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https://www.reddit.com/r/rational - a community about "rationalist" fiction, inspired by HPMOR. A lot of amazing authors and awesome stories, also cool discussion on related topics.

https://www.reddit.com/r/low_poly - a subreddit for 3d low-poly art. Really simple and beautiful artworks. You can easily get into voxel art with MagicaVoxel, or you can try Silo to model low-poly stuff.

It's anecdotal, but D3 actually messes up my sleep and leads to the symptoms you're describing. I've read similar reports on reddit and forums.

Try to lay off D3, and try to take more magnesium citrate separately, this helped me.

Apparently, half-life of D3 is about 3 weeks, so if you've been taking it for awhile, you can have a lot of it in your body all the time. I'm not a scientist, but my best guess is that since D3 is meant to be released under sunlight, too much of it could be doing something to interfere with your sleep.

Again, just a layman's guess, but true in my personal experience.

I rarely read fiction. I'd love to read something great, but I have harder time finding it and getting into it.

Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality is the best fiction I've ever read, and am actually rereading now, so that's one.

I absolutely love everything written by Alexander Wales, The Martian by Andy Weir, and a lot of stuff from /r/rational. Also I think that Atlas Shrugged and everything written by Ayn Rand is brilliant.

I've read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, and Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson not so long ago, they were pretty fun, but I wasn't blown away or anything.

Aside from that, I don't know many great ones, so I mostly read non-fiction.

Yep.

Oh, and if you're interested in the subject, I can also recommend "Traction" by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares, it's a really neat outline of traction channels.

Here are the best books I've read over the last few months:

- Lost and Founder - the founder of Moz shares his advice and experience from building a 40M/year company. I found the things he says about building a startup extremely insightful and practically useful. Reading it feels like having a dinner with a friend who shares with you the things he has learned in a very honest, down to earth way. Highly recommend it.

- Rationality from AI to Zombies - probably the most influential book I've read in my life, profoundly changed the way I think. It's a collection of LessWrong essays on science and rationality. (recently they've released an an audio version by the way).

- "A Short History of Nearly Everything" and "Our Mathematical Universe" - two general popular science books I'm enjoying a lot. Haven't finished reading them yet, but so far they're brilliant(and very easy to understand, authors do an amazing job explaining complicated things in a simple, accessible way).

- Hacking Growth - an AMAZING book on "growth hacking". It provides a framework for marketing a startup, gives a ton of practical advice and specific tactics. It breaks down step by step how startups and big tech companies grow their products. Most of the books I've read on the subject were bullshit, but this one is absolutely fantastic, can't recommend it enough.

Other great books I should mention: This Idea is Brilliant, Actionable Gamification, The Design of Everyday Things, The Master Algorithm (great overview of machine learning techniqes), Springfield Confidential (fun behind the scenes from one of the writers on Simpsons), Homo Deus(from the author of Sapiens).

Absolutely! I love it so much, and I have more and more fun every year.

Well, to be fair, I didn't just "fall into" this profession since I was a kid, I started coding at around 20, when I knew that was what I wanted to do.

Although, if I could start over, I'd love to start much earlier(when I was 10-15 years old), and I'd learn fundamentals of math and CS properly, and I'd spend a lot more time on AI/ML, so I'd be much better at this than I am now.

Now I'm 27, and I really want to catch up on proper math/science of it all.

Also I need to mention that I don't consider myself a "programmer", I'm a startup founder and my goal is to build successful SaaS tools. That's way more interesting and exciting, I get to think of ideas, design products, do full-stack dev, marketing, make all decisions on my own, etc. If I'd just be working as a programmer for someone else, it would probably feel less exciting.

Wes Bos (https://wesbos.com) has an upcoming advanced React video course on building a project that'll use Prisma. It's coming out around August and it's supposed to be epic.

You can look at the code for final project here, maybe it'll be useful:

https://github.com/wesbos/Advanced-React

Does anyone know if there are some good ActivityPub implementations in Node?

Unfortunately, at the moment it's impossible to rename/move your account to a different domain, and if your mastodon instance is shut down(which, let's face it, is likelier to happen than twitter shutdown), you still lose your followers.

You can host your own instance, of course, but that requires time/money for maintenance, and not everyone will do this.

Pick a skill you want to master, set yourself challenging but attainable goals, and solve problems/challenges on your path. That's the best way.

Also check out LessWrong and "Rationality: From AI to Zombies" - the best book on "thinking" I have ever encountered.

They're okay, nothing mindblowing, some are good. I've really enjoyed Judd Apatow's class on screenwriting.

They offer a free trial, you can watch all the courses for a week for free without a limit.

Whoah what an awesome app. I'll learn a lot from this, thanks for sharing!

I want writing streak to be a simple tool that does one thing very well, so I tried to avoid adding a lot of extra functionality.

I have built a project that I think you might find interesting: https://fictionhub.io/

It's a writing community where you can post stories, share and receive feedback, etc.

The idea of making it centered specifically around the daily writing exercises, prompts, etc is interesting. I might be able to use the fiction hub platform to make something like that, I'll need to think about it.

Before you sign up, all of the data is saved in your browser. Technically you could use it like this indefinitely, but this is mostly for demo purposes, so some of the functionality won't be available (like sharing data across devices, email reminders, public profile page). Also if I will make significant changes to my database in the future, this may cause issues. So that's not the best solution.

In the future I'm planning to create a desktop app, that might be the perfect solution if you really don't want your data to leave your computer.

Meanwhile, I can promise you that I will never share your data with anyone. I'm not using extra sophisticated encryption or anything like that (that would be an overkill for a writing app), but I'm using Atlas [1] to store your data (they're really good and competent database as a service provider), and on my end I've made sure that nobody can read what you wrote without your password.

There's no such thing as flawless security I suppose, but I'm trying to follow the best practices, so unless you're writing a short story about your social security number falling in love with your credit card pin code, or a novelization of NSA's deepest darkest secrets, I wouldn't worry too much about this =)

[1] https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas

"You improve what you measure."

Metrics help me to focus, improve my results, stay motivated. They turn sometimes difficult and confusing process into a fun game.

Like if you're writing a long novel, or trying to blog regularly - seeing a measurable, tangible progress is extremely helpful.

That's not for everyone of course, not all people need this, but some people like it.

It's an app for writers who want to learn to develop a habit and regularly practice their craft. The point is to write more, develop skill, be more productive.

Thank you for great feedback!

- Many people have mentioned the monochrome scheme. Some like it, some don't, I've decided that I will add a bright theme as an option.

- I will work on improving the design of the landing page, making it more concise and less cluttered. Meanwhile you can click the "About" button in main menu to hide all that information.

- The narrow width and a restricted height are a design choice, I figured it's more convenient to see the whole interface at a glance, when the window gets too large it's hard to look at all the stats. I think I should add a setting allowing people to customize this stuff.

- I will figure out how to write a better copy and improve the general UI design. I've tried really hard to make it awesome, but I think I'll need to do better. Maybe I'll ask for some advice from a professional copywriter/designer.

My reasoning is that writing well is a result of high skill, and skill is the result of practice. The purpose of writingstreak is to help people practice.

Great job on the site!

I might as well mention that before writing streak I have built a similar habit tracking app for general types of habits:

https://helix.startuplab.io/

Well, at the moment I'm giving away free lifetime accounts just for some helpful feedback or social media sharing =)

Thank you for your advice!

I definitely should get better at writing a copy. I'll try to trim it down, make it stronger and clearer.

I'm thinking I will add a bright theme, some people may prefer it and it will have stronger contrast.

Hey everyone!

I've just published a beta of my new app for writers, it is a simple tool meant to help you develop a daily writing habit, track your progress, and achieve your writing goals.

I'm looking for some feedback:

- What are your first impressions? Does it look useful?

- Is the functionality easy to understand?

- What can I do to make it better? Any ideas on design, functionality, onboarding, marketing, etc would be very helpful.

- Any other thoughts/suggestions/advice?

Anything that has to do with creating an AI. Pretty much whatever will nudge it in either direction(sooner/later, good/evil, whatever) will have impact, everything else probably won't matter.

It's like imagine an ancient protofish asking "what can we do that will be significant in a million years?" Get out of the water and try walking.

This doesn't make sense to me.

There's no such thing as "value" determined by the laws of physics or floating around in the universe. Things that don't have minds don't have the concept of value. But we do. Value is created by human minds.

And if value is created by human minds, then it's definition depends on what we find valuable.

I find not being tortured pretty fucking valuable, so are many other people [citation needed]. If I place value on a thing or a state of mind or some state of the world, then it's valuable.

Movie and video game soundtracks.

Can't recommend Ramin Djawadi enough(he wrote soundtracks for Game of Thrones and Westworld). Here's a great example of his music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS-gbqbVd8c&t=0s&list=PLTT-X...

Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard are also great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxabLA7UQ9k&list=PLyVPkvhD7G...

And I love halo soundtracks, here's my collection:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTT-Xb7kSZWWp4MXXUtny...

- Quitting my great job as a digital artist to learn web development and build a startup.

- Adopting a healthy lifestyle - healthy diet, daily jogging.

- Developing a habit of listening to audiobooks every day.

Super deep and intense flow state. Usually from programming, but sometimes from writing or doing 3D art.

Comedy(TV and Standup). Community, HIMYM, Rick and Morty, Louis CK, Bill Burr.

Jogging in the park and listening to audiobooks.

I'm choosing an editor for my project right now. Can someone compare ProseMirror to Slate and Quill? What is the difference, which one is better? What do I need to know to choose one?

Hi! Sorry, I wish I could do that, but the comics are taken from comics-related subreddits, and most of the links there are direct to images, they don't give credit to the author, so I can't do it automatically either.

I think a lot of the authors expect their images to be shared all over the internet, so they include a url to their site in an image.

Not everyone, and I understand that's not ideal. But the alternative is curating it manually (which I don't have the time for), or shutting it down (but many people seem to find it useful, so I figured I won't do that unless one of the comics authors complains).

If you want to help curating the comics - send me a message!

I have made HackerNewsBot [1] (it publishes stories with 100+ points), comedy bot [2] that reposts jokes and showerthoughts from reddit, writing prompts bot [3], and webcomics bot [4].

My favorite people to follow are:

@Chrishallbeck@mastodon.social (webcomics artist)

@lumen@mastodon.social (writes jokes)

@Gargron@mastodon.social (creator of mastodon)

@cwebber@octodon.social (author of ActivityPub)

And a few cool engineers:

@Valentin_NC@mastodon.cloud

@HerraBRE@mastodon.xyz

@markhughes@mastodon.social

@chrisBorg@mastodon.social

@surma@toot.cafe

@nolan@toot.cafe

Also come follow my account [5], I don't post often, but I tend to share updates on my projects, cool startup/webdev related stuff, and some digital art. I should get back on mastodon and post more stuff...

[1] https://mastodon.social/@hackernewsbot

[2] https://mastodon.social/@comedy

[3] https://mastodon.social/@webcomics

[4] https://mastodon.social/@WritingPrompts

[5] https://mastodon.social/@rayalez