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Totally fair question. Substack is great for what it is, but it's a newsletter. Your posts show up in reverse chronological order and a new subscriber sees whatever you published most recently, not the thing they should start with. Lesso is for when you want someone to start at lesson 1, work through to lesson 6, and learn something in a specific order. A Substack archive and a structured course are pretty different experiences for the reader, even if the writing is the same.

They're not really competing. The use case I'm thinking of is writers who keep their Substack for audience building and use Lesso to package their best stuff into something they can charge for separately. There's a Substack import that pulls your posts in so you're not rewriting anything if you want to just repackage what you have in Substack onto Lesso.

I started working on something that brings to Node.js what JVisualVM provides to the JRE. I've been struggling with memory leaks in a project I've been working on recently and while attempting to debug those found that there's a woeful lack of tools for memory profiling and heap visualization.

This fixes that. There's a lot more to be done here but this is an initial proof of concept I threw together in a couple of hours.

Thanks for this, appreciate the answer given the limited info at hand

It does take a bit of time, sometimes over a minute.

It is all GPT, for the most part, the recipes seem usable, but there could be some instances where they come out incorrect.

I just launched RecipeGPT, a small project I built this weekend. Enter your ingredients, calorie and macro requirements and time constraints to get 5 quick recipe ideas suggested with concise instructions.

Hearthstone has all of this if I'm not mistaken?

Ah, I see, so it's just a matter of reading something, not understanding it, figuring out what it means and learning from that rather than there being a place where I can specifically read up on it.

I guess I just need more practice.

I've actually been thinking about this problem a lot recently.

I think it'd definitely mean a dramatic shift in workflow which would have to be learned, although I spent years learning how to work on a computer, why not spend some more time learning to do so on a mobile device? I think that in general, developers would resist the idea but for those that were open to it, there may be hope.

I think the first thing that'd need addressing is the ability to type. An on-screen keyboard just won't cut it, we're working with limited screen real-estate here so we need some other way.

I came up with an idea for how to replace an on-screen keyboard, without reverting back to the old-school blackberry keyboards or the number pad we all used on those old nokia 3310s.

What I propose is a reduced size keyboard affixed to the back of the device somehow.

Eight of these keys would be your 'home' keys, where you rest your fingers. Other keys would behave as function keys. You'd need some level of visual feedback on the screen so you can see where you are on the keyboard. Maybe some extra keys could be thrown in there for very commonly used keys, brackets, return, tab, space, backspace, etc.

Ultimately, you'd end up with more keystrokes than normal, simply due to the fact that you're having to shift around the keyboard using other keys, but I'd imagine with enough time, people would be able to adapt and become proficient at typing quickly with these devices.

I haven't thought too much into screen real estate, but I think a huge benefit could be the ability to switch between applications/panels quickly (using the physical keyboard mentioned above).

Tooling would be super important, having tools that allowed you to mimic your desktop workflow would be super important. I think this would probably even need to be done at the OS level. I think you'd need some way to install a mobile, stripped down distribution of linux with a desktop environment specifically built for the mobile environment.

Further thoughts:

To increase adoption rates - you could make it possible to dock the mobile at a workstation and use it as you would a regular computer.

I definitely think it's possible, I'm just not sure anyone's that interested in making it happen. Personally, I think it'd be awesome to see this kind of thing come to life and I would definitely invest the time in learning to use it given how much time I spend on trains/travelling. I don't always have a laptop with me to get work done so having this all in my pocket would be very convenient.

Since graduating from University I've worked in four different jobs (graduated 2.5 years ago). Each spanning in length from 6 months - 1 year.

Every time raises/bonuses have come up, I haven't been given one.

My salary is 40% higher than it was when I left University though.

Finally found a role I actually want to stay in and see a future in as well now, so hopefully I'll see raises/bonuses come my way in the near future.

Factorio doesn't look very visually appealing, but if you play it for an hour you can pretty much write off your next week because you'll be hooked.

Lived in Stoke for around 8 months last year, moved from Stafford.

Stafford isn't the best place in the world, but I regret that decision so badly, moved to Brum recently and I couldn't be happier. Everyone here complains about it but I'm really enjoying not having to deal with Hanley or Shelton on the regular, still got friends up there so I'll go and visit occasionally but it's a horrible place to live in my experience.

Used to live in Hanley, just opposite the Emma Bridgewater place.

I'm not, although I'm sure there's something out there like that. Especially in the river generation domain with erosion models applied.

It'd certainly be an interesting project to build.