marvinblum

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Working on https://pirsch.io - privacy-focused web analytics

Personal website: https://marvinblum.de

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Comment · 21 days ago
Comment · 2 months ago
I played Silent Hunter III with the One Onix (or something like that) mod, which is probably the best SH we have today.
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Came here to say the same thing. I'd like to add that keeping up has also become very boring. It's always the same news - AI this AI that, I would like to see something new.
Comment · 2 months ago
I bought it a few days ago. Thank you for including native Linux support <3

So far, it's really fun and the tutorial is great! A few things that could potentially be added to the game:

- Crew management (nothing fancy, just a bit, like food management)

- Different kinds of torpedoes (if the US had that, I only know about German submarines)

- Countermeasures (like noise makers)

- Seeing resources (number of torpedoes) on the campaign map

- A better indication whether a ship is sunk or will stay afloat (I resolve and don't know if the ship has been sunk or not)

- And German submarines + campaign of course

Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
Exactly what I thought. Work sheets used to look like this if they have been copies of copies of copies...
Comment · 10 months ago
Of course not, otherwise the rich wouldn't get richer and that would be bad for power consolidation. Everything is moving into this direction, so why should it be different with AI?

We had this discussions for years with factory machines, and nothing came out of it. Don't get me wrong, I hate having taxes for everything (living in Germany with ~65% total tax strain for me if you include everything), but this is about power and stealing other peoples work.

Comment · 10 months ago
I've decided to take a break from working on Pirsch Analytics (pirsch.io) until next year and focus on some side projects instead:

1. Shifu (https://github.com/emvi/shifu) - a code-based CMS with admin UI. It's really easy to set up, written in Go, free and open-source, and I already sold a few websites using it. It can be used as kind of a framework to build more specialized features into a website and takes away the maintenance hell from managing a WordPress installation or a similiar CMS with tons of plugins that break with every update.

2. Zenko (working title, repo is private for now) - a very simple and no-bullshit project management software. It will be free and open-source, but I might offer a hosted option for a few bucks (like $20/year for all users of a team). I mainly build this for ourself to replace Linear, because we don't really make use of it. Don't get me wrong, Linear is awesome, but we basically only need an advanced Todo list. Main goals:

* Pull updates on the dashboard by yourself, instead of receiving notifications all the time via email

* Keep it simple stupid - no unnecessary features, no AI, just the bare minimum

* Cheap (for the hosted version, free if self-hosted) and easy to host (again written in Go)

* No feature-creep

3. Last but not least, I'm working on a "game engine" written in Go and SDL2. I do this for fun, but it is coming along nicely and teached me a few new concepts already (like ECS in Go).

Comment · 11 months ago
On the plus side, this has prompted many people to finally switch to Linux. Even people I would never have thought would consider it are now thinking about it, or have already moved over. Companies are also recognising the issues with Microsoft.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'd say cats are already pretty much self-driven.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you for making ProtonDB! I use it a ton <3
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
It's not that hard, but there are a few pitfalls you can stumble into. I currently run three clusters for myself and have set some for clients in the past.

Some of the default config options are weird and SSL is something that needs to be addressed. Overall, still one of the easier DBs to maintain.

Comment · 1 year ago
I keep recommending it, but you can check out https://european-alternatives.eu/category/web-analytics-serv... for a more complete list of EU based web analytic services.

I'm one of the co-founders of Pirsch, and a bit worried because the space is getting really crowded :D

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