I left it for elixir and Phoenix and never looked back. There’s just no true ownership and direction that can come close to that of Jose Valim and Chris McCord in the JS ecosystem. It’s so fragmented that it takes the fun out of maintaining a JS codebase.

It’s a tool that leverages your drm free ebooks to help manage your book clubs. The epub file offers more rich info such as:

- word counts per reading

- chapter selection

- the ability to highlight sections and share

- ai summarization and spoiler free discussion about the contents of a given reading

I use it for my own book club right now. I doubt I’ll be able to monetize the app due to the need for drm free epubs which is a pretty high barrier for entry to most non-technical users.

My long term plans would be to have an agent help readers learn hand in hand while reading. I’d like to have the agent facilitate deeper analysis by prompting the users and clubs with questions that encourage more critical analysis of each section. I’ve been building all the infrastructure for running the club so that’s the next more interesting step I haven’t explored yet.

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Instead of passing judgement on why someone values something, why not ask?

For example, if you were to ask me why I chose to keep using an IDE that I had spent years of my life building muscle memory using perhaps you would get a better understanding of the specific part of the lifecycle I was at when paying for software.

It's not that the git gui was the reason why I signed up for the software in the first place. The git gui was the last reason for me to not jump ship when switching to something like neovim or helix. This was during a time where LSP was becoming popular so refactoring tools and intellisense were finally getting better adoption outside of the JetBrains tooling. Most of this was achievable with editor du jour + lsp plugins, but the git ui was the one piece I hadn't personally solved outside of the JetBrains ecosystem.

Maybe you’re saying that you wish VSCose itself was a TUI?

They’ve dropped the ball over the past five years. Part of me thinks it was the war in Ukraine that did them in. The quality of tooling and the investment in Fleet and AI slop was the death nell for me. I was slated to renew at the grandfathered price on the 17th and decided to let my subscription lapse this year because the value prop just isn’t strong enough anymore.

Regarding “woe is me, I don’t get to do whatever I want”. No, that’s not the way that I’m thinking. It’s more that people CAN feel this way at one point or another in this society of ours. The original comment that I responded too was simply belittling the op for having those types of thoughts. It’s valid and important to address those feelings. Whether or not you can do anything to change the way society is based on those is another story.

I do believe that there is an actual discussion to be had about adjusting our society to allow for a more healthy balance, that’s not stacked against the middle and lower classes. I love my craft as a software engineer and I plan to continue working even if I make it to retirement. It’s just that the system we live in could be more kind to the people in it.

I love HN, but this type of mentality is pretty toxic and isn’t conducive to the healthy conversations that I enjoy in it AWAY from Reddit.

It’s difficult to keep moving knowing that we don’t have the ability to opt out of the way our whole society works. This is a very broad discussion that I know has many different facets to it, but the grandparent poster seems to be calling out what a lot of people believe is true.

Fun to see this idea is getting a little traction.

I was agreeing with most opinions and then I saw this one. Having used Ecto from the elixir ecosystem completely changed my mind on this. It's an amazing piece of software.