bodhi_mind

Thank you!

I’m making a digital real watercolor kit.

I’m a software developer and watercolor painter so my goal is to use real world painting techniques and have the results feel and look real.

Modeling the physics of paper, brush bristles, pigments, water, color mixing, drying in real time using gpu.

Built in rust using wgpu.

Currently looking for iPad beta testers if anyone is interested (supports Apple Pencil or finger).

https://puddlewatercolor.com

Everything technically requires, or reinforces current wiring in the brain. So the question is, what loops do you want to change?

Solvable with reasonable defaults and putting most things behind an advanced section?

Cool project! Side note: Kind of a bad practice imo to ask people to blindly execute bash from an unknown source.

Cutting pex to remove old shutoff valve and crimp on a new 1/4 turn valve took me probably 2 min and a $15 tool from Amazon.

TDGS provides mathematically transparent rules designed for computational verification, making it ideal for indie developers, AI-powered tools, and anyone who wants to build on tested mathematics rather than reinvent probability.

Except it’s the present

I’m stuck on the opening sentence. Family went to sleep in the morning so rest of the day is free? I must be missing something but that doesn’t make sense.

Did the author chloroform them?

You’re right that claims of being “chosen” can be misused, but in classical Judaism it means chosen for personal moral responsibility, not automatic virtue or supremacy. The phrase “light unto the nations” emphasizes modeling justice, compassion, and humility through your own actions. Anyone who interprets it as justification for harming others or claiming inherent superiority is a fringe distortion, not representative of Jewish teaching.

A lot of Israelis who reference “God’s chosen people” aren’t claiming superiority in the way it’s often interpreted abroad. In Jewish tradition, “chosen” historically means chosen for responsibility, not privilege. The phrase “light unto the nations” captures this: it’s about modeling ethical behavior, justice, and compassion, not dominating or controlling others.

Understanding this helps separate the original ethical meaning of “chosen” from the way it’s sometimes misinterpreted in political discourse: it’s meant to be a call to moral responsibility, not a claim of inherent superiority.

I appreciate the kind words!

The whole “why I contribute to open source” has been on my mind lately after I published my first open source project and it’s gotten moderate attention from the data engineering community (200 GitHub stars):

TinyETL - Fast, zero-config ETL in a single binary https://github.com/alrpal/TinyETL

The transition from being the sole architect of “my” project into more of a maintainer, organizer, director, has been a unique experience and interesting to reflect on.

What’s the future hold? I really don’t know.

There’s no denying that Erlang is bad ass.

Thank you. I’ll check that out. Are you the developer? Are you in the data engineering space?

TinyETL. Fast, zero-config ETL in a single binary.

Transform and move data between any format or database instantly. No dependencies, no config files, just one command.

https://github.com/alrpal/TinyETL

From accounting to data engineering: how discovering fragile spreadsheets everywhere led me to focus on building reliable data systems that connect teams and enable better decisions.

There’s also Django channels which is pretty sweet for certain tasks, especially websockets.

I use a combination or channels and celery for a few projects and it’s works great.

Looks like it could stuck around animals necks like soda can 6 pack packaging.

Saying everything is a CRUD app is a reflection on the level of abstraction a developer usually works in.

Someone who worked more in embedded systems may say something like “everything is ‘just’ a state machine.”

The problem is we’re in an age of mass disinformation that makes any claim potentially propaganda. It comes down to trust and belief and those things are either easier than ever or harder than ever depending on media you consume and common sense.

At least llm will delete code it replaces instead of commenting out every piece of old functionality.

I think it’s allowed me to spend more time being an architect and thinking about processes, problem solving. To put it another way, I’m still a developer, possibly to a higher degree (because I can spend more time doing it), and less of a coder.

I also use next and use the pages router. Makes for a development friendly react front end.

And I have some use cases where I want to have a headless crm/api “hidden” behind the front end. So in these cases using next as a backend proxy works well for me.

Funny. This is exactly how I use it too. I love to make a ui change prompt and switch to the browser and watch hot reload incrementally make the changes I assume will happen.

Does it consume your website to test with? Run js and use layout and positioning into account? What about local websites under development?

If it’s something simple, I’ll use Django template because it’s very easy. Most stuff I work on these days requires more fancy ui so I’ll 100% use react or nextjs for front end (and I’ve be using zustand for state management). I’ll have an api util that uses axios and handles appending a jwt auth header to all requests and use that in my components. I like using Django-all-auth because it makes integrating email/google/microsoft auth really easy out of the box.

DRF is good, ninja is a little more light weight and flexible so it really comes down to the project.

From my limited use of figma, everything starts from a template. I think this is a core part of adoption.