, public chat site tailored to kitchen-table conversations, influenced from my years growing up on IRC. There's been an active discussion on whether to allow gif
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Sqwok – A new place for live conversation on the web(sqwok.im)
7 points by holler 4y ago|1 comments
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by holler 4y ago
Greetings all, I hope this blog post explains what Sqwok is and why it exists. Very simply I wanted to build an open live discussion site that used chat instead of threaded comments, and was tailored for a general audience to discuss the to
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by holler 4y ago
Now it makes sense how their landing page is so impressive, and also reminds me of Stripe design.
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by holler 4y ago
> It was stressful at times, and at times kind of lonely. This resonates having done contracting for the past 5+ years and at times, lately, feeling lonely.
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by holler 4y ago
What's your go-to tech stack? Do you find a lot of your work is crud apps?
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by holler 4y ago
Would a public, searchable, aggregator w/chat instead of comments work? I've been building https://sqwok.im and I'm interested in learning how I could help solve these issues...
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by holler 4y ago
Any coincidence it's strangely close to Area 51? Just sayin...
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Megalodon could eat prey the size of entire killer whales(phys.org)
2 points by holler 4y ago|0 comments
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by holler 4y ago
Want to create one on sqwok.im? Right now it's mostly tech/hn users on the site (made it to front page twice) I'm looking for people who want to help create new communities & experiment on there so let me know!
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by holler 4y ago
fwiw almost 95% of my time scooting has been while traveling, and for that it's a great way to cover lots of ground in foreign places.

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