very cool! have you tried Tanstack DB and ElectricSQL?

https://x.com/marcelohbairros/status/1956892684859158892

The whole line of Tanstack products is very well made yet poorly designed at the same time. I don't know if it's inherited from React by trying (and succeeding) to be a seamless React experience or if it's part of their own philosophy, but most of the tools make it very easy to mix state everywhere in your app which is just bad.

Really people should just move to Gleam and Lustre or Elm, even if it means I'll have much fewer clients paying good money to untangle state issues...

Not sure about Tanstack DB, but from the second paragraph in the article:

> First Try: PGlite and Electric

Location: Asia / Singapore (Open to work EU/US hours)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

    - Languages: React, Typescript, Ruby, Python, SQL, interested to learn Elixir, Golang, Rust and Zig

    - Frameworks: Next.js 13/14, Ruby on Rails, open to learn more (i learn quick)

    - Systems: CI/CD, Postgres, Redis, Serverless, Cloud Architecture, GitOps, Web Crawling, Web Scraping, Sidekiq, Docker, Supabase

    - Platforms: Vercel, Upstash, Baselime (Distributed Tracing for Serverless), Sentry, DigitalOcean, Heroku, Render, Railway, Supabase and more

    - Others: TailwindCSS, RadixUI, CVA, Figma etc

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yp9zrToHmQN0Awow2MRletTfIyk...

Email: zhchuan.2016 [at] gmail [dot] com

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I'm Gabriel, a mid-level full-stack software engineer with experience in engineering management but have pivoted my career back into IC track, which I discovered to be more enjoyable to me than managing teams.

Prior to doing engineering management, I was a Ruby on Rails and React full-stack software engineer. I helped build telephony (auto dials phone numbers in the browser) and chat based rails + react apps.

My passion lies mostly in scraping and crawling tech and working with data at scale. I was laid off 3 months ago and have been working on my side projects (a database of AI products which I'm trying to sell to VC firms/anyone who would need data to track where AI is headed towards)

I'm looking for a product-driven company that's focused on solving hard problems with a culture that encourages that.

This is really cool! Shared with a few friends!

It might be interesting to plug GPT-3 in and use embeddings for each clause. For example, for each website where a user has agreed already to their ToS, you could use embeddings to see which ones are similar.

Wondering if there's a chance we could chat more if you're keen! I'm on twitter @gabrielchuan

PS: I'm working on something tangentially related at https://url2format.com. It's a WIP (for now free) service that allows people to do various things with any public url such as checking metatags, generating a markdown of a url, etc. I think there's lots of interesting spaces to explore around these

Thanks for the support! I sent you a dm

Cedric Chin is massively underrated on the topic of Deliberate Practice. He literally has a whole bunch of a gem of articles on the topic of Expertise, which Deliberate Practice falls under.

See: https://commoncog.com/expertise/

I wished more people knew about his writings – so much to benefit from!

I can't readily find any bio links, but what fields has Cedric Chin actually mastered with these techniques of his?

I don't think he is that underrated? His blogs often get quite high on HN

Thank you for the link!

Is the membership subscription worth the cost?

As someone who’s mid career trying to navigate corporate life and understand the hidden whys in business, I think so. I think of it like a Patreon or Substack. The blog has changed my mental model for the better on quite a few subjects and has changed how I view the world. I think it’s worth the spare change that I have.

Interesting idea! If there's anyway we can support you at SMUMods.com to spread word about it to engineering talents in SMU, let me know! I'm on telegram at https://t.me/gabrielchuan!

Hi gczh,

SMUMods looks cool. I will PM you :)

This is brilliant! I still see many cafes and restaurants here in Singapore using physical menus. It scares me into thinking a previous occupant might have had some flu or virus. And I might be contracting that next just because we're sharing a dirty menu (that's often not sanitized AFAIK)

More restaurants need to know of this QR Menu Creator!!

I'm a pro subscriber myself. Highly recommend giving this a look. It's the best damn report out there on upcoming trends, put together every week through dozens of hours of sweat and toil and love.

This is so much better than the default Mac OS X screen capture tool. It would be nice if Apple bought over Cleanshot and made it the default defacto screen capture tool.

Thanks for your kind words Dru! This coming issue, which I’ll release on Friday 2pm covers how another maker who built landingfolio.com used some life hacks to increase the amount of money he makes from complementary products.

Also, upcoming ones in the pipeline include historysearch.com, treendly.com. They’re all successful makers with decent profits.

Thanks Phil! There’s indeed a lot of badass French Engineers out there!

Wow, I didn’t know Algolia was a French company. When you mentioned Algolia in your comment, I was wondering why you said so. Gave it a quick google and got on their Bloomberg profile. Interesting. They’re one of my favourite startups in the world.

Thanks for your kind words!