There are caveats like:

- opening windows and doors may not change much if the air is not moving i.e. with fans

- and it may not be the worth the tradeoff of introducing outdoor irritants e.g. pollen

- indoor plants unfortunately do not make a big difference in CO2 levels

- consider focusing on more important facets of indoor air quality, like VOCs

But kudos for different people working on similar good ideas

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- I haven't implemented audio support yet, but it would be nice

- I like --dry-run

- I didn't use a TUI widget library, but now it's at the point where it's tedious to refactor the UI / make it prettier

- I like OP's timeline widget

- Wanted to focus on static binaries. I got chafa static linking working for Linux, but haven't bundled ffmpeg yet

- which reminds me of licenses -- chafa and ffmpeg are LGPL iirc

- a couple other notes from early on: https://wonger.dev/posts/chafa-ffmpeg-progress

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I dunno if/how this could be taught, but I feel like half the battle is critical thinking with an adversarial mindset towards media -- who would make this, why would they want to show me, do I see anything that makes this impossible, is it worth engaging with in the first place, can I fact check this.

One designy thing I've been practicing is to be intentional about every margin / piece of whitespace, and to use a proportional scale like https://utopia.fyi/. You might find that if you align more elements and stick to the scale, things might look extra pleasing. (Maybe you already have, idk, just first impressions from my phone)

- subscribe button placement looks uneven, esp on mobile. Maybe it could be a simple underlined link?

- imo centered text is a crutch that often looks better when left justified instead, or rerranged with some other solution. I'm thinking of the mobile navbar and lengthy captions. This is more subjective tho

- homepage could use more posts! Looking forward to your future writing

- the most beautiful sites usually come up with some unique theme or visual identity or creative stunt to break away from a vanilla default theme. But people still like basic readable websites if the content is great.

I have some barebones content at https://struggle-meals.wonger.dev/ and will be working on the design over the next few weeks. Some decisions I'm thinking about:

- balancing between personal convenience and brevity vs being potentially useful for other people. E.g. should I tag everything that's vegan/vegetarian/GF/dairyfree/halal/etc? Should I take pictures of everything? (I'd rather not)

- how simple can I make a recipe without ruining it? E.g. can I omit every measurement? should I separate nice-to-have ingredients from critical ingredients? how do I make that look uncomplicated? (Sometimes the worst thing is having too many options)

- if/how to price things? Depends on region, season, discounts, etc

Artsy: https://anhvn.com/

Simple yet elegant: https://www.lkhrs.com/ and https://arun.is/blog/

Maximalist: https://henry.codes/ and https://garden.bradwoods.io/ and https://blog.maximeheckel.com/

Old-school / indie web: https://ribo.zone/

Text mode / ASCII art: https://adelfaure.net/

Typography: http://davidcole.me/ and https://www.petemillspaugh.com/

I have more. You can keep rolling the dice on https://indieblog.page/random and eventually you'll stumble across some pretty sites. Usually the nicest ones are from frontend / design engineer types of people. EDIT - oh and the sites in the internet phone book! https://internetphonebook.net/ as well as browsing screenshots at https://personalsit.es/

Dunno how popular/successful/active it is, tho.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/02/charm-offensive-googles-gr...

> Charm had previously raised around $4 million in funding spread across various angel and seed rounds, and now the company is adding a further $6 million to its coffers, with Google’s VC fund Gradient Ventures leading the charge, supported by Cavalry Ventures, Fuel Capital, Firestreak, and a slew of angel backers.

https://charm.land/blog/the-next-generation/

There used to be development of enterprise and cloud offerings, but that seems to have disappeared.

Hopefully they keep the "hobby project that people decided to throw money at" vibe and don't start chasing business incentives.

"Home-cooked apps" is still my preferred phrase. Personal software and subsistence development are also good terms.

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Some UX bits I noticed after playing around for a few minutes:

- Esc for backwards navigation was not obvious for me. Maybe emphasize that somehow, and/or support Backspace too for backnav?

- Enter on Domains menu item does not work

- don't mention clicking if mouse is not supported. "Select" would be more appropriate

- packets screen is truncated vertically and horizontally. Probably should be scrollable

- "weird stuff" options are numbered 1-5, but pressing those keys has no effect. There's lots of little polish fixes like this.

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And then things I wonder about as a novice user:

- Is it possible to see domain names instead of IP addresses while e.g. looking at packets?

- What does it mean to f stream?

- How do I inspect packets? Especially compressed or encrypted data? This is more a knowledge gap, like "what am I supposed to look for", "what could be in a packet", and I guess involves reverse engineering sometimes, but it's also a tooling question.