makeitrein

Good luck and godspeed! Really cool biotech initiative...

Two naive questions:

1. Is there a theoretical maximum to the amount of carbon capture a tree can handle?

2. What's the difference in carbon capture between increasing the "efficiency of photosynthesis by 30-40%" and planting 30-40% more trees?

Limited restrictions except for mandatory grayscale display - it's much harder to get addicted to a black-and-white screen than a rainbow slot machine.

I think this interview captures some of my anecdotal experiences about the ways capitalism, addiction, and the human condition intersect. Well worth your time on a rainy Sunday.

Both audio and transcript provided.

Hey HN, I'm the front-end dev/designer of this dApp, and I'm really proud of the way it's turning out!

Been hacking on this for the past 3 months... couldn't have gotten the Tron-like UI without the amazing arwes.dev React framework.

I know there's a good deal of crypto skepticism on HN right now (rightfully so), but I'm happy to answer any questions about the design or mission to the best of my ability!

Best of luck stranger! Perhaps explore starting with a microdose see how you feel on that before scaling up.

Just watched Bryan Caplan give a talk about how the majority of our education system's resources are spent towards a "signaling arms race".

What once required a high school diploma requires an undergraduate degree. What once required an undergraduate degree requires graduate school. Most of your time spend in school is learning skills that the labor market cares little for.

Not wholly convinced by his conclusion that entirely defunding education is the path forward, but it's a perspective I found very interesting!

Here's the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hZylJp-pHo&t=495s

https://www.iheartjane.com/ does delivery and will soon offer curb-side pickup for select stores.

Hey HN - wanted to get some feedback for my new personal website that I just coded up this weekend.

I was inspired by the animation effect of strml.net, wanted to do something a bit similar in feel.

How's it feel to use? Open to some new ideas for eye-candy or features.

Cool, just donated some benjamins - https://imgur.com/a/ZOuZMXA

This made me feel sad - what's a good charity to donate $500 to?

https://phoenixframework.org/ guide is pretty great https://elixircasts.io/ is solid

Couple good books out there, but I don't have the patience for em!

Thx for the compliments!

Re: light theme - added to trello! low prio, but I grok why you want an alternative

Hey HN - here's my side project from the past three months. I'm a closeted fanfic reader, and I wanted a better way of figuring out what fanfics are worth my time. Also, happily funemployed at the moment, so I wanted to stretch my coding brain and learn some Elixir/Phoenix before it fully atrophied.

I've open sourced the code here: https://gitlab.com/makeitrein/ficdb_veil

I decided to give Elixir/Phoenix a go in building this - here are some thoughts...

- Pipe syntax and with macro makes for very grokable code... with macro especially is the cleanest pattern I've come across to date for handling the "happy" path with a clearly defined escape chute.

- https://unpoly.com/ was a great tool for speeding up my site by prefetching data on hover of any link and replacing only specific content on a page - highly recommended for making your Rails/Phoneix app more SPA-like.

- Ecto is the one true ORM. Doesn't try to redo SQL, lets you compose queries in an incredibly straightforward manner, and provides these things called changesets to help validate data and insert associations. Two thumbs up, addresses a lot of my problems with ActiveRecord and Node ORMs. Check out https://gitlab.com/makeitrein/ficdb_veil/blob/master/lib/fic... for an example of my fanfic schema + filtration queries

- I still have no idea how to use OTP/GenServer - Phoenix is an abstraction above the Erlang fundamentals, and I feel like this will bite me down the line

- I used https://gigalixir.com/ to handle deployments - it's Heroku for Elixir... great service, but it does cost minimum $35/month for a basic site, which is painful for a side project... if I knew more dev ops, I would try to wing this myself on AWS

- There's this underlying tension of whether to switch out the front-end for React or not. Phoenix templates are super speedy and play nicely with the rest of the ecosystem, but parts of the code base have now turned into brittle Jquery soup. Don't know how I'm going to handle this going forward.

- Elixir community is strong and welcoming, but library selection is still a fraction of the Javascript/Rails community. That being said, the libraries are usually of a higher quality then what you'd expect.

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Ficdb is nowhere close to world domination, but it's cool to see 400+ users submit 800+ fanfics and leave just as many reviews in the last two weeks. I'd like to continue promoting this project on the side, see where it goes. Let me know what you think!

Hmm, how does Famo.us stack up to GreenSpck's GSAP? I've been tinkering with GSAP for the past week and have been pleasantly suprised with its capabilities, but I don't know if its the more performant of the animation libraries.