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Their app store link doesn't work https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fortnite/id1261357853

I suspect a lot of folks get tripped up during "the boring middle". It can be hard to resist the temptation to do something, anything.

I check my account balances and financial planning spreadsheet several times a week. But instead of mess with money, I try to channel that energy into modeling. "What would happen if I increase my savings rate by 5%? What if we took a year sabbatical?" Most of it goes nowhere, but I'd rather be futzing with a spreadsheet than gambling on Robinhood.

See also: NYT, Substack, Patreon.

I suspect that the average person does not sweat every single $5 purchase they make.

The games bankers like Goldman play with IPO pricing only benefit the bankers. The whole thing is bullshit, which is why more tech companies are looking for ways to cut bankers out of the process.

They’ve called it a database. They have said explicitly “ You can use this as a backend for your ReST APIs.” But it doesn’t meet the table stakes for a database and encouraging folks to use it in a production environment is actively harmful.

I wish more folks were up front with the trade offs they make. I respect an OSS author a lot more when they are honest and upfront with what a thing is good at and where trade offs have been made.

When I don’t see that, I assume that either the author doesn’t know/care (red flag) or they can’t be bothered (annoying).

Of course it’s endlessly more complicated then that but it’s important to make the distinction.

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You might already know about this but you should ready about the "Memory Palace" technique used for remembering lots of things. Using a physical space in your mind to "store" information.

Personally, I need a place for things to live for me to remember it. That either needs to be a physical space - I write something down to help me remember it, in a way because the memory is on the paper in my mind, or at the end of a linked list of memories, so that I can remember it by the things it's associated with.

The new one is built with Django. It’s been a delight doing web work again.