thederf

I would compare this to building something out of wood. I use power tools that I can't make myself (at least not without a significant level of effort). I could still build without power tools and succeed if needed, but for the time and effort I want to spend I'm beholden to the power tool companies.

Thanks for the heads up! Fixed now, was a bug in the service worker.

I've been working on this exact idea, with sqlar as the "format specification". Works in the browser, and desktop + Android using Tauri.

https://github.com/JoshTheDerf/uapp

Demo apps and games: https://thederf.com/uapp/demo/

Well hello random IncrediBots-remembering person! Such good times with an oddly wholesome and welcoming community.

I spent many of my teenage and early adult years trying to replicate it in HTML5. Finally got the Open Source version of IB2 largely ported during COVID: https://github.com/JoshTheDerf/Incredibots-2-HTML5-Open-Sour...

Here's a video I did for the Directus Changelog that shows how my system works: https://www.youtube.com/live/SZg6hYMA3yo?si=Qi-E5NGeoQicnpR_...

It's highly eclectic, but might give you some ideas?

About a year ago I did the same migration: Obsidian to self-hosted Directus.

My main reasons were:

- Straightforward queries. I have a lot of structured data in my notes and lesson plans, and being able to work with SQL was ideal.

- A web app was much more reliable than Obsidian's third-party sync platforms.

- I could extend Directus to do all sorts of other things. I eventually built my wedding planner and website backend on the same Directus instance that holds my notes.

  (I also built a set of scripts on my Hackberry Pi that let me write text files on the go that saved to Directus)

The biggest disadvantage is that the writing and saving experience isn't as fluid.

Niice, giving me hope! My '06 is showing its age, but I hope it's got another 100k in her!

Hah. Fair point. I'm around 210k miles and aiming to squeeze as many more out of it as I can.

I compared the dimensions of the Slate with my '06 Pontiac Vibe hatchback, and it's only a few inches longer. I suspect the Slate + Fastback kit will be pretty close to a hatchback in size and function.

I'm quite excited about this. Ticks all my boxes for "low" tech, simple, moddable, useful, and cheap. I'm hoping my aging Pontiac Vibe holds out long enough to upgrade to one of these, if they succeed. I put in a preregistration!

At work we have two applications in production with Directus, a CMS and a CRM, both highly specialized (~35 custom extensions) for our use-cases.

We've had our teething issues, mostly with migrations and the UX in some areas, but overall it has saved us a ton of dev time and been a great force multiplier for us.

I also use it at home to manage my notes, tasks, and such as structured data.

Ooof, 115kb gzipped. That's not exactly featherweight.

These "because why not" projects are my favorite sort. I'd love to build something like this with four keys representing bit pairs (00, 01, 10, 11) where you could type bytes by repeatedly pressing keys. Bonus points for mounting it on the back of a phone for one handed typing.

I've used GNOME for so long that anything other than Nautilus feels clunky to me. Though to be fair I almost never search for anything, so those pain points don't bother me. I just want a file manager that gets out of my way.

Rockmart GA, pretty much the same story here. Wonder if consumer prices are delayed relative to futures.

As I see it, the cause isn't industry-specific, it's just incredibly apparent because of how fast our industry repeats the cycle of:

- Make thing - Thing becomes ubiquitous and widely used - Thing has warts and limitations - Make new thing on top of old thing, because old thing can't be reworked without major consequences because of its ubiquity. Repeat.

If you've worked in any job with reasonably complex processes, there's likely a few procedures that no one really understands, but when people try to change them or build on them, they only break things or get more confusing.

Not sure what can be done about it, but I have a hard time blaming anyone or anything.