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Hi HN, I'm Ash, I'm excited to share with you what I've been working on since June last year.
It started as a side project because I needed this tool for myself, but later on decided to put it out there for everyone.

I left corporate world last year where I worked as a software engineer in C# stack and since then I've have been working on this full time.

Here's my tech stack:

- React + BlueprintJS for desktop app.

- React Native + React native elements for Android/iOS app.

- NextJS + Bulma css for the website.

- Firebase Auth and Firestore for the database.

- Google cloud functions for handling some of the backend operations.

Brisqi is an offline-first personal Kanban app. It runs completely offline and can sync to cloud as well. I wrote my own sync solution to support full offline capabilities. Brisqi mobile app also runs fully offline - just need to login once. It also encrypts data on the client side before storing it on the servers.

Since many years, I had always wanted an offline Kanban tool but I didn't find any solution which would fit my needs. The goal of this project was to build a personal offline-first productivity tool with a focus on privacy. It does not compete with any other online alternatives out there since this more of a personal tool than others which are more team oriented. Check out the website for screenshots and features.

I had posted this on reddit and also had commented here on HN before and it had gotten positive feedback all around so I decided to make a proper post for it so others can find it as well. Try it, I think you might like the simplicity of it.

Thank you and feedback is welcome.
Reintroduced Tasmanian devil kills entire islands' penguin population
Currently performance is not a guarantee of long term outcomes, many companies have appeared to be in a strong financial position and then suddenly collapsed. As it is Peloton is currently running at a loss. You also have to factor in acquisitions, which occasionally have led to a loss of support for devices.
It's close. I also want something that is going to be syntactically familiar to humble programmers (my target users, myself, etc); Dhall's syntax is clearly Haskell-adjacent which is an obstacle for many of us. I'll probably just roll my own using a Rust-like syntax.
Saw this first on the last season of "Shameless".
By the late 90s it was fully expected that Java would take over everything.

And it did kinda for a while.
This is excellent.

My workplace (Moz) has been giving us the third Friday of every month off since April of 2020 due to COVID. The CEO called them "Breather Days" - a day to catch our breath, catch up on chores or home life, help get our kids school straightened out, etc. More importantly than simply getting the days off, the empathy that it demonstrated reassured everyone that we would find the work/life balance we needed even in extraordinary times.
But that money is going into the salaries of your neighbors. Every time some corporation increases profits by going cheap overseas, that money is leaving the economy.
large franchise can already do that with customer fidelity programs anyway...
I don't think it is a requirement to take all holiday in the UK? I've definitely not used all of mine in the past.
k8s is the rest of the world playing catchup to what Erlang has been doing for decades.

Sure it is more powerful and does a lot more things. It is also insanely more complex and hard to use compared to Erlang.
I very much doubt North Korea produces a ton of experts on their own.

China is likely happy to supply experts and teaching, though, as long as they are used to disrupt China's opposition. Provides a layer of plausible deniability for China.
I think investors are really starting to value companies with good economics, who can show profitable growth. Many VC-backed SV style companies over the past decade have not been like this, and I think that age is coming to an end.

Subscriptions/MRR happen to be a good way to get profitable growth, but that doesn't mean it's not possible otherwise. In fact subscriptions may be obfuscating otherwise poor economics, and I suspect that many customers are going to get subscription overload, or reach the end of nice introductory terms, and churn.

Some investors might be looking exclusively at MRR, but they are likely shortsighted. If too many value MRR and don't value other revenue, there will be plenty of valuable investments to be had in non-subscription companies and the market should rebalance.
The treadmill costs $2,495 and the upgraded version is $4,295.
We Build a Bus Ticketing Service for Flibco
Flibco.com is a leading private airport shuttle service provider with a passenger turnover of 1.9 million/year in main Western European countries with headquarters in Luxembourg.

With a help of shuttle transportation apps developed by Ascendix, Flibco customers can book online or over the phone a private or shared shuttle minibus to get from their home or the nearest bus stop to any airport and vice versa.

Flibco bus drivers use a single app to:

- Print tickets, receipts, and invoices thanks to EPOS thermal printing.
- Get real-time data about traffic and time estimation to group separate orders via TomTom services integration.
- Get customers’ addresses and plan trips more precisely with Google Maps integration.

Also, we developed their website using Drupal CMS so now their team has a convenient content management system and robust performance analytics.

*Here is the list of the key challenges we have solved:*

- Migrate an old system to a new modern solution
- Develop powerful route generation tool
- Build advanced security management
- Conduct cloud migration to an advanced transportation software
- Integrate multi-payment functionality
- Create front-rank performance analytics tools.

*And below is the list of core solutions we have built:*

- Shuttle booking management
- Ticket management
- Integration with TomTom services
- Google maps integration
- Security management
- Performance analytics
- Multi-payment integration
- Intuitive sign-up process
- Drupal CMS integration.

If you want to learn more details about the ticket reservations software development for Flibco.com, keep reading the full case study following the link.
Especially true when you consider the biggest bottleneck was I/O, and the best SSD are in some cases 100 to 1000 times faster than HDD. You can have 8 - 16 times as much CPU core. Your single CPU Core is at least 2 times faster compared to 2010.

And yet somehow opening a text file is as slow if not slower.
Helion Energy Achieves 100m°C Fusion Fuel Temp and 16-Month Continuous Operation
Couldn't someone just generate a fake QR code with their name and DOB on it?
Yes to the land part, but low rates are not the only reason prices are this level of crazy. The raw building materials shortage, old fashioned NIMBY, zoning laws are all culprits here.

We shouldn't succumb to easy answers here since many factors influence it.
Huge difference between US and European rail: in the US freight companies own the rail lines and the commuter rail rents them. This has two implications. First, rails are designed not for high-speed passenger trains but for massive lumbering cargo trains that can't go much faster than 50mph. Second, it means passenger rail has the lowest priority so it can be stopped and made to wait at any time as determined by the actual rail owners.

Then there's also the last mile problem in that very very few cities in America are actual walkable the way European ones are. For a few years I had to commute to Chicago, and that was awesome. I could take the train in, then walk to a metro station and be on my way. But for most destinations, you'll need to drive to and from the train station, so what's the point?
This.

Restarting an Erlang process and restarting a Docker container is not the same.

Let's say you create an Erlang process per request and that process crash, you don't want to restart the whole node, do you?

Application resiliency and Infrastructure resiliency are not incompatible, in fact, they are complementary.

Also, use libcluster[1] and horde[2], and you will never deal with leader election again. (which Kubernetes does not provide).

I've seen many Kubernetes Operators not handling more than one replicas, and that's a shame if you want High Availability.

[1] - https://hexdocs.pm/libcluster/readme.html
[2] - https://hexdocs.pm/horde/getting_started.html
I'd say in spokeperson-speak, ops falls under customer support.
I prefer the darker version.
Give a man a fire and he’ll be warm for a night.
Set a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
> The MRNA vaccines are quite different from normal dead/live virus vaccines and have never been used at scale.

Their closer relative, the viral vector vaccines (like J&J’s), have been. You’re right about calculating risk, but when’s the last time a vaccine in normal, longer term stage three trials resulted in a higher fatality rate than COVID (for any age group)? The link for the SARS vaccine candidate was a failure that was caught in a mouse model, which unsurprisingly they also did with the new vaccines before the human trials started. To echo the parent comment, these were immediate side effects on challenge (which would likely been caught in stage 2 trials even if they only happened in humans and not in animal models).

If we want to go with unusual reactions that only show up over time, what about the chance that whatever long term side effect you’re imagining from the vaccines instead happens for people who have been infected with COVID 5 years from now? Once you decide to make decisions based on rare and novel events with unquantifiable risks, you’ll find they show up absolutely everywhere if you’re being intellectually honest.

> given the vaccine doesn't prevent them infecting others if they get it (see this data from the Singapore government

That data’s N is a little low, but let’s take it seriously for a moment. The vast majority of vaccinated people in that dataset did not go on to infect others, and none of them were epicenters for super-spreader events. Eyeballing it, it’s consistent with a sterilizing immunity in excess of 80%. If the vaccines turn out to be that effective at preventing transmission, that’s an excellent outcome (it is higher than most vaccines).
why has this been downvoted so much? what's false about these two statements? Should he/she have added "in my experience"?

In my experience, both statements are accurate.
Crypto right?
You can play around with Silice in 8bitworkshop: https://8bitworkshop.com/v3.7.2/?platform=verilog&file=coppe...
Cross License Collaboratives
I'm not familiar with the ZBooks, but if they're as thin as the EliteBooks and ProBooks, and the cooling is as much of a joke, I can't say I'm surprised, especially with a HQ CPU.

My ProBook with an i5-8250U spins up its fan for no reason while doing next to nothing on Linux with i3. And no, there's no "borken power management because Linux" issue, the battery actually lasts a long time (comparable to the official specs, which are presumably for Winows).

But curiosity got the best of me one day and I opened it up. The cooling system is an absolute joke. The heatsink is ridiculously small, my iPhone 7 probably has a bigger one.

Same story with an EliteBook something, with an i5-7xxxU CPU. I actually switched the EliteBook for the ProBook because I could add extra RAM.

However, I don't have any "slowdowns or stutters" with this machine, and I usually run it attached to an external 4k screen.
Hyundai is one of South Korea's market-dominating cartels, the chaebol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol

"regular collaborative efforts" is an understatement.
In school, I once had a patient with this syndrome who was admitted for his anaphylactic reaction - pretty wild. Tick borne diseases in general are fairly fascinating.

We joke about which antibiotic we would like to have if stuck on an island, and I always go with doxycycline.
Sure, but only 2 (i.e. estimating rental yield as zero) is a lower bound on profitability. Housing has been profitable in that sense in many places over the last decade.
To be fair, "regretted attrition" and "non-regretted attrition" are industry terms. Not Amazon specific.
Ouch the fairs are real, depending on how far out you plan air travel is often cheaper.
> Constant monitoring is a burgeoning hellscape.

Based on my conversations with parents, they seem to like livestream video cameras at their kids’ daycare. So then I ask them if they would be okay with video cameras at their workplace (most are office/computer workers), and they claim they would be okay with that too.
>I hate group fitness and cycle studios, and am currently on a 65+ week streak on Peloton. The value is there for me,

I understand the value proposition of an internet-connected "virtual class" for motivation, competitive pacing, social gaming, etc but my limited research showed that one can get these benefits with just the Peloton app[1] (the software) without buying the hardware (Peloton branded bike/treadmill).

The big disadvantage with the whole Peloton hardware+software integrated package is them changing the Terms of Service on the customer at any time to raise prices. (E.g. this thread's topic of abruptly removing treadmill's "Just Run" $0 cost option.)

Is the DIY option with your own bike/treadmill with an iPad running the Peloton app too awkward that it makes the integrated Peloton the better value? Or are buyers simply not aware of the options?

[1] https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id792750948
Gabriele is a "he". Grabrielle is a "she".
Here's the article syndicated in Ars Technica (no paywall):

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/06/moner...
I was feeling pretty awful by the time April came around, being in the same position as you. But I took advantage of the fact that I work remote now and moved to a very large and densely populated city you've heard of. Meeting people and socializing regularly has completely changed my point of view. Obviously, not everyone can do this, but perhaps the moral is that a change of perspective would be beneficial and some sort of life change could catalyze that. A huge advantage of being single is that you have a lot more freedom to just up and go where you like.
A bit late but for what it's worth I'm very familiar with `git stash` and use it all the time, and it's not clear how this helps my situation of aiming for one command and accidentally doing a very similar one but one which deletes work with no warning. For example, `git commit --` is a completely moronic way of deleting files, and I am baffled it took them so long to add aliases for it which have a coherent name.
You can see this in the Unitree videos, nearly everything is on a flat plane and while it was a video from 2019 it seemed to struggle climbing stairs a bit.
Thats even better! That way, you get to program with much saner assumptions in a more pleasant environment, rather than having to write code to smooth that over manually, or deal with configuration and operational hell to make it work at a deployment level.
Inflation hysteria.

Ask yourself how much of current inflation is speculative (eg. Blackrock buying single-family homes, Glencore buying copper, Zhongda Group buying aluminum). Now ask yourself what these folks are doing as they watch Fed reserve rates climb, reverse-repos skyrocket, PBOC/CCP order reduced commodity speculation, and 4 months of declining US home sales, falling lumber prices. The inflation shock is/was temporary and could well be followed by a deflationary shock if the powers that be overreach (as they usually do).

Lead-times on goods remain long. This induced reversion to the mean won't happen overnight, but I believe it is well under way.
Arguably Windows was starting to fail and Microsoft appeared to be in serious trouble. Then Nadella replaced Ballmer and corrected course: https://stratechery.com/2018/the-end-of-windows/

Now they’ve pivoted to grow azure and O365 successfully in addition to leverage the Xbox via game pass to fit into that strategic world.

I think this mostly supports your point - it took an existential crisis and ousting a CEO that couldn’t adapt in order to save them when their cash cow started to falter.
If gas pumps didn’t have prices on them and your fillup costs were included on your autopay gas & electric bill, you would be more likely to be surprised when your new car lowered your bill, simply due to the extra layer of indirection from the bundling of that cost.
Symbolic AI gets used quite a lot, we just don't call it AI. Even expert systems, often seen as a late-1980s dead end, are based on the same sort of technology one would use for efficiently querying any database.
Can’t beat native…yet!
That's > 2% of this years work weeks now as an extra paid holiday, that's a pretty big random bonus in my mind.
Amazon warehouses are shelters for things. Either someone pays the fee and adopts the thing, or it goes to the farm upstate.

There are lots of thing mills breeding special things that wind up in the shelter. It's a cold and cruel business, but that's humans trying to make a buck for you.

If things don't get adopted, they don't always get killed though. Sometimes they get adopted for pennies on the dollar, and move elsewhere in the system.
What's "acceptable" can vary by country. They couldn't have done this with the acceptance bit only.
How does this handle concurrent modification of the collection, say if documents are added or deleted? Is there protection against skipping a document or traversing the same document twice?
I hear this all the time, but what exactly does the elixir ecosystem lack? It's older than the python ecosystem (open source release was much later), although not nearly as popular but since elixir can drop-in erlang libraries as easily as "native" elixir libraries (caveats exist) I'm not sure I find this statement to be nearly as correct relative to how often I hear it stated
The thing about covid is that you can't consider just the individual risk, you have to also think about the fact that this is contagious, so if you don't actively try to stop it, it will kill many more people.

So yes, chances are I wouldn't die if I didn't vaccinate, but chances are I would kill my grandma if I caught covid.
Seems unlikely. Read the review article linked elsewhere:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6554561/

Alpha-Gal syndrome is characterized by IgE (allergic) antibodies, and the mechanism that induces them is complicated. Merely putting an antigen into your body doesn’t do it.
time to avoid those bars. extreme oversight to ensure a 20-year-old doesn't drink. but hey at least the same 20-year-old can drive a car, vote for our public officials, and join the armed forces.
But for people trying to sell enterprise consulting services, relying on Erlang is not that easy --although it can be done, been there!

Which goes on to say that there is no silver bullet but there is strength in using Kubernetes, it's kind of a lingua franca.
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He was an electrical engineer who loves computers and programming, although he didnt do software development for a living.
I get asked quite often if I'm angry, grumpy, down, "what's wrong?" even when I'm absolutely fine and none of those things.

I was even stopped by a random stranger in a supermarket once and they asked if I was OK... I said I was fine, and then she asked if it had been a long day... erm. Guess it's just my face.

I remember in the supermarket I was actually just thinking about if a man could beat a giraffe in a fight.
> I'd happily program in Brainfuck if that's what it took to avoid Kube.

Why though? Why hate k8s so much that you would choose an unreadable language?
Have worked on hook infested react components which lead to really unique bugs that are unique to react 16+. It's not that fun. The core premise of react is really useful, I mean the alternative in vanilla js is doing `var y = document.createElement('x'); y.appendChild(...)` and its very verbose and hard to follow. A react JSX component on the other hand can be taken in at a glance. But I still feel like the expression of change due to various triggers, or even over a period of time (as in animation) could be improved. How I don't know!
MacOS has had horrible mouse input since forever.

Up until some version I could kill the acceleration curve with SteerMouse (but not the scroll acceleration), but there was still the 2 frame lag. It's also extremely distracting how you can see the UI further lagging behind the cursor when you drag windows or click buttons. Another frame or two of delay, bringing it to a total of 64ms.

I have a 1000km RTT ping that takes less than it takes MacOS to react to mouse movement. It feels like using a remote desktop.

After Big Sur, the issue got even worse, especially on external displays. CPU usage also spiked through the roof.

After developing for a while on a Windows machine with a 144hz display and a 500+hz mouse I can't go back to using MacOS. It feels like trying to use a car infotainment system by comparison.

I also couldn't get a 2019 15" MBP to work on the external display at over 100hz using DP Alt Mode over a HDMI2.0 cable. The same one works fine on my desktop or on a ThinkPad.
> the manufacturers are far disconnected from the needs of the end users of computing -- they mostly serve big businesses

Same goes for power. They're not going to burn one less lump of coal because your laptop uses 100W instead of 300W
It's less about what I expected, but more about what I did not expect.

The pace of technology change has accelerated dramatically, the complexity of software has grown beyond imagination, and perhaps correspondingly, the fragility and interdepencency has grown out of control.

We (myself included) have become so acclimated to complex software as users that we forget how much work is buried under the surface of a "simple" app. Even accurately describing the behaviors of a system is difficult now (and often not even documented, partly because it changes so often).

When I was taking flying lessons in the 90s, I couldn't believe how antiquated and manual-intensive the aircraft systems were. There seemed to be so many places where pilots needed to follow a checklist to perform manual tasks which could have been automated based on various available data. When I asked my instructor why it was so archaic, he explained that it's a long and arduous process to get new things certified by the FAA.

This difficulty in getting advanced systems approved was mostly due to the processes and tests required to ensure a very high standard of reliability and safety, since lives were at stake. At the time, I thought it was ridiculous. But seeing some of the Airbus automation problems (which cost a few aircraft and some lives), and then seeing the Boeing 737 Max disasters, I see how slower advancement, more testing, and slower release cycles can be beneficial.

But in the software world, the more modern approach is "move fast and break things". Not only is software now never complete (in contrast to when software was released once or once per n-years, on disk or CD), now it is released every 5 minutes with old bugs replaced with new bugs. There are days where every time you open an app, it needs to update first. I'm not sure this is a net improvement.

If I could say one really positive thing, it would be that tooling has gotten really nice. Even I recall when syntax highlighting arrived... and at first was laughed at. On the other hand, the better tooling is virtually required to keep up with the ballooning complexity and volume of the code we write.

I could rant and complain many more paragraphs, but it can be summarized thusly: modern software (and its development) has made some great improvements, but those improvements have been largely offset by reductions in the quality and formality of practices.
Whenever I read about container/underground growing with LEDs, I can't help but think of someone growing weed in their closet during college and thinking "how can I legally make money off this niche skill?"