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Trying to go plant-based too much at once is really difficult and almost always leads people to this all or nothing mentality (and speak for you directly obviously—just my observations).

I’d love to see people take a statistical model. I currently get 50% of calories or maybe protein from animals. If I reduce that to 40%, what would that look like? Maybe 1 fully-plant-based meal a week? That way I can test out a recipe or learn how to make tofu yummy.

Or maybe you’ve heard “I can’t live without steak” or “cheese.” Well, trend towards plant-based except for steak or cheese (while not increasing your consumption of that).

Definitely been confused by GenStage in the past. This helps a ton! I know it’s more effort, but I wish visual and interactive examples were more prevalent in docs.

Andrew probably doesn’t control what the entire community does

Sounds like you can’t be happy with Gleam or related libs. I’d look into it or use it before calling it “half-baked”.

Yeah, I understand the surface-level reasoning. But to me the risk-to-reward ratio is a bit off. Resumes have very personal info on them. It’s also well known that engineers are wealthy. I could see something like this being used to generate a portfolio of high-quality, high-income targets for scams.

Cool thread/idea, but kind of weird in the age of LLMs and data scraping. If I wanted to build a database of engineers with really sensitive data, this is how I’d do part of that collection.

I don’t know if replacing Elixir is even one of the top 10 reasons Gleam exists. People don’t usually pick a platform and then pick a language.

Many times a language develops into an option by bundling features. In Gleam’s case, they bundled a certain type system, extreme developer convenience, and optionally features from BEAM.

Wow, the amount of work here and technical solutioning is insane. I don’t have any context here; so I wonder if this is a team or solo. If latter, how do you achieve so much with so many different technologies?

I’ve read probably 100 comments before I stopped. It’s really sad how negative HN has become. I wonder how many of those comments are from people that are really into coffee.

Super cool product. Especially interested in the grinder. I recently purchased a Niche Duo and was not very impressed in the upgrade from a Zero. Kind of wished I would have gone a different direction entirely. Maybe something like yours.

Regarding the website, I was on mobile and it seemed fine. I like the very Apple-y product showcasing. I think it’s fun.

Regarding the espresso machine, I think people are being very silly about the plastic and external heating source.

A tube going into kettle? Like, people are consuming 10x as much plastic eating beans out of a can or getting a coffee to go from their local shop.

The external heating source is also exactly how Modbar works. I think it’s cool you don’t double or triple the price by basically doing what Modbar does. A nice kettle can hold temps to approximate levels pretty well.

I think people should see this for what it is: a specialty espresso machine. It could be a statement piece, or perhaps a really interesting option for great espresso depending on how it performs. Have you tried to get it in front of daddy Hoffmann?

Very interested in stuff like this. I think similar “make an interactive bit to embed in an otherwise static site” things are being done in the Gleam ecosystem.

Amazing write up as usual, Erika. Your blog is an inspiration and model of what a tech blog should look like: high-quality info, plain and clear language, and extreme focus.

I disagree. It’s a personal blog :)

I want to know what they think. I also stylistically like the directness of “I” and “you”. Not everything needs to be written abstractly, academically, or in business-speak.

Also, your comment starts with “I”.

Not sure how secure erase works, but I’ve run into this a few times after “erasing”. I think it has something to do with boot records or partition tables. So there’s a piece of some drives (usually at the front) that contains this data. You can overwrite it properly with the appropriate tools. I always just used `dd` on the raw drive ref in Linux to blow it up.

Oh, we did stuff like this for disposal. The tricky part is drives we desired to recommission.