It also compresses the context at around 100k tokens.

In case anyone is interested: https://github.com/sebastian/pi-extensions/tree/main/.pi/ext...

This is a mini-calculator for you if you are a freelancers or self-employed and can offset business related expenses from your taxes.

The basic question it aims to answer is: "How much less money can I pay myself in salary at the end of this month if I buy this particular thing", or asked in a different way: "What is this thing actually going to cost me"?

The calculation is incredibly simple, but I have recreated it in excel sheets often enough that I thought I'd be worth putting it online for myself and others to use.

Happy calculating!

For easy referencing – the URL is: https://the-price.probsteide.com.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback!

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A friend of mine and I have built a replacement search you can add to your Squarespace site. It's still early days, but it works remarkably well! We have called the service Monocle Search.

We more than welcome any critical feedback you can give us! Honest, and kind, feedback is the best way of learning and improving our service after all!

I'd be more than happy to answer auxiliary questions too, if you have any, such as tech stack used, how it works behind the scenes, plans, etc.

Happy searching!

Oh, and there is a demo video, in case you do not have a Squarespace website to test it on yourself! The direct link to the video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0EsbS2wqHM

Thanks!

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1) any problems you frequently encounter that you would love to see go away 2) any tools you currently use that feel overly bloated and complex

Feel free to answer in the comments below or use the following form if you prefer: https://tally.so/r/wvBEKv

Thank you!

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I have added native support for Meilisearch in Kleio. To use it, you let Kleio proxy your requests to Meilisearch and it then runs an ad auction on the results returned by Meilisearch.

I would love to hear your feedback and thoughts.

The docs linked to here also include a docker compose file you can use to quickly spin up an end-to-end demo.

If you'd like to learn more about the ad-server itself, then you can find it here too: https://kle.io

Peace and love

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At my day job we were using a commercial ad server. It was quite good, but also incredibly expensive, and even though it is hosted fairly close to our data center it was also quite slow (speed of light, etc etc).

I decided to take a stab at building my own, and this attempt is what you can find under the name of Kleio.

It's an ad server that is focused on letting you add support for sponsored products to your product. It's not well-suited for classic banner ads, or if you want to connect to a third-party ad exchange or anything of that kind. So a typical user of Kleio would be a company either with a storefront where they sell products and want to give the suppliers a chance to highlight their product, a job listing site, or any other type of classifieds site.

My goal with Kleio is to make something that's conceptually simple, and incredibly fast (I am trying to get all auctions to complete in less than 1 ms and since you host it yourself, network latencies also become less of an issue).

I would greatly appreciate any feedback. Both on the product itself (that would be grand!) and also on the positioning, feature set, ease of use, etc.

You can find a quickstart guide at [1], and a list of cases it's well suited for and which it's not a good fit for here [2].

1: https://kle.io/docs/quickstart 2: https://kle.io/procon

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I have also thought about adding a feature whereby you can ask the equivalent of "I would like to be able to pay myself X per month" and then be told how much you would need to bill per month. In a way it's the inverse of what the tool does today.

Thanks again!

As my girlfriend also started freelancing last year, I decided to turn my Excel sheet into a little program she could use too, and in the spirit of sharing and helping others I would hereby like to make it available to you all too :)

My biggest take-away so far has been that most people dramatically underestimate how much they need to set aside, and forget to plan adequately for getting sick and for retirement.

You can find the tool here: https://howmuch.probsteide.com/

Comments, questions, and suggestions are more than welcome!

I wish you all a happy Easter Weekend!

In case you skipped to the bottom: you can find the tool at https://howmuch.probsteide.com/

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A lot of people write comments such as yours. 11000USD/mth is a very decent salary if you are an employee. What most regular employees completely discount when doing back of the envelope calculations about the salary of other people are the amount of additional contributions that are made by your employer that regular employees might never see, but that are paid for you all the same.

Here is the math for me as a freelancer in Germany, with a similar salary as the one you are claiming is outrageous.

I bill roughly the equivalent per month from Berlin in Germany. I am not sure where the Babel developers are based, so their circumstances might differ, but all the same, here goes:

Of the 9000EUR (11000USD in EUR) I have to pay: - 19% VAT = 1750 - 950/mth in health insurance - Put aside 1000/mth for retirement (which is less than I previously had from my employer) - Set aside money for vacation (as a regular employee in Germany I would have 30 days paid vacation, as a freelancer I had to set aside roughly 600/mth to compensate for this) - Set aside money in case I get sick (as a regular employee I still get my salary when I am sick, as a freelancer I get paid from day 45). I set aside roughly 450/mth for this. - Then there are miscellaneous freelancer related expenses and having to buy hardware (which your employer would cover too). Let's make that 300/mth. - Then there's income taxes on the rest. This differs from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but let's make it an even 30% (which is below what I pay).

This leaves me with 3950 before taxes, or 2765 after taxes... That doesn't sound so amazing anymore, does it?

Even if the Babel guys aren't working as freelancer but pay themselves through a company, the math works out roughly the same (at least from what I have seen in my own business over the last 9 years). The only difference is that the company needs the equivalent monthly budget instead of the individuals.

I really would like not to have node running on my server in order to get SSR! Which effectively means I'll either have to serve entirely static pages and then hydrate them based on some model client side (which isn't server side rendering by any definition of the term), or I have to recreate the entirety of the HTML rendering functionality for my server side in my language of choice. I guess there might not be a way around the second option?

Edit: unless they have some special lower cost stripe rate of course, in which case you can ignore my comment altogether ;)

Let's do some math: In signal's case, since they use Donorbox, there is a 2.9% + 30¢ fee for credit card transactions going via Stripe (in addition to another percentage that goes to donor box). If you were to donate $24 once per year, Signal would end up with just over $23 after processing fees had been deducted. If you donated $2 per month, they would end up with $19.7 per year, an additional $3 being spent on fees!

Edit: unless they have some special lower cost stripe rate of course, in which case you can ignore my comment altogether ;)