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I'm in Year 3 of building a specialist private lender in Australia. Was part time on it for 2 years and jumped in full time in Feb. I was originally involved in building all the tech (and there is a lot of tech) but more recently I've been more and more involved in the finance side. It's my most successful venture to date and it's moving in the right direction. Lending is a really interesting space but i'm always a bit sad there's no one that knows much about it outside of banks and private credit.

Squire - A new app for building tabletop armies for popular games

https://www.squire.games

I've been an on off off tabletop wargamer for ~ 9 years and have never been really happy with the options for list building, game tracking etc. Everything was very clunky, slow and disjointed. I came up with a product idea and brand logo but never had time to even touch it until recently.

It's still very early days, but I'm starting to test drive it out and loving it so far. Lots more to do, but would love feedback from anyone that wants to give it a whirl!

The Claude app has a usage indicator when you switch to code mode. I’ve been using this more and more now that their sandbox functionality has Improved.

I mean, I’m 37 and my first ever RTS was Warcraft: Orcs and humans. Never liked the hero focus of w3

This is a very cool idea, I think this could potentially be more powerful by (at least initially) limiting it to small sections of the UI (Like you've done in your example)

You could take it a step further and, instead of adding/removing buttons, simply updating the copy of (a) button(s) based on the question, which I imagine you could manage with a very small model.

I had to check I hadn't written this in my sleep overnight. You're describing a very similar experience to mine, and I'm honestly shocked at how common this experience seems to be.

2 weeks ago I signed the contract to "sell" my shares for my startup of ~7 years. I'm just now starting to realize how utterly miserable I had been for a long, long time.

It's a very difficult decision, but it gets easier every day (on average, some days can still be tough).

It's only going to get better.

I've finally gotten around to reading Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari. It's been very interesting reading this alongside everything that's happening with AI at the moment.

Would be curious to hear from others that have read it, but I find it difficult to fault his core arguments (or at least what I interpret them to be).

The problem white collar humans have right now is that they're highly specialized. They're incredibly good at being very effective cogs. This is exactly what AI is getting so good at doing (in certain verticals). Traditional capitalism effectively demands that if a company can pay the owner of an algorithm 10% of what it would pay for a human to do the same thing (for even 80% of the quality), then that's what will eventually happen.

Can government regulate it? They can sure try, but then either the companies or AI hosting providers will move to a country that doesn't have the same restrictions and it will happen anyway.

Then people will say "it will just open up other industries". I'm not sure it will. What other industries will the swaths of copywriters, lawyers, accountants retrain for?

I just don't understand everyone saying "It's going to make everyone's lives easier". In the short term sure, but if AI gets to where it's owners want it to get to, then a lot of people are going to find themselves professionally worthless.

It's entirely possible that this is just not something we're prepared for, and it's almost guaranteed at this point that there's no stopping it.

What's really interesting is this book was released in 2016... and Yuval was using Microsoft's Cortana as the example of this upcoming AI...

Interesting times either way.

+1. Never had issues with sleep and out of nowhere got hit with insomnia hard last year around this time.

Absolutely brutal, but with solid CBT and sleep deprivation therapy, alongside a few sessions with a sleep psychologist, I knocked it on the head. It took a solid 9 months, but it’s now not even remotely an issue.

Next step is to get the ChatGPT clones/alternatives to post alternative answers and let them all upvote the best one.

yeah I did. None anywhere

Why on earth haven't I received an email from Circle about this??

I guess the answer is, why on earth am I still using Circle CI....

Thankfully all of my secrets/env variables are just dummy data for tests, and already using OIDC

I'm definitely eying the Framework the day I don't need to do iOS development.

Yeah, the 2019 MBPs were absolute abominations. I spent 5k AUD on a fully kitted out MBP and performance wise it’s one of the worst computers I’ve ever owned.

I swore that would be the last Apple computer I ever bought, but then they released the M1s… and they are very good.

Would recommend getting an M1 if at all possible. There’s still time to ask Santa for one.

Likewise with gaming. Back in the days of dial up you had to put effort into playing multiplayer. Everyone had to plan a full day of packing their computer up, bringing it over to someone’s house, setting up and then trying to get the networking to work because switches with auto DHCP were still expensive in those days.

When you finally got that game of AOE2, or Starcraft or Quake to work, it was like magic seeing you and your friends playing in the same game.

Much easier to play with friends (or randoms) now, but not as satisfying if I dont have to figure out what my IP should be and manually putting it in my network settings.

Likewise. It’s scary how easily you can just fall into a phishing trap. I almost gave an attacker my GitHub login due to a (Very very good) phishing email impersonating CircleCI.

The email was really good (not in junk), the domain was close, pixel perfect UI and is just finished a reformat so entering in my feeds again made sense. Unfortunately for them, they sent the email out prematurely because after pressing the button I got a JS error.

100%. Playing games in VR is on a whole other level when it comes to virtual presence, and it really is something that needs to be experienced rather than told.

I sunk ~ 600 hours into population one since its launch. The gameplay is ok, but the experience of playing WITH people in VR is something I’ve never come close to in 25 years of gaming, and many of the people I played with regularly had never done much gaming before they picked up their quest. I 100% get why they’re pushing this.

This is the way. Currently playing through the HL2 VR Mod using wireless PCVR. It's amazing.

Congrats! It's a great position to be in! I've been running a bootstrapped business for 6 years.

You're not nuts at all, it all comes down to what you want. I personally want to start a VC backed business next year. They're both different types of businesses, where you'll learn different skills and live life in different ways.

If you don't want to do any of that, then you've just answered your own question! Enjoy where you're at and don't worry about comparing yourself to what others think.

Time to remaster Logical journey of the zoombinis. Such an amazing game.

I’m finding it interesting that THIS is the reason that people are now determined to move, rather than the constant outages/issues they’ve had over the last 6 months.

Nothing about this is remotely surprising. Over the last 12 months their reliability has nose dived and their support has become borderline useless.

We’re planning on migrating to Fargate in the next 6 months. I am VERY much looking forward to shutting our Heroku account down.

Then they should have added a smiley face :p

I've swapped the A records back to the CNAME and all is looking good. The Heroku Dashboard still isn't loading app details though.

Did you use the https://fly.io/launch/heroku migration page? It almost looks too good to be true.

Well, the new product is hosted on AWS, so it's much more stable, and we've made our first lot of pre-sales so we're on a tight deadline. Not sure why you're being so negative for no reason.

I thought about this, and it can't really get any worse than 'total outage', so I thought it was worth taking a shot. It can't go any more down.

It worked for me, so once Heroku has sorted their s*t out and their DNS system is back up it's just a matter of deleting the A records and replacing it with the CName.

Worst case scenario is the underlying Amazon IP Addresses change and it goes back down.

Oh my god, thank you so much. You're a lifesaver.

For those on Cloudflare, this will still work. I just deleted the existing CNAME, added the 4 IP addresses as seperate A records and it came back up instantly.

Heroku has brought our site down 5 times in the last 6 months. It's infuriating, but I only have myself to blame for not migrating.

Heroku dashboard was at least working before, but now trying to view details of an app it just hangs

Complete outage on all of my sites.

I have a migration plan in place but it's been put on hold to launch a new Product.

Might depend on the country. It happens a fair bit down in Australia