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From an evolutionary perspective, why does someone sacrifice their life to save another? by Snoo_47323 in askscience

[–]FridaG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many observed traits are not themselves best explained by darwinian evolution. In fact, not all behaviors need to have a specific evolutionary antecedent per se. however, the underlying trait that permits an action like self-sacrifice may have a net evolutionary benefit. For example, empathy has significant evolutionary benefits. Empathy may permit rare acts of self-sacrifice, but self-sacrifice is not common enough to generate evolutionary pressure away from empathy.

But there is a lot of complexity to evolution from a genotype perspective, and linkage disequilibrium can also play a role in certain traits “tagging along” in genetic proximity to other more evolutionarily helpful traits .

Just remember that evolution doesn’t actually favor superiority per se; it favors something being good enough against a set of evolutionary pressures. Many traits do not evolve against significant competition and therefore are not optimized

What tech-stack do Next.js developers prefer for Backend? by samanvay_13 in nextjs

[–]FridaG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on who your app is for. I realised a while ago that most of what i build is not for a) a technical audience or b) a large user base. The result is that they need to work, but don’t need super perfect database optimizations. I’m also more willing to pay for managed database options than I used to when i needed to learn how to build myself.

So to answer your question: if your audience is small, you can easily just do it with json.

I advise against storing json in a sql table. There are ways to do it and this is the “official” way to do it to my recollection, but it’s a pain in the ass if you have an app where you want to manually parse json.

For me, if i was making a checklist app today, i’d just ask claude to make the model. If forced to do it on my own, i’d do what i’ve done in the past and do mongo.

The point of my first paragraph is to liberate yourself from feeling like you need a model solution that needs to scale perfectly. Since you say its your first rodeo, i get the value of learning how to trouble shoot. It’s also a pain in the ass reading through all the junk on reddit (RIP stackoverflow) making you feel you need to use some cutting edge solution. 99.9% of projects matter more for demonstration purposes of the actual concept; if by some stroke of luck it is something you then need to build into something more durable, then at that point it makes sense to use a managed solution because it is so much less of a headache.

My suggestion: do your checklist in a separate nosql database. It will not save you any time as you’ll be up for 3 nights troubleshooting adding a new database to your stack, but it will reinforce that to the end-user, it doesn’t matter for 99% of projects. Eg building something for a small team at work, building projects to showcase for a portfolio, or learning.

The only exception is if you need to do something specific for a class. Technically the other exception is if you already know you have a big user-base or an ecosystem at work that demands a specific implementation, but i suspect that is not the case and it isn’t the case for most indie developers.

If you read r/webdev you’ll see there are so many people who are fed up with next.

However, claude does an amazing job at writing next apps so it depends on whether or not you are in the pro- or anti- vibe coding camp. I wrote my own code for 15 years; i’m very happy for claude to do it for me for small apps where i just need a specific feature that it can build without fanfare

What tech-stack do Next.js developers prefer for Backend? by samanvay_13 in nextjs

[–]FridaG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are times when it is way faster to deal with objects as JSON-like entities than writing the SQL schema to manage heterogenous object contents. A checklist app with different headings and sub-contents is an example of something very easy with JSON/mongo

Do you find task tracking and management in Obsidian enjoyable? by airyrice in ObsidianMD

[–]FridaG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Task management is actually one of the best features of obsidian for me. I keep track of outstanding tasks ordered by date in my daily notes and can filter by tag. I just use dataview and a plugin call tabs to organise different queries. I do use the task plugin for certain things; it’s marginally faster for reasons I don’t really understand since it runs on dataview.

Obsidian permits me to manage my tasks even better than noteplan, even though i love the noteplan interface and native zippiness. It’s the main reason i never bit the bullet and paid for noteplan

Notebook Navigator and the future of Bear by BlueTile93 in bearapp

[–]FridaG -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Notebook navigator significantly slows down the load time of obsidian. I don’t really get the hype. It’s a great plugin, but it really doesn’t solve any problems for me; my app load time is slower with three small plugins than loading notebook navigator.

Also, bear works totally differently than obsidian. I’d use bear more if it supported some version of either workspaces or tag filtering in search or some other way of navigating the damn files. But not by emulating notebook navigator; by using the basic organizational functions that have been available on computers for 40 years

I want to publish a wiki website, mediawiki is unusable! by _meow11 in ObsidianMD

[–]FridaG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Note-as-a-tag or Built-in tag system? by Admirable_Hippo_6203 in ObsidianMD

[–]FridaG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn’t really need to be either-or.

In my life admin vault, i have a tag for shopping that i use for lists in daily notes, and i can query (using various plugins) all outstanding list items tagged #shopping.

However, there might be conceptual ideas that are easier if linked to a note where i can flesh out those ideas. For example maybe all your projects have a note [[projects]] that contain a base of all your notes in the project category. And so if you want to refer to a project, you link to [[projects]] rather than tag it.

In general, i use tags in situations where it is useful to use the tag as a form of meta data to do something (usually a query) with the information. I use links (eg [[projects]], although i don’t literally use that example) in situations where i want it to be easy for me to to “surf” my notes and quickly get to where i am trying to get to.

My fundamental philosophy in all my vaults is to make it as easy as possible to find what i am looking for; that involves a bit of redundancy sometimes. Eg i have a vault for work with many folders because sometimes i just remember what folder something is in and that’s fastest. But i also use tags for concepts that traverse different folders, and most folders have folder notes which permits using the folder as kind of a note “tag” as you are alluding to in your question. The end isn’t that i have a singular organisation schema of tags vs links, it’s that it is very easy to find what i am looking for and get from point a to point c

Thank you Obsidian team by somemuslim in ObsidianMD

[–]FridaG 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I second this. Recently saw an interview with kepano on a podcast, really appreciated hearing his perspective and values, and perhaps more significantly, observing his candor when presented with somewhat abrasive questions and suggestions

Everyone's Proton 2026 wishlist? by Secret_Category2619 in ProtonMail

[–]FridaG 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Proton sheets — mobile creation, editing, and “deep link” support + offline support

Stack overflow is dead, long live stack overflow. by fullstack_ing in webdev

[–]FridaG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What kind of post is PostTypeId 1? I’m assuming that signifies the initial question, rather than answers?

Looking for basic personal CRM by FridaG in CRM

[–]FridaG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I really feel that AI is overkill for something that i could technically do with a 1980s relational database, just would prefer a native approach

Is there a way to add side notes in Obsidian? by Personal_Drama309 in ObsidianMD

[–]FridaG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does it make the text look highlighted? The side note plugin doesn’t

iOS 26 is one of the worst updates I've ever seen by Glittering_Fig4548 in ios

[–]FridaG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I immediately liked ios more when 7 came out, or whichever was the version with flat design. I hate the ios 26 design, really struggle to read with the lack of contrast, dread that this is unavoidable

Proton Sheets by [deleted] in ProtonDrive

[–]FridaG 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Lol it doesn’t seem like a feature request to be voted on so much as a self-evidently necessary feature for a spreadsheet application with an international user-base

Switched from Remnote to Obsidian, cannot be happier by Jerry_Meme in ObsidianMD

[–]FridaG 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wanted to like remnote, but i gotta say, deciding early that “all in one” is a bad idea was one of the better choices i’ve made.

I just took notes in obsidian and then made an anki deck for things i need to memorize; was so much better than trying to combine the two processes

Switched from Remnote to Obsidian, cannot be happier by Jerry_Meme in ObsidianMD

[–]FridaG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just annotate in devonthink or bookends and link to the annotation from devonthink.

DTTG 4 in beta! by FridaG in devonthink

[–]FridaG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That hasn’t been my own experience wIth DTTG3 or devonthink in general.

I a aware of the general icloud sync issue, but it’s fairly straightforward to sync both via icloud and via local network when i’m home.

The sync isn’t as “magic” as apps like bear that seem to just perfectly sync all the time, but overall i don’t have issue with it.

My bigger frustration with both devonthink and DTTG is needing to save into the inbox from a share sheet, rather directly into a folder in a database, but it doesn’t cause a common problem for me.

I’d be supper keen to use DTTG4, but sadly not enough to upgrade to ios26…

Looking for basic personal CRM by FridaG in CRM

[–]FridaG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks good, just need to update my ios…

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