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Edward is a webapp for writing novels. I built and launched it over the last six months as a side project. The app was made with Vue, Node, and PostgreSQL. There's an unlimited-tim…

This reminded me, I keep wondering why the tamarind fruit has been left out of Western cuisine. You find trace amounts in Worcestershire sauce and the occasional Indian dish and yo…

Huh.

This is harsh, but true. I've never heard a successful founder say "I don't know, I just wanted to start a company with my friends and get rich." Every dang middle-schooler in the …

Impressive. What area/industry are you in that you can find accommodations like this?

Around here anything above 15 is a lot.

It's a Utah company called DirectScale. The company is really great, but some circumstances surrounding the product and work environment were making me feel really unproductive. Wh…

That is not always the case. My last job had unlimited PTO and some of us took 20+ days per year.

I left a startup job recently. They did a stellar job handling it. They spent a day or so making offers to get me to stay, then the remainder of my last two weeks listening to my r…

A year later, SpitScript is back with: - TypeScript annotations everywhere - Unit tests (via AVA) - Several bugfixes for line comments, block comments, and more It's more useful th…

Devil's advocate: How about an issue/PR tracker that lets users pay for priority? A simple bidding system. If BigCorp International is willing to pay $200/hour for IE10 support, th…

This. I love my California King. Wouldn't trade it for anything.

1. I'm very suspicious of studies whose main metric is self-reported happiness. Do people know how happy they are? Is that measure consistent enough over the course of a day to be …

Yeah, it might need to be a custom-made camera, made for news organizations and wealthy vloggers. And each device would need to be audited regularly. It would be a nightmare but no…

This demonstrates an immediate need for a trustworthy video hosting service--maybe with a companion app that records using some combination of crypto/proprietary formats/trust netw…

Apologies for the random italics. I meant to add asterisks indicating that names had been changed.

A true story for your consideration: One of my first jobs was as a dishwasher at a pasta shop. A few of my friends worked there and helped me land the job. One of them, Kevin , was…

This is a valuable discussion to me right now. At work I've been tasked with looking into a number of front end frameworks (Angular 4, React, Vue, Aurelia and Mithril) to see if we…

The Exploratorium is a huge hands-on science museum. Everything sciencey that you could ever want to touch (or never imagined touching) is there. It's slightly geared toward the yo…

Thanks for advocating the other side. I've played and enjoyed Splendor, but never saw it as a resource-management eurogame. As far as Speicherstadt, I'll have to try it. My opinion…

Lol, thanks for calling that one out. When I talk about "counters" here, what I mean is all those tokens players use to track 17 kinds of "resources" in the stereotypical modern eu…