LikeAnElephant

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by LikeAnElephant 5d ago
iTerm will always have a special place in my heart; I used it for years and years. I can't quite articulate why, it just feels outdated compared to apps Ghostty / other modern terminals. But I still type "iTer.." out of
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by LikeAnElephant 1mo ago
When I moved to herdr I specifically looked for a donate / purchase button on their website and it wasn't anywhere to be found (at least in a prominent location). I gladly donate / pay subscriptions to software I use regularl
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by LikeAnElephant 8mo ago
Really happy to hear this. I was tinkering with Dagger soon before the pivot to AI, and assumed this would not be solving my CI woes anytime soon. Focusing on CI would still enable the AI stuff too! But my use case is CI, no AI.
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by LikeAnElephant 1y ago
> mayflies debating politics Well said to that person. I think about this a lot, and have wondered if it's the advent of code school? Which itself was a result of the insane FAANG hiring sprees + salaries (where was a result of 0% i
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by LikeAnElephant 1y ago
Love audiobookshelf! Though I've struggled to find good copies of audiobooks that aren't ~$50...
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by LikeAnElephant 1y ago
Sounds like you've got it figured out then. Best of luck!
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by LikeAnElephant 1y ago
My broader point is that if you want to build a business there's a ton of opportunity if you're not overly picky on what that opportunity looks like. B2B, B2C, mobile, web, node, Python, PHP. None of it really matters. > You ar
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by LikeAnElephant 1y ago
I respectfully disagree that there’s no business opportunity that people are willing to pay for. If your only target are developers or the tech industry, maybe, but there’s a whole world of non technical business people with problems that h
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by LikeAnElephant 1y ago
Totally with you. If the plumber in my neighborhood can start a business with all their overhead, then why can’t I on a $5/mo Digital Ocean server? It really comes down to being willing to start small and grow within your means (even i
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by LikeAnElephant 1y ago
Or, you know, build a business that customers are willing to pay for… Spend less than you earn. Maybe get an SMB loan if the numbers work. This approach is older than the tech industry.
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by LikeAnElephant 2y ago
Can you say more about your LinkedIn approach? Are you posting content or cold outreach? Something else?
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by LikeAnElephant 2y ago
That's my understanding as well. Definitely will follow this, I was really disappointed when Maps.Me started getting enshittified. Hope it doesn't happen to Organic Maps as well.
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by LikeAnElephant 2y ago
Yep, I do. It's a baseline expectation in my experience when working within less technical industries.
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by LikeAnElephant 2y ago
Can you tell me more about your Portainer setup? Does it just update your app from an image or is it checking out code from a git repo on deploy? This approach sounds very interesting
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by LikeAnElephant 2y ago
> Axiom 2: You’re optimizing over a business, not over a codebase. Well said. Ultimately I think this is where much of the communication breakdown occurs when discussing Framework A vs Framework B online. If you’re optimizing for _code_,
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by LikeAnElephant 3y ago
Sorry for your friend, but this is what you call anecdotal evidence.
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by LikeAnElephant 3y ago
Do you have an example? I’d love to learn more!
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by LikeAnElephant 3y ago
Fully agreed on all counts! > ...but even zoomers are not tech savvy these days. Though I would actually challenge this. The idea I'm (slowly) building out deals with owners of a small blue collar type business. These people aren&#x
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by LikeAnElephant 3y ago
IMO many viable niches are not being discussed online at all. I’ve recently stumbled on an exciting niche that’s showing a lot of traction. The customers know very well how to use technology but the notion of joining forums / discussin
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by LikeAnElephant 3y ago
I think this mindset is vastly more harmful than an open source resume builder.
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by LikeAnElephant 3y ago
True - but I’ll choose to err on the side of being sad about the loss of life even if I don’t know all the details.
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by LikeAnElephant 3y ago
You absolutely can - so long as you don't get other people killed in the process. The CEO of this company convinced customers to join him on his death march, which IMO is a worth crying about.
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by LikeAnElephant 3y ago
Completely agree. I honestly always thought Django Templates mostly were Jinja2, until I looked more closely and realized how wrong I was. Since then I exclusively use Jinja2 in my Django apps and my life is so much better.
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by LikeAnElephant 3y ago
FYI I get a security error when going to the https of your site. I get an Apache message when going to http. Can't wait to check it out though once it's up!
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Ask HN: Why isn't Java/Kotlin seen as a contender for cross-platform apps?
3 points by LikeAnElephant 4y ago|3 comments
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by LikeAnElephant 4y ago
Amen. Mild weather + usually gray > extreme weather + usually sunny. Though I'd never fault someone for making different decisions. The fire season of the past few years are changing the equation for me though...
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by LikeAnElephant 4y ago
I only recently stumbled across your podcast, and I LOVED it. I really appreciated that many of your guests weren’t playing the startup game (ie VC funded) but were just people with an idea and were making a thing. I loved it! I listened to
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by LikeAnElephant 5y ago
There's the standard Hacker News response I was looking for
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by LikeAnElephant 5y ago
Another question: what type of placeholders / tokens does this support? I see ICU Message Format, but what about `%d` or `%s` type placeholders
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by LikeAnElephant 5y ago
It's almost universally bad practice to reference your TMS at runtime. There are always exceptions in G11N, but typically the best route is to either dump your translations into a property file or cache the translations somehow (in mem

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