The achilles heel of the Playdate is screen brightness. There's an awkward sweet spot where you need to pour light onto the screen for it to be viewable but simultaneously avoid reflection from the light source. I guess for younger eyes that's less of a problem. But for me, I've had plenty of scenarios where I considered playing and then realized it was going to be impossible to comfortably set up a lighting environment.

I have clip-on lights for books. Maybe I should get one for the Playdate. Has anyone had success with that?

I needed to do an inventory of stuff in our house over the weekend, and I used Wispr Flow on iOS to take a very very long and rambly note in their app. Then the transcription text appeared on their Mac app, ready to be pasted into ChatGPT for parsing.

Wispr Flow handles languages switches quite well in my experience using it in both English and Japanese.

> - Manual option for max heart rate

> - Manual zone bound settings

Really excited for these.

Instead of a calc, I’d like to be able to manually set the zones so I can match them with the zones I’m used to working with.

You mention it being scriptable, which makes sense as a CLI. Do you have any personal examples of using Lexy in a script? I'm curious about use cases outside of reading.

Thanks for building this!

Also... this put PostHog in front of me right as I'm looking for a few things they seem to offer. The marketing-gimmick-to-thing-you-need flow was so on point it's kind of suspect.

What's the general consensus on them? Any PostHog users here that can share their impressions?

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"Congrats - you've made it into Forbes 30 under 30. You scored 5 / 8."

As is evidenced by my score, you can't just select the tech bro each time and win.

Once you have the diagram code, you can use that as an artifact for new LLM chats related to databases, APIs, etc.

I'm not sure what the history of mermaidchart.com specifically is, but I'm guessing it's new since the ER diagram docs are marked as "coming soon":

https://docs.mermaidchart.com/mermaid/er/syntax

I'm curious how this plugin compares to Markdown Preview Mermaid Support: https://marketplace.cursorapi.com/items?itemName=bierner.mar...

Polypane made a massive difference in getting our startup's website shipped a few months ago. I highly recommend it for entrepreneur-devs.

It's really been beneficial for me and my family, who aren't from here, to get to know more people in the neighborhood. These days I feel like it's a rarity to go outside without bumping into someone we know.

It's also been awesome to see friendships and even collaborations form among people in the group.

I recommend people give it a shot wherever they live. And if you're in NYC, come visit!

A couple of questions:

- Do you have anything online that shows what Accord ADRs look and feel like?

- How are you thinking that Accord will plug into tools and workflows a team might already be using in the PDLC/SDLC?

Last week, I spent a couple of hours at a local hack event putting an RSS aggregator[1] together for our community. Just something fun to do.

One thing I realized when I deployed is that Substack gives a 403 if you try to read their RSS feeds from a GitHub Action. The only obvious workaround to me is to pull the content on local periodically, commit it, and then deploy. But I'd much rather have this site updating itself via GitHub Action and cron.

Have you run into this situation before?

[1]: https://github.com/astoria-tech/subcurrent-astro/

- Value-added hosting providers

- Value-added infrastructure providers.

My personal mental model for them is that they take lower level cloud offerings and build on top an opinionated on-rails experience for common stacks.

So their services come with a higher price tag, but with a streamlined developer experience.

For Node app hosting, I've been enjoying Render over the past year or so. But it seems like opinions on them are mixed among the HN audience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42832696

If you look at that thread, you'll see comparable services mentioned as well, like Fly.io, Vercel, etc.

But if what you want to host is a WordPress site or just a Linux server, the options to consider are going to be different.

> There are always exceptions, if building this software has some competitive advantage, go ahead.

Good callout. There are no hard rules but it's nice to have this sort of sanity check to anchor the conversation in "why", which should tie closely to:

> Generally, developers at small to midsize SaaS companies shouldn’t build any software that doesn’t directly help them deliver a service to their customers.

I can't speak on the others, but I've used v0 a fair amount over the last year and have been happy with it as a prototyping tool. But the delta between the kind of UI it seems designed to generate and what, say, a designer working from user-centric first principles might come up with is huge.

I actually went through such an exercise where I prototyped something with v0 as part of an internal pitch. The prototype was super helpful in getting stakeholders engaged. Once I got a UX designer on board, they designed the concept from the ground up, and we tossed the v0 design and code completely.

This was the process working as intended. The prototype played an important role in getting something good shipped; it was not itself the end product.

At least today, I imagine v0 could be great for internal tools that would otherwise not get any UX love at all. But as far as shipping an app to external customers, I haven't been in a situation where I saw that as a viable path.

1. Work outside of the browser altogether (i.e., be built as an app for the OS), or 2. Integrate directly into the service it is targeting (i.e., G Suite add-ons, etc.)

I may be in the minority.

Wishing the project well, but this is where it stops for me unfortunately.

Are there any similar tools that aren't browser dependent?

An ancient post [1] for the defunct npm blog offers some details:

> So the count of “downloads” is much larger than the number of people who typed “npm install yourpackage” on any given day.

I'm sure the particulars have changed over time, but directionally, npm download numbers aren't a proxy for "# of developers using my package".

[1]: https://blog.npmjs.org/post/92574016600/numeric-precision-ma...