Take a look at these posts --

https://deanebarker.net/tech/blog/let-me-know/

https://deanebarker.net/tech/blog/notify-one-time/

I'm glad someone finally did something here. I wish you every success.

Thanks! Had pretty much the same thought process as you, so I made this little tool (yesnotice) to do pretty much that. Its not perfect, but I've been using it a lot and its working great for me (mostly to get notified when certain new packages are updated and TV shows come out...then I don't have to remember so many things!)

There are two types of "solo":

* No co-workers working on the same thing

* No users using the thing

Both are hard.

I visited a food service company a couple years ago. They had phone reps taking orders from customers (restaurants ordering produce and such). They used a TUI (a "green screen" essentially).

I have never seen people move through a GUI that fast. They were lightning quick with it. They were like an veteran accountant with a ten-key adding machine. It was amazing, and pretty damn sobering when you think how much work we spend on GUIs.

"Lessons Learned from Vibe-Coding a Configuration Parser"

https://deanebarker.net/tech/blog/vibe-lessons/

Here's the spec I discuss in the post:

https://deanebarker.net/tech/code/config-lang/spec/

It's hard to argue with success. SQLite's pervasiveness is kind of a royal flush.

I've been a PC guy my whole live, and was forced onto a MacBook Pro this year for work.

The battery life is insane. The idea of charging my laptop has become this weird ritual now, only known of in lore and legend, that I partake of only when there is a blood moon.

Now if you look at the smart watches, they are by far the worst on the market.

Meanwhile my 2019 i9 16" MacBook Pro gets battery life on par with the MacBook Wheel (as seen in this classic from The Onion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA) I kid you not, the hummingbird battery is real.

At least I have something to look forward to when I upgrade.

The battery life while in use is amazing. The battery life while closed and apparently asleep is abysmal and probably the worst of any laptop I’ve used in the last 20 years.

I think the problem is that Safari allows tabs to ask to be periodically woken while the laptop is asleep, and there is no obvious way to turn this off. And it will keep doing this until the battery is so low that the laptop needs to hibernate.

Safari on Desktop is just appalling, every year you wish there are some improvements and it is the same. webkit gets some update in terms of web features and bug fix. Safari itself doesn't seems to want to improve. Even Orion using same webkit engine is better.

See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745897

TL;DR: Make sure Power Nap is turned ON. It allows macOS to consolidate wakeup requests into a bulk queue. So the thing isn't turning on all the time.

I read that. It contains no actual useful or authoritative explanation. It references Apple docs that sort of say that it's not supported on Apple Silicon. The man page says:

> powernap - enable/disable Power Nap on supported machines (value = 0/1)

Thanks, Apple.

Use Chrome. Problem solved.

Syntax looks very much like Liquid. I feel like that syntax is becoming a standard.

afaik django or jinja invented this syntax? then we saw handlebars, which is where liquid got its influence.

Yeah, when I visited, it was utterly destroyed with racist ranting and (I think) some neo-Nazi. Horrifying, yet impressive.

no goatse? I'm saddened.

I followed up with this:

"The Missing Service: Notify One Time" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44890642

A follow-up to my prior post about the hypothetical "Let Me Know" protocol.