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Omg I love this, I wrote a very similar blog post last week! I would love to connect and chat @jsomers. Where can I message you? (My blog post btw if you’re curious https://bhave.s…

I wrote up a detailed breakdown of a small home server I’ve been running on a Raspberry Pi (~3W power draw, about $1/month). It started as a way to automate a weekly dance newslett…

Genuine question - I currently pay for ChatGPT Plus but I am wondering if I can just use Gemini for everything? What are the pros and cons in your experience. My main use cases are…

Hi hackers, my friends recently asked me to make a tutorial showing how to set up their phone with adblockers and dark mode. So I did! Hope it helps you browse the web more calmly.…

Hi hackers, I made a tutorial and video on 2 different ways (GUI and CLI) of installing MicroPython on an ESP32. Hope it's helpful to those of you who want to try out hardware/embe…

Yes whoops tactile

One important aspect missing is tactical feedback. The mouse, keyboard, and touchscreen all provide that but Vision Pro doesn’t. We have evolved several nervous system sensors (tou…

I totally agree with the “undemanding Canadians” view…so true! I moved here 12 years ago from Dubai and the demands/standards of business and service are way lower here. Pros are t…

My mind is so friggin blown, github will run arbitrary cron jobs for you?! Can't believe other services make you pay for that.

That's true, concurrency is becoming an important consideration and is probably why predictable and FP-oriented langs like Elixir, Rust, Clojure are having good growth. As for muta…

That's a really cool example of how it can work behind the scenes, thanks

Yes lazy evaluation is a good one. I believe Python does have that with its generators/yield syntax, but I found lazy evaluation simpler to work with in Haskell

Ah ok, thanks for clarifying that

Whenever I read a functional programming tutorial or course, it always sings the praises of how there's an amazing REPL you can use to experiment with your code, or it will teach h…

Damn, that’s a really detailed exposition of the whole mechanical Turk economy

Really cool! Is this intended for individual users or for keeping dev environment in sync across teams of people?

Distributed Energy Resources, or a fancy way of saying "solar, batteries, heat pumps, smart thermostats, etc", i.e. any distributed (as opposed to centralized) sources/users of ene…

We built a tool for Ontarians (Canada) to easily find permits for solar and battery energy projects. It can be complicated to fulfil the permitting requirements for all the differe…