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I lived in Chicago for about a decade, and around 2017 to 2023 I set a goal of biking to every one of the 76(?) neighborhoods. I made it to about 63. There are definitely neighborh…

This reminds me of another artist that did an isometric map of the city. I bought one and it hangs on my office wall. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1673296980/map-of-chicago-loop-..…

Handy rocks. I recently had minor surgery on my shoulder that required me to be in a sling for about a month, and I thought I'd give Handy a try for dictating notes and so on. It w…

Same. I thought his portrayal of anarcho-primitivism was really cool and interesting as well. Also, other people called it boring but one of my favorite parts was in Blue Mars as t…

Neat! Having literally everything backed by object storage is The Dream, so this makes a lot of sense. So to compare this to the options that are available (that aren't Kafka or Re…

The line "How could I forget that I had given her an extra key?" comes to mind. Maybe someone left an API key laying around somewhere? Although I could be giving the hackers too mu…

Val.town seems to be serverless, where as this is explicitly a server. One is really a subset of the other though, so I suppose if you're deploying ts functions to a service/server…

Oh, we're doing Fly again? Cool! I don't mean that sarcastically -- making it dead simple to get a VM at a domain or IP in a few seconds is good and useful. We should keep trying t…

I like to work with my monitor in portrait orientation. The problem is, I'm often sharing my screen or recording Loom videos, and it's exceedingly difficult for others to read my s…

This is super true. Whenever I find myself struggling w/ flexbox it helps to take a step back and solve it one step at a time. Working my way out-to-in, parent-to-child element, an…

This is rock solid. I keep a plaintext file with all my daily notes in it, but still find myself formatting code before/after dropping it in. The formatting feature alone is a draw…

+1 for pgtap. Surprised it's not been mentioned more in this thread. I'm using it w/ supabase, and it works really well. They have a small doc on it that's a better primer than the…

Yes, there are two default widget packages, Cupertino and Material. https://docs.flutter.dev/development/ui/widgets/material

I had to go digging to find it, but last time someone created a spoof HN page, a user emailed @dang asking why they were logged in under the wrong account.[1] [1] https://news.ycom…

For anyone interested in Mars geology, I highly recommend Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars" sci-fi trilogy. It has an astounding amount of detail that is largely realistic.

I think that no-code and low-code a real movements, and are going to be popular. But the terms are too broad to have a productive discussion about what their power really is. Are a…

Having looked into a couple of these, it seems like they each have their own sort of focus, which makes sense. From my own experience, and talking to other engineers, companies use…

A company I used to work for a few years ago did it pretty well. To begin with, we agreed on who is asking questions if there were multiple rounds for the interview. If I recall co…

David Reich's "Who We Are And How We Got Here: ancient DNA and the new science of human past" covers it a bit, but only for the first couple of chapters. It's focused on genetics a…

A lot in common with Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing [1] which was previously on HN. [2] [1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/24/elmore-leonard... [2] https://news.y…

It's interesting (and great!) to see this level of research and attention to detail in a blog. Do you mind if I ask why? Are you gathering potential users for a product, service, o…

I have a habit of taking notes on these types of talks when I stumble upon them, so for anyone interested, here's a quick write up of the video. Some of it is paraphrased,. * "[Mic…