Readit Newstajd commented on Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web websmith.studio/blog/astr... · Posted by u/pumbaa
I ported my personal website from Jekyll to Astro a few weeks back and I really liked it. Astro is much easier to build and extend for me (and that is a personal preference point - I (and by I mostly mean claude) - and it's cool to add react components in to create more interactive points (but I haven't deployed that element yet).
Speed is probably the same as jekyll - but relative to my react vite and nextjs apps it's about 10 times faster.
I would definitely use Astro for more complicated websites than content driven - but would probably return to nextjs or more hefty full stack solutions for complicated web apps.
> these systems are imperfect and do not allow people to delegate their decision making totally
There's no evidence this scandal arose from software allowing any delegation of decisions.
Ah ok, potentially I was imprecise - the post office leadership appeared to assume that the software was completely correct. That is what I was trying to frame as "systems are imperfect and people should take care to validate what they are doing"
its great that exists and that it got attention.
Its an immense problem that it got so little attention until someone made a TV dramatisation of it. There are definitely many other miscarriages of justice caused by the assumption that systems are always correct, and these are not being corrected.
The lack of consequences for those responsible also means there is no deterrent to others doing similar things.
I think hopefully it raises that awareness that these systems are imperfect and do not allow people to delegate their decision making totally. I'm afraid rise of AI and the increase in more plausible sounding yet incorrect behaviours won't help us there. We should use this as an instructive example on how we can built more transparent/useful systems for all of our users.
tajd commented on Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app offchess.com... · Posted by u/avadhesh18
This looks really cool! I can't remember what article I was reading the other day but it was advocating for local first software as being the true goal of creating user friendly software -> this app absolutely meet's that goal. Looking forwards to using it.
tajd commented on The uv build back end is now stable docs.astral.sh/uv/concept... · Posted by u/NeutralForest
I really like using UV. I introduced it at work for builds and it made everything a lot faster which was awesome. Now I can remove the other components of the build process and just use one.
I am interested in how they're going to make money eventually, but right now it's working for me.
Does anyone have an idea about how they're going to monetize?
Created a dashboard to help people figure out what renewable energy solutions they could use for their homes in the U.K. https://renewable-home.verdient.co.uk/
Created a game to learn navigational marks in the Solent https://guess-the-mark.verdient.co.uk/
Putting together the landing page for my software business https://verdient.co.uk/
I’m also putting together an analysis of warhammer 40k games and applying operational research techniques to it.
tajd commented on A receipt printer cured my procrastination laurieherault.com/article... · Posted by u/laurieherault
Yes, same here. I also struggle to stay consistent with a journal.
love the receipt printer idea I'm looking into it now
Potentially the heuristics would be about the level of user state management - e.g. if you're needing to do various workflows vs just presenting content.