callahanrts

You won't be able to use your phone as a remote, or to enter passwords, but other than that, there would be no frustration.

To further point out the stereotyping in this thread, take a look at the announcement thread of the tesla cybertruck and compare the sentiment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21602437).

Not to mention that the cybertruck has nearly the same dimensions as the f150 (https://youtu.be/sLvopc9oI4A?t=199) and has a shape that is more likely to cut you in half if it were to hit you. It also has a payload that's more comparable with a ford super duty and will likely weight more than the lightning to support that.

Some fans couldn't wait! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6yTNvl-s-Y

Admittedly, limiting the free plan by posts was the laziest way I could keep from giving everything away for free. As the app matures, I'll be adjusting plan features and pricing to match what the market desires.

Thanks for your honest feedback and letting me know which features you find value in.

I appreciate your honest feedback, so thank you. The free plan is pretty locked down right now. I haven't really had the bandwidth to fine tune it so I wanted to start out more strict and loosen up, rather than going the other direction. I'm still tossing around the idea of opening up the free plan more and keeping a low-profile branded footer at the bottom of free sites.

Can I reach out to you for future feedback when I'm reconsidering plans?

Thank you! These are great questions

> Why S3 rather than an entirely free service like netlify, github pages, or surge?

I wanted to start with something that was simple and scalable. At one point I tried using github for hosting, but managing commits got a bit complicated. There are also some limitations on repository size. Although it wouldn't become an issue for a long time if images were uploaded to S3 and the content to github, I would have had to integrate with multiple platforms.

I am open to adding additional hosting solutions, but I wanted to launch to get a pulse on what folks would like those options to be.

> Isn't one of the main advantages of medium the discovery element?

This is definitely one of the main values that Medium has to offer. It's also not the only reason people want to share their thoughts. I wanted to offer the flexibility to own your content and not be locked in to a platform (All HTML files for your site remain in your control). There are a lot of ways to promote your content, if Medium happens to work best for some folks, It could be a good idea to cross post on Medium.

As Mead evolves, I'm open to making promotion of your content on other services easier and in as many cases as possible, automated.

Probably overkill, but I'm pretty happy with how my dotfiles are managed now. I commit everything to my dotfiles repository and use chef to install things and manage dependencies. It's easy to support another OS by adding a cookbook and recipes.

https://github.com/callahanrts/dotfiles

I have one set up as a sprinkler timer (https://github.com/callahanrts/sprinklers). Scheduling my sprinklers with cron jobs gives me a lot more flexibility over water times. It also runs a local webserver so I can turn a zone on for just a few seconds when I'm fixing a leak.

I've had the same struggle forever, but I finally feel like I've found a pattern that works for me: Find enjoyment in the daily struggle.

For exercise: I've found riding a bicycle to work to be my least hated form of exercise. I force myself to start every Monday riding to work. If I don't ride on Monday, the rest of the week is shot. When I do ride, I try to make it as enjoyable as possible. If I'm feeling unmotivated, I'll glide to work without breathing heavy at all. I just have to lower the bar so much that I'll at least do it. Often, I get motivated half way to work and pedal harder anyway.

For side projects: I've been tying this in with other habits. I get up at 5 every morning and drink coffee, read for a bit, and make at least 1 small contribution to a side project. Maybe it's a meaningless refactor or fixing a typo. At least I see the green activity in Github and continue building a habit of at least looking at and thinking about the projects I'm working on. The end result is that some weeks are vastly productive while others hardly mean anything.

What I've noticed is that motivation and productivity are a cycle and when I enjoy my daily habits enough (with no particular outcome in mind), I stick with things long enough to see compounding results.

TLDR;

Focusing on outcomes makes you aware of how you're not meeting them -> Demotivation

Building daily habits with vague goals and enjoying the ride -> Compounding results and satisfaction in hindsight

That looks pretty sweet. I'll have to try it out.

Awesome! I have images uploading to s3 at the moment. They get uploaded to /assets. I'm planning on some simple media management as well.

It also enables a cloudfront distribution with the bucket.

With all my frustrations with medium, I decided to build a desktop app--for myself, and maybe to monetize later. It's basically the medium WSYWYG editor combined with a static site generator that automatically hosts on S3. Out of curiosity, is that something that anyone else would be interested in?

EDIT: Here's a google form for anyone who wants to keep in touch https://goo.gl/forms/liv1JpAdKOjc4wJ23

- ~/Desktop/ Contains mostly screenshots. I use `defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop false` to hide all the icons

- ~/Documents/ is where stuff goes before it gets organized

- ~/Documents/<topic>/ is where things go when there are enough of them to form a group

- ~/Documents/projects/<project-name>/ is where I clone projects from github or create my own. Occasionally I clear out projects I haven't touched in a while.

Reno, NV is growing a lot. Primarily engineers go to IGT or Bally’s and work with slot machines, but the tech scene overall is growing. We have a great CS department at UNR and school is fairly cheap here. Taxes are low, but cost of housing is rising. Some of that is because of Tesla and Google. I think a lot of people are moving here from the bay because of housing costs.

Other nice aspects:

- There are tons of breweries, restaurants, and bars littered through downtown/midtown.

- We have a ton of festivals that shut down the streets downtown (Italian festival, chicken wing festival, hot august nights, brews and blues, and the rib cookoff).

- The Truckee River runs right through downtown and makes for some very pretty views.

- There’s a huge art scene and a ton of blank walls on buildings are being covered in murals.

- The weather is great all year round. Usually we hit 100s only for a week or so in the summer. It snows here but it melts in a day because we get so much sun.

- We’re within an hour’s drive of Tahoe, other lakes, and a dozen ski resorts.

I've never experienced this with typing, but I can definitely see how the amount of time it takes to complete a task can cause even more delay. For example, long page refresh times in development can take so long that I switch thoughts entirely and end up on hacker news. Using docker-sync with docker for mac made my page refreshes much faster and has had a very positive impact on my focus and productivity.

Thanks for writing this. It's encouraging to read about others' experiences using Elm in production. After a couple small side projects in Elm, I'm finally using it in a few low-risk areas at work.

As far as I've researched, no. GDPR is open to the sorts of tracking that is used to make your product better. In the case of google analytics, you're watching for aspects of your product or blog that are doing well so you can produce more of the content viewers like.

One of the caveats though, is that you shouldn't be able to identify a specific user. So, you would need to anonymize the IP addresses you're tracking [1]. My understanding is that you should not be tracking or storing information that can be used to identify a single user. So cookies are ok, but you have to ask permission for any cookie that can be used to personally identify a user.

[1] https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...

Is it just by chance that this was posted on April 1?

It's totally reasonable to push people towards their music service and there's nothing inherently wrong about doing it this way. However, it feels a little strange to see a company weaponizing advertisements in their marketing strategy.

Great idea! Any ideas for expansion? I imagine you could map rows/columns to a bootstrap-like grid system for more custom layouts.

This is absolutely true. Here's one of Jim's other builds that's sitting in our office. It's a steam powered car on a Model A frame. He and one of our other engineers are getting pretty good at this.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BbVdaa_gKB2/?taken-by=jimmy.buil...

org mode + workflowy?

Near end of life procedures? A friend in health care told me 60% of one of our biggest hospital's costs go toward end of life (patient will die within weeks) treatments. Understandably, people request all the most expensive procedures because they don't want to let their loved ones go.

I originally created this out of the frustration of running `dc down` on our MySQL docker container--which wiped my development database almost daily. After I realized why my volumes were getting destroyed all the time, I've still found this to be useful in taking snapshots of my development database and sharing them with other devs on our team.

A while back I was using a tour library in ways it likely wasn't meant to be used (I wanted steps to go in and out of an iframe embedded on my page). Being frustrated with the difficulty of customizing this library, I decided to create my own. The goal of tiny-tour is be easily extensible and not collect feature bloat. Anything fancy should be left to the programmer, because he/she will most likely want to override my features anyway.