ludicast

Big fan of her wizard zines.

here's hoping he had a .swp

Very well done. Took a brief glance through your series and seems to cover most of the important deets.

very nice!

I play with some of the jinja in rust variants (askama/minijinja/tera - minijinja being by the creator of jinja) and could see this something like this working well there as well.

I don't find myself needing the browser too much when I code. Other than to reload a page if I'm tweaking something on the FE.

Not that I know everything, but I view informational browsing as a distraction while programming. The LSP augments most of the knowledge gaps for me.

If vim isn't for you that's cool. But I find other editors for me are this-is-fine.gif.

> Without the promo code people are reluctant to try it.

Yeah, I mean I used the promo code, was just complementing that you hit on something I was jumping into regardless. Feels like most subscription kids apps are $9 a month max (I lost track of all we pay for), but I didn't blink at you being way above.

> We kinda have to know the grade level to send the right books... I haven't heard that as a privacy concern.

I might have slightly misphrased this. Basically some parents would be super involved with an app like this (we tend to be) and want to self-serve a little bit more. As a more extreme example - and not your beachhead customer for sure - there are plenty of adults who read at a low level and would feel more comfortable with there being an "other" option in there.

But I get the opposite side too. It is a lot simpler to have it tied to their school grade. I'm just sort of thinking out loud about removing barriers because I think something like this might be super useful for kids

> What do you mean by it feeling like a growth hack?

Might be a silly point of mine. But I mean by adding anticipation/delays into the mix, even though they are enforced by real-world shipping factors. There are plenty of public domain books - many of which families already own (or can print pdfs of) - that can be there to seed the collection. So the blank library on day 1 is silly.

Also, maybe I am projecting my own anticipation of the box arriving.

Another note, it seems that the requested features (privacy levels and interests) are not available for edit after registering.

Sounds like a great app, was hoping for something like this & immediately signed up

Initial onboarding flow comments

- nice product/market fit - I almost missed the promo code but wouldn't have been a barrier to paying

- imagine that at 25/mo (+ another 25 for books) it's also kind of expensive for families who are impoverished and might need it more (believe lockdowns were way way worse for their kids).

- felt like there weren't enough "none of your business" options. Like I have 2 kids of different age but similar reading levels. Even though they go to actual schools, I just selected that they were homeschooled to preserve some privacy

- wasn't clear how to handle siblings. I went with setting the options based on the one who needs it more and hopefully it doesn't get confused by both a girl's voice and a boy's voice (edit: after signing up I see the add-a-child option in the online profile)

- this should have been more clear: "Can Ello use audio recordings to provide additional features and to improve the service?". I selected no, even though I would have wanted my kid's voices saved to make the experience better for them. I just felt a single checkbox was insufficient here because there should be multiple levels of privacy+information implied (and where kids are involved that's way more sensitive an issue)

- annoying that after signing up there was no preview book available in the app, just a sad & lonely "hurry up and wait" page. would be great if there were immediately some books that they could read in case they already had them home or in the library (go with something popular here). otherwise it feels like a growth hack is being used on my kids

But looking forward. My kids really enjoy math+chess apps (esp the dragonbox family) and we usually work IRL to reinforce what the apps teach (also Epic and some others). Happy to share more thoughts, esp once they get to playing with it.

100%. Astronvim gives me everything I'd ever want from an IDE, plus with another dozen or so lines of config I make it my own.

> I actually have beer in my fridge and wine from before the pandemic ... so I'm pretty sure I don't have a problem anymore.

Lol well said

That's where I heard about it too!

Very simple book and loved her talking about it. She possibly saved lives just by sharing her story.

Never been a smoker but the take that it's marketed as addictive is something I never considered

Lot of wisdom here. I agree with everything you wrote.

This naked mind is a great recommendation.

I drank about half as often as you.

Enough to want to cut back, not enough to let me hit rock bottom.

Have gradually been moving towards sobriety myself if only because I'm finally taking it a little more seriously.

Huberman rec is great too.

That's what I do. At least put some level of effort between you and alcohol.

This is always my thought as well.

I believe coffee drinkers are less likely to commit suicide too, which definitely would align with the purpose a job gives you (fwiw).

I'm generally apatheistic, but live as if a more playful zen buddhism is "spiritually correct". Closer to church of Dudism if you've ever seen that parody religion.

I barely meditate anymore, but think a few minutes of it is a handy daily practice. At least to have in your back pocket