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Since sleep helps cement long-term memories, I wonder if there is a feedback effect when some of the memories are dreams you wrote down from the nights before.

I play a lot of games with my 6yo, our top suggestions:

1. Chuchel (point&click about a funny creature in pursuit of a cherry)

2. Donut County (drop things into a hole that gets bigger)

3. The Henry Stickmin Collection (classic multiple choice 2D animated Flash game extended, funny)

4. Superliminal (very imaginative space distortion puzzle, adult help needed)

Yes, we do (non-VR) Roblox with my son and mom while also video chatting. I also started building there full time.

On my own time I also like to explore VRChat in VR, as it’s a nice counter to the sanitized Roblox worlds.

I notice that most frisson moments have a nostalgia connection for me, possibly unlocking the feeling I had experiencing that thing at a younger age when everything seemed more awesome.

Some examples, each about 10 seconds before.

https://youtu.be/ir5_fajcohM?t=252 (whole sequence has many, this one the biggest) https://youtu.be/t3mA6gwPbzw?t=42 https://youtu.be/7oelg2Ik8-M?t=35

High pitched vocals also often do it: https://youtu.be/bo_efYhYU2A?t=96

Or amazing visuals paired with music: https://youtu.be/65zm8ozcWl4?t=120 https://youtu.be/YFR-cJ4OM6M?t=422

I basically launch tiny projects full time, and have noticed that these have a power law to them. He'll mostly hit $0, with some occasional mid-hits as he has listed, but if he keeps at it I wouldn't be surprised to see one of the later projects make 10x as much as the best one now.

The first time I saw someone share a 3D game from this website, I was confused: https://now.gg/games.html

The graphics were good, so I though what a nice use of WebGL. But then I noticed them being blocky,.. in a video compressiony way. Could it be? Yes, server-side rendered web games, streamed to you in real time without requiring account creation.

(The game I originally saw was https://now.gg/apps/paradyme-games/4102/solar-smash.html but seems to be down at the moment)

I see system_profiler doing a scan when I gather the logs. Is that just the logger itself doing something, and if not is there a way to find what it invoking system_profiler?

You might be able to get some customers with that spend on average, but could have hit zero just from bad luck (randomness is clumpy). Customers can easily cost tens of dollars to acquire.

As an example, for my own subscription box service the cost to acquire a customer from YouTube ads was ~$49.

Success on platforms that have a recommendation system (YouTube, Roblox, Google etc.) is nonlinear.

Because results are ranked by some metrics, if you make your thing 10% better (watch time, play time, CTR etc.), it will not only reap the direct benefits of being that much better, but the indirect benefits of now outranking others whenever the situation arises where it can get recommended vs. others (recommended videos, games, search results).

So it can make sense to put in more time into making something just a little better than would seem intuitively reasonable. MrBeast and Tim Urban of WaitButWhy both talked about this in their podcast interviews.

I aim for 3 hours of focused work per day — time to work on my top thing without a single distraction. This is usually split half and half into daytime and nighttime work.

I’ll write down what I want to do and why it’s important (often the previous night to make it easier to start the day), then for fun and focus track how long it took to complete.

Works for me. I don’t count things like bookkeeping or email into this, as that‘s more like a chore. I don’t count planning into it, because I want to make sure I’m actually doing things and not only thinking about them.

As long as I get the minimum focused hours, I can then relax guilt-free.

I guess it might be a periodic event then, but there’s one that just started today at least.

There are really good marketplaces for buying game assets.

Especially if you adopt a low poly style, you can get very far with bought meshes.

My go-to sites are CGTrader for meshes, SoundSnap for sounds.

I feel like this when I need to think up a new project idea. What if this time I won't come up with anything? I wonder if that agony is an important part of the process. Maybe without it your subconscious wouldn't assign enough resources to solve the problem. I hope not.

I came across this on Twitter. I realize it might just be a marketing ploy by Microacquire, but I still find events like these (such as Ludum Dare) that impose some kind of a restriction inspiring.

What topic has a CPM this high? I never saw anything like this when I played around with AdSense on some small websites I had in the past.

Or maybe things have changed in the past few years?

Really good post. It's amazing how fast you can scan all of IPv4.

I also needed tune SQLite recently for an event logging server, and "PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL" helped a lot.

Is it common for seed investors to want to be bought out by Series A investors? I've only read a little about the process, and was left with the impression that the inverse would be more common: seed investors really wanting to also invest in Series A to maintain their share (pro rata).

I use Python, but miss being able to just a .php file in a dir and have it work.

Now to make some small site, I instead end up setting up some WSGI server and doing nginx config to get it visible, upstart config to make it start at boot, and then invariably forget how it’s set up after a few months pass.

That comparison sounds like it’d be a hit HN post.

In Roblox this happens if you get thrown too far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw1GZLodmtw

I thought I'd be good at this since I do 3D editing all day, but apparently not. In my first try I couldn't get even one. Practicing some more I got up to 4 in a game. I wonder if this game can distinguish between people who have rich mental imagery and those who don't?

Alphabet felt more like just a genuine restructuring/clarification that Google is just one of Alphabet's many products. They had no immediate threat in sight at the time?

Meta case could be seen as leadership trying to seem innovative to make up for their core products possibly being in trouble, because they have the immediate threats of saturating their possible userbase, the rise of Tik Tok which they cannot just buy, and the Apple ad targeting limitations.

I don't know if that's true, but it's how I imagine other investors seeing it.

Adjustable stand for your phone (gorilla stand or tripod). Helps to position your phone during video chats such that everyone is in the picture. When buying make sure it supports both vertical and horizontal.

I live in Japan and this is the site I use to browse for houses: https://www.athome.co.jp/kodate/chuko/tokyo/map/list/?LAT=35...

On the left in price range you can select max 10,000万円 to see houses under 100 million. Zoom out on the map to start seeing some dots.

Turning off all phone notifications except for messages from close people.

Having several in-progress books I’m reading at once. Didn’t read much before, now about two books a month.

Moving from an apartment where my desk had a view of a parking lot, to a house with a river view. Thought it’d be nice only temporarily, but a year later I still feel happier and more motivated.

Stopping ambien use. I realized it’s better to sleep when I’m actually sleepy and wake up late rather than wake up early but feel depressed and brain-foggy.

Tracking my work hours but not pomodoro-style, but by setting tiny tasks and seeing how fast I can complete them. Aiming low with total time, defining spending 3 hours per day spent in actual deep concentrated work on the most important task a successful day.

Same, I was told my predecessor used his girlfriend’s name for temp variables.

I’ve made a living online from a bunch of different things, and there’s always something in the world that changes in a way that forces you to change your thing as well. Sometimes quickly, when an API changes, sometimes more slowly as you get more competition for example.

And even if not, you’ll still always think about your project to figure out how to get the next 5% of extra revenue from it, and stress about whether you’re doing things as well as you could.

I don’t recall ever having something where I could just kick back and relax.

Maybe there are questions where the value of learning a thing about the user for future ad targeting is higher than just showing them another ad?

Reminds me of the time a dating company did research (maybe okcupid?) on the best question to ask for matching, and it was something like "do you believe in angels?".

Usually read something to learn for 15 mins while eating breakfast, and about half an hour of fiction before falling asleep. In addition a few pages here and there on my phone if I need to wait for something.

At the large Finnish LAN party / demoscene event Assembly, there are people who go around all the desks collecting the cans and bottles people leave on them. I wonder how much they make doing this, considering there are thousands of desks with everyone consuming energy drinks and soda nonstop.