wjrb
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Some nits/notes:
- Browser history seems to go in a circle (at least in Chrome); try use the browser's native "back" arrow a few times after clicking through the link you shared from HN.
- Transition animations and element "load-in" animations make the whole thing feel slow and hard to use. As it is, I'm frustrated trying to look through recipes or moving through pages.
In-the-trenches experience (especially "good" or "doing it right" experience) can be hard to come by; and why not stand on the shoulders of giants when learning it the first time?
Strong agreement. I can confirm for other readers that the day I realized this --- "Oh, rejection means nothing!" --- was a weird day. It takes a weight off.
And it is true across every other field. There are way more factors external to the "you" of the decision, and they're given more weight than the "you" of the decision. This is one of those cases where you only need to experience the "other side of the table" once for it to click.
Companies that are more humane in their hiring practices (even just actually send a rejection email vs. ghosting) deserve a bit of credit, because caring for the applicant is not a KPI.
I was just using Worldtimebuddy[0] yesterday to get times for about 15 different cities and order them. A single view in WTB caps out at 10 or so locations, so I had to manually manage them.
This is a much nicer/more modern looking UI, but there are a few things missing that would make it killer for me:
- Pick the date and time in a certain zone, set all zones relative to that (set 2:00pm in San Francisco on September 5, 2025; see what time it is in all the other locations)
- An export of the current view as structured data, or even better, as text
Having a more Obsidian-native interface for managing all of that is. Like other commenters, would definitely watch a video of you sharing your Obsidian "build" for that use-case.
It allows inline blocks in the `key:: value` format, as well as frontmatter-based data (sort of what Bases are doing) and probably even more.
I hope the API has support to allow extensions---I see that it is on the Roadmap[0].
I'm particularly interested to see how this integrates with Canvas and other note types.
Echoing what others say: it was very cool, went quickly at first, but within a few weeks, progress slowed because I just couldn't ingest the new information as quickly, even when doing two "blocks" a day.
It is superior to the free tier of Khan Academy.
I don't know if it's superior to textbooks and problem sets in a self-study capacity.
I found it better than the (highly rated) math education I partially received in HS.