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This is cool! I looked into building a slack app myself, I'm curious: how are you liking the slack store and its policies? Was starting out difficult? I vaguely remember having to have your app installed in multiple workspaces already before being listed in the store

Nice! The site looks very clean, good job! I recently bought a Garmin and I was looking into analytics-heavy training platform since I'm doing a lot of different sports so I can't just go for a 10k training plan or something. I ended up going with intervals.icu, how is tredict different from it? It appears a little tighter on the visual maybe? Anyway good job!

This is so cool! As someone who loves trying out new restaurants I need to ask: why would I go with you guys instead of going to the restaurants myself with a friend or partner? Looking around your website it seems to me that there's very large attendance, which in my mind means generally less focus on the food itself. Do you think one of the main factors is meeting new people/the sense of community? Anyway good job! I'm not sure what your margins are but it's probably more than 500/month! Congrats!

I'm getting a 404. Are you sure the link is correct? Hopefully they didn't remove it, the title looks interesting.

I think this blog post covers a lot of ground while not really diving deep into any of the points it tries to make. I just want to highlight a couple of them because they are particularly important to me.

The concept of "you can desire only what you don't have" coupled with "you borrow your desires". Every thought in our head comes from a previous input, a lot of the same kind of inputs will spark a lot of the same thoughts and naturally they will spawn desires. I was on a work trip last year with two of my colleagues. They are into music (I'm not) and naturally a lot of the conversations were around singing and producing. I left that trip feeling an intense desire of trying out mixing/DJing for the first time in my life. I definitely attribute that to talking intensely about music for a few days for the most part.

The other one is: there's value in being wrong and in experiencing negative things. I'm not going out seeking traumatic experiences or anything but I yearn for new experiences for a variety of reasons. Even smaller ones such as a new restaurant to try out sometimes can suck, can be a waste of time/money but as long as the negatives aren't that impactful I think that the small gems you find a long the way paired with the funny stories you get about the bad ones are very much worth the potential negative experiences. I often talk to people that "feel stuck" or on "autopilot" and I do think that always doing the same things over and over has diminishing returns on happiness and joy. Trying out new things I'd say is generally a good idea (common sense applies, as always).

This is my second year picking a theme and I picked "Revolution", many things are (probably) going to be different 360 days from now for me!

Fun read, it didn't occur to me that I could simply pick foreign words that are much more adept at explaining complex concepts briefly.

I'm always curious on how you guys use your note taking apps? I tried multiple (obsidian, notion, logseq ecc..) but always struggled to find a real use/need for them outside of work.

Am I missing something on going straight to applying my knowledge, after having found a solution to whatever problem I'm facing from a variety of sources, and not writing down many notes outside code comments/README.md ecc..? E.g: I'm currently building a mobile app with flutter, would you guys suggest that I log what I'm learning, even considering it's pretty basic stuff due to the fact that it's my first encounter with flutter/dart?

Now that I think about it, writing notes during the process could perhaps help me have more material for my blog posts

Can you share an example of a use case you have in mind of this "explainer + RAG" combo you just described?

I think that RAG and RAG-based tooling around LLMs is gonna be the clear way forward for most companies with a properly constructed knowledge base but I wonder what you mean by "explainer"?.

Are you talking about asking an LLM something like "in which way did the teams working on project X deal with Y problem?" and then having it breaking it down for you? Or is there something more to it?

I see a lot of negativity in this thread about GraphQL. As someone that's gonna be building a backend API soon, what's your favourite article/guide to build a REST API at scale assuming that GraphQL is overly complicated for our use case? I'm probably going to have to explain the main differences or at least contribute my own opinion so any link would be appreciated.

We mainly use python and we're probably stuck with MSSQL. I've built simple stuff with FastAPI and even Flask before but nothing serious.

I agree with your general point: people generally donate/buy/subscribe much more if there's a benefit tied to it.

On the other hand, I'd like to point out that Twitch is still losing money so I wouldn't really call their business model "very viable". I'd say it's viable for the content creators, because there's very little risk in trying out Twitch streaming, sure the chances of making it big are insanely small but the worst case scenario is losing time and a relatively small amount of money on a PC setup + microphone and camera.

Patreon is a different beast but there's a caveat here as well. I don't have numbers so this is just my PoV but I'd guess that the vast majority of creators that use Patreon aren't hosting, sharing or creating mainly on Patreon. They're called YouTubers, streamers, bloggers for a reason. Sure they may share BtS or some other kind of additional content but it's not their main platform. So while the Patreon business model works it's not really comparable to Twitch or any other platform where you actually start and continue to create content and also get paid by.

I'm of the same opinion. I always wonder why SQL formatters do this. Is it because it's easier to diff queries with versioning tools? Because to me it's definitely not for legibility. The example shown here isn't even that bad compared to what I see regularly. We've got quiet a few queries longer than 100 sanely written lines running in BigQuery, sometimes I missclick the "format query" option and it always makes me wonder who the hell enjoys scrolling so much because suddenly the line count increases by an order or magnitude or more and the lines aren't much longer than 20 or so characters.

I wonder what's the consensus on HN about April Fools blog posts like this one. It's probably a cultural thing but I really feel like it's a waste of time, both for the readers and the writer.

I don't want to be overly negative because of course they can be a way of publicizing cool things (in this case an open source library).

It's just that every April 1st I open a lot of links only to be disappointed that their content is a joke just without it really being funny.

Thanks for the suggestion of Jekyll + GitHub Pages. I'm looking forward to testing it as I'm currently in the process of starting my personal blog.

Q: Do you have any recommendations for the writing part as well? Most of the decent guides I could find (there's so much SEO spam in the space it's incredible!) are centered around fiction or general book writing instead of blogs, and I find most of them to be rather shallow.

For example, I feel like a blog post that shows how the editing process works with explanations on why certain phrases were deleted or rewritten could do wonders to my writing because as a non-native English speaker and "technical technical writer" I tend towards over-explaining myself with long phrases.