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Cool! How much does this setup cost you, roughly?

Came here to write almost exactly this!

I've been thinking for a while now about building a system like this. There is one particular set of traffic lights on my commute which causes 45-60 minute delays at peak times. I've wondered how some small changes to timings of the light might reduce some of that, and was thinking about building something to simulate it and test my theory.

The other thing that is interesting about traffic patterns is how truly connected the entire network of roads are. You can have a collision on a major road which has a big impact on roads several miles away. I've always thought it would be fun to visualize that somehow, to determine not just the immediate effects of a change to a road system, but how it effects other commuter routes.

Definitely going to play around with this. Kudos to the author.

I did not realise GCC supported Go until reading these release notes. What advantage/reason would I have for using GCC over the standard Go compiler?

While I also find the surge of electron-based application somewhat amusing, you can't deny that it has made it easier for more developers to develop cross-platform applications without having to develop and manage several codebases with different languages.

I'm working on a side-project at the moment, a large part of which is a desktop application. Using electron allows me to get a cross-platform app out the door pretty quickly. If I had a team of more than one, perhaps I would consider using something else, but as long as it is just me electron just makes sense.

IThat's cool, didn't realise it was the same author.

I understand. The other side of that coin though I guess is that knowing this might give some more confidence in using diesel. ActiveRecord was the first ORM I used, and knowing now that diesel is "from the same stock" (for want of a better phrase) gives some extra confidence in what it can do / where it is going.

Not that I was not confident in it before...

> even though it's authored by the maintainer of one of the most massively popular ORMs ever

Just curious, what ORM is that?

Yeah I think at the start there is a lot of value in just starting, perhaps without even finishing. It's that stage of just getting over the first hurdle and getting into it.

That's fine for a while but then as you say you get to the place where you have to finish. I think this can be almost as big of a hurdle as starting as it can involve a whole host of new challenges, some of which you've mentioned above.

Finishing is also, in my opinion, typically not as exciting. You've likely already solved all the intersting problems and are left with the "lesser" tasks involved in getting it over the line. This is something I've been learning myself over the past year or two.

Totally agree. What I've found too is that once you actually start and get /something/ down on the page (or whatever the medium) you actually find yourself getting into a bit of a productivity flow. It might start off bad, but I find I quickly slip into actually getting stuff done once I get over that initial paralysis.

> What's your advice for indie hackers who are just starting out?

> Honestly my single piece of advice would probably be to stop looking for so much advice. Shut the fuck up and go and build something.

I like this. I see a lot of people, and I fall victim to this myself, over analysing the best way to do X, rather than just trying it and learing / adapting as you go. I think there is some value in figuring things out up front, but not at the cost of never taking the plunge.

Haven't they always been charging for snapshots? My understanding is that this is a change to pricing, not introduction of charges.

I seem to remember something like and additional $1 per month on the smallest VM.

Yeah! I was surprised by the amount. When I read things now about compiler speed, I'm looking through a different lens now that I have an idea of the sheer amount of work it's doing. Pretty impressive.