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zefhous
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Exactly — it doesn’t matter how many “hidden” costs he finds to adds to the cost of owning for the article — the renter pays them all, plus the owner’s profit.
zefhous
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Just this morning I was missing Aperture and mentioned it to my kids. I was organizing some pictures with Photos.app and adding a tag or removing from an album takes about 5 seconds for the UI to visually represent my change. I have a decently big library but certainly not anomalous. Aperture made it so fast to organize and deal with photos.
zefhous
·hace 6 meses·discuss
Yup, the attachments with BOSL2 are really great. You can do a ton without much math at all, TBH.

https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2/wiki/attachments.scad#se...
zefhous
·hace 6 meses·discuss
My city utility provider used secured-server.biz for billing for a long time. I always thought it was hilarious and very suspicious looking.
zefhous
·hace 6 meses·discuss
https://zef.studio
zefhous
·el año pasado·discuss
How one defines “distorting markets” is an important question when it comes to defining policy, and not an un-contentious one.
zefhous
·el año pasado·discuss
Then one could dynamically and randomly choose which randomness beacon to use! I like it.
zefhous
·el año pasado·discuss
Uh... in-app purchases for $24 for a 24-hour license? $80 pay-per-count? The AI marketing images... Ugh.
zefhous
·el año pasado·discuss
Not gridfinity compatible, but I have a set of corner pieces that uses a similar concept. The majority of the material can be scrap acrylic, mdf, cardboard, etc. and you just print the corner pieces. Lids and stuff too.

https://www.printables.com/model/57813-boxkit-parts-for-maki...

3d printing is great, but a lot of wasted plastic if you print large organizers and stuff like that.
zefhous
·el año pasado·discuss
Part of what I think is rough is the framing of Postgres being "an alternative to Google’s Firebase" in the article. I mean, ok yeah they are both databases in a sense, but they are not the same thing at all. Firebase is a service and Postgres a database technology, and certainly not well-described as an alternative to Firebase by anyone competent in the industry. Lol.

I don't mean to demean "vibe coders" exactly either, but rather jumping on the hype train of using that term for your funding pitch. You're using AI to learn to become a software developer? Great! No problem with that.

But also — if you now have a database involved and you're handling people's data, you better learn what you're doing. A database provider pushing "vibe coding" is not a good look imo.
zefhous
·el año pasado·discuss
Oof this bit is rough!

> The startup supports Postgres, the most popular developer database system that’s an alternative to Google’s Firebase. Supabase’s goal: To be a one-stop backend for developers and "vibe coders."
zefhous
·el año pasado·discuss
Love this! I have been using hledger for a while now and have a pretty automated process for importing exported CSVs. I would love a little more automation in terms of pulling down the data, but on the bright side the manual process provides a good touch point to keep up on accounting regularly in small doses. This is great for just keeping an eye on things on a monthly basis.

I am starting a new business now and intend to see how far I can take plain text accounting in that context. I plan to use mercury for banking and want to automate as much as possible. I would also like to associate invoices that are stored in a self-hosted paperless-ngx instance.
zefhous
·hace 2 años·discuss
I have found a lot of great content available in Libby and Hoopla. I use my local library card, but am also able to get a card from a nearby larger city library, and between the two I have access to a lot of content and very soon in a lot of cases.
zefhous
·hace 2 años·discuss
I’m just here to fulfill the Hacker News rule that any post mentioning the Antikythera Mechanism must have a comment linking the excellent Clickspring build videos.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZioPDnFPNsHnyxfygxA0to4R...