I would love to understand this in more depth. Any chance you could write up what you found?

This might be a stretch, but I would love to know what outdoor plants are native to my area.

This would be an awesome feature. It would be a good resource for plant identification and I won't inadvertently introduce an invasive species into my local environment.

Looks great. Quick question. When I started it up, Little Snitch immediately told me it made a connection to GitHub and currencies.heynote.com.

Why does a scratch pad need to phone home?

Probably Github for autoupdate and currencies for current currency rates

Correct.

For the paranoid it should be simple to fork Heynote and disable currencies and auto updates.

This is just a tweet that makes a claim without backing, and links to an article that was pulled.

Can we change the URL to the real article if it still exists?

Note, compute is going up in price, but storage should be cheaper[1]. So it depends on your workload if and by how much this will impact you

[1]https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/introd...

Definitely. But in our case, compute makes up more than 80% of costs, even though we store a large amount of data. I suspect most big customers will come out much worse from this.

Looks great. I am excited to play with it.

One nit, on your landing page it has a typo, missing "framework /that/ doesn't" > Never get locked into a framework doesn't support your existing tech stack.

Also, your Gallery has highly responsive SPAs, but for some reason the counter here[1] is very slow on a cold load

[1] https://pynecone.io/docs/getting-started/introduction

Not sure it's what you are looking for, but how Spanner mitigated CAP to delivery a relational DB at scale is a really interesting read[1]

[1] https://research.google/pubs/pub45855/

Except Google’s RSUs vest every month. So, other than the whims of the market, it’s the same as salary.

I think it's more complicated for Google. If you get above a certain number of shares, they vest every month. If you get a medium number of shares, they vest quarterly. If you get a few, they vest yearly.

This would be a very good counterpoint if Google was the only company in the world. Since it isn't, I don't really understand the relevance.

I just put in a 12kw system. It was $32k before federal rebate, and it was the cheapest bid by 5 different contractors. Not sure where your getting $15k

Wow, that seems quite high. Panels are around $0.50/Wh. Add in another $2000 in materials and labor cost $24k!

FWIW. The panels are $0.86/wh each with a micro-inverter that runs ~$160 per panel and 32 panels. So, ~$5000 for inverters, ~$11k for panels, which brings you to ~$16k and your not even tied into the power of the house, or adding the mandatory shutoff, or the new meters, or the Emphase system that tracks by the minute power consumption and usage of each panel, etc etc. So lets call the rest $4k

Total of parts ~$20k. $12k for construction in the Seattle area seems fair for a complex electrical install that includes a 10 year install and 25 year system warranty.

I think like many things, the last mile of work is way more expensive then people realize. Solar is more than the panels themselves

Note: I could have used cheaper panels, but they take up more roof. I could have also saved money by skipping the per-panel micro-inverters, but then the system is more brittle and less efficient

I didn't realize micro inverters were so expensive. Thanks for explaining it.

Yes. Your math is spot on, and the costs are similar on the East Coast.