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My 8yo discovered my Playdate about 6 months ago and she loves it. She did crack the handle off of the crank though, so fragility might be a consideration...

We love our Playdate. Admittedly, when I first got the Playdate, it was a bit of a flash in the pan for me, possibly due in part to not having many games to try while Season 1 was trickling out. But since then, my daughter has reached the age (8) where she can really enjoy it, and that has pulled me back into it as another thing we can share together.

The achilles heel of the Playdate is screen brightness. There's an awkward sweet spot where you need to pour light onto the screen for it to be viewable but simultaneously avoid reflection from the light source. I guess for younger eyes that's less of a problem. But for me, I've had plenty of scenarios where I considered playing and then realized it was going to be impossible to comfortably set up a lighting environment.

I have clip-on lights for books. Maybe I should get one for the Playdate. Has anyone had success with that?

Thumbs up for Wispr Flow. Their iOS app was just released last week, and is an interesting addition to the product.

I needed to do an inventory of stuff in our house over the weekend, and I used Wispr Flow on iOS to take a very very long and rambly note in their app. Then the transcription text appeared on their Mac app, ready to be pasted into ChatGPT for parsing.

Wispr Flow handles languages switches quite well in my experience using it in both English and Japanese.

Woah!

> - Manual option for max heart rate

> - Manual zone bound settings

Really excited for these.

I’m realizing that this app prescribes HR zones that are quite a bit different than what Apple Fitness has for me.

Instead of a calc, I’d like to be able to manually set the zones so I can match them with the zones I’m used to working with.

This is a really cool idea.

You mention it being scriptable, which makes sense as a CLI. Do you have any personal examples of using Lexy in a script? I'm curious about use cases outside of reading.

Excited to try this! I just started zone training a couple of weeks ago as a way to target VO2 Max increases. I’ve indeed found it hard to track time in zone across a week.

Thanks for building this!

More of this kind of thing please.

Also... this put PostHog in front of me right as I'm looking for a few things they seem to offer. The marketing-gimmick-to-thing-you-need flow was so on point it's kind of suspect.

What's the general consensus on them? Any PostHog users here that can share their impressions?

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"Congrats - you've made it into Forbes 30 under 30. You scored 5 / 8."

As is evidenced by my score, you can't just select the tech bro each time and win.

Congrats Kilian!

Polypane made a massive difference in getting our startup's website shipped a few months ago. I highly recommend it for entrepreneur-devs.

I've been organizing a weekly morning coffee session in Astoria, Queens for the last 2 (or 3?) years. The morning coffees are connected to our local tech community's series of meetups, but they aren't hyper-focused on tech and they don't have an agenda. Just a chance to meet neighbors.

It's really been beneficial for me and my family, who aren't from here, to get to know more people in the neighborhood. These days I feel like it's a rarity to go outside without bumping into someone we know.

It's also been awesome to see friendships and even collaborations form among people in the group.

I recommend people give it a shot wherever they live. And if you're in NYC, come visit!

I'm going through the process of unpacking a prototype into a product roadmap. We just came out of a meeting to kick off architecture discussions/decisions when I saw your post.

A couple of questions:

- Do you have anything online that shows what Accord ADRs look and feel like?

- How are you thinking that Accord will plug into tools and workflows a team might already be using in the PDLC/SDLC?

I'm not sure if I understand the question, but I tend to refer to these kinds of services as either:

- Value-added hosting providers

- Value-added infrastructure providers.

My personal mental model for them is that they take lower level cloud offerings and build on top an opinionated on-rails experience for common stacks.

So their services come with a higher price tag, but with a streamlined developer experience.