This is really cool. One day I’d like to see a JS based window manager running as the main window manager on a local machine. I’m not entirely sure how that would work. Imagine using a JS window manager instead of Windows explorer or MacOS’ finder or even replace KDE or Gnome.
I’ve set up and ran my zimbra server for a long time too. It was a pain to set up initially, but once it’s running, you rarely have to make changes. The only bugbear I have is to update the letsencrypt ssl cert for secure connection and https access. But a cronjob automates that for me.
I’ll just say it. The earth is around 4 billion years old. Due to the constant shifting of the surface and oceans, we don’t know what existed before. Fossils only form under very specific conditions. The Sahara for example were a forest before, so why haven’t we found trees and fossils there. What I’m basically getting at is, saying that we should be able to detect whether life existed by looking at sediment is speculation at best. Water and sand is extremely abrasive not to mention scavenger animals and insects that basically recycle waste. I’m not saying that there were advanced civilisations before us, but saying we’re are the first and only advanced civilisation that’s been on a planet for the last 4 billions years, is like saying there’s no intelligent life in the universe and earth is “special” because we can’t find alien life anywhere in our solar system.
I laughed a bit when I saw “memory safety” and C in the same sentence. Your program is only as good as the programmer writing the program. Having said that, it just takes one missed check to cause a buffer overflow in C.
This reminds me of the time I hacked together an editor in assembly. I’m all for writing “just another xyz”, however after 2 decades of development I’m tired of the infinite amount of todo apps/editors/etc. on the web. I am conflicted though. On the one hand reimplementing something existing is a great way to learn coding, sdk’s, api’s, etc. On the other hand I feel it’s limiting imaginations and I would love to see something new and unique. How many “better mouse traps” do we need.
Software is limited to IP. You can’t really compare hardware right to repair with software. If you use OS software then you can chop and change as you want as long as you merge back changes to the original code. I doubt however that companies like Microsoft would allow you to update the Operating System just because you don’t like the way something works.
I feel you. I’ve been trying to carve out my entrepreneurial dreams out for years too. I’ve got my main job, and trying different things on the side. At the end of the day, do what makes you happy. If you’re happy grinding away 18 hours a day to make that sale. Good on you. Me, I’m in my 40’s. I’m tired of trying to impress and grind. My current plan is to keep on doing my main job, but still look for opportunities. There’s this saying by mark Cuban I think. You only need to be right once. My recommendation is take some time off from entrepreneurship. Get a job or do consulting or contracting or something and make connections and just have fun doing it. The bug will bite again, but every failure makes you stronger and gives you insight on what not to focus on. Tweeting and social network stuff is nice to have but money pays the bills. Focus on the sale. Find out what problem there is and create an mvp and let people pay for it. Don’t spend 1000’s of hours building a solution when no one has even committed to it. Money pays the bills, not likes.
As an ex South African it breaks my heart to see the country I love and hope to go back to, being run to the ground and winding back the clock of progress to pre-colonial times.