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Author here! Thanks for sharing :)
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I've totally been there too. Here's a few ideas: • Discipline is more useful than motivation. Motivation isn't under your control, so it's not worth relying upon. I've found t…
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What tools are you using to generate the audio?
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There are many subreddits for which there are no suitable "source". My personal favorites are r/hmmm and r/youtubehaiku and r/obscuremedia. Luckily, Reddit makes it extremely …
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I've heard that if every dollar you spend on marketing eventually brings in more than one dollar, your budget should be infinite. Not sure if this is true, but I like the sound of it :)
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I find that GPT is great at generating test code :) Paste in a function or file and ask GPT to create test code for particular edge-cases. It's usually close enough. You can also ask it to create…
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YouTube channels work with RSS readers :) https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID
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You might enjoy one of my favorite quotes: If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endl…
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Remember that Deno and its ecosystem are still really immature. I use Deno and Postgres for personal projects. I sometimes hit rough edges in Deno, but I'm still using it anyway because I'm …
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I created a little timer script to annoy me when I get distracted :) [1] https://taylor.town/nowify I'll be open-sourcing it this month, so stay tuned!…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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I think a 3D wikipedia browser would be a fun project!
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People in my circles mostly struggle with YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, and Twitter.
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I've enjoyed bulma in the past: [1] https://bulma.io There are a bunch of others I haven't used in a long time: [2] https://getbootstrap.com [3] https://ge…
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I'm assuming that you're using the internal microphone on your laptop, which is relatively close to the fan. You need a microphone that is closer to your mouth than the fan. To prevent micro…
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I mostly agree that "the world is better than ever", but the supporting points in this article seem to be that "capitalism is great" and "climate change isn't happening&q…
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I've heard good things about PostgREST, which lets you build REST endpoints in PG directly. [1] https://postgrest.org
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Totally agree. I'm organizing a tiny conference in Southern California :) [1] https://outland.sh Does anybody have any recommendations for other small tech groups?…
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Thank you so much for making such a delightful guide! I wish I had this when I started baking :)