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I’m considering knitting.

I am seeing more and more stories about people that don't know how to program are using AI to create software products. On a surface level, that suggests that the barrier to entry for software development is lower. But…

I’m curious where others have experienced problems where alternatives are hard to find and or switch to.

On the production side, there are obvious benefits. I'm more curious on the receiving side. How do you feel when you encounter AI generated voices in marketing or educational material?

My podcast listening dropped off a cliff when suddenly I no longer had a commute a few years back. Recently I've been interested in finding new shows -- daunting task, better to ask! What are y'all listening to on the…

With all the new PaaS offerings today, what is the current attraction of Heroku vs Render, Fly, Railway, etc.? If you are currently on Heroku, are you thinking of leaving?

Most of my subscriptions relate to my software consulting business, but I think I would keep some even if I was an FTE at another company. My subscriptions: Github* YouTube Premium* Adobe CC* Kinopio.club* -- used for…

Hello HN, The demo here shows the companion editor [0] for the sowhat language [1]. The purpose of the editor is two things: - Makes building and organizing a collection of writing easier. It does this by extracting…

It seems like solutions fall in two broad categories: * Easy to use with less than ideal privacy policies * Cumbersome (or at least time-consuming) with OK privacy (in many cases this would be a self-hosted or local…

Losing the data is often brought up as a risk to storing a collection of information in proprietary systems. Do you have experiences that validate this risk or thoughts on where the perception comes from?

I’m dabbling [0], and like it[1]. 0. https://www.tatatap.com/blog/santa-joins-tap/ 1. https://www.indiehackers.com/post/why-i-hired-santa-082136cfc4

If not, do you collect web pages some other way?

Over the last ~five years my wife and I transitioned from city to rural life. Since leaving the city our priorities changed; we've become more focused on caring for our bodies and the environment and participating in…

Hi HN, A couple years ago I released /tap [0], a note-taking service: bite-size notes with special stuff to track, organize, calculate, and record ideas. Today I'm releasing the note parser, sowhat, as open-source…