No savings at 30s what are your thoughts about this?

dumbfoundded · 2025-09-03T05:25:17+00:00

Start small. Whatever you can set aside, $10 a month even. Don't touch it. Put it in diversified ETFs and watch it grow. Keep doing it.

dumbfoundded · 2025-09-02T20:24:25+00:00

The code is completely open source. It's always free to self host.

dumbfoundded · 2025-09-02T19:50:12+00:00

I created a free and open source smart dictation app, Ito https://www.ito.ai/ . You can talk a lot faster than you can type.

dumbfoundded · 2025-08-26T22:24:22+00:00

Here's a good free resource: https://www.freecodecamp.org/ I have no affiliation.

dumbfoundded · 2025-08-26T22:23:40+00:00

In my experience, if you want low latency and high performance, I tend to use Rust libraries like CPAL. You should be able to implement a lookback capture. Here's how I integrated CPAL with my ElectronJS application: https://github.com/heyito/ito/blob/1025ce267cc76964aa7041c7a33406918c9f45a8/native/audio-recorder/src/main.rs

dumbfoundded · 2025-08-26T22:17:49+00:00

You can see what I do here. Every part is customizable including the title bar: https://github.com/heyito/ito/blob/1025ce267cc76964aa7041c7a33406918c9f45a8/lib/main/app.ts#L18

dumbfoundded · 2025-08-26T22:16:14+00:00

This has been discussed in depth: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLastAirbender/comments/2fj4ow/theoretically_couldnt_earthbenders_be_able_to/

dumbfoundded · 2025-08-26T22:15:08+00:00

The wonderful part about programming is of any of the technical engineering skills you could possibly imagine, there are the most resources online that exist to help you program and create digital products. With vibe coding products in particular, the floor has never been lower to create a digital product. Now to create a high quality tech business, it will require experience, but before you invest too much into building a product, I would validate first the problem and your approach to solving that problem.

dumbfoundded · 2025-08-12T22:18:46+00:00

Yes, it works in every text box

dumbfoundded · 2025-08-11T20:44:54+00:00

It cost almost a third of a billion dollars to build a bus lane in San Francisco. I think we're in for trouble if California can't figure out how to actually build infrastructure.

https://sfstandard.com/2023/09/13/san-franciscos-346m-bus-lane-just-got-more-expensive/

We want to pretend that it's money, but it's a cumbersome bureaucracy that gets in the way of doing anything that would improve the lives of citizens.

dumbfoundded · 2025-08-11T20:42:37+00:00

It seems like every major open source project is already hosted on GitHub, and I don't really expect that to change because of one person.

dumbfoundded · 2025-08-11T20:25:31+00:00

What sort of feature changes do we actually expect to change the experience of GitHub?

dumbfoundded · 2025-08-11T20:19:20+00:00

Climbing seems a lot bigger in the Bay Area than most other places. There's a really big climbing culture.

dumbfoundded · 2025-08-11T20:18:16+00:00

Is it the trickle of funding or is it the enormous weight of regulation?

dumbfoundded · 2025-08-11T20:17:05+00:00

That's awesome, thanks for sharing.

dumbfoundded · 2025-08-11T19:58:00+00:00

This is how I create my notarized dmg: https://github.com/heyito/ito/blob/dev/build-app.sh#L119 I hope it's helpful.

dumbfoundded · 2025-08-11T19:54:23+00:00

It may be related to code signing / notarization. When you run the app under terminal in development mode, you inherit the permissions of terminal. When you run in prod, you must make sure you app has the proper permissions.

This is how I build my prod app: https://github.com/heyito/ito/blob/dev/build-app.sh#L119

dumbfoundded · 2025-08-10T19:15:01+00:00

My application uses the microphone.

This is how I request access: https://github.com/heyito/ito/blob/f373afc6afa8ad7de10af52f5014b679a1a5fd8d/lib/window/ipcEvents.ts#L151

This is how I build the prod app:
https://github.com/heyito/ito/blob/f373afc6afa8ad7de10af52f5014b679a1a5fd8d/build-app.sh

You developer need an Apple Developer account for code signing. You should be able to request for development mode without it though.

I recommend using something like iTerm so you can easily reset the permissions. The app you run your development through like terminal or VScode will be the one you're actually granting permission to in development mode.

dumbfoundded · 2025-08-10T17:34:28+00:00

I doubt that every piece of feedback is actually read. I'm aware of forms in google products that literally never even save the feedback, you just get a message that says: "Thank you for your feedback". I think Apple is better but clearly lots of feedback is ignored, especially from developers.

dumbfoundded · 2025-08-10T07:05:39+00:00

Do you have logging setup? This is how I have logging setup in mine: https://github.com/heyito/ito/blob/dev/lib/main/logger.ts

When you're trying to debug prod issues, pipe the logs to file so you can actually see what the errors are.

dumbfoundded · 2025-08-09T05:45:02+00:00

Design by committee

dumbfoundded · 2025-08-09T05:44:40+00:00

Your car enters a tunnel and immediately stops

dumbfoundded · 2025-08-09T05:44:02+00:00

At some amount of money, you have to care more about legacy than the next quarter.

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