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I'm trying to do something musical every day, doesn't matter what it is. Two days down. So far I've just been sitting at the piano playing through lead sheets of songs I've written and some jazz standards.
Happy Jamuary! I think this is so great! I'm trying to do produce a musical artifact each day this month. I'm hoping it helps with my bad habit of never finishing songs :)
So I'm building a software platform for local first applications on top of CRDTs. Its called Replica, though we haven't talked much about it yet. I want to be able to:
- Edit any data from one device in my house and have it just show up on any other device
- Share items with other people, and collaboratively edit with them
- Support lots of different applications - including multiple different applications live editing the same data. Like a universal plugin model.
Linux can't compete with cloud software like google docs because anyone running hosted platforms gets punished if the platform is successful. Ideally I'd love to get replica embedded in linux, as an alternative for desktop applications to use to store their state. Then users could open up the same app from different computers and have all their data there, and collaborative editing and things like that would just seamlessly work. I want to be able to open the same file in two different editors and have typing in one show up live in the other as I type.
I want to opensource the whole thing, but we'll probably go with some sort of open core model and charge for our official hosted version (which you want for backup and delivery). I want this project to be financially self sustaining - otherwise I don't think it'll survive. But still opensource enough that people can self host if they want to.
The other thing: Travel. I've never travelled beyond the western US. I hope to get my passport and fly to one country outside of North America.
For work, focusing on keeping my support team amazing and helping the startup I work at scale significantly.
If the number of sign ups keeps increasing in current rate, I will most likely continue with enhancing the “Do I need an Umbrella Today?” app: https://umbrellatoday.app/#!/today-in/ Perhaps find a way to commercialize it as there are quite a lot of users that have signed up already, any ideas? Happy to also get your feedback on the most wanted features.
This may or may not be stupid, but you could curate/link to snazzy umbrellas, the most functional and most stylish.
I am pitching my friend who just had a wonderfully successful exit to invest in my hotel abroad. It’s a super country with a big tourism economy and inexpensive labor. I have a local friend who knows the business, fingers crossed. I want to leave tech.
What country? How much do you anticipate needing to start it? Do you have experience in hospitality?
I have no prior experience but what I do have is a business plan and a local partner. I’m networking with people who are in hospitality and working with a consultant to assist with due diligence. I’m moving there to supervise operations.
I'm extremely bullish on Large Language Models (e.g., GPT-3, ChatGPT) and Stable Diffusion (e.g., DALL-E). This year, I will use them to double my productivity at work. I also plan to integrate them to my life management framework.
I’ve been chipping away at it for quite a while, but I’m finally in the position of standing up the production coasters and letting people on.
The last 10% seems to always take 90% of the time!
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Working at a still-feels-new-to-me job as Graphics Director for Opinion at The New York Times. Our small team publishes arguments and guest essays supported by visual evidence, like these: - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/scien... - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/08/opinion/urban... - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/20/opinion/ancie... But I'm a believer in asking for…
This is great work. I'm impressed. Just in case you happen to know the answer: How does taking tree samples (as in your third link) not harm the tree? It seems inevitable that it would do so, at least intuitively.
My understanding — relayed through one degree of separation from Daniel Griffin, the dendrochronologist who wrote the piece — is that the core samples are very long and thin, and care is taken not to injure the tree and to allow it to heal rapidly.
Here's a write-up from Carleton with more info about how the tree core sampling process works: https://serc.carleton.edu/trex/students/labs/lab2_2.html