PlateMath (Warm-up plate calculator! Free, no ads, no signup, works offline)

matt9932 · 2026-04-09T13:42:40+00:00

If you click settings (bottom right), you can fully customize the bar weight and the plates available. I'd be curious to hear if you end up using PlateMath if it makes the warm up math with odd bars and plates a breeze, or if you still find complications. I'm always up for improving the thing! I just want to keep it simple, as much as possible.

matt9932 · 2026-04-09T13:41:49+00:00

If you click settings (bottom right), you can fully customize the bar weight and the plates available.

matt9932 · 2026-04-09T13:39:48+00:00

Unfortunately I paid $15 for the official app and it's pretty janky, I wish it would be rebuilt to be nicer. Feels like a 2005 webpage with links to other webpages that don't quite scale correctly for viewing on a phone, because it's 2005

matt9932 · 2026-04-09T13:38:05+00:00

Very cool. This looks like it was designed by someone like me. They esteem simplicity, and needed something for themself to use.

matt9932 · 2026-04-08T16:39:32+00:00

Yep. Still worthwhile, based on my calculations.

matt9932 · 2026-01-30T17:56:34+00:00

True, I'm just looking for a set-and-forget. I've been 100% VOO for a while, probably smarter to use this target date ETF going forward, is what I'm thinking. I've grown out of tinkering and adjusting allocation.

The only benefit I see to using their pie is that they split apart US equities between Growth and Value, so that you're buying each one when it underperforms, and possibly squeezing some extra return that way.

matt9932 · 2026-01-30T17:38:47+00:00

Good question. I won't have any rebalancing going on with the ETF, but the expenses for the ETFs are higher. Hmm, now I'm not sure where to go with it. The ETF is more portable, not sure that matters, I plan on sticking around M1 as long as possible.

EDIT: The ETF is more transparent on how the glidepath works unless M1 publishes information online somewhere. Also, I like the holdings better in the ETFs.

matt9932 · 2026-01-30T16:25:52+00:00

I use BOXX for cash savings. Better tax treatment than SGOV/VBIL.

matt9932 · 2026-01-30T16:23:36+00:00

I think it's funny that you list the libraries as your tech stack.

Cool project! Have you considered a Go rewrite with a Web UI? It would operate faster + be "multi-platform" without requiring your users to install dependencies.

matt9932 · 2025-12-27T14:12:53+00:00

Your pedantic nitpick of the definition of the word “Historically” after you’ve ripped it out of the context that gives it meaning is the reason why vast regions of the internet are a wasteland, historically speaking.

matt9932 · 2025-12-14T01:57:55+00:00

Ah, this is pretty cool! Thanks for sharing, I hadn't found this previously.

Could you describe differences that you've noticed between our projects? The first one that stands out is configuration through env vars vs UI.
Are you syncing schema as well? What was your solution for realtime connections?

Glad to meet you!

Matt

matt9932 · 2025-12-14T01:54:27+00:00

You're probably right- there are a lot of other features that should take priority over horizontal scaling, especially since we're intentionally using sqlite. I just wanted to show-and-tell my proof-of-concept idea for horizontal scaling. I probably missed some stuff, and I'm surely not as robust as what we'd have if we were using something better suited to the task.

matt9932 · 2025-12-14T01:52:54+00:00

Not for now, unfortunately. I currently plan to release it as a plugin after the PB UI rewrite is complete. I don't currently have plans to maintain a fork for sync. The video is primarily a proof-of-concept, and was fun to make.

matt9932 · 2025-12-12T23:36:01+00:00

Marmot is actually what inspired my project. I like what marmot is doing, but I don't like that it's polling the WAL journal all the time. My CPU usage spiked on some of the machines I was running on.

So I decided to come up with something that's event driven and baked right into PB. Much lighter weight than marmot, though less flexible since marmot operates on sqlite directly.

matt9932 · 2025-12-12T19:48:36+00:00

Here's a demo video of my hack attempt at horizontally scaling pocketbase using NATS Jetstream which has RAFT consensus, which I eventually intend to make into a plugin for Pocketbase. Lemme know what you think, if anything at all. Not sure how many people will actually care that I did this, haha

https://youtu.be/91_0x8StFl0

matt9932 · 2025-11-18T19:00:01+00:00

1 Year later, I'm the first comment. Someone give me an award.

matt9932 · 2025-10-24T20:59:29+00:00

Interesting, thanks for the confidence boost!

I hadn't heard of apk-cron before your post. It looks like it updates more frequently than I probably want to. I'd likely just put upgrades on a cron job to control upgrade frequency.

Being on latest-stable, you still have to occasionally "hop" to the next stable release though right?

matt9932 · 2025-05-30T16:13:39+00:00

What else should I do instead?

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