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Re: Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence

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Post by da39a3ee »

mlangenberg wrote: post #129
kwhitefoot wrote: post #74

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I'm retired now but for quite a few years I made it a habit to not open my email until lunch time. That way I could work all morning, my most energetic time of day, on things that had been discussed the day before without being distracted or having a bad conscience about not immediately acting on new requests. Anyone who needed my attention immediately could use the telephone and hardly anyone ever did.

That is also my approach. It takes some courage to do, but makes for a much calmer workday.

Me too. Morning work time is much too valuable for noisy inefficient stuff like emails and meetings.

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Post by dmitryminkovsky »

dmitryminkovsky wrote: post #84
criddell wrote: post #80

This is really cool. What frameworks or technologies is this built on?

Thank you! And thanks for asking! I could go on about this forever :). I started working on this many years ago at this point trying to build the backend with Java/event sourcing[0] and the frontend as an SPA React app. I took the unfortunate/fortunate approach of building a webpage first[1]. I learned a lot from this experience and the result was something that worked okay but was terribly inflexible and difficult t…

Oh and how could I have forgot XState! Pony would not be possible without XState. Thank you davidkpiano Andarist et al.

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Post by dmitryminkovsky »

criddell wrote: post #126
dmitryminkovsky wrote: post #120

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You're welcome! A small correction: I shouldn't have said that "GraphQL has persisted queries"—they're not part of the spec or something. Just something many tools allow/enable. And by the way, in 2021, I wouldn't write a GraphQL backend by hand. I think a tool like Hasura/Postgraphile is the way to go. They put up excellent scaffolds that you can augment. In addition Hasura (I don't know about other tools) provides…

Funny you should mention access control. One of the stumbling blocks for me when I did a bit of GraphQL work was adhering to the best practices listed here: https://graphql.org/learn/authorization/ That says authorization should not be in the resolver but putting it elsewhere often resulted in much more complicated code. It makes sense if GraphQL is coexisting with REST or other end points because they could all shar…

Yes those docs bewildered me a bit as well. I never got too far with all of that or building a GraphQL server in JS for that matter. The authorization/access control in Hasura is game changing.

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Post by yumraj »

nicoburns wrote: post #196
dmitryminkovsky wrote: post #158

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> There is one setting where once a day delivery is beyond acceptable: Any time you would be willing to send a written letter by postal mail. Yep, that is a good heuristic! I think it could be generalized by saying that anything that isn't time-bound or time-sensitive (i.e. making plans) is fine for once-daily delivery. Everything that is time-sensitive or perhaps just quick and low-effort should be kept in the insta…

A fun anecdote: My grandmother says that before telephones, she used to make plans by post! At that time there were 4-5 postal deliveries per day, so she could exchange messages with friends while at work to make arrangements for that evening. Bu I agree that it’s nice to have that separation. I think email used to provide that long-form channel, but it’s too swamped by transactional rubbish these days.

> At that time there were 4-5 postal deliveries per day,

This was in the US? Urban or Rural area? Very curious since I've only seen once a day deliveries, between 2 countries I've lived in.

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

myself248 wrote: post #121
weird-eye-issue wrote: post #86

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It drives me crazy when people post in Slack and then often edit their message after sending. Just edit and then send. Otherwise people will have to basically ignore your first message and try to remember to check back in a couple minutes when you are done editing...

I wonder if you could write some sort of filter that would let you, as a reader, not see messages right when they arrive. Maybe let them "fade in", and only show up as unread when they've solidified a little while.

That's what the typing indicator is for. Just type, edit, then send

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Post by Waterluvian »

Cyphase wrote: post #209
Waterluvian wrote: post #194

I’m not sure I could rewire myself to do this but I love the idea. I wake up in the morning and read my postcards from friends. Write a few during the day. They get “mailed” out that night. I just need to find some friends who don’t just want to chat all day. Is there potential for a bridge between worlds? I’m on WhatsApp with a bunch of friends. One of which will read our entire group thread once per day and provide…

As an aside, do you know if your friend is replying like that on WhatsApp mobile, or WhatsApp Web on a larger screen?

Mobile.

Re: Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence

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Post by allenu »

Very cool idea! I love the idea of a "pony express" kind of daily pickup. It's very easy to grok the idea. In some ways, it reminds me of back in the day with BBSes and FidoNet long-distance mail distribution happening early in the morning to avoid high long-distance charges.

Did you play around with different frequencies for distribution? I've always thought it would be great if the messaging we used at work could be delivered just once every hour or every half hour. It might reduce the distraction of constant emails or messages.

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