dinkleberg

Have you found a visual note taking app that you actually enjoy using? There are a ton of tools like Notion, Obsidian, Logseq, etc. that are all focused on primarily text/document first. I've been spending a lot of time…

Have you come up with a customization prompt you're happy with? I've tried several different setups over however long the feature has been available, and for the most part I haven't found it has made much of a…

If you were building a new startup and need to host your core web app, where would you run it to keep things simple? My inclination is always to do things the fun (hard) way by self managing everything. But as I'm also…

Hey folks, I've built this little recipe search engine to scratch my own itch and wanted to share it in case others find it helpful as well. I track what I eat every day to make sure I'm moving towards my goals (whether…

Yesterday I was reading pg’s Hackers and Painters and was intrigued by his idea that one of the things that gave them a distinct advantage at ViaWeb was their use of lisp which allowed them to work faster and do more…

These tools that can generate a server based on your database seem so promising from my experience playing with them, but I feel like what you gain in simplicity from the boring CRUD API is offset by increased…

If you were building a new real time chat app like discord or slack in 2022, what would your tech stack look like? I’m in this situation right now and am exploring options that will help me avoid reinventing the wheel.…

Hey, I'm looking for suggestions on a book to help relearn some math. I went through engineering school and had to take many advanced math classes, but it's been enough years that I've forgotten much of what I had…

It seems like most of the "quality" freelancing sites like Toptal are really focused on staff-augmentation or spending months to build out a full MVP. I've been bashing my head for a couple weeks trying to build a…

I see book suggestions on business leadership, product development, and sales all the time, but rarely about business finance. And searching for books like this tends to lead to investing and personal finance books. I'm…

(Sorry if the title doesn't make sense, I'm struggling to put a word to the important place that a Gmail account has in most peoples' lives) After seeing some harrowing stories of people having their google accounts…

I find that auth is always a personal pain point whenever I start a new side project. I'm curious what other people find as their common stumbling points.

Recently I've had several frustrating instances of being able to self-service signup for some paid service but then when I end up wanting to cancel it, it is not as easy. Generally in these cases you have to email them…

Whenever I start a new software project I like to build out a CI/CD process. Typically, I would spin up Jenkins, SonarQube, OWASP Zap and other ancillary tools depending on the type of development. But lately, I've…