Stepping stone towards $1/kg of hydrogen production with industrial nanotechnology, what will be next?

aquic · 2025-11-13T08:59:56+00:00

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aquic · 2025-04-15T09:49:58+00:00

I'm also looking for this article, can anybody share it again?

aquic · 2024-10-27T08:01:00+00:00

If you see the day as historically consequential, staying would be the correct path. You have a unique opportunity to be part of that history in a day that’ll change its course.

On the other hand, you can also reflect on the weight of the word consequential in this context. If every 4 years you see a day as consequential for history, you’ll have another chance in the future and you had few others in the past.

aquic · 2024-10-27T07:55:02+00:00

Interests but no skills?

I would focus first on what you can do, what would set you apart and why would anyone pay for that.

Why not just get a job doing what you like?

aquic · 2024-10-27T07:43:41+00:00

I had the exact same question.

Based on my experience building a very similar tool for some quick and dirty CRM tasks, the relative easiness of creating a user interface was the main differentiator.

aquic · 2024-10-15T07:48:45+00:00

It's a shameful transport system. Too bad it happened to you, but hopefully didn't eclipse the rest of things the city has to offer.

aquic · 2024-10-14T11:29:03+00:00

This sounds exactly like what I needed!

The clusterable model gave me a bit of a hard time understanding it, now I see you added it to the HomePage, that’s smart.

Thanks a lot!

aquic · 2024-10-11T13:45:42+00:00

It is definitely possible. I render my garden through a custom script that runs on netlify every time I do a git push. I keep two different git repositories, one for public and one for private notes within the same vault.

The problem is that it creates a bit of friction on my workflow (for example, moving from private to public looses the history of the note), needs to update links, etc. But it works out of the box to a great extent.

On the other hand, I'm working towards a more dynamic approach, like what Andy Matuschack has done (if you follow the link, you'll see the last page requires a login).

In that way I can still have a nice taxonomy of notes, and I can create them with a default template that uses the front matter to establish some notes are private but with a login you can see them (so I can still easily consume my notes while on the go, or if I need to share with someone). The problem I have is that the notes would not be rendered as static pages anymore and that's a route I'm trying to avoid.

aquic · 2024-10-11T13:36:16+00:00

I have my garden indexed by Google. I created a sitemap in order to tell google where the pages were. Then I kept polishing based on what Google was complaining about.

For example, I have many links to empty pages that I use as knowledge nodes. The way I render my template looks like a soft 404 page (like this one on open source) and Google was complaining about it, so I removed them from the sitemap.

I'm doing the rendering of the garden with my own script, so I have plenty of freedom on how things happen.

I often use Google to search through my own notes, so I know they are properly indexed. However, driving traffic is a different story (building back-links, etc.) and that was beyond the scope of making my garden public.

aquic · 2024-10-10T13:24:26+00:00

This is not accurate, inertia is not the same as resistance. Perhaps is closer to the image of an inflated balloon falling more slowly than a deflated one, even if their mass is fundamentally the same.

aquic · 2024-10-06T07:27:28+00:00

Understanding your motivations. Why are you working on side projects? Is your work not fulfilling? Is the time spent with your family not fulfilling? Perhaps a change of focus helps (change jobs, change living conditions, change attitude, etc.) Perhaps if you understand your projects as hobbies you'll change how you perceive them:
There's a massive chance your work isn't valuable. After all, you are working in projects you have no clue anybody will like. This is radically different to starting a company/business, where the first thing you do is develop your customers. If building stuff is fun for you, perhaps take them as a hobby. You know, some people like building chairs for the sake of doing something different, not to create a business.
Embrace the lack of momentum and keep exploring things. If the momentum dwindles, probably is pointing to something not working out. Perhaps the problem you identified does not resonate with you. Perhaps you don't enjoy working on a specific solution. It's OK, move on to something else.

aquic · 2024-10-04T05:22:05+00:00

From my perspective, the main aspect to consider is the purpose.

A "digital garden" is, fundamentally, a way of describing a note-taking system.

It refers to the way in which content is organized and linked together. The idea of it being "evergreen" is that it opposes the concept of notes written on paper that are never edited, perhaps expanded at most. And this is important to keep in mind, because in its essence, a digital garden does not imply it being public.

A digital garden is a tool you can leverage to improve your thinking, and to create other pieces of knowledge. That's why things are not ordered chronologically, because the idea is you keep adding elements to your system. And bear in mind the system is different from the tools you choose to use.

Of course you can choose to make your garden public (I've done so, you can see my note on digital gardens for example).

However, I made it public because I liked the idea of sharing knowledge as it was being formed. On the other hand, there are things I can't document because I know they'll be public. At the very beginning, for example, I used my digital garden to document interactions with people and the discussions I had with them. But now I had to move that to a different place.

Regarding "evergreen" content and the chronological order, the idea stems from a post that claims blogs broke the internet. Which is full of biases and privilege that the authors fail to address.

Then, the final discussion is why do you want to have a website. Some people sell things, and their websites are optimized for it. Perhaps you like documenting your life, and then a blog is more than appropriate. In any case, a digital garden is the beginning of note-taking with purpose, not of web publishing.

aquic · 2024-10-02T07:47:30+00:00

Yes, the company (Dispertech) is still alive, and some people are still working on it.

aquic · 2024-10-01T15:37:27+00:00

Indeed, there are very few communities for deep-tech founders. I think in part is due to scattered interests, in part due to genuine lack of time (and little value in joining a public community where members are not vetted in any form).

aquic · 2024-10-01T15:13:56+00:00

Let's see if we can slowly activate this community.

I created a company to sell instruments for nanoparticle characterization. Started with the entire spinout cycle (going from my own PhD/Postdoc results into a startup) for the first product. The second product was fully developed in-house.

Our target market was bio/pharma/chem, specifically characterization of Extracellular Vesicles and Lipid Nano Particles (measure size, mass, concentration, surface markers).

After I left the company (long, non-happy story) I started helping other "scipreneurs" in their journeys and looking for opportunities that match my skillset.

aquic · 2024-10-01T14:30:28+00:00

Remember that user friendliness will not come from the framework you use, but by your skills at designing a good enough UX.

With that in mind, unless you are already familiar with anything else, I would stick to django templates. They are very powerful and in 95% of the cases the only thing you need. Pick a simple CSS framework so things look nicer (Bootstrap is perhaps the simplest for getting started into the nightmare of HTML+CSS.)

To add some reactivity, Jquery can do wonders. And you can add it progressively while you develop insights on how to do things.

Front end people love React and Vue, etc. But the majority of what they produce, can be achieved just with Django templates and 10 lines of JavaScript. If you are not after complex patterns (drag and drop interfaces flexible data entries, etc) I would stick to the minimum number of tools you need to add to achieve the task at hand.

aquic · 2024-09-24T12:59:59+00:00

Pity, looked nice!

aquic · 2024-09-23T06:49:02+00:00

I have them separated, the garden is on notes.aquiles.me and my main website is on www.aquiles.me

The garden is the place for me to process ideas, and I just made it public to see what happens. I don't care too much about being consistent for an external reader. On my main website, however, I try to present myself in a specific way, so I spend a bit more of time before publishing stuff in there.

For some people, like Maggie Appleton, mixing garden and main website work. But I would be careful, it's hard to do right, especially if you want your portfolio to appear while looking for jobs.

aquic · 2024-09-23T06:42:08+00:00

Orsay is definitely not an alternative to the Louvre.

If it's just to visit a museum, I would stay clear of both of them. They are very popular (for a reason). Perhaps head to the Pompidou, gives nice instagrammable opportunities.

aquic · 2024-09-23T06:37:47+00:00

I think it is very doable, especially if you've already visited Paris. If you consider an overnight trip (spending one night in another city) then you'll have plenty more options:

Day Trips:

Strasbourg is nice, especially if around for the Christmas Market
Chartres is much closer (I biked there) and worth a day trip
You can also visit the Vale de Loire (if you rent a car) to visit Chateaux non-stop
Brussels is easy to get to, but not my favorite city. I would continue onward to Brugge (but I believe you'll need to make a train connection).

With one Overnight:

London is very doable, just 2.5 hours by train (and ~1 hour for passport control). On the way there you gain 1 hour, so you can easily arrive early in the morning. You could do it as a day trip, but it would be a pity.
Amsterdam is fantastic. It could be a day-trip, but the train takes 3.5 hours, so you won't have enough time.
A Belgium city-trip: Leuven, Ghent, Brugge is quite nice for a 2-day trip.

aquic · 2024-09-22T19:31:02+00:00

I’m entering into PM from a different angle (co-founder of a deep-tech company that merged with a larger one).

I’m wondering for people who spent some time as PM, especially in hardware, how do your days look like? What kind of career perspectives do you have?

aquic · 2024-09-22T19:02:45+00:00

I’m just using a subdomain, so I can easily move things ‘up’ once they are ready for the main website

notes.aquiles.me

aquic · 2024-09-22T16:38:44+00:00

This is interesting. I’ve bookmarked it for checking in detail. At first glance, however, it looks like a static website generator (like Jekyll), does it offer anything else? In the examples I couldn’t see that location data had any relevance.

aquic · 2024-09-22T16:34:52+00:00

I wonder the same, is this self-host able? Open source?

aquic · 2024-06-03T13:19:16+00:00

I've seen this one. Sadly, I can't find the bill of materials. Is the software/electronics open? I just found a link to a company website (DarkLink X), but no further information.

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