keep this ad-free and I will love you forever.
No worries, not gonna happen. I'm not much into psychological warfare these days.
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Re: Sit.
#92I like it a lot. I was hoping it would be installable as a PWA.
^ this. This is pretty much the only thing I would add; when doing an "add to home screen" and going to full screen, it still shows the phone and browser borders, which aren't black. Adding a manifest.json, setting theme_color and background_color: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web... would help a lot on mobile with the immersion effect Sit is aiming for.
> immersion effect
Totally agree. At the moment, add to home screen creates a shortcut that opens up Safari (along with its other distracting tabs ;) would be great if Sit could be set up as a web app too!
Re: Sit.
#93I like the simple approach. And as a practical matter, just chillin' is safe. But still: [sitting] can get uncomfortable. But when you finish, for some strange reason you feel better Meditation requires some guidance appropriate to the person. Some people are attracted to meditation for the wrong reasons; encouraging them without proper direction can make things go badly for them. Zen shinkanzen in particular is cons…
I've been meditating for most of my life, and agree that objectless meditation can be frustrating/scary/emotionally challenging.
That's precisely why I say that although I use it for meditation, the goal of the app is just to sit down and do nothing for a minute or two. That's it.
FYI I consulted a qualified therapist (CBT, ACT) after building it and they didn't see any issues with my app or the article. She also practices and teaches meditation, so I got lucky I suppose!
Re: Sit.
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
They did ask the question in snarky way, and it isn't cool to disrespect people's spiritual/contemplative practice, but in fairness to them it does sound a little silly. Especially if you haven't had any powerful experiences with meditation, I would have had a hard time taking the suggestion seriously a year ago. And I think they were genuinely curious about the answer. We don't know if they're gunnuh use the app or…
> it isn't cool to disrespect people's spiritual practice Scrolling Twitter is a spiritual practice now? (I assume that's not what you meant, but I didn't see any disrespect of spiritual practices from that post.)
It wasn't any disrespect, at least I don't have any spiritual practice to disrespect, but rather the cavalier attitude against a reasonable warning.
Imagine somebody warns you about "don't open random email attachments" and a random guy shows up and says "well, explain to me how my grandma's christmas card email is going to make my computer explode".
The cavalier attitude can cost lives. I honestly have nothing against that person who made the comment, I just felt I had to make it clear one must be aware what they are getting into before dismissing something as trivial, and also don't negligently make comments that might put others at risk.
I wish I could have phrased my original comment better, but once it's out there on the internet... :-/
I mean, maybe I should have filtered it through ChatGPT to make it less abrasive since I couldn't force myself into the "speak nicely" mode when I was writing it...
Re: Sit.
#95> Every step you take is watched and assessed in terms of its monetisation potential, every interaction is meant to extract value from you.
Looks at uBlock Origin. Yep, requests to convertkit.com and sonnet-events.vercel.app are blocked.
Re: Sit.
#96Not that anyone asked: I've long given up on meditation timers. I go to a room without any digital technology except for a Casio F91W. I have gotten good at gauging how long I've been concentrating for and if I have aversion to continued sitting I just peek at the watch to know how long it's been. This is a solved problem that costs $0 and I don't have to worry about receiving personalised ads because I'm into 'mindf…
Author here. I 100% agree, don't obsess about the tools, do whatever works for you. I use the app mainly for meditation and despite having decades of experience I tend to lose the track of time.
I get the impression that you haven't read the article/UI text in the app, so can't comment on the rest of your message I'm afraid.
But, to you some time: I don't charge for the app, I hate ads, I just want people to sit down and do nothing/stop doomscrolling. No need to meditate and no ideology involved.
Re: Sit.
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
> it isn't cool to disrespect people's spiritual practice Scrolling Twitter is a spiritual practice now? (I assume that's not what you meant, but I didn't see any disrespect of spiritual practices from that post.)
It wasn't any disrespect, at least I don't have any spiritual practice to disrespect, but rather the cavalier attitude against a reasonable warning. Imagine somebody warns you about "don't open random email attachments" and a random guy shows up and says "well, explain to me how my grandma's christmas card email is going to make my computer explode". The cavalier attitude can cost lives. I honestly have nothing again…
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Re: Sit.
#98I love the font. Maybe particularly because it's kind of big, so you can see the details. It seems to be EB Garamond: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EB_Garamond
Oh yeah, EB Garamond is doing the heavy lifting for me, design-wise, no doubt about that:)
I use it on sonnet.io, consulting.sonnet.io and sit.sonnet.io I didn't use it on days.sonnet.io only because I felt weirdly obsessed with performance when I was coding it.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Please don't post in the flamewar style or cross into personal attack. You can make your substantive points without that. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I apologize for the tone. I'm learning how to not offend while getting my point across.
I must re-emphasize that in many people's experiences, meditative practices could have powerful effects on one's mind (potentially positive and negative), and they are not matters to be trifled about. It's one thing to not practice it because one does not believe in them, but it's can be very dangerous to encourage others to dismiss such concerns as fancy, because it could endanger those who experiment with meditation without precautions.
Re: Sit.
#100In this, they are still trying to get the person to meditate. To sit with very little and wonder what they are doing wrong. A few months ago I created Harbor (getharbor.app) which played some sounds with some haptics and tried to get people to focus on the sensation of the haptics. I'm a meditator, but I know many people who aren't and trying to get them to just "sit" and do nothing is a challenge. Some people get st…
> These are the challenges to try to overcome with meditation, so I'm not quite sure why Sit is different to other timers.
You're looking at it as a product, which is understandable, but that's not the point. I communicate with people through my articles, drawings and code, and this is one of the ways of achieving that. It's like telling a friend that it's ok to slow down and do nothing for a moment but then scaling it up to 50-70k people. You can call it meditation or fucking around, I don't really care.
Thanks for sharing Harbor. Weirdly enough, I actually worked for a company specialised in using generative audio + biofeedback during therapy sessions (led by some prominent scientists in the field, mainly from Imperial College IIRC).