Cool app. It takes a lot of courage to share here, so well done. I’d definitely highlight a bit more prominently what languages it supports though. The interface is very “Claude” so I’d be keen to hear about:

- How did you go about developing this?

- Was the entire thing vibe coded or just part of it? No shade either way, just curious.

- How long did it take?

- What were some of the harder hurdles to overcome?

- Given the use of AI, what’s your approach to security of your users data? How did you review any generated code?

Thanks! I just wanted to use it myself as it's always hard to find a native speaker to speak with when learning a language. The app is partly vibe coded. I myself am a software developer and had no problem reviewing the vibe coded code. I think it took me a little more than a month give or take, as i was not consistent with my commitment. I would say the syncing part of the conversation was the challenging part, which is still not perfect to be honest. As for user data, i don't store much of user data apart from the minutes used.

Wow the opening to this could have been written by me!

Solitude in your 30s (particularly as a DINK or SINK household) is dangerously addictive.

No need to leave the house… but it does lead one to feel disconnected more broadly over a prolonged period.

They’ll have to pry WFH out of my cold, dead hands; but I must say, the times I do travel to the office and spend a day chatting with people are incredibly energising (though also very unproductive!)

> Solitude in your 30s (particularly as a DINK or SINK household) is dangerously addictive.

Can confirm (SINK).

The real problem is that solitude in your 30s is peaceful. So peaceful. So much so that if you built your own safety net and covered your back, solitude is so peaceful that you might end up not even wanting a romantic partner at all.

Anybody that had their fair share of storms in life can confirm that having a calm, peaceful life of solitude can be so peaceful one often doesn't really want to change that.

How do you find your typical daily battery life with it always on?

I’ve tried this in the past and had to revert as I found it made a noticeable difference in my day-to-day.

Curious to hear the experience of others.

I have the impression tailscale drains my battery on macOS and iOS, only turn it on when truly needed.

Yeah, it most certainly does. Very noticeable on iOS. I don’t know if this is an Apple specific thing, or if it’s a similar story on Android.

It’s WireGuard underneath, which is designed to not be very chatty when idle, so I’d put this down to regular back and forth with Tailscale’s control plane, relays, etc.

It’s a shame really, because a huge value prop of TS is that it’s a VPN you just leave on and forget about. I hate having to toggle it when I inevitably forget to and wonder why I’m getting connection errors to private resources.

I have an ipv6 wireguard vpn from my iOS phone to my home network. It routes all traffic through my home isp. I use the wireguard iOS client. Battery life has been fine for me. One caveat is that background updates are disabled for almost every app.

Was it OpenVPN that you tried in the past? Wireguard seems much better

You’re absolutely right! It’s not just pestilence—It’s the death of the internet as we know it. …I’m sorry, I couldn’t help myself.

Edit: I forgot HN strips emojis.

Brave is great, but I just wish it wasn’t Chromium based.

It’s always been ironic to me that a Privacy browser is dependent on source code primarily controlled by a company that derives the majority of its revenue from ads… exactly what the browser itself was spun off to shield its users against.

The majority of Mozilla and Apple's revenue for their browsers comes from ad revenue sharing agreements.

I tried using Firefox. I had it as default browser for 2 years but I just keep going back to Chromium. Firefox is slow and crashes/hangs too much in my experience. It was even very slow to open my automatically generated tables for accounting (for simple html but very big files because accounting regulation in my previous country of residence were brain dead). I don't think often published benchmarks tell the whole story there.

Now I am back to Brave and very happy. Almost no ads, super fast, doesn't crash or hang.

I tried using Brave. It weirded me out with the crypto stuff and random popups. Now back to Firefox, on all my devices, without any crashes ever. And it's just as fast as chromium, which I very very rarely use for bad websites that do not work with Firefox.

I actually prefer it this way.

When I use Frinkiac, I already know the quote (or at least a few words from it), and I simply want a still or short gif of it (with a customized caption typically).

YMMV of course.

You’ve really embiggened this post with your cromulent comment.

IMO Frinkiac is hard to beat if you just want to caption a Simpsons image (or gif) and share it directly; particularly with a few words modified to fit the situation.

comb.io is good for those occasions where you need the actual clip with audio.

Just my own opinion of course!

Absolutely! Australian Millennial year. Grew up watching S2-8 every night over dinner on Channel 10 (IIRC), and I sometimes think I could communicate exclusively in Simpsons quotes from that era.