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litestream is good for this.

Yeah it’s all a pain. One thing that helped was using hotwire native. It is basically a web view but it bridges the mobile app with your website and wraps it into a mobile app. Thi…

Litestream solves the backup issue. I use it and it’s great.

Yes, you'll be hard pressed to find any Canadians at any fast food restaurants now. It's a common scam to pay a Tim Hortons owner 20-30k and he'll make you a manager at the franchi…

Hi, I used to work at a startup in Toronto that did compete against ticketmaster called Uniiverse. In the end they go bought out by ticketmaster. I don't know the details because I…

I use planning mode in opencode. It has a prompt to tell it to plan it out etc. Then I execute with a smaller model. it works well

Basically means, “good enough” attitude.

Which product?

Kamal works well

I didn't know sqlite had a vector extension. I'm also using nomic 1.5 with 256 size vectors. After about 44k entries searching is way too slow. I'm thinking about reducing the size…

https://bendangelo.me I blog about learning Chinese, game development, Ruby on rails and self hosting.

When the Nintendo Switch became hackable, ie can play any game, Nintendo saw a massive decrease in sales in Spain. Btw people in Spain pirate the most games in Europe. The decrease…

I’ve done something like this before. Meilisearch will not be viable, because it indexes very slow and it takes up a lot of space. In my experience only Tantivy can index this much…

I'm working on an open-source Pivotal Tracker. I just started a week ago but if anyone is interested in following please checkout the repo: https://github.com/bendangelo/Iterator I…

It's Ruby like syntax is awesome. It reads like psuedo code.

This is dead. I recommend Kokoro TTS https://huggingface.co/spaces/hexgrad/Kokoro-TTS

There are bots that scrape https registration sites thats how they usually find you.

Most gems with native extensions won't work. Gems that listen to filesystem changes like guard can be buggy. I recommend using Mac or Linux for Ruby on Rails development.

Use rvm to install ruby. Ruby dev sucks on Windows, mac only.

I worked at a startup that tried to compete with them. Eventually we just sold to them. I don’t know the details sorry.

This won't down vote everything. Votes get throttled, so I guess a setTimeout has to be used.

I unsubscribed from all emails and still get them.

Yes there is Cling for c++. Its really awesome. http://blog.coldflake.com/posts/2012-08-09-On-the-fly-C%2B%2...