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I always thought it was an interesting story, drove out there one day many years ago when I lived nearby. It was a dreary day, which added to the strangeness of the place. It's an …

I've been experimenting (over 130 test batches so far) with creating an all-purpose balm (lip, hands... stuff). https://workingbalm.com I wanted something more useful to carry than…

Otel stuff always seems overly complicated to me, but it must just be the types of projects I generally work with. Feels like observability meets java. I've dabbled in building a p…

I built a system for collecting metrics via logs and has worked well for my apps when I don't want to set up a whole separate system for it.

I'm working on a tool to make tracking business metrics easy. [0] I've always had issues collecting business metrics like "signups per day" in observability tools, but using market…

Since this is a timescaleDB topic, would timescale not work? (With a basic DB and a few continuous aggregates running in the background?)

I've been using TimescaleDB for a while as a metrics datastore. It's really proven to be great for aggregating data without a lot of hassle (using continuous aggregates, retention …

Yeah, understandable. I’ve actually never been a fan of the “correct usage” that forgoes any spacing around it. I find it crowded and jarring. I like to use a “thin space” around a…

I like using the em dash, but I try to limit it now—because chatgpt loves it even more. Maybe it's for the better, some people seem to have strong opinions about it.

As usual, isn't the next question... "What are you trying to build?" I build most projects in Elixir/Phoenix these days, but wouldn't flinch at ROR if you are comfortable with it.

I love this, I've primarily been working in Elixir for a few years now and this is neat to see!

Yeah, unfortunately this is true. A street near my house has a limit of 40mph and people would regularly drive 60 mph+, sometimes someone would pass me doing 65+mph (it's a no-pass…

I'm working on a solution for gathering product metrics and making sure applications keep running — when you don't want to install or maintain a lot of extra stuff. https://flexlog…

Glad I'm not the only one that feels this way. For a small application when you just want some metrics and observability, it's a big burden to get it all working. On my own project…

Yeah - that's my thought too, the service I use them for is not something people often log into. Sometimes never.

I usually implement the whole username/password auth flow, but recently used only magic links for a simple application. Since the application only sends a weekly email (a markdown …

I had a sacrificial fence (wood) on the aluminum fence to reduce blowout. I had the aluminum extend to near the blade to reduce the deflection of the whole thing. It was too close.…

I love my sawstop, it's a great machine. Often times when a product has some patent-protected feature, the product itself is substandard, but I have not found that case with sawsto…

Took too much time

This is great. I used to avoid burl when I would make wood rings [1]. It's just very hard to predict how it'll behave if you try to steam bend it. [1] https://woodaround.com

Maybe prefill it with an example? It's hard to know at first glance if it's real or not. Many of these things end up abandon on the web, so it's hard to know the real ones that sti…

Thanks! A bit of both, sometimes todos have to die I figure, so I just let them fall off the back.

Thanks for checking it out! Yeah, currently I am just copy/pasting the Yearly Goals section over. I want to eventually add a feature to allow someone signed up for the email to edi…

Every application that I've worked on has had blind spots, or forgotten lands of code. Things like “how often do people actually use this feature?” …or… “does this code still run e…