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I'm making a PC game about that weird and ethereal (and scary) feeling you get from empty public buildings. I've already sold over 2000 copies and it hasn't even left beta yet. https://q-andrew.itch.io/anemoiapolis
Great stuff, I just got shivers looking at your trailer late at night here.
My clients are mostly local (i.e. Switzerland) acquired through word-of-mouth. Client acquisition is a challenge because I have to juggle sales and execution. However I am super excited to be in this field because I believe this is exactly what precision medicine is.
The company is called YugaCell (http://www.yugacell.com)
The goal is to provide a library that’s autogenerated from your DB schema that can express any EdgeQL query and statically infer the result type.
I’ve done a lot of digging into various SQL query builders for TypeScript, and while some noble efforts have been made, there are structural issues with SQL-notably the fact that it’s tricky to write queries that return nicely structured results-that kneecap those efforts.
By starting with EdgeQL as our target query language, The problem gets more tractable. It still required some truly nextlevel TS wizardry. I’m the developer of Zod and tRPC too, so it’s not my first rodeo, but this is the thing I’m most proud of. Not to sound too grandiose, but this really does represent a “3rd Way“ beyond the usual “raw SQL vs ORM” debate.
I founded a YIMBY group where I live, because I did not want to be part of tech workers pricing other people out. Now we're a chapter of YIMBY Action: https://yimbyaction.org/ It's interesting in that it's very different from tech, but also rewarding to make a difference in people's lives.
How difficult was it? I'm thinking of doing something similar in my mid-sized mid-western city. There are so many growth opportunities stunted by zoning laws. I'm a big advocate for regulation but parking mandates and housing density limits present more problems than solutions.
It started taking shape conceptually 5 years ago, but really started putting effort into it after the pandemic. It is such an intense pleasure to work on typefaces, and if I could, I would do this for the remainder of my life.
Latest update: https://neil.computer/notes/berkeley-mono-february-update/
If you're interested, please sign up here: https://berkeleygraphics.com/
Users create memes and enter them into their preferred tournament(s). Other users on the app are invited to judge the memes. Eventually a winner is chosen, and they can win a real prize like a digital gift card. Tournaments are free to enter for all users. Each user is given free daily tokens to enter as many tournaments as they want.
Users can also host their own tournaments (for a fee). Users can be regular people, social media influencers, and companies big and small. Users can give away whatever prize they want.
Web: https://planetmeme.com Social links on the website.
I've felt strongly for a few years that there is a market (strong interest, if not financial) for a small computer designed to let you be creative and expressive and to learn how computers really work. Over the past year and a half, I've built up a BASIC-like system on my own bare metal kernel on ARM64, giving a boot-to-BASIC programming and prototyping environment in a few seconds. I've worked down the stack as far…
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I've felt strongly for a few years that there is a market (strong interest, if not financial) for a small computer designed to let you be creative and expressive and to learn how computers really work. Over the past year and a half, I've built up a BASIC-like system on my own bare metal kernel on ARM64, giving a boot-to-BASIC programming and prototyping environment in a few seconds. I've worked down the stack as far…
I have had this exact idea before, and agree with you on almost every front except for this seeing widespread adoption by non-hackers. :P "Radically freeing" is exactly how I'd imagine it too. If you need any help at all on the non-technical aspects (logistics, fundraising, manufacturing/stock-keeping), please shoot us a message (email in bio). Not asking for anything in return, would just love to see something like…
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How difficult was it? I'm thinking of doing something similar in my mid-sized mid-western city. There are so many growth opportunities stunted by zoning laws. I'm a big advocate for regulation but parking mandates and housing density limits present more problems than solutions.
In my case it's been a gradual process. I made a web site, created a Facebook group, and started collecting emails. It helps a lot to get a few people who are interested in the same things you are. Strong Towns is another one to look into for allies.
Derw[0], an ML-family language that targets TypeScript or JavaScript. The aim is to have a language similar to Elm, but can do interop with TS a lot easier. I'm mostly excited that this will make my TypeScript projects a lot more enjoyable for me to work with. [0] - https://derw-lang.github.io/ Github - https://github.com/eeue56/derw Announcement post - https://derw.substack.com/p/why-derw-an-elm-like-language-th...