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It's okay to make something nobody wants

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Re: It's okay to make something nobody wants

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Post by levi0214 »

pdonis wrote: post #164

The article's title is a misnomer. (I can't tell whether that is intentional on the author's part or not.) The article describes making something you , the maker want, because you find it interesting--but then says that other people will end up wanting it too, because they also find it interesting. So you're not making something nobody wants: you want it, and you're not nobody, and others end up wanting it as well. W…

yeah it's intentional

At first the title was "make something you want", it's true and correct. but I felt it can not express what I truly felt at all. Current version is more close, though it's technically not correct.

Like when I build things, I'll tell myself: It's okay to make something nobody wants.

Re: It's okay to make something nobody wants

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Post by jhatemyjob »

swayvil wrote: post #103
jhatemyjob wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yea like.... I've been "following my heart" or whatever for over 15 years... sure, I made some cool shit, and some people really like it. But it doesn't pay. I need money.

To invent something objectively novel and significant. To spend a fair chunk of your life on that quest. And to get zero monetary compensation for it. To be ignored that way. It's educational.

I've seen it happen to some people and they don't even learn the lesson. It's a red pill to swallow.

Re: It's okay to make something nobody wants

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Post by LeonM »

SPF is broken in many more ways than described in this presentation. I work as an email hardening / deliverability support engineer and our advice is always to focus on DKIM + DMARC, rather than SPF. You still need SPF for legacy reasons, but it should never be relied on for deliverability or anti-impersonation.

Slide 54 says that DKIM + DMARC does not help against this attack, but that is not completely true.

If (and only if) you have set up DKIM for all your delegated senders, then (and only then) can you safely enable a DMARC p=reject policy. Once you have reached that level, you can start opting out of SPF for third party senders, by using the '?' (neutral) modifier in SPF.

So this:

    v=spf1 include:relay.mailchannels.net ~all
Becomes this:

    v=spf1 ?include:relay.mailchannels.net ~all
This gives emails from MailChannels a neutral SPF stance with DMARC capable receivers, causing them to use DKIM instead. Old legacy email services should still accept neutral results as well.

Granted, it is not a perfect solution, but email will never be 100% reliable, or secure anyway.

Re: It's okay to make something nobody wants

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Post by crossroadsguy »

hermannj314 wrote: post #81

I wasted a lot of my life being too scared to make something out of fear. This community especially can be very toxic to people that are starting out, that aren't geniuses, that didnt make every perfect decision for their product. Life is more enjoyable in a create-fail-learn loop than a consume-criticize-gloat loop. I wish I'd learned that sooner.

> Life is more enjoyable in a create-fail-learn loop than a consume-criticize-gloat loop.

Indeed.

Or not making it for whatever reasons and being fine with that and doing something else, or nothing else at all.

Re: It's okay to make something nobody wants

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Post by samsquire »

I create things that I think are enjoyable and valuable.

You see, I just love thinking of ideas and possibilities and writing, journalling them down and then trying to build them.

Shine your light, share what you create!

I like the Mother of all Demos by Douglas Engelbart and visions of how computers could work.

Re: It's okay to make something nobody wants

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Post by danielvaughn »

levi0214 wrote: post #190
danielvaughn wrote: post #102

Bookmarking this to return to whenever I feel down on myself. I’ve been working on a side project for way too long, and I’m scared to publicize it because I don’t know whether it’s a terrible idea that everyone will hate. But all I know is that I don’t hate it; I find it super interesting. https://matry.design

I'm a developer, not a designer, but I also find your work very interesting! Every time a new design tool came out I need to learn that shit, and my drawing was always uglier than real designers. If I could do this by describing, I'd love to do it.

Thank you!
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