Hah I just had to chime in here, blast from the past for me as well! Dan Cederholm was my guiding light when I was learning CSS and semantic HTML. I used to View Source and study the code behind SimpleBits :)
Agree with the mass adoption part. Back then I was so hopeful for what the web might become... The days before social media blowing up.
Thank you for the response here. Not being able to upgrade the machine without completely re-indexing has actually become a huge issue for me. My use case is that I need to upgrade the machine to perform a big indexing operation that happens all at once and then after that reduce the machine resources. Typesense has future plans to persist the index to disk but it's not on the road map yet. And with the indexing improvements, Meilisearch may be a viable option for my use case now. I'll be checking this out!
I haven't tried those features but I did try Meilisearch awhile back and I found Typesense to index much faster (which was a bottleneck for my particular use case) and also have many more features to control search/ranking. Although just to say, my use case was not typical for search and I'm sure Meilisearch has come a long way since then, so this is not to speak poorly of Meilisearch, just that Typesense is another great option.
On one hand you have a potentially infinite variety of people and on the other you have a practice that works for just some of those people. And every practice that works for just some people, there are others taking advantage of that fact by saying, "Hey this works for everyone", being generally scammy to get people to sign up for something and make money. After all, capitalism justifies and awards that. But outside of economic motivation, on a much more personal level, the practice might actually work REALLY well for SOME people. And this applies to a lot of things.
When it comes to mindfulness, in my experience, for SOME people, their mind is so far overthinking things. About themselves, about the people around them, every possible factor in life is fair game really. This can end up causing anxiety and impulses to take control of actions. It's possible to have so much physical tension built up all around the body all the time that it feels shut down. In these cases, learning how to just close your eyes and let go of all those thoughts and all that tension... in your face, in your shoulders, around your hips... bringing your mind away from those thoughts and that tension by focusing on your slowwww breath, might just bring you to a place of comfort that you didn't realize was possible. In the end what all of this represents is stress. For someone who has stress and benefits from this practice, it's an actual battle to let go of the thoughts and tension. But if you get there, you have a whole new level of growth you can do from there. In that case, this practice feels like a super power. So you might want to let everyone know. But if none of this applies to you, it will probably look like a scam.
Agree with the mass adoption part. Back then I was so hopeful for what the web might become... The days before social media blowing up.