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Hey HN! I recently built Tailor ( https://tailor.cryingpotato.com ) as a way to speed up the dev cycle that comes with tweaking a website. My workflow to tweak websites was pretty …

This is really neat! Is there a paid product backing this or planned for the future? I'm curious what motivates all the dev hours going into it.

I've always been conflicted about the DFW speech as a wonderful tool to think about how to live from a man who seemed to have led a pretty troubled life. I keep coming back to the …

Yeah I totally agree with this! The crux of the speech for me is "To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the troub…

You should be able to click on the title to get to it, but thanks for posting here too!

A piece I read at least twice a year to understand how creative work is done - "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled"

A perspective on population growth that I haven’t seen before. It’s very long, so the tl;dr as I understand it is: - Humanity has always survived through technological progress to …

That’s useful feedback, I’ll try to put up an explainer modal. Thanks for trying it!

Woah this is neat!!

Thanks a lot!

Thanks!

Me too - I put it off so much I went and built this first before trying the challenges!

Thanks for trying it out! I prefilled the answer for week 1 was to help people understand the boilerplate needed better, but maybe that was giving too much away. I'll try putting s…

Hey! I built a playground called Advent of Distributed Systems ( https://aods.cryingpotato.com/ ) where you can work through the Fly.io distributed systems challenges ( https://fly…