I wonder if you could make it multiplayer and then get the effects of time dilation?
In my imagined world I also wanted to explore speeds above the speed of light. You could just stick to galilean transformation, take a very low speed of light and go from there. The world you get should be pretty bizarre.
I suppose the problem in multiplayer is that everyone has the same wall clock time, so you couldn't easily have consistent time dilation and related effects such as the twin paradox.
Would you mind explaining the t-shirt criticism? I got one, it's nice, I'm literally wearing it right now, and I have trouble understanding the "distraction" critique. Seems like a nice way to let their (unusually devoted) users broadcast their enthusiasm.
Well, I think it's less about the t-shirts themselves and more about how much effort and money was spent on them.
> The process from here involves setting up a business entity in Germany, so we can import the t-shirts, store them in a warehouse, connect inventory logistics and ship them all over the world. This includes building a website and connecting it to a back-end database. So, we basically ended up owning a merch production operation end-to-end, just so that we could ensure premium quality of these t-shirts!
> allocate nearly a third of our investor-raised funds to produce and freely distribute 20,000 t-shirts?
That's a lot of their money just to give out some t-shirts but I get that it's marketing in a way.
My brother is always sending me articles to read, and I don't like reading at a computer, so I made a tool to send articles to my Kindle. It makes me happy and I use it every day, along with a small but apparently happy customer base.
I totally agree. I made the mistake of exporting .zip archives the first time, which have a 2 GB size limit. At least the .tar option raises that to 50 GB.
Porte doesn't require a specific directory structure - it just expects a big pile of images, videos, and .json files, so you can download and extract all archives to a single directory and then point to it.
Hi all. I built Porte after exporting my Google Photos archive using Takeout, only to find a jumbled mess of missing EXIF data and .json files with metadata.
There are a few tools out there that try to handle this, but I wasn't able to find any that correctly handled both dates and GPS data, and preserved all other existing EXIF tags.
Porte has worked really well for me, and it was really enjoyable to write. And it made me love Go even more.
The ideal “knowledge base” app I’ve been searching for is as follows:
- Self-hosted
- Attractive web client that loads very quickly and works well on mobile
- Can point it at a nested directory of text/markdown and image/pdf files (no sql database)
- Text files are editable in place (no “edit” button, etc.)
- Markdown displays in a plain-text view (no hidden formatting characters, no “rich text” editor)
Every app I’ve tried misses at least of these. The closest I’ve found, strangely, is vscode-server, which is just too bloated and mobile-unfriendly to work for me. I’m perpetually a millimeter away from writing my own, but I feel like I need to stop doing that.
I use markor (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.gsantner.markor/) on android and it does everything I need. It's all a bunch of files, synchronized with syncthing, so I can use it on my desktop with any editor (maybe https://thiefmd.com/, maybe another one). No need for a server, I can use it while offline, it's lightweight to install and maintain.
I want to be able to access the same content from my laptop, phone, and tablet. I used Obsidian for a while with a convoluted setup (a Git repo with an iOS shortcut that fetched when the Obsidian app was launched), but it proved too slow and error-prone to continue using.
I want the whole stack to be open source, which is why I’m not using Obsidian Sync or an iOS Syncthing client. So while I don’t technically need web client, I don’t know of any other solution that would work for me.
I understand your concern, personally syncthing does a perfect job for me. I'm never editing from multiple devices at the same time, and by the time I switch to another device the content is synced. If not, I give it a little time and it makes me pause and use computers a little bit less, so it's not that much of a downside.
Like I said, the "database" is just a directory of files. You can use anything you want to keep it synced. I've used OneDrive, Dropbox and iCloud to sync mine.
I'd much prefer "syncing" to be something I set up once, and then forget about it.
If it is "anything I want to do to keep it synced", then I'll be half-assing it forever, losing notes and so forth. Already doing that, and the 500 pages of notes from 3 years ago on Google drive, to the "attach it in Gmail to a draft so I can look it over at home", hell even a few somewhere on iCloud. For some things others might be interested in, I've even got a few github gists.
This, for me, is a problem that is central to notes software. It might be the one problem that makes or breaks them. At least with the pricey subscription garbage apps, they know enough to know that I don't want to have to think about syncing.
Nice to see this here. I’ve using a tablet for cursor movement since around 2010, and I find it amazing except for one small issue I’ve never been able to solve: tapping with the pen in order to click is finicky, because if I even drag a few pixels during the tap, it turns into a drag gesture.
Right now I’m using a Huion tablet, which does not appear to allow customizing the drag-to-disable-click distance. Is there any Mac utility that would work for this?
I believe that there should be a way to increase the drag-and-drop threshold that is independent of the pointing device that happens to be used.
I have stopped using MacOS many years ago, so I do not know how this is done there, but on Linux I always increase the drag-and-drop threshold, because on high-resolution displays this can be a problem even with traditional mice, not only with tablets.
+1 for Outline! Self-hosted server and web app, clean codebase, loads fast, mobile friendly, actively maintained. I had tried Obsidian, Trilium, TiddlyWiki, and all the rest (not to mention Notion, Bear, etc.). Outline is the first knowledge base I’ve tried that checks almost every box.
(The only unchecked box is that data is stored in a database instead of markdown files, but I decided to let go of that one.)
Edit: Funny, this thread is discussing two different Outlines. I’m talking about https://www.getoutline.com/.
Fastmail’s calendar does exactly this - infinite continuous scroll - and I love it. I also find it constricting when I use another calendar (Google Calendar, for instance) that paginates by month.
https://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/