WorldFixture gives you emulated third-party services, object storage, and email, all backed by the same fake company so the data and API responses feel real.So, for example, if your app uses Stripe, Gmail, Slack, and GitHub, you can call the same APIs through WorldFixture and get responses containing data from the fake company. The data is organized so it tells a coherent story across the...
If you're building something that uses Slack, GitHub, email, Stripe, S3 or similar services, developing it locally usually means connecting test accounts, manually filling those accounts with data, or mocking each service separately. WorldFixture gives the software a fake company to work against instead.For example, imagine you're building a tool that tries to identify customers at risk of...
https://ben.cates.fm/happy-passover/
Built a fun little Passover game while in the bomb shelter with my kids. You play as Moses, trigger the 10 plagues, try to get out of Egypt.Made it in Cursor in ~5–10 prompts. Burned through most my credits.Is it AI slop? Yes. Is it exactly the kind of AI slop I enjoy building? Also yes.Happy Passover to anyone celebrating.
It was my first time using Tailscale and overall the experience was good, though I did hit a few Coolify and Docker related hickups along the way.
If you see holes in the setup, I’d genuinely like to know. I'll fix the post as I learn. I hope this can help other people running a similar setup.
Shout out to Hetzner who offer refurbished servers at such a good price.
I’ve spoken fast and a bit unclearly my entire life. It’s one of those small curses you’re probably just born with. Speech therapy didn’t help and practicing on my own never really stuck. The worst part is worrying people won’t understand me, especially when presenting something important. I often wear a headset when presenting that plays my voice back to me in real time so I can hear myself...
However, this does not change the fact that now there is an active war between Hamas and Israel most Israelis dislike Al Jazeera because they perceive to be part of the propaganda wing of Hamas with Qatar's support.
Regardless, in a democracy, internet censorship is a slippery slope, and for that reason, I am against it in most cases.
Most Israelis, both on the left and the right, strongly support the Israeli Defense Forces and feel that this is a war for our survival. Therefore, even if a left-wing government were to come to power tomorrow, it doesn’t necessarily mean the war would end immediately. The vast majority of us have served and are familiar with the system. We also understand that, contrary to global perception, our intent is not to harm innocent Palestinians—a perspective gained from our firsthand experience with the system. War is dreadful, Hamas is brutal, but there is a general consensus that Hamas must be removed from power. Many of us feel that the government is complicating this objective: we all follow the news obsessively, and according to reports the army has been pressuring the government to come up with a post-conflict plan where Hamas does not end up ruling the strip, yet the government appears to be stalling. This is most likely because Bibbi is afraid of upsetting his coalition partners.
It’s 100% a cultural norm issue. I was raised in Canada but have lived in Israel for the past 20 years. The vast majority of my Canadian friends have no kids, and the ones that do have at most 2. In Israel, all of my friends (secular/non-religious) have kids, usually 3 or more. The idea of whether you can or can’t afford a kid does not cross people’s minds. You get married, and you have a kid. If you don’t get married, and you can, you still have a kid. It’s just what’s expected. I have numerous friends who are single and made the choice to have multiple kids via donors. When it is the norm in society, it’s just something you do. I am sure social pressure has an effect. You see your friends having kids, then you want to have kids too, and then your kids become friends with your friends’ kids, and it expands from there.
Financially, life in Canada is much easier as a parent when compared to here, but socially, life in Canada as a parent is much harder when I compare it to here.
I have 3 kids - for me personally it was the best choice I have ever made, but I accept that I no longer have my own life. I live for my kids and I wouldn’t change it for the world. It probably helps that most of my friends are in the same situation.
Now if this is a good thing, that’s up for debate - although overall I personally would say yes.
Written with zero chatgpt assistance
It used to be that the majority of the US population worked in agriculture and today thanks to automation - it’s around 1% of the population. Same goes for numerous roles (secretaries, switchboard operators etc.)
As far as ChatGPT goes - I have a lot of concerns around it, but I am still not convinced it will replace search. I think it might compliment search. Either way I think it’s a good thing if how we search changes. Search is broken, it no longer brings me the best results, it’s becoming harder and harder to differentiate between ads and legit links (this is of course intentional because of revenue and KPIs) and I know longer trust the results. I am not sure if chatGPT is the answer, but maybe it’s part of the answer.
Important lesson - teach your kids to have a self development mindset. They need to be prepared to have multiple career changes and that their current skill set might be made obsolete at any moment. It sucks, but it’s reality and when things change, they change fast.
Personally I love building things and seeing people use them, but then I get bored really quickly and tend to let them die out. It’s something I am actively working on because I do want to do another startup at some point in my career.
The most important piece of advice I can give to any new parent is "You have between 6 to 10 years where your kid(s) actually wants to hang out with you - take advantage of it, you'll never get another chance"
As someone who has worked in the industry for the past 15 years, I can see a few things that I believe are causing risk tolerance levels to increase across the industry.
1. Startups/new businesses that are in growth stage have a large appetite for risk which is pushing the more traditional/legacy companies to also take more risk.
2. High friction experiences that are designed to stop fraudsters require you to provide timely support to any good users that might be blocked by mistake. We all know the trend for most companies has been to move away from providing timely support to their customers as it is extremely expensive. This is another cost (on top of potential lost sales) of creating a high friction experience.
The main issue is that people mix conversion with customer obsession! Whenever you work on a product or feature you should be asking yourself "Is this really good for my customer" - if the answer is no, then no matter what the A/B tests/conversion rates show you don't do it.
Unfortunately we mostly hire the wrong people as PMs, who then hire clones of themselves. They are not truly customer obsessed and use A/B tests incorrectly which results in products that trick or force customers to do things they don't understand/want to do. Long term this is bad for the product and company
Facebook is post growth stage and is probably at the point where it’s already hit, or close to hitting its peak market share. Most Facebook users have already installed the app and only ever need to reinstall it if they switch phones. Those that haven’t installed it/don’t use Facebook are unlikely to convert to new users at this point
Regardless all of the major Jewish denominations in the US (reform movement, conservative movement, modern orthodox and even most of the heredi movements these days) officially support Zionism. Now you have individuals in each group who may describe themselves as anti-Zionist, but it is a very small minority (although growing in the reform movement).
Among non affiliated Jews the percentage of anti Israel/anti Zionist Jews may be a bit higher but it is still pretty low. It’s no where near millions (you only have 6.5 Million Jews in the US).
Now none of the above means that there is not a large segment of pro Israel, American Zionist Jews who are against a lot of the current and previous governments policies when it comes to the West Bank and Gaza (or in general).
Heck I am a Canadian born Israeli, who is personally against a lot of the policies of the Israeli government. I quite often cringe at some of the comments and actions of some of our politicians. On the bright side it helps me chose who not to vote for
Now to be very clear! I am not against most of GDPR. But some of the interpretations of it have gone too far and it will hurt Europeans in the long run.
This is actually one of the best things that can happen to companies like google and Microsoft as they can afford to develop the infrastructure to support easy geo based cross continent data storage - and they can then sell it as part of their cloud offerings.
https://mashable.com/article/nespresso-money-mules-ebay-cred...
I am not a lawyer, but I am guessing that if Facebook blocks giphy usage in the UK there is very little the UK regulator can do to them. I see that as the likeliest scenario as they won’t want to sell giphy.
This will only make the regulator look foolish. The average person won’t understand why Facebook owning giphy is a problem (it’s not a social network) but they will be annoyed when they lose access to giphy in slack, WhatsApp and other platforms that use it in.
There is one thing I want to clarify though. Hasbara is Hebrew for “explaining” - so when Israelis or any Hebrew speaker say hasbara it literally means “explaining” their point of view. Now more often or not, Israelis and Hebrew speakers actually complain that “our governments Hasbara/explanation was garbage” or “wow, we did a really poor job explaining ourselves there”.
When you put it into that context, you need to understand from an Israeli/Hebrew speaker point of view “hasbara” is not a bad thing at all - it’s a necessity regardless of if you are pro or anti Israel.
Unfortunately people who don’t understand Hebrew have turned a common Hebrew term into a derogatory attack against any Israeli or pro Israeli individual and this extremely problematic for so many reasons I won’t get into now.
Regardless, every time you accuse someone of “hasbara” you are actually just accusing them of explaining themselves or their point of view and since it is everyone’s right to be allowed to explain their point of view - you really aren’t accusing them of anything bad at all.