- Vibe coding is a great for 'home cooked software.' Lots of people are making tools that fill a particular need for themselves.
https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
As for sharing a tool that someone else has made that's useful, I don't think most people are advertising that the tools they've built are vibe-coded, so it would be hard to know what to share.
- I love how clean it is!
One personal use case that I'd love to see supported (when you get your mobile apps implemented) is the ability to add articles via the 'share' shortcuts. I get mailing lists with links, and I don't want to stop to read an article while clearing out my inbox. So if a link looks interesting, I use the 'share' feature to add it to Pocket, and then I'll go back to it later -- without opening my browser.
- I tried to do exactly that once. I was offering between $20-$40 per image to make a few coloring pages as a mother's day gift for my wife. Not complex images either -- just basic coloring pages from photos of my wife and child, without backgrounds, for my kids to color in.
I reached out to multiple artists, and got one image back (from a good friend). I gave up on commissioning actual artists, and traced the images myself on a tablet. I imagine someone with the right knowledge of where to find artists and the willingness to wait on their schedule could have done it faster, but I'd have used this service if it had been around.
- I imagine asking would likely do the trick. As an escalation, considering we're paying them to hold these people, we could threaten to stop paying them. They're not locking up our detainees out of the goodness of their heart.
- "No amount of success at work makes up for failure at home."
I suppose 60 hours might be a good spot for someone who doesn't have a family and isn't interested in having one.
- I'd use Familysearch Memories. There are limitations on what you can upload (15mb per PDF or image file), but it's entire purpose is to preserve family history for as long as possible.
https://www.familysearch.org/memories/
It's a service provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (of which I'm a member), which considers preserving family history to be a core tenet. To the point of storing family history records in the Granite Mountain Vault (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite_Mountain_(Salt_Lake_Co...)
- If the author reads this, I'd like to suggest a change in font. At certain scales, the website's font puts emphasis on the cross-bar in the letter 'e', and the letter 'g'. It's incredibly distracting, and only seems to happen at certain scales, as I could 'fix' it by increasing/decreasing the font size.
I'd message this directly, but she doesn't provide a method of contact on the site (reasonable).
- There’s an interesting museum in Cody, Wyoming that has thousands of guns, including some very interesting ones like whaling guns from the 1800s. Well worth a visit if you have an interest in firearms, especially from the ‘Wild West’ era!
It’s also one of a set of four museums, all of which are very interesting: Art, Natural History, Firearms, and Buffalo Bill.
- Is anyone aware of any good iPad apps for writing notes in shorthand, then converting to text? I currently use an app called Nebo to write notes and journal entries, then convert them to text before uploading into other systems. It works well, and I really appreciate being able to get away from a keyboard, but I'm a much slower writer than typist.
- Drive north (mountains on your right) until you get to 900 North, take a right, and drive down until you get to #1259.
As opposed to finding 'Oak Terrace', when a map book has 4 pages of 'Oak St' and its variants (a problem I ran into pre-GPS in Orlando)
- Am I understanding correctly that the enterprise license allows offline scanning, but that it's not possible for the standard tiers?
I'm using one of the other commercial offerings for a side project, and the one we went with was largely chosen based on its capacity to work in dead zones in our service area. This looks like an interesting alternative if it's also able to scan when the internet drops out.
- It's actually quite public. The 'raw' doctrinal backing comes from 'Doctrine and Covenants, Section 89': https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/history/topics/wor...
Clarifications as to what the 'hot drinks' section means has come over time, generally being shared during the twice-annual General Conference. The most prominent call came in 1921.
You can read more about it here: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/revelations...
- Unschooling works for some, mostly those who have a desire to self-direct. That's not everyone. Some need the assistance of external structure to be successful, and if left entirely on their own will gravitate to less useful things -- consumption that doesn't lead to creation.
Personally, I was homeschooled for a few years of my elementary education, and it helped me jump far ahead of my peers. My siblings homeschooled for a smaller portion of their education, and didn't find it useful. While their academic level didn't drop below their peers, it wasn't enjoyable and they were quite happy to go back to public school.
- You might look into a trainer for a few sessions. I'm in a similar situation, and just getting back into lifting with a set of at-home weights. Thankfully, one of my company benefits is an in-house trainer who you can sign up with for a few remote sessions. She's putting together a plan for me, then will do a few zoom calls to make sure I'm doing the exercises right, and hopefully that'll take care of things.
Years ago, I used a trainer in a gym to kickstart a plan, and I found it very useful.
- Could be a person testing out stolen cards with a low-value purchase, to verify that the cards are legitimate. They then can use them elsewhere for much larger purchases.
- Let me explain a bit more of the procedures, and it may explain why I think this is at least one factor (though I agree that more buildings also means there will be more shoddy buildings in absolute terms, even if the percentage of shoddy buildings stays the same).
In the US architectural process, an architect specifies a particular material (say a roof sealant) that has certain characteristics. During construction, the contractor will look at the material, check its price, and then use their suppliers to see what the best available deal is. The contractor identifies another roof sealant that's half the price. Because they've bid on the project for a fixed price, if they can use that other product and cut their costs, they'll increase their profit margin. So they put in a change request and submit the new product with its data. The architect may review it, see that it is functionally the same as their specified product, and approve it. Or they may look at it and determine that while they're both roof sealants, the specified one has a 10 year lifespan, and the proposed alternate has a 2 year lifespan. They reject it, and the builder uses the specified material.
Without the architect verifying that the material is comparable, the contractor (intentionally or not) will use a lower-quality material that will lessen the quality of the building, because there are no checks in place.
- The Architect of Record isn't just signing off on paint colors and finish quality, but on things like the seals around windows, flashing on roofing elements, fireproofing on the structural elements, and many more aspects of the building process. In the US, the vast majority of lawsuits around buildings are due to water infiltration, which is affected by these sorts of issues. The building may not collapse if the architect isn't reviewing it, but the walls and roof might.
That said, I'm not certain that engineers are in a different situation. Judging by videos I've seen of collapsing buildings and other issues, I wouldn't be surprised if structural, electrical, plumbing, and other engineers also hand over their designs in the beginning, and then leave it to the developer / contractor to interpret them and 'value-engineer' as they see fit.
- This is anecdotal, but back when I was working in architecture (10ish years ago), I visited the principal of our Chinese sister firm in Beijing, and we walked around and talked about his experience as a native Chinese architect with experience working in the US.
His greatest frustration was the lack of quality in the finished buildings he'd design. As he put it, the designs that Chinese firms were putting out were just as high quality as anything in the rest of the world, but the end result was always worse. It was largely procedural -- in the US, the architect is involved not only during the initial design phases, but throughout the project, and is responsible approving any changes and for certifying that the result matches the intent. In China, that's not the case -- they make a design, bundle it up, and then hand everything over the contractor. The contractor then makes whatever changes they want during the construction process, without any input from the architects. This means materials may get changed, the wrong construction methods may be used, etc, and no-one knows. From a distance, the building will look amazing, but the details will have been skimped on.
- Convenience. Renting from a rental shop involved ordering online using a bad UI, showing up at an office, waiting in line, getting told the car you'd requested isn't available, would you like this instead, would you like to buy more insurance, make sure to bring it back with a full tank, and you're paying for a full day, even if you just need groceries from costco.
Zipcar involved looking for the nearest location in the app (typically a few blocks away, if near SF), picking your car and timeframe, showing up, and driving away. Fuel is included, just use the included credit card. No human contact or upselling required, and you can return the car at 3am.
If you only need a car for a few hours, Zipcar is much more efficient than a traditional rental.
- The asynchronous nature of email is useful. If I get a chat message in slack or teams, I generally assume a response is needed immediately. If I get a notification, I'll drop what I'm working on, and respond to their question.
With email, there's no expectation of that, at least not at my company. If you send an email, you expect a response sometime between the next few hours and the next few days. The only notification is a flag on my email client, which is easily ignored until I'm at a stopping point and can dedicate time to the question.
- I recall Hong Kong's solution, at least when I was there a decade ago. You had the Metro with fixed rails for core routes, then double-decker buses that went to additional areas in large loops. Next were the green minibuses that had small loops, branching off from the other services. After that were red minibuses, which had specific pickup locations, then would drop you off anywhere nearby. All of which could be paid for using the same Octopus card.
It was great.
- Autodesk - Senior Technical Consultant (Full-Stack Dev) | REMOTE (US) | Full-time | www.autodesk.com
Autodesk makes it possible to design the world. We have products likes AutoCAD, Inventor, Fusion360, Revit, Civil3D, 3ds Max, Maya, Recap...basically, if something needs to be designed in 3D, we probably have a software product for it.
I'm on the consulting team, where we design and write custom software to help the largest Architecture, Engineering, and Construction companies in the world use our products. Right now, we're looking for people with web experience, to help build solutions targeting our Forge APIs. .NET and React experience is preferred, though we do use other technologies as well.
We build lots of short projects (probably an average length of 3 months, with 2-6 projects at a time). Often this will include talking to stakeholders, designing a solution, writing the code, then helping the customer to deploy the solution in their environment. There's a lot of autonomy in your day to day work, with a good support structure of project managers and account teams to let you focus on actual work, not busy work.
If you have experience with the AEC industry, that's a plus.
Feel free to reach out to me at daniel@clayson.io if you'd like to learn more and get a referral link, or you can see the full description and apply here: https://autodesk.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Ext/details/Sen...
Compensation is negotiable. The official target base pay is $127,000.
- Autodesk - Senior Technical Consultant (full-stack dev) | Remote (US) | Full-time | www.autodesk.com
Autodesk makes it possible to design the world. We have products likes AutoCAD (the most famous CAD software in the world), Revit (building design), Civil3D (roadway and site design), 3ds Max, Maya, Inventor, Recap...basically, if it needs to be designed, we probably have a software product for it. Overall, a great place to work -- good benefits, interesting work, friendly people. We tend to have a lot of 'boomerang' employees -- people work here, head off to try something new, and then come back a few years later.
I'm on the consulting team, where we design and write custom software to help the largest Architecture, Engineering, and Construction companies in the world use our products.
We build lots of short projects (probably an average length of 3 months, with 2-6 projects at a time). Often this will include talking to stakeholders, designing a solution, writing the code, then helping the customer to deploy the solution in their environment.
We need people with full-stack web development experience, especially .NET and React. If you have experience with the AEC industry, that's a plus.
Feel free to reach out to me at daniel@clayson.io if you'd like to learn more and get a referral link, or you can see the full description and apply here: https://autodesk.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Ext/job/Colorad...
Compensation is negotiable. The official target base pay is $127,000.
- I'm a consultant who fills out a timecard every week. I made an integration for Toggl (https://track.toggl.com) that summarizes my week, and makes it easier to transfer my time into the timecard. It's mostly for my personal use, though a few coworkers also use it.
- https://www.clayson.io
I built it back when I was doing my last job hunt, as I figured I ought to have some sort of presence, and I wanted to do something simple and clean. I keep intending to go back and use some css to remove the limited amount of javascript on the site.
- A few years back, I caught a ride with a cattle rancher while hitchhiking across South Dakota. We stopped by another rancher's property to give him an estimate of how his cows would sell at market. While we were there, we got to talking about how he'd pulled the cows off of one of his fields, and planted corn instead. Thanks to subsidies, it was more profitable to do that, even though herding cattle is really what he wanted to be doing.
- Slaves taken from Africa seem to be about 12 million over the course of 400 years. Churchill apparently was responsible for about 1.5 million dying by famine, plus another 2-3 million by epidemics (this is dwarfed by the up to 73 million that died by famine in the 200 years of British rule that preceded Churchill). Native Americans who died by colonialism is harder to count, because of very poor estimates of how many people were around before 1492 -- estimates range from 15 million inhabitants to 145 million. Current estimates seem to be about 100 million dying as a result of both disease and intentional genocide over the course of 500 years.
Put all of those deaths together, and we'll say
So all that to say, a lot of people have died in the things you've named, coming out to a little under 1 million per year. So dozens of millions dying per year is still a staggeringly large number (though helped along by how many people lived in the 20th century, compared to earlier centuries -- I didn't compare using a percentage of the world population.)
- Speaking as a member of the church, I've heard the position that, when in financial difficulty, first rely on family (where applicable), then rely on what's available through the government (which includes food stamps, unemployment benefits, etc), and finally rely on the church. I wouldn't see an issue with someone receiving aid from all three sources, even at the same exact time -- if a person qualifies for food stamps, then the church can spend an equivalent amount helping someone else, and perhaps help with other bills regardless.
- Yes and no. One way to think of it is as a redistribution of wealth -- while some locations are pushing larger amounts of money into the system, others are undoubtedly receiving more than they give. The end result is that everyone, regardless of the affluence of their neighborhood, gets a perfectly acceptable building and environment in which to learn.
Thinking about the US education specifically...imagine if we handled finances that way? Schools are largely paid for by local property taxes, so the rich areas get well funded schools, and the poor areas get poorly funded schools. If it was centralized and balanced, the rich schools might not get as many 3d printers, but perhaps the poor schools could get books. It might not be fair in the sense that those that pay more should get more, but it would be fair if your end goal is balance and charity.
I suppose this makes some sense. In a worst case situation, if every customer makes 10-20 transactions per year, and they always round down the maximum possible amount, they would lose millions per year.