What does this add compared to Logseq's default journal view?
Readit Newscrashabr commented on Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s withdocket.com... · Posted by u/davnicwil
It would be great to be able to share an attached terminal as well, as a lot of action happens there when programming.
crashabr commented on Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file pocketbase.io/... · Posted by u/modinfo
I can mirror everyone singing praise to pocketbase here. Once you grasp the concepts (which map pretty closely to SQL concepts, with rules for row-based security), it is by far the easiest way IMO to create a maintainable, robust backend with direct auth integrations and a pleasant interface.
I have around 5 instances of pocketbase running on a 10 USD/month Hetzner server, serving thousands of users a day without breaking a sweat.
What kind of app do you use it for?
You have this entirely backwards. Open source is, definitionally, the code and a license. It is "first and foremost" those things. The community of people cannot exist without the code and the license. The code and the license can and often does exist without dedicated communities.
Everything else in open source is a cultural projection entirely ancillary to the code and the license.
> I'll just say that if you think otherwise, whatever good you think you're putting out into the world, is not much better than keeping the software proprietary.
I have never seen someone so entirely miss the point of open source. This is not a house party, this is not a community support network. There are genuine disagreements about open source philosophy, if it should be more focused on user freedoms or developer convenience, but they are all incompatible with the idea that open-source licensed code in and of itself "is not much better than keeping the software proprietary".
Stallman did not invent the GPL because he wanted an issue tracker and complete documentation from HP. He invented the GPL because he needed to fix his printer drivers.
A ton of very important open source code was thrust into the world, created immense value, but was never further supported or developed by its original developers. Off the top of my head: git, Doom, Bitcoin, and basically everything Fabrice Bellard has ever done.
Code existed before FOSS. Code that people collaborated on existed before FOSS. Code given away for free existed before FOSS. FOSS code, by itself, is not anything special.
Licences also existed before FOSS, but open sources licences enabling the kind of freedoms that they allow did not exist. And as it happens, a license is not a technical artefact but a social contract. Stallman is activist, not simply a neutral combination of a technician and a lawyer.
The social contract and political vision are consequently not ancillary, but core to FOSS. Code is the medium, but the license is the innovation. Without that social contract, 'open' code is just abandonware.
The community doesn't need to be a 'house party,' but the license guarantees the right for a community to form when the original author walks away.
crashabr commented on I built a faster Notion in Rust imedadel.com/outcrop/... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
Another Notion-like app. But it's already many FOSS alternatives
What are they? The thing I value the most is the collaboration and the relational part, allowing to build pages that are essentially views on other data.
The only one I'm looking forward currently is the next version of Logseq which will enable collaboration on their existing block-based authoring model.
crashabr commented on Heavy codes of conduct are unnecessary for open source projects shujisado.org/2025/09/30/... · Posted by u/jonymo
> often removes some headaches (...) with some rules, there's less wiggle room
... I understand that's the theory, but in practice, I've never seen it working that way.
I don't see how having the CoC affects any of this. If someone is behaving poorly, first of all, a CoC will not deter them. If someone behaves so poorly that you decide you need to remove them, the community (the small portion of people who give a f) should see why you removed them, and again, a made-up "contract" will not be needed.
It's ok to stand up for yourself and simply say (without pointing to a document you put in your repo when you were bored), that: "John Doe was behaving poorly, and I don't want to deal with him, I banned him, you don't need to like it, but it's my decision".
Just my 2c... I don't want to add more procedures to my open source projects or voluntary organizing. I'm doing it because I like it, not because I want to pretend I'm at a townhall meeting.
People have different level of tolerance to negative behavior. That includes both your team and your community. Having a clear rules allows you to
1) point both involved and uninvolved people to the code of conduct when you end up taking action.
2) avoid disparity of enforcement within your team
3) funnel disagreements (from both teammates or community members) by focusing them on the rule, rather than on a general debate on how should the community should be managed.
If people commit a lot of energy to a community/project then for many "I didn't like this behavior, end of discussion" won't cut it.
crashabr commented on DeepFabric – Generate high-quality synthetic datasets at scale lukehinds.github.io/deepf... · Posted by u/decodebytes
How easy it is to pass an existing db schema to this library in order to generate a testable synthetic dataset?
crashabr commented on Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly wasmer.io/posts/python-on... · Posted by u/baalimago
I'm not sure I understand correctly: is it a new serverless offering competing with the likes of vercel and fly.io, but with a different technology and pricing strategy? And the wasm container means that I can deploy my streamlit of FastAPI ETL apps without the Docker overhead or slowness of streamlit cloud?
Nice job. Though it would be more useful to me as a cli app. A different take on tldr with live filtering of results based on what you're typing
crashabr commented on Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me bsky.app/profile/bennjord... · Posted by u/jsheard
Hi, I'm from 1 year in the future. None of what you typed applies anymore.
I think you messed up something with your time-travelling setup. We're in the timeline where GPT5 did not become the all powerful sentient AI that Ai boosters promised us. Which timeline are you from?