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As I understand it, Tiller is basically a wrapper around Yodlee with some spreadsheet integration. I've found pulling the data from the spreadsheets into beancount/fava isn't too b…

Thank you. It's gotta be the worst graph I've seen in multiple years. Like someone just overlayed some axes on a desk.

Doctorow left BoingBoing in 2020 if Wikipedia is to be believed (though that roughly tracks with my memory). He's been doing his own thing on Pluralistic ever since.

I think it's much more likely that bad sales will be tooled away/become obsolete. The Salesforce hygiene points hit especially hard for me. That said, I hear a lot about how smart …

I'm surprised to see a lot of people here skipping over why Zulip needs to write this article. Building a chat app brings you pretty quickly into the digital identity and presence …

I'm always surprised that people don't cite the economic and physical limits for the metaverse more often. Light only moves so fast through cables. Average ping time between New Yo…

Been using Obsidian for a few months. The thing that's most impressive to me is that the plugin community is constantly building radical new things you can do... seemingly every we…

So I started taking a course recently based on an HN post about putting everything in org-mode: https://tasshin.com/blog/implementing-a-second-brain-in-emac... What I found pretty …

The efficiency measure sure seems dangerously misleading. My SC high school didn't have the budget to replace broken tables (which were simply overturned until a handy-ish student …

If anyone is interested in some of the deeper rationale behind SQLite and such, the FLOSS Weekly episode on this was pretty good. https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/320

I've started and stopped a number of times. Mostly I don't have an itch to scratch that pushes me to make anything interesting. I find myself particularly struggling when language …

My experience is that people tend to hate the employer, not the employee. Less, "You make more than me? You earn too much!" and more "You make more than me? I should be paid more!"…

I'm sure there are some legitimate points to be made on this front (indexing methods and such), but this piece reads to me like a giant justification for active brokers and their f…

For those that didn't read the article, I think the crux of it is here: > The subtext here is that cretinism is acceptable, but being a target is not. If you’re a total dick who on…

I really liked org-mode for a while. The key features for me were the plain-text nature of it and easy outline manipulation. That said, I got frustrated by how little else interact…

I find it very difficult to take a shareholder seriously when his advice is for a company is to give up, sell all their assets, and give them to... ahem ... shareholders. Sure, the…

My academic wife's impression of the idea is that while eliminating bad heuristics can be good, there are also good heuristics that come with name recognition. In particular, it's …

They say we are all the heroes of our own stories... maybe that should be more strongly considered in the context of these shootings.

I started out using org mode for a while, but I've come to scale it back to a series of markdown files because I just never used the advanced stuff.

> Hugo now supports dynamic reloading of the config file when watching. As one just starting with Hugo and still tweaking stuff, this is probably my favorite new feature.

That the reasoning is fallacious doesn't make the conclusion incorrect. I could argue that 1+1=2 because when I looked directly into the sun today both my eyes closed. The reasonin…

The article is published by the same group that's building tools to help with this exact problem. [1] [1] http://nytlabs.com/projects/editor.html

I think a lot of these ideas in here are awesome... but I don't see how they're different from the basic semantic web concepts that have been tossed around for years now.

> [Logging:] I can’t be the only one who thinks this area is lacking its Stripe equivalent. Can I ask you to expand on this a little? There are a bunch of cloud log management solu…