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Show HN: ZenTasker – Open-source, calm GTD task manager (pre-code launch)
I’ve struggled with task management tools that feel cluttered, overwhelming, or misaligned with how I think and work. So I’m starting ZenTasker — an open-source, self-hosted GTD task manager designed for simplicity, accessibility, and focus.\n>\n> Why ZenTasker:\n> - Built-in GTD structure: Programme > Subproject > Next Action\n> - Gradual reveal to reduce decision paralysis\n> - Designed from day one for neurodiverse inclusivity (energy tagging, sequential focus views)\n> - Minimal UI, with optional advanced features via plugins (Kanban, Eisenhower Matrix, Time Blocking)\n> - Personalization via file-based settings\n>\n> This is my first open-source project and I’m currently in the pre-code phase. I’m looking for input from developers, designers, and accessibility specialists who’d like to help shape it.\n>\n> Here’s the repo and discussion space: \n> https://github.com/walshd1/Zentasker/discussions I’d love your thoughts on the idea, architectural suggestions, and advice for building a great contributor community. Any feedback or questions welcome!\n>\n> Thanks for reading.
Thank you, it was a nice project, partially walking down the memory lane, but also checking how many features in that version of Delphi are still core today -- not just for the product but for the industry
4% of the voters voted.
Easy these days with fantasy football being advertised every 30 seconds. There are probably very sophisticated methods already out there running on those frameworks.
> Vaultwarden for passwords

Just a note for anyone looking for alternative password managers - 1Password is Canadian!
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That's why being a manager is not a trivial job.

Amusing story: one day, I got a call from "Bob" who complained that our receptionist "Alice" refused to forward his phone messages to him. Apparently, this was because "Alice" didn't like "Bob". What was this, high school? So "Alice" was informed that she was taking messages for the company, and "Bob" needed those messages to perform his job. She got the message.
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Companies operate in these sorts of conditions all the time - always have done.

Buy off the junta that runs the place and you can do what you want. Oil companies, mining companies, clothing companies, all the same.

Normally the company is bigger than the people you’re bribing though, and that makes the USA unique, and more akin to working in North Korea rather than Nigeria.
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Ledger Implementation in PostgreSQL
I’ve used Lazarus a bit and it mostly replicates the APIs and experience of using Delphi in this timeframe
Just wondering, why does that not worry you? Requiring people to play the favoritism game seems like a terrible way to govern. Unless I just misunderstood, in which case I apologize.
I rebuild a large number of demos with no change. Well, the UI looks date, you need to manually enable HighDPI (one checkbox away), do a few tweaks. The IDE plugins, those are broken. And some libraries don't ship any more.
> In his text detailing aspects of the forthcoming attack on Houthi targets, Hegseth wrote to the group—which, at the time, included me—“We are currently clean on OPSEC.”

Simply incredible. This is wild.
Hobby Lobby openly admitted to falsifying documents to smuggle in artifacts. I've never seen anything suggesting they take your fourth point seriously, at least not before the courts got involved.

And, as mentioned in the article, point five would be that they're effectively using this as a tax avoidance loophole.
> still probably a bit much

I think what's worse is that it still over detailed the steps but left out the actually additive steps of the OP's list which I would say is the bit about the getting/cleaning the dishes and trash
There is a more general discussion on the latest Asahi Linux progress report.

> Unfortunately, PDM mics are very omnidirectional and very sensitive. We cannot get by without some kind of beamforming.

https://asahilinux.org/2025/03/progress-report-6-14/

Also, it turned out that some previous work done for the speaker output was reused here for mic input.

> Thanks to the groundwork laid in PipeWire and WirePlumber for speaker support, wiring up a DSP chain including Triforce for the microphones was really simple. We just had to update the config files, and let WirePlumber figure out the rest!
Is casually conflating allied nations with “subordinates” some sort of signal of political orientation now?
You don't even need real test results. You can just email customer's family members with fake claims and try to extort money, using names and test dates as evidence.
That link I sent is an example of standard notation I used when playing set. For accents, something like bigger or smaller circles could work fine.

Purdie shuffle would look like:

1 2 3 4
hh |x-xx-xx-xx-x|
S |-o--o-Oo--o-|
B |o----o-----o|

Or something like a basic jazz shuffle:

1 2 3 4
hh |x--x-xx--x-x|
S |---o-----o--|
B |o--o--o--o--|
Custom mechanical keyboard firmware like QMK [1] and ZMK [2] support custom chords called "combos". Basically if the combo's set of keys is hit (within some timeout which defaults to 50 ms) then a specific keycode is sent. You then get a fun game of identifying low probability combos and mapping then to useful keycodes. You also start realizing there's some prime real estate to take advantage of. Two-key combos require some thought cause bigrams can be surprisingly common. Three-key combos are basically open though.

In migrating from the ZSA Voyager to a 36-key keyboard (Chocofi) I've relied on combos as I don't like overloading keys with tap-versus-hold behavior as I can never get the timing down. For example my left index, middle, and ring finger mashed down on the home row (resting position) is escape in my current layout (Colemak mod DK which means keys R, S, and T). It's three fingers but hardly any extra effort. I've managed to do away with a symbol layer and have been quite happy with the result. If anyone is curious here is my "36-key training layout" for the ZSA Voyager [3] and my current Chocofi layout [4].

1: https://docs.qmk.fm/features/combo

2: https://zmk.dev/docs/keymaps/combos

3: https://configure.zsa.io/voyager/layouts/d7L0v/latest/0

4: https://github.com/vietjtnguyen/zmk-chocofi/blob/main/config...
> Every human naturally learns languages

... in the first few years of life. Beyond that, it's an intentional, conscious and often challenging effort for many.

Some people, even as adults, are far more adept at learning new languages than others. For the rest of us, it typically requires devotion to the subject for years.
I would point out that you still left because of a bad manager, just a higher level one.
It doesn't seem as full-featured as other systems at this point. For instance, there doesn't seem to be code generation to go from the proven code to another language (like Rocq, formerly Coq, and others can do).
it allows anyone to build their own GPTs without writing a single line of code. unlike openai's custom GPTs, we support multiple models like deepseek, llama, openai, claude etc

Our goal is to help people launch their own AI business. OpenAI's Custom GPTs never took off because they didn’t allow monetization, so people never shared their GPTs.

We're planning to launch a marketplace where people can list their GPTs, and others can try them out

we're targeting

1) Consultants/ Experts

These are individuals with specialized knowledge (fitness, health, investing, marketing, tax, etc.) who want to monetize their expertise through an AI tool.

Experts like Bryan Johnson, Nikita Bier, and professionals who sell advice on Intro.co, topmate.io

Service providers such as real estate agents, lawyers, tax agent, travel agent, fitness trainers, etc.

- Real estate agents can create an AI assistant for property recommendations.

- Personal trainers can build a custom AI workout assistants.

2) Course Creators

Many course creators and educators want to turn their course into recurring AI business

Example Use Case: A PM expert like Lenny can create an assistant that answers questions related to product management. he used to teach on maven

3) Indie hackers and No-code builders

they want to test ideas without high upfront investment.

4) businesses looking for custom solutions

they can create website support bot, company knowledge base bot etc
Sorry, the blog has hiccups with large traffic... Yes, this is a book on Delphi 5 I made available for free... but with hundreds of notes indicating what has changed and what is still relevant. A lot of content is applicable to Delphi 12.3, released this month!
He was put in office by fossil fuel folks. We shouldn't be surprised that he tries to somehow make these dying fuels competitive.
Huh TIL this is called a quadlet. It turns out I already wrote several files in ~/.config/containers/systemd following some other tutorial online and didn't know this is called a quadlet.
Why, are they not able to reject these types of noise? My X1 doesn't even register typing in a video call
Crazy amount of breakage...

Here is a PR which reverts this: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/pull/4911

Interesting that maintainers of setuptools still only postpone the depreciation date for a year, so we can probably expect more issues like this in the future.
the point are people not using formal methods yet. automotive for example continues amazing aspire iso 26262 rain dances to tell themselves systems were safe. and does not allow to replace that with formal specs and proofs of compliance. that's just complementary the "real safety work" has to be done with paperwork v model tracing.
Oh, excellent; I didn't realize that was capable of building rustc. In that case, I'm wrong and Rust is just as good as C.
A problem is that the proposed audience are individuals who struggle with options. Giving them more options doesn't help them. Enabling a power user mode with user creation, voting, etc. would be valuable for others. I suspect template sharing in some situations is problematic because getting great results for an audience can have text which some will find objectionable.
IMHO it's not useful to look at a huge and complex system and say "it's all good" or "it's all bad." Texas has a great system for choosing which energy to deploy, but not such a great system for ensuring capacity. The aspects of their system that speed the energy interchange are not the same aspects that cause deadly blackouts.

Texas is an energy-only market right now (payments only for kWh delivered), but adding a capacity market could help (payments for ensuring the ability to deliver electricity), and capacity markets are common in other energy markets around the US. And another thing that would have helped even more clearly is cleaning house at the ISO that didn't follow any of the guidelines from the massive outage from nuclear and gas that happened more than a decade ago. But the ISO failing to do what it's supposed to do is the regulators not doing their job. Regulators regulating what they have the power to do is clearly important in any system.
Here is a great run down of that history:

https://computer.rip/2024-02-25-a-history-of-the-tty.html

Early versions had to be mechanically synced at the sending and receiving side. The typists had strict timings so the other end could receive it. This led to a version of punch cards that could be pre-typed and then fed in automatically, reducing the skill needed of the operator. The linage to teletypes were almost obvious.

Very good read, don't want to spoil too much.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43462783 got more traction (14 comments at the moment).
Deregulation does work to address healthcare, child support, etc.

It just takes way longer to reach market equilibrium than free-market advocates claim. And by way longer, I mean years or even decades rather than months or weeks, which means a lot of suffering or externalities during the transitional period.

Healthcare was once deregulated in the U.S. And it was fine. And it would be again if we deregulated healthcare, but it would take more than a decade and nobody has the stomach for that. (And nobody has yet made a compelling case to demonstrate that a deregulated healthcare system would be a sufficient improvement over what we have now to justify the suffering that the changeover would cause.)
Turning Business Logic Errors into Compile-Time Errors
The 1903 Flyer did have one defect - it was unstable in pitch. It required an active hand on the pitch control.
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I agree it's worse now. At that time the bad comments were like

fake quote> He is rich only because his father had an esmerald mine, and he can not even build rockets with 1960 technology.
> missing language features

Yes, Holub mentions C folks had to make do with what they had--but that those implementations, despite differences, would point to one or another common pattern (or done enough times similarly to be a pattern).

> bug reports against your programming language

Yes and no. I daresay no programming language can expect to be a universal one and still have the same ergonomics as a purposeful one or even a DSL.

At the same time, with so many amazing languages out now, new language authors may see adopters clamor for features seen in those contemporary ones.

> Macros... Lisp... Clojure

Yes, definitely have tooling for boilerplate. But that also doesn't mean the pattern could have been implemented differently as yet another idiom, or written in a way that isn't idiomatic according to one group or another.

Thank-you for the references.

We've only been speaking in terms of single languages, though. Have you combined different programs together before and thought, "Hmm, this is kind of like a pattern for..."?

That would speak to the universality of patterns.
With a hardware DSP? It's gonna have software in it, but doing this kind of processing in the upper most top level OS stack is certainly a choice.
Its harder today than it was. It used to be you had most of america watching Walter Cronkite or otherwise on three channels and a smattering of radio. You control those few levers you have the country. And indeed the country was remarkably well controlled without even being aware of its tight leash up until we saw counter culture emerge, through production of their own media and materials and grassroots distribution outside this existing national system in the 1960s.

Many people are captured today by mass media but there are many more people in this space trying to cultivate their own cash crop of passive content cows. Makes it less efficient to break trough with more players to pay off for a unified narrative.
> defining two different return types and using the wrong one could happen in any language

This specifically is the kind of bug that is avoided with strong typing. The compiler screams at you when using the wrong return type. For example, if a callback expects a Result type, you must return a Result type, not some random int-like value whose definition of success and failure is arbitrary.
Bad or good for the other 96%
I have lived in multiple homes in the bay area of differing vintages, and they all had at least some attic insulation. I'm not sure what was in the walls. Newer homes have better insulation, of course.
software supply chain issues. they may try to fork their own everything in time, if it gets that bad...

the same reason the US had to find out how chinese rare earth magnets made it in to the F35, for example.
Stylometry has me pegged with a predictable style that predates AI.
The First LLM (2025)
The article lays out 3 different business models in the energy industry and calls them "regulated", "partially deregulated", and "deregulated". While the distinction between them isn't made very clear (at least to me), it argues that the "deregulated" models are better at responding to market conditions, and thus better at pivoting to solar power, than regulated ones.

It doesn't clearly tie the choice of business model to the way the businesses are regulated, so it fails to support the claim that regulation is the cause of the lack of solar adoption. The examples it uses to make its case, the TVA and the state of Texas, are also not great.

The TVA is owned by the government. So the question of their pivot to solar power is more of a political question than an economic one. Is there any political will to spend tax dollars pivoting the TVA away from nuclear and hydro sources to solar? Which politicians support/reject the policy and why?

Texas is also not a great example given the recent tragedies arguably resulting from their lack of regulation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis

In-line with other comments, Enron is a classic case-study of the consequences of allowing free markets unfettered control over essential infrastructure.
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> Do you know why these implementations opt for 2 if it's not the best choice?

Probably a mix of simplicity, not knowing or not caring. Most software is not optimal.

> If it's not the best, what is?

In theory, the best value is a bit less than the golden ratio, so 1.5 is quite good.

https://archive.li/Z2R8w#selection-119.7-135.119

In practice, unknown factors can influence the result, so it is best to benchmark your code and try a bunch of values until you find the fastest configuration.
The US is primarily attacking Houthis to support Israel and not Europe. Vance knows that.

J.D. Vance comes of as a rabid anti-Europeanist in his speeches, tweets, and apparently also his private messages. Here in Denmark the authorities reported that his wife, Usha Vance, is tied to an unusual money transfer and upcoming meeting with Greenlandic separatists.
You can't afford to go to war with an industrialized nation whose energy is immensely cheaper than your own, nor with a nuclear-armed nation. Solar panels are different from oil in that their producers cannot turn them off, so importing them now would increase your energy security, not decrease it. For EVs the situation is more complex because of potential backdoors in firmware, but PV modules do not have any firmware; they are just large diodes.

I strongly disagree with both your master-race theory of technical innovation and your imperialist rhetoric. Americans, and in particular people from the US, did contribute greatly to solar and battery technological innovation. But a great deal of it was carried out outside the US, or inside the US by non-Americans, and in particular by Chinese grad students at US universities. Technological and scientific progress is inherently an international effort on behalf of all of humanity.

In terms of bringing utility-scale battery storage and PV energy production to mass production, US elites have basically opted not to participate. Unfortunately I expect that situation to continue.

Withdrawing international intellectual-property monopolies en masse is an interesting suggestion; I think it would probably promote progress, in particular because it would free other countries around the world to do the same with US patents and copyrights, which have been among the most significant obstacles to progress and even simple preservation of knowledge.
One person's "disparagement" is another's valid criticism. You can see this come up constantly in lawsuits.

All I'm saying is it's a random site on the internet for a person who is a "Certified Bonafide Expert of Miscellanea"—no one is asking you to "trust the source material". If you think that aspects of the post bring into question the validity of the point being made, that's your right. I just think it's a weird expectation. The author even speaks to that:
https://substack.com/@meghanboilard/note/c-102976235
> It is incredible that given its heritage, we have had to wait 25 years for .NET to finally provide a similar experience

It's even the same person: Microsoft poached Anders Hejlsberg, creator of both Turbo Pascal and Delphi, to architect .net.
I choose answers that only barely make sense. ie...

"Where is your favorite vacation spot?"

Narnia

"What was your first pet's name?"

Falkor

Even my closest friends who know me would never guess those, even if they knew I was giving bullshit answers, simply because I was never into "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe" or "Never Ending Story".

(Note: These are not ACTUAL answers I've given, but you get the idea)

I save the bullshit answers into my password manager. But yeah, it's probably a better idea to just use an actual pass phrase.
I'm wondering if that's why those kinds of setups offer good audio if only one person speaks and there's clear pauses between people, but as soon as you have a quick back and forth or two people talking the audio turns into complete mush.
Credit card alerts help, but this verifies your signed receipt against the final charge automatically. It catches subtle errors that alerts might miss—and can double as a digital expense tracker for budgeting, tax, or work expenses. Maybe that is a better product strategy?
Thanks for the kind words! But I can't claim to be a computer scientist, as I have not done any research. Engineering is my calling, not science.
Some data:

China's share of of electricity production from coal is at 60% as of 2023[1] compared to 16% for the US[2]. That's down from 80% in 2005.
It currently generates 35% of its electricity from renewable sources as of 2023 compared to 41% in the US.
The US has been replacing coal with gas - gas was 19% in 2005 and 42% in 2023.

China first exceeded the US's annual carbon emissions in 2006 with both outputting about 6 billion tons. Since then the US has declined to a bit under 5 billion tons in 2023 while China has doubled to a bit under 12 billion tons[3] making it by far the largest emitter in notional terms per year.

While the Western world's carbon emissions have been in decline for years (with the US still the highest ex-China), China and India's emissions continue to climb at significant rates. It's true that China is building enormous amounts of renewable energy, but that can be further generalized to China is building enormous amounts of energy production across all sources, dirty and clean.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?coun...
[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?coun...
[3] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-...
Unfortunately, just putting "illegal" by itself in the headline would not be up to journalistic standards. It's not up to a journalist to declare that something is illegal. You either have to quote somebody, or use the passive voice "alleged".

This is indeed a problem in our post-truth, postmodernist era. It has become a tactic to cast doubt on everything, no matter how well-attested. There's definitely a call for journalists to stop pretending that there are two sides to a story when there just isn't, but that conflicts with their self-image as a neutral observer.

Plus, of course, for a great many people reading this, they'll say that journalists are in fact quite biased, and that the "facts" journalists would like to take as self-evident are in fact propaganda by their opponents. Nearly everybody will say that about at least one set of journalists... and a "neutral" journalist would be reluctant to insist that they are the ones being neutral.
And now they're being fired because they're a black man and a white woman. They're not going to reconsider Jeremy Hansen, even though it's his first space mission -- he surely cannot be the "best qualified" for a job that others have done and he hasn't.

That's no dig at Hansen, who is surely immensely qualified. But in a system where the "merits" are not precisely defined, many people can be equally qualified. So we end up defining women and black people as "DEI" hires, while white men are given a pass.
> Any feedback or questions welcome

Come back once you have something to show.