I bought a Beelink mini PC to replace the cloud VM that hosts a few things for me. I'm tired of resizing my little EBS volumes, and want to store more data. At the discounted price, I should be saving money in about a year with substantially better specs... not including the cost of my time in figuring out backups and all that nonsense.
I only use it as a light tracker of what I've read, but I'm moving to Obsidian for this purpose. The main thing it does for me is be a relatively good way to search up metadata about a book (author, year published, etc). Is there something more open? (Looked at LibraryThings, but its API does not seem to be available currently).
You're in a position where you can comfortably take some time off and explore what to do next. Your spending + assets seem to me like you're comfortably financially independent even factoring in paying your own healthcare, not approaching it.
Go for it. Don't put pressure on yourself to start a business, just take some unstructured time off, experiment and see how you feel.
I set out to build my own contenteditable based editor and after a couple weeks of banging my head on it, I do appreciate Prosemirror's very rigorous approach. I suspect it might be the best choice for me as well.
I find the documentation lacking. Reading some issues, the author admitted that the magic global variables/functions could be confusing (I could be mistaken on the exact wording).
I've found myself reading the source code to figure out how to use it, after reading through the docs a couple times. I like the idea of not mutating but returning a new state object (and this idea is throughout).
Started reading his "Eloquent JavaScript"; I his code, and feel like I'm learning stuff. Just need to wrap my head around my requirements and data, then it'll be simpler.
I'm building it for myself, since I don't think anything will do exactly what I want it to. I wrote https://github.com/upvalue/meditations for this, but it's not nearly as powerful as I'd like and after thinking about this for a long time, I have a pretty solid idea of what I want to do for the next rewrite.
I expect to handle like 80% of what I want and the rest will just have to be bespoke code and other applications (e.g. I don't expect to handle finances -- I'll continue using YNAB but import from it using its API to display financial info in the same place as everything else).
The devil is in the details. I've been working on something similar (looks very different, but similar goals), and I am on my 4th re-write :)
I've worked on some very complex software projects, but creating a simple task/habit tracker that is actually useful has been more difficult than I expected.
Yep, I think this is the fifth? I've lost track honestly. I do use it daily, but I know I can do a lot better. The next one probably will not have any noticeable Trello/kanban heritage.
I will say for those working on their own, I started to make breakthroughs on this when I stopped worrying about what other people might want for the eventual open-sourcing or SaaS and just made exactly what I wanted to.
Fathom has a self hosted open source version which I found to be fine. I checked recently and it looks like commits have slowed down so I'm not sure if it's maintained.
Fabrice Bellard is a "programming god" in my opinion :-) The man has done so many different and complicated things that it is mind-blowing. Nobody else even comes close. I really would like to understand his thought processes and way of working. What drives him? How does he approach design and implementation? What are his thoughts on "Software Engineering"? Etcetra, Etcetra ...
Somebody needs to do a proper in-depth interview with him and get him to write a book. There is a brain i really would like to know :-)
I always get Fabrice Bellard mixed up with Daniel Lemire. Both hardcore programmers and fine writers, both have French names - although i believe Bellard is French, and Lemire is Quebecois!
No. It's never been easier to make high quality software. I can run my own cloud environment, make quality user interfaces, integrate with third party providers to trivially do previously highly messy things like accept payments or send text messages, all as a solo developer.
Not because I'm particularly good but because a lot of the foundational work is now available with `git clone`.
There's a lot of crap around of course, but that's always been the case.
> Also, in my exp your manager, boss, lead has alot to do with the amount of stress.
To explicate a little, I've found stress mostly relates to the expectations of people around me, and has very little to do with the difficulty of what I'm being asked to do.
That's literally the definition of stress. Stress occurs when you feel that you cannot (or just might not) meet the expectations set on you. The expectations can be external or just come for yourself.
