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by ejs 8mo ago
I always thought it was an interesting story, drove out there one day many years ago when I lived nearby. It was a dreary day, which added to the strangeness of the place. It's an interesting place because it's not that far from o
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by ejs 8mo ago
I've been experimenting (over 130 test batches so far) with creating an all-purpose balm (lip, hands... stuff). https://workingbalm.com I wanted something more useful to carry than typical gooey lips balm full of petroleum
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by ejs 1y ago
Otel stuff always seems overly complicated to me, but it must just be the types of projects I generally work with. Feels like observability meets java. I've dabbled in building a project that collects metrics from the logs for smaller
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by ejs 1y ago
I built a system for collecting metrics via logs and has worked well for my apps when I don't want to set up a whole separate system for it.
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by ejs 1y ago
I'm working on a tool to make tracking business metrics easy. [0] I've always had issues collecting business metrics like "signups per day" in observability tools, but using marketing type tools comes with it's own
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by ejs 1y ago
Since this is a timescaleDB topic, would timescale not work? (With a basic DB and a few continuous aggregates running in the background?)
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by ejs 1y ago
I've been using TimescaleDB for a while as a metrics datastore. It's really proven to be great for aggregating data without a lot of hassle (using continuous aggregates, retention policies, etc). I recommend it when you don't
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by ejs 1y ago
Yeah, understandable. I’ve actually never been a fan of the “correct usage” that forgoes any spacing around it. I find it crowded and jarring. I like to use a “thin space” around an em dash — it breaks it up without adding too much space.
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by ejs 1y ago
I like using the em dash, but I try to limit it now—because chatgpt loves it even more. Maybe it's for the better, some people seem to have strong opinions about it.
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by ejs 1y ago
As usual, isn't the next question... "What are you trying to build?" I build most projects in Elixir/Phoenix these days, but wouldn't flinch at ROR if you are comfortable with it.
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by ejs 2y ago
I love this, I've primarily been working in Elixir for a few years now and this is neat to see!
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by ejs 2y ago
Yeah, unfortunately this is true. A street near my house has a limit of 40mph and people would regularly drive 60 mph+, sometimes someone would pass me doing 65+mph (it's a no-passing residential road). Eventually someone died, and the
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by ejs 2y ago
I'm working on a solution for gathering product metrics and making sure applications keep running — when you don't want to install or maintain a lot of extra stuff. https://flexlogs.com ... also continuing to not add
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by ejs 2y ago
Glad I'm not the only one that feels this way. For a small application when you just want some metrics and observability, it's a big burden to get it all working. On my own projects, I send the metrics I care about out through the
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by ejs 2y ago
Yeah - that's my thought too, the service I use them for is not something people often log into. Sometimes never.
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by ejs 2y ago
I usually implement the whole username/password auth flow, but recently used only magic links for a simple application. Since the application only sends a weekly email (a markdown template for goal/task tracking) it seemed easier
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by ejs 2y ago
I had a sacrificial fence (wood) on the aluminum fence to reduce blowout. I had the aluminum extend to near the blade to reduce the deflection of the whole thing. It was too close. Really, I should have sacrificed a crosscut sled for dado u
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by ejs 2y ago
I love my sawstop, it's a great machine. Often times when a product has some patent-protected feature, the product itself is substandard, but I have not found that case with sawstop. It's one of my highest quality tools. It would
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by ejs 2y ago
Took too much time
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by ejs 2y ago
This is great. I used to avoid burl when I would make wood rings [1]. It's just very hard to predict how it'll behave if you try to steam bend it. [1] https://woodaround.com
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by ejs 2y ago
Maybe prefill it with an example? It's hard to know at first glance if it's real or not. Many of these things end up abandon on the web, so it's hard to know the real ones that still work.
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Astronomy Calendar Personalized to Location(nightsonearth.com)
2 points by ejs 2y ago|0 comments
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by ejs 2y ago
Thanks! A bit of both, sometimes todos have to die I figure, so I just let them fall off the back.
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by ejs 2y ago
Thanks for checking it out! Yeah, currently I am just copy/pasting the Yearly Goals section over. I want to eventually add a feature to allow someone signed up for the email to edit that part. Then someone could modify that goal sectio
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by ejs 2y ago
Every application that I've worked on has had blind spots, or forgotten lands of code. Things like “how often do people actually use this feature?” …or… “does this code still run every night?”. I made something to track those things ea
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by ejs 2y ago
Working on cleaning up my wood shop and trying to finishing my hand-tool wall. Also building an easier way to add real-time metrics and monitoring to web applications: https://flexlogs.com Also, this little side project for less
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Show HN: I made a simple tool to generate a new task/goal list each Monday(carpeweekem.com)
1 points by ejs 2y ago|0 comments
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by ejs 2y ago
I do the same, and I'll probably automate it soon since I use a fresh markdown doc. The only thing that remains the same is the header has 'yearly goals'. It's easy and I can jettison the previous week's unfinished
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by ejs 2y ago
Building this with Elixir: https://flexlogs.com I've always found adding custom metrics and monitoring to applications to be a big hassle, so I'm experimenting with one that uses the log stream instead of agents/d
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by ejs 2y ago
I had these issues before for plenty of things, it just hurts the most when it's something non-essential. I've had outtages because silly system updates to slack broke and took things down. I run metrics and such out through logs

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