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by figbert 15d ago
You must have skin in the game. The real shame shall be cast upon those without the courage to try, not those who fail. Or, put another way: > I don't see how you can hate from outside of the club. You can't even get in!
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by figbert 16d ago
Nick is great! Met him at the Recurse Center. Brilliant designer.
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Using Unicode Half-Stars Symbols in Ratings(kvibber.com)
2 points by figbert 25d ago|0 comments
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Studio by Spotify Labs(labs.spotify.com)
1 points by figbert 26d ago|0 comments
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by figbert 1mo ago
Extremely relevant: https://www.hoover.org/research/biosecurity-really-strategy-...
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Base Power Company: Manufacturing the Capability Cannon(notboring.co)
2 points by figbert 1mo ago|0 comments
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by figbert 1mo ago
Base Power is, at present, installing nearly 100 40kWh batteries on homes per day throughout Texas and the Chicago area. It is doubling total deployed capacity approximately every six months (currently at a bit over 0.6GWh total, to hit 1
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by figbert 1mo ago
Well he's clearly getting funding from somewhere. Look at how his bin has improved over the years!
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by figbert 1mo ago
Installing on people’s houses isn’t just about install costs (the numbers for which above I highly doubt). There’s a huge additional benefit, and cost reducing factor, that comes from installing storage where grid connection already exist
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Lab 6(lab6.com)
2 points by figbert 2mo ago|0 comments
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by figbert 3mo ago
Reminds me of one of my favorite games: Hacknet ( https://hacknet-os.com - https://store.steampowered.com/app/365450/Hacknet/ ). Likely contributed in a meaningful way to me becoming a programmer. I
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by figbert 3mo ago
Matt Webb made a version of this (and wrote about it) a while back—Cursor Party: https://interconnected.org/home/2024/09/05/cursor-party I contemplated implementing it on my site for a while but decided
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Gleam v1.17.0(gleam.run)
132 points by figbert 4mo ago|19 comments
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by figbert 4mo ago
My understanding of Palantir's actual, technical offering is profoundly boring: a hosted platform that connects to existing diverse sources of data and organizes them according to well-defined (by Palantir's FDEs) useful schemas.
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by figbert 4mo ago
It's not a technical issue but a UX one. It would be a pain to set up pushing via SSH to a knot container on my server because I am use SSH for the host already. And specifying a port is ugly. Doing this over the internet negates all t
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by figbert 4mo ago
Well said, in particular the last sentence: IIRC at the time I was seeking to delete a repo that I had made accidentally so as to clean up my profile.
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by figbert 4mo ago
I discovered Radicle back in 2020 (when their website looked incredible: https://web.archive.org/web/20201201030505/https://radicle.x... ). I bounced off of it, in part due to being unable to effectively
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by figbert 8mo ago
Location: Palo Alto, CA, USA Remote: Much prefer in-person but if compelling I can be flexible Willing to relocate: Yes, anywhere in the world Technologies: Software (Go, Swift, Gleam, Ruby, Python, WebDev, Deployment), Hardware
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by figbert 8mo ago
https://figbert.com coolest damn site on the net
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by figbert 9mo ago
Invest in an ad blocker.
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by figbert 1y ago
I was tricked into trying Gleam earlier this summer, and really liked it! I anticipate that I will at least use it for all future web projects (one example: https://github.com/FIGBERT/bdab ) due to my serious JavaScript
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by figbert 2y ago
Made something similar that is probably my proudest work: https://figbert.com/projects/roll-call/ I increasingly have come to believe that it is the screen itself that lies at the root of the ills of technology. I
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Receipts: Explore holistic summary statistics from your texts(getreceipts.app)
2 points by figbert 2y ago|0 comments
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Jelly: A Better Shared Inbox(letsjelly.com)
2 points by figbert 2y ago|0 comments
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by figbert 2y ago
Coolest page on the site: https://meatfighter.com/ascii-silhouettify/color-gallery.htm...
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When you're driving you're re-enacting an ancient space combat SIM(interconnected.org)
17 points by figbert 2y ago|14 comments
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by figbert 2y ago
Appreciate the recommendation, will check out the course!
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by figbert 3y ago
my personal favorite hacker news tui: https://github.com/bensadeh/circumflex
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by figbert 3y ago
Is there a link to a version of this that's still live? Would love to check it out.
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by figbert 3y ago
I live in the terminal and recently found https://github.com/maaslalani/invoice , which looks really cool. Still will likely stick with my own solution (a little ruby and some tectonic latex [ https://tectonic

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