I’m thinking of starting (another) Side project / Hobby project. Also, I’ve been writing about my projects (mostly games) in the last few years. For me, it’s a source of learning, validation and portfolio, but I have bitter-sweet feelings on the results.

I have mixed feelings, since when it’s a Hobby project is not a big deal leaving it ‘incomplete’, without users, and such. But as a Side project which could at least earn some bucks to pay the expenses, there is some pain in not having traction as a product.

Any general advice?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks dude, I’ll take a look. If you need any specific feedback or to ping-pong ideas, throw me an @

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hey, it’s nice to hear that :D

I guess there are already many tools to do that (my brother uses one when he’s riding a bike, with fancy animations and a 3D map), but when you make your own tool, it tastes differently.

Share with us if you revive it!

Hey everyone!

I’m making a simple bot to record my weekly exercise in a Fake League like Duolingo does. If you want to try it, and share some feedback with me, join here: https://t.me/GemuFitBot

What would be more useful to me, is if it worked to motivate you to exercise more every week

I don’t know why there is an interest from Spanish speakers. Having the front page in English could help?

Also, for me as a geeky developer, twtxt and twtxt are clear. (Yarn extensions were confusing at the start tho) Maybe an adaptation for Twitter or Mastodon users would be helpful?

34° C outside, 31° C inside, Help!

On Mastodon and Podcasts (in Spanish) there was a discussion about consuming blogs on RSS. Besides podcasting, RSS has been dead for me, or at least I’ve had many years without actively using it.

Today for research purposes I opened The Old Reader with my account of 2010 and it was a blast of nostalgia, old blogs, content creators and even relatives sharing their content about 12 years ago… #dontTryThisAtHome

What Web browser are you using currently?

Over here my main one has been Brave (after ditching Opera for not supporting the chrome’s Dark Mode). But lately, I’ve been using a bit more Edge, Firefox, Libre Wolf on Windows 10, and Firefox Nightly on Android

I’m gamifying my weekly exercise (since I’m lazy), with a League system inspired by Duolingo’s.

There is the web3 and Web 3.0 (as a successor for Web 2.0), one more oriented to distributed and federated content, another with everything on top of a currency, so every stored bit costs some gas.

And although I don’t dislike the good parts of cryptocurrency, being the cryptography behind it and the potential of decentralized power behind it, I’m not too fond of the interests it brings. Since it’s designed from the core for monetary value, it attracts people aiming for the best Return on investment not caring for the environment (there is a debate about green energies by 2022).

I know that a Hobbyist net, an Indieweb, and a Hyper profitable net are going to be different between them, their core values are different, and there is a space for all of them. I don’t think Web3 is going to be self-sustainable since there is no balance between losers and winners.

@prologic@twtxt.net Sorry, I don’t get the meaning of running coat, is it a kind of hosting service?

I’m thinking of operating a ‘twtxt . es’ pod (for content in spanish/español)

It’s gonna cost something like 100 USD/year (domain + hosting), nothing excessive, but I have some weird feeling about paying on stuff not being used that much. Thoughts?

I think this image summarizes my interactions with friends and other companies this week

Some other errors when using register

salty-chat register me@eapl.mx
error registering account: unable to find broker for me@eapl.mx: error looking up _salty._tcp.eapl.mx : lookup _salty._tcp.eapl.mx: dnsquery: DNS name does not exist.

salty-chat register prologic@mills.io
error registering account: error registering address: non-2xx response received: 409 Conflict

I’m getting this error on Win10 (I could try on WSL/Ubuntu)

I’m not a great Go programmer, so I don’t have a clue what to do next

lookup seems to work fine

salty-chat lookup me@eapl.mx 

{"Addr":"me@eapl.mx","User":"me","Domain":"eapl.mx","Key":"kex1gj5gxswkp6dl7p5whydx7hx98kunllgrzmf4s2zydnnud7k79epsk5dxag","Endpoint":"/01G25MCTZ4WMFF6B36CGDKDX4T","Avatar":""}

Most of them, but yes… Proof of Work is a Proof of Wasted energy

I don’t have data on how bad it is compared with anything else, but that cool technology is now an environmental problem, as many technological solutions create further problems

A quote that made me think a lot this morning:

Why are many talented software developers drawn to solving impossible problems, drinking unhealthy amounts of coffee, neglecting their sleep and personal lives, and constantly trying to fix everything and everyone around them while ignoring their own psychosocial needs?

I feel slightly guilty about relaxing for the 3rd day in a row… But then I remember that I need to rest and I forget everything…

#haveANiceSaturday

Ask HN: When did tech stop being cool?

Well… How to say it? Is not that isn’t cool anymore, but we are getting older and surrounded (or perhaps overwhelmed) by technology going extremely fast.

Interesting reflections and points about creating a free service vs creating free software

https://hackerweb.app/#/item/30985514 https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/

What a week… Trying to make money with Art, Design and Code has been challenging

How is your week going over there?

Suddenly stopped using a few services I enjoyed for whole months. Gemini Antenna, 1 second everyday, twtxt.net, donelist.today

Weird

I think I have too many micro-blogging services now…

I’ve been tweeting a lot in Spanish, but had forgotten of writing here :o

Don’t have anything cool to share, rather than saying I’m alive and family is doing fine.

For a few years, I’ve been thinking about writing a book (in Spanish to start).

Now I’m starting to write one on how to create a Poker Texas Hold ‘em on Unity and C#… Let’s see how it goes for this 1st experiment

@prologic@twtxt.net a bit of both… Pleasure business too

@prologic@twtxt.net subsidies

After a few days travelling around the Centre of México, I’m finally at a calm place to relax and enjoy the holidays.

It’s interesting being for a few hours on planes and buses to feel bored, and let your imagination fly again.