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Huh. I had no idea the design wasn't original. Thanks for posting this unintentional TIL!


It's pretty much original. Paul Graham made the Arc programming language, and the forum software / Hacker News on top of that.


Skeptic here. How can you validate the difference in effort from a startup where growth happens in explosive moments with many rewrites in between vs a refined enterprise codebase with incremental changes? Is it productive if I have tried many changes in branches and none of them made it to prod?


Startups will naturally have higher output than enterprises for this reason - we'll show people benchmarks accordingly.

> Is it productive if I have tried many changes in branches and none of them made it to prod?

Our metric measures displacement, not distance - under the assumption that the end state is the part that matters the most. It will notice if the resulting change has a higher cognitive load and evaluate it accordingly - but if there is no resulting change then ultimately there's no output to measure.


Game wise- a Scrabble that allows custom dictionaries made by the community to allow bilinguals to shine and use the findings for linguistics / sociology research (words removed vs words added, trends, measure new language acquisition from influencers, etc.).

Been a pet project idea of mine since the pandemic but never got around to it. I saw the new Rails framework is out and thought of starting this idea to learn Ruby.


They specifically stated a lack of documented concern by the engineers. First thing you learn as a contractor is CYA.


Why didn't you try a barebones AWS EC2 with their Arm offers as well? Last I checked nothing beat them, especially if you reserve capacity in advance.

Another option is buying a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero and hosting the ghost blog from there since the blogs don't have any traffic.


“Nothing beat them” in what regards?


Might be able to find services that publish posts from emails. Then it's just a matter of writing an email from your phone.


> Might be able to find services that publish posts from emails.

Posterous[0] used to do that and it was good. Then they sold their souls to Twitter and, obviously, all the good went away after a year.

(one of the founders then launched Posthaven[1] but a) fool me once, etc., and b) he's an intensely problematic lunatic.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous

[1] https://posthaven.com


Might not be a blog, but hxxps://daft.social posts are done by sending an e-mail.

P.S. Not affiliated


I didn't work with election data but I dealt with Data brokers and they worked both ways. They offered API as a service access or a single bulk download for special pricing. I was surprised how relatively cheap it was considering all the data they offered.


There is a CVE issued a week ago for all Apple OSs that are not on the latest update (Mac iOS, etc). Maybe you were affected.

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/09/18/apple-rel...


Thank you! Yes I’m still 2 OS versions back.


You are living very dangerously and running 2 whole major versions back. The only Apple Operating Systems (macOS, iOS, etc.) that have both the latest Platform Security features and get 100% of security patches is the very latest version.

This is well known within both the security community and Mac Sys Admin community.


Thanks, I’m realizing that now. It helps that you’re emphasizing the need to stay up to date.

I don’t upgrade to the latest version when it comes out thinking it may not be stable enough yet. And then I remember about it when I’m about to start working or in the flow. I know, silly excuses!


And for some reason I used to think security patches get back ported to all the supported versions and by not upgrading I was only missing out on new features.

Thanks for letting me know that’s not correct!


Linux should be able to port over files over USB, FTP or local lan using apps already mentioned. I think I've previously used Dolphin over USB and FTP (server on iphone) for backups.


FTP? how does that work? is it supported natively or thru an app?


There are free ftp server apps you can download and you access them using any ftp client on Linux.


Yeah? I’ll check them out. If you know of one which is free free then let me know.


This is eerily close to my situation several years back... I just want to say to you as I would say to past me: "you can do it", as I was able to climb the ladder and find success. 10 years after dropping of CS, I made it into a stable career after a lot of struggles, sketchy jobs, freelancing and life lessons. I finished school online and am working on my master's degree.

If you want to chat, feel free to reach out:contactme at myusername.com


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