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#macos #miniflux #pwa | Apple is doing fantastic work with websites on their desktop computers …and awful with websites on their mobile devices.

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6 shots

#effective | When I discussed quitting Google to do a Phd, my manager, Steve Cheng, gave me the advice of "6 shots": Doing something meaningful usually takes about 5 years and we are productive for roughly 30 years. That gives you 6 attempts. So pick each one carefully and give it your best.

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Docker Tip #100: Should You Use Image Digests in Your Dockerfile? — Nick Janetakis

#docker | Adding a digest reference to your images can make builds more predictable, here's a few pros and cons of using them.

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GitHub - vlcn-io/cr-sqlite: Convergent, Replicated SQLite. Multi-writer and CRDT support for SQLite

#sqlite | Convergent, Replicated SQLite. Multi-writer and CRDT support for SQLite - vlcn-io/cr-sqlite

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The three-or-four-hours rule | Oliver Burkeman

#effective

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On personal websites and social web

#blogging #miniflux #postowl | It’s a gloomy afternoon and I’m taking a quick break from client work to drink a cup of tea and write down a few thoughts on something I’ve found …

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Learn Great Copywriting in 76 Minutes | Harry Dry

#marketing | Harry is a master copywriter — and that’s not hyperbole. With Marketing Examples, he’s taught over 100,000 people how to write copy that rips. And guess what? You’re next. Copywriting is the wrapper of success for every company. It’s the difference between Snickers, the bestselling chocolate bar in the world (“You’re not you when you’re hungry”) and a chocolate bar that looked and tasted just like Snickers, but went out of business in 2006. (Ever had a Fuse bar? Yeah, neither have we.) Good copywriting burns into your brain, seeps into your guts. And in this episode, you’re going to learn how to write it. Harry and David get down-and-dirty with the most important principles of copywriting. You’ll learn “The Three Rules” of good copy. You’ll compare ads that worked with ads that didn’t. You’ll get an inside look into how Harry writes his copy, down to his favorite software and tea of choice. If you want to grow your marketing skills, this is your Harry-sent solution. Come learn the art of masterful copywriting.

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Stuck on a tough problem? Do what Jobs would have done and follow the 10-minute rule

#effective

go for a walk!

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How we migrated from Vercel Postgres to Turso at Frontpage.fyi

#sqlite | Around a month ago, Frontpage.fyi migrated away from Vercel Postgres aka Neon Serverless Postgres to Turso. Since then, we have read almost 7 million rows of data and written a little over 3000.

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GitHub - nalgeon/redka: Redis re-implemented with SQLite

#sqlite | Redis re-implemented with SQLite. Contribute to nalgeon/redka development by creating an account on GitHub.

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BBC Rewind - Sound Effects

#music-making | BBC Sound Effects

lots of great samples here. non-commercial use unless you buy them.

also great mixer for mixing them together.

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Introduction to atproto 1: What is PDS？ What Features Does It Have？ | WhiteWind | WhiteWind blog

#atproto | Last updated on 2024-04-05 Hello, I'm K-NKSM, a developer at WhiteWind who created this blog system! Recently, the microblogging site Bluesky has been getting a lot of attention. It's well-known that Bluesky uses the Authenticated Transfer Protocol (AT Protocol, atproto) behind the scenes. However,...

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GitHub - whtwnd/whitewind-blog: Repository to manage WhiteWind atproto blogging platform codes

#atproto | Repository to manage WhiteWind atproto blogging platform codes - whtwnd/whitewind-blog

blog on atproto bluesky comments. uses nextjs

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GitHub - ben-n93/SQL-tips-and-tricks: SQL tips and tricks

#sql | SQL tips and tricks. Contribute to ben-n93/SQL-tips-and-tricks development by creating an account on GitHub.

hn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41643651

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Progress on atproto Values and Value Proposition

#atproto

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Jetstream: Shrinking the AT Proto Firehose by >99%

#atproto #miniflux | Jetstream is a streaming service that consumes an AT Proto Sync Firehose and converts it into lightweight, filterable, friendly JSON, allowing us to live tail all posts on Bluesky for as little as ~850 MB/day

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I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock | Hacker News

#diy

3d printed iPhone stand - interesting case study on what you can make!

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Time spent programming is often time well spent - Stan Bright

#programming

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Monal

#ios #keybits #macos | XMPP client for macOS and iOS

Explore XMPP instead of matrix for 'self hosted family' - probably a simpler and better solution for chat

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Bokashi Bins Ireland

#gardening | Bokashi buckets are use to ferment your kitchen food waste using effective microogranisms. Create bioactive compost and liquid tea.

ref Charlie McGuire

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Grid-scale batteries: They’re not just lithium | Ars Technica

#sustainability | When size and weight don't matter, lots of other battery chemistries can work.

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Visual guide to SSH tunneling and port forwarding - ITTAVERN.COM

#ssh | SysAdmin Stuff | Linux | Network | Security

hn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41596818

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The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has • Josh W. Comeau

#css | Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my wishlist. Once I started using it, however, I kept discovering incredible things I could do with it. It’s now become a core part of my toolkit! In this blog post, I'll show you some practical real-world problems I solved using “:has”, as well as some wild experiments that blew my mind!

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Collected: Vol 3

#miniflux #music | James Bernard - Atmospherics (30th Anniversary Edition) Many of you will know James for his releases here on ASIP , but since then, James has made a home with the crew at PITP, and so of course they got first dibs on reissuing this beast of his. Atmospherics is one of the seminal electronic ambi

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Backup strategies for SQLite in production – Oldmoe's blog

#sqlite | Introduction If you are relying on SQLite as your production database, then it makes sense to have some sort of a backup strategy. Those backups would come handy in a multitude of situations. For example, if you face a catastrophic hardware failure and lose all the data on your server. Or if you face a…

https://lobste.rs/s/zglr47/backup_strategies_for_sqlite_production

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6 Techniques I Use to Create a Great User Experience for Shell Scripts

#bash #shell | 6 Techniques I Use to Create a Great User Experience for Shell Scripts

hn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41512899

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The Imperfectionist: Getting physical

#effective | I’ve noticed a recurring theme in much of the best productivity advice, the kind that seems to make life more meaningful, as well as merely more productive: it’s that you should think about your work, and life-projects in general, in terms of concrete physical actions and artifacts in the material world. Of course the Master himself, David Allen, makes the point in Getting Things Done: a good to-do list consists of physical next actions, things you can do with your limbs. (So not “get the car fixed”, which is a multi-step project, but “call Jim the mechanic”, which is the next action you can actually take.) It’s also implicit, I think, in Jordan Peterson’s repeated insistence on tiny, difference-making tasks – most famously, “tidying your room” – as the path out of misery and meaninglessness. And in a recent episode of his podcast, Cal Newport makes the excellent suggestion (also explored in his book Deep Work) to set targets for focused work in terms of tangible products. If you aim to spend the morning planning a given project, aim to produce, say, a two-page strategic plan which you can print out and hold in your hands. Then print it out, and hold it in your hands. This isn’t the place for a long rant about the pitfalls of the immaterial online world in which we increasingly spend our days. But it’s clearly one of the hazards of “knowledge work” – supercharged by the great pandemic-induced digital migration of 2020 – that it leaves people feeling disembodied, unrooted, “floating”, out of touch with their physical surroundings, perhaps also mildly depressed. And more prone to procrastination, distraction, and focusing on things other than what matters to them the most. A big part of the problem is that in the purely mental realm of ideas, and the immaterial realm of the internet, it feels as though no limits apply. You get to pretend you’re a god. There’s always another initiative you could launch, another piece of preparatory research you could do, another message you could send or reply to. Plus you never quite have to confront the question of whether there’s enough time for all you plan to accomplish – because in a purely immaterial world, you can always squeeze more in. But it’s a fantasy: since you won’t ever accomplish anything except in collaboration with the realm of the physical and limited, you feel a growing sense of dissonance, of having less purchase on life, and you lose the sense of having some effect on reality that’s central to wellbeing. Defining your work in terms of physical actions and outcomes slices through all that, because it forces a confrontation with limitation. When you replace “do some preparatory research” with “create a physical research summary document of up to five pages”, you make things more specific, which never hurts. But you also make them more concrete – a subtly different point, and which leads naturally to performing the work in a more discerning, outcome-focused way. (Even “making decisions”, which can feel like the ultimate non-physical task, can be usefully re-expressed in physical terms, although you might have to risk feeling a bit silly: for example, you might aim to produce a one-page memo to yourself, expressing the decision you’ve made.) There are vast philosophical dimensions to this topic that I’m avoiding here, partly because I don’t understand them. But in short: less Descartes, please, with his insistence on the mind and body as utterly distinct realms; and more Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the French existentialist who saw that we could never flee the physical for the mental, because “the body is our general means of having a world”. Meaning gets made in the interactions between you, a physical thing, and the finite world in which you find yourself. Start by making sure that your to-do list isn’t full of things it wouldn’t ever be possible to physically, concretely do in the first place. • I'd love to hear from you – just hit reply. (I read all messages, and try to respond, but not always in a timely fashion: sorry!) If you enjoyed this email, you'd be doing me a big favour by forwarding it to someone else who might like it, or mentioning it wherever you emit opinions online; the "View in a browser" link above will take you to a web version. And if you got this from a friend and would like to subscribe yourself, please do so here.

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How to make writing less hard | Oliver Burkeman

#writing

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GitHub - dbcli/litecli: CLI for SQLite Databases with auto-completion and syntax highlighting

#sqlite | CLI for SQLite Databases with auto-completion and syntax highlighting - dbcli/litecli

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ATProto for distributed systems engineers - AT Protocol

#atproto | AT Protocol is the tech developed at Bluesky for open social networking. In this article we're going to explore AT Proto from the perspective of distributed backend engineering.

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