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Great read, lovely to see this type of hacking done. Thanks for sharing your excellent writeup!

No opinions on the product itself as this is the first I’m hearing of it. But:

I am very impressed and happy to see the open-sourcing of their code like this. I often find myself thinking about how much human knowledge and effort disappears when a company shutters and all of their documents, code, etc go with them.

Saving a lookup for anyone that also didn’t know this one: > Zawinski's Law captures common market pressure on software solutions, stating that “every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”

Not OP but also a lifelong Miami resident: building takes time and rents/food prices/restaurant prices are going up extremely fast. A place I used to rent at 1400/month in 2021 is now renting for 2000.

In this case, shouldn’t your anger be directed at the team? I understand these teams have quite a bit of money; why should he stay at a workplace where he isn’t valued? Many of us would do the same thing in a similar position.

I’ve seen many ads on paid Spotify. Large banners advertising podcasts on opening the app, a “podcasts to look at” row in the home page. They’re thankfully less frequent as of late, though.

Do you recommend any of Jerry’s works in particular?

I used to do it by hand with a spreadsheet I built, but after finding a few bugs in my spreadsheet and getting tired of manually managing things, I switched to YNAB.

The risk there is that they use Plaid on the backend.

How does this handle calendar invites? I’ve tried in the past and while sending invites works ok, receiving is frequently not handled at all.

I wake up between 7 and 8. I don’t start until 9 so I use that time to shower, take my dog out, water the plants if they need it, make my coffee. At 9 I log on, check email and Slack, then look at my todo list. If anything from email or slack is actionable, it goes onto my list and gets prioritized. Then, I work through my list. Standup isn’t until ~11 so I have some good focus time in the morning.

See also Gwern’s classic article: https://www.gwern.net/Death-Note-Anonymity

https://luciano.laratel.li :)

All-clojurescript with some macros at compile time to parse markdown into hiccup using my friend Kiran’s library CyberMonday. [0] This was a rewrite from my previous blog which was using a Hugo template with my modifications. I haven’t blogged in a while but have some LLVM stuff on there.

[0]: https://github.com/kiranshila/cybermonday

I used WireHole [0] to set up pihole over wireguard for use outside my home. It works really well.

I've thankfully only lost VPN access a handful of times since installing it because our internet is relatively stable.

[0]: https://github.com/IAmStoxe/wirehole

I switched to using maestral[0] on my mac and linux machines. Much friendlier to use than the dropbox client for both operating systems. My main fear with syncthing is relying on my own hardware, which is why I stick with Dropbox.

[0]: https://maestral.app/

Gotta be careful with amounts here -- one time I drunkenly drank tons and tons of water to the point I actually dehydrated myself even further than the alcohol would've. Worst hangover of my life.

Either socialized or nationalized medicine. Removing the insurance companies entirely removes the price-gouging they do from the equation. On the non-insurance front, every hospital and care provider is then required to either

- negotiate with the government on prices, or

- work for the government, charging their rates.

Probably depends a lot on the language.

[I have a close family member that works in publishing]

As far as I can tell, part of it is that the bigger publishing houses are able to get lucky more often; they're more likely to get a bestseller than a smaller publishing house. This is apparently due to a combination of

1. Being able to pay more authors as a raw number (they're numerically more likely to get a "hit"), which is partly because of

2. Inertia from already having big authors, so people look to sign with them before considering the smaller publishers.

Note that this is really only for mass-market stuff; specialty genres are different.

The big publishers are also able to cut better deals with distribution centers and booksellers.

I'm not familiar with Chrome's tab groups, but I use tree style tabs [0] on Firefox which allows physical grouping of tabs, albeit after a significant layout change.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

Thanks for sharing this - this line made me particularly emotional:

> To this day, the words he recalls her saying make him emotional: "When I'm dancing with others," she said, "in my head I'm dancing with you."

I use org-journal[0] in Emacs as a very efficient lab notebook. I use the Doom[1] configuration, so this is my workflow:

- launch Emacs

- type `Space n j j`, which opens a journal file customized the way I like it*, inserts a date heading and timestamp, and sets me in insert mode

- type my timestamped notes

I can do this from any buffer in Emacs, so it's really convenient to stop in the middle of something, jot down a note, and then go right back to what I was doing. I develop iOS/macOS software right now, so the switch to Emacs from Xcode is a little more friction than I used to have, but it's so useful I don't mind it at all.

* I have a weekly journal in a directory for the year, titled week number-month-day that started that week (this week's is `34_08-23`)

[0]https://github.com/bastibe/org-journal [1]https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

Yes, religiously. I have a list of tasks for each year which links to a file with my notes on each task, as well as a daily journal where i log my work hours, random notes from meetings, etc. It is exceedingly helpful.

I sure am happy I don't work at their retail stores any more; I shudder to imagine the abuse the folks in the stores are getting over this.

+100 for Magit. My favorite feature is rebasing directly on logs.

I am in absolute awe at the PDF diff tool. Wonderful, wonderful stuff.

Well, not one I'll be in.

I didn't know that, thank you! This will be a big relief.

It's disgusting! And it's not just the fucking boats, but planes overhead, constantly! (I've lived in M my whole life)

It gets grosser by the day.

This is something that is endemic not just to ad-tech companies, but regular brick and mortar stores as well: it isn't enough to just be consuming, to actually be producing value for the business: they must monetize as many seconds of our attention as possible!

If I'm buying gas, I'm being served ads via the little screen. If I'm at the grocery store, there's ads plastered onto my cart. Buy something online? I get ads for unrelated products emailed to me in the weeks after, even if I didn't agree to be marketed to (I never do.)

It makes me feel like I'm going crazy, sometimes. And what's worse is it feels like there isn't an end in sight.

It would be a cruelty to your dog to force them to be meatless; from what I understand of vegan ethics, your dog's consumption of meat is ethical.