The frontend is vanilla js + three.js, which renders server-cached AWS Terrain Tiles. This made it possible to render the entire Earth, so you can fly/teleport around biome-aware Alaskan mountains, Hawaiian islands, or anywhere else.

The backend is a Go server which tracks live player positions. This is running on a VPS until I need to scale.

And land ownership/skin purchase is tracked on the Ethereum Base network, also cached. So it's a proper Metaverse with blockchain enforced land ownership.

There's more to it, I can answer more questions, but that's a good overview. Thanks again.

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On those servers you have full observability and control. You can execute cron based health checks, scripts over ssh, or even a fully functional embedded terminal. This lets you intuitively see the health of your services, with the power of a full shell if you need it.

I wanted to see the broader context in which my ec2 instances or raspberry pi operates. I also wanted to open a simple dashboard, make sure all infra checks are healthy, and have a shell readily available for quick fixes and diagnostics.

Reticle lets you operate on the internet as an engineer in an intuitively new way. It's also very fun and cool, I would love to chat if any of you feel the same.

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I liked orgmode before AI. But just wondered how it could look with AI.

So I created ai-org, a non-taken name it seems.

It's an opencode fork with a custom org agenda task view. (and a simple file browser). (wouldn't be possible without opencode team, truly what a great MIT licensed product)

The template includes an AGENTS.md and accompany file structure to the effect of:

matt@mbp:~/doc/dev/pro/ai-org/template $ tree -L 1 projects/ duties/ resources/ archive/ goals.org ideas.org scratch.org todo.org AGENTS.md HUMAN.md

It's been a fun experiment, would love to hear any thoughts, thank you.

https://ai-org.net/

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TalkBlog is an app that lets you record audio snippets, edit them in an interactive workspace, render them to HTML with AI transcription, and instantly publish your new blog post to the internet. Or download the HTML and use it how you'd like.

The goal is to make it effortless to share the ideas in your head as a blog post.

You may have an idea worth sharing, but no time (or motivation) to sit down and type it out.

TalkBlog makes it easier to share your authentic ideas with the world, while avoiding the instantly-recognizable LLM generated content.

If this sounds interesting to you, I would love to hear more. Thanks everyone.

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To reduce spam, posts require a small fee from an Ethereum wallet. This also means you own your posts.

I would love to see this become a better home page to scroll. Just high impact information and discussion, without the distractions.

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https://shelldash.com

The goal is to provide a global monitoring view of your servers, with shell script access, in a way that feels natural and productive, plus a minimal and appealing UI/UX.

The technology is fairly interesting. This being a browser app, I built a Go WASM SSH client running in the browser, proxied through my server WebSocket endpoints. This means I can provide you a Web UI to access your servers via SSH, without ever needing to see your credentials. I only see secured packets like OpenSSH sends over the open internet. Inspired by https://ssheasy.com/

Whether you have one server and periodically run a few common commands, or administering many scattered geographically, I hope ShellDash can make your experience more productive and fun.

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A Turing complete personal tutor to explain any concept already exists. You can prompt a logo or video into existence. This is crazy.

The real value will be the creative people who use AI to self teach and build real world value, like energy management, or anything else.

Not this pipe dream that AGI will be achieved and automate the entire world, which for some reason gets so much focus. Seems like procrastination to obsess over this.

A natural consequence of the currently low barrier for developers to ship a whole product indie, is that you’ll see more low value projects online. I can understand how that’s annoying.

But when one strikes gold and creates real value, I think it’s pretty cool how it’s ran by an individual who truly cares and understands the target user and problem.

I prefer that to an over funded VC project that gets dissolved, or a Google project that gets EOL from layoffs.

I wanted to get an appealing MVP to launch, to see if there's any interest. Since there is some, I'll prioritized getting a more organized and polished component list. Also forgot -webkit-backdrop-filter, oops.

I did make the cmd+k shortcut the doc search modal, so you can try that if you'd like. Its also a cool htmx demo against an EC2 Go net/http server.

I wanted to use shadcn/ui for a project, but I wasn't using React. I thought that was a shame, so I built one for my preferred stack, Bootstrap+net/http+html/template+htmx.

So its fundamentally a different architecture better suited for template based web applications. Like Django or Rails or Go html/template. It serves a completely disjoint market.

Thanks a lot for this understanding response, I'm still pretty new to this.

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Basic bcrypt auth isn't that hard to learn for a Go net/http web app. Its true, but online forums are littered with desparate cries for a django-allauth equivalent in the Go ecosystem, which doesn't exist (in a way that is trivial to incorporate). These cries either come from beginners, or from time conscious individuals uninterested in reinventing wheels. Both are valid.

I made the decision to implement auth fitting this description. By creating a public package, I can import future fixes into my disjoint projects, open the global community to make security suggestions, and help someone in the future get started more quickly.

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This is the problem your first quote actually solves. I didn't fabricate a fake problem, I felt a real one.

Deploying a pocketbase application is as simple as getting a binary on a server with a HTTPS configured firewall, and giving it a domain name. I launched both deploysolo.com and deploysolodemo.com in a tmux instance, which isn't a great permanent solution, but a testament to ease of deployment for a market validation phase.

The "for engineers" generally comes from the fact that many web software engineers enjoy the Go ecosystem, and they can take a lot of their expertise creating HTTP routes into a SaaS boilerplate that solves common problems out of the box. Reinventing the wheel sucks when you have a business idea to get out into the world.

Anyway truly thank you for the feedback, I'm still learning and not trying to use grandiose language to extract money. I'm just trying my best to create something that helps people create their own value.

Its a skill that engineers should develop to be comfortable with these resources.

But having tutorials and cookbooks that help achieve a user's specific goal is extremely helpful for the new engineer or the time conscious one.

I attribute a lot of Django/Laravel's popularity to these resources, that are currently missing in the Go/Pocketbase ecosystem.