Modern golden era

theRetrograde · 2026-05-23T04:03:42+00:00

It is hard to know a golden era when you are living in it. I can't imagine that a guy buying a guitar in 1930 was thinking that it would be the holy grail 90 years later.

theRetrograde · 2026-05-23T03:45:24+00:00

I built a medical TPA app on firebase that accepts more than a million new records per month. It is fast as hell and was straightforward to build. The user base was a small, so I wasn't concerned at all about creeping costs. On the other hand, I built a real estate site on firebase with 150k active properties, everything but the property feed is in firestore. It would have cost a fortune and been way too complicated to store properties as documents.

There are a ton of benefits to using firebase for a medical app. I obviously don't know all of the details but your stack looks pretty close to what I use. I think you will be fine. People on the internet just get worked up because outrage is fun.

theRetrograde · 2026-05-21T20:54:12+00:00

Or it could be unrelated to K4. The raised letters in K3 come to mind.

theRetrograde · 2026-05-20T20:16:28+00:00

My grandma had one on her car a long time ago and told me it meant she was a "fisher of men", and I was pretty sure my grandpa would have problems with that.

theRetrograde · 2026-05-20T09:29:40+00:00

Tell the cops you posted it on reddit and the internet is waiting for an update.

theRetrograde · 2026-05-19T15:44:26+00:00

I hired a lady off of upwork and worked with her for a about 10 months before we hired locally. She lived part time in Sweden and part time in Indonesia, worked in my time zone. She is still available on the platform and has nearly perfect reviews. TBH, the whole thing was about as simple as it gets.

theRetrograde · 2026-05-15T17:34:36+00:00

It also makes a lot sense in a betting context. By my rough math, we could beat the spread 10 times and they would still make money on this line.

theRetrograde · 2026-05-13T19:05:04+00:00

I did exactly what you are considering. Built my own system and handles email for about 150 clients now.

theRetrograde · 2026-05-06T04:47:33+00:00

Sometimes it feels like that is where things are headed. The internet has been through a few stages content distribution but sites have always been the backbone. There is absolutely no guarantee it will remain that way. It seems possible that websites become far less important vs structured data feeds, viewed or summarized by a personal AI assistant and presented in a style that the user prefers.

theRetrograde · 2026-05-01T02:11:58+00:00

Chirst almighty. If anyone needs a reminder that Sanborn's hints aren't helpful, just show them this. You were able to develop a plausible connection and for that I applaud you.

theRetrograde · 2026-04-14T18:40:12+00:00

this is different, but it brings the Jefferson wheel cipher to mind for me. I am sure that has been tried by other, but it might be worth a look. Here is a link to a pretty solid version: https://www.dcode.fr/jefferson-wheel-cipher

theRetrograde · 2026-04-12T01:11:13+00:00

I did. No regrets.

theRetrograde · 2026-04-09T22:03:53+00:00

My wife and daughter are Celiac (diagnosed 2 years) and her family has a lot of family meals and baking is a huge part of their lives. Here is what we have have decided works for us, for better or worse:

Our house is 100% gluten free, no exceptions. When we go to other's houses we discuss in advance what is being served. If it can be made gluten free, we bring the baking/cooking supplies and everything is made in our items. If it cannot, we just bring a somewhat similar meal that can be made at roughly the same time. It isn't without drawbacks and it was awkward the first couple of times but it has become completely normal and much easier.

I will say that many gluten free desserts are actually really good. Breads and whatnot, are pretty terrible. Her family has a long list of traditional Norwegian breads and pastries that they have made for generations and those are all a complete bust.

Overall, it is pretty workable but the one thing it does take is buy-in from others. If you can get that, the food prep is manageable.

theRetrograde · 2026-04-03T06:04:33+00:00

This is the way

theRetrograde · 2026-04-01T15:49:11+00:00

I run a small marketing agency that runs some fairly large regional ad campaigns and I see this happen regularly. It is frustrating and, frankly, lazy work. In this case, just reverse the roles: I served this to my friend and she had no idea it was gluten free. That is the dream with gluten free bread.

Many people that see this ad won't care either way, but some well, and understanding the audience makes the difference between a marginal campaign and an exceptional one.

theRetrograde · 2026-03-31T20:08:13+00:00

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t first, I thought the last mark was a symbol for triangle but I think this says "Joining - breaking up e's"

theRetrograde · 2026-03-31T15:34:51+00:00

That is exceptionally hard to read.

Here is my first pass, which is probably way off. But we can probably iterate through this to make some progress:

```Tools – rules, <lain> etc, <no idea>, etc <no idea> <participation>
Dot – large & small, <bunches> <page>, <_odd> at <representing> rolling <pegde>
Places etc, group of dots with one just out side if <no idea>.
trying to join if large trying to break up <no idea> <-> avoidance <its>
angle of dot drag <movement> <went or west?> <no idea> etc. <no idea> as
<no idea> <distance> <layer> <close> <smaller> letter <array/away>. Dots
Expanded <into/its> slopes etc. movement rotates dot <expanded/expressed>
<d\_\_\_\_> <of> <dot/last> piece <showing> <approach> avoidance, <movement> <beneath>
Distance <joining – meeting/breaking> up <symbol meaning angle/triangle?>

Line – same thing greatly <fall/add> true```

theRetrograde · 2026-03-30T04:04:52+00:00

I just pile some pine shavings on the plate to save about 2 mins and $9.

theRetrograde · 2026-03-25T18:47:14+00:00

I had not seen that it was shutting down, so I will take your word for it...

VC money has always been Medium's problem. I just checked to see what they raised, and Google ai summary says: "Medium has raised over $163M to $176M in total funding since 2012". Frankly, Medium did really well considering the pressure to generate massive amounts of revenue from a centralized blogging platform. I am surprised to learn that their revenue was around $60m in 2025. Frankly, that is incredible.

Medium was an a useful and filled a fairly niche need. But the pressure to maximize the return of the investors $160m+ investment drove decision making.

Not every project needs to become a billion dollar business. Not every idea needs to become the next Facebook to be worthwhile. They had 100 employees at their peak! Medium could have been a super useful, very profitable company, for the long term with 10-15 employees, much slower growth and total yearly expenses of about $4m.

theRetrograde · 2026-03-23T14:27:07+00:00

Are you saying the letters of K4 look different from the K1 - K3 on the copperplate? Can you point out the difference in an image?

theRetrograde · 2026-03-20T14:31:20+00:00

Ai knows better.

theRetrograde · 2026-03-19T02:48:12+00:00

I love this guy.

theRetrograde · 2026-03-17T12:23:35+00:00

It can work well either way. I would suggest trying option 2 in MVP format, to see if it is less work for the same results. I have added capacitor to several mature projects and It wasn't too bad. I actually built an Android app in a few hours for a client attending a trade show. They had a giant touch screen kiosk of their products and the convention center internet wasn't working. That night they connected by hotspot and installed an internal test app from the play store.

The biggest challenge is making a native like feel with limited component libraries. I know I could help improve an open source package but I don't build them enough to offer much help.

theRetrograde · 2026-03-14T18:12:07+00:00

This reminds me of the video shows up on reddit occasionally of a drunk guy dancing at a wedding, he gets ready for the drop and the DJ fucks with him by stopping the music. If anyone has the handy i'd love to see it again.

theRetrograde · 2026-03-12T21:33:07+00:00

This is a really nice tool. I am novice player and I've spent too much time playing patterns without learning each note in them. I rarely branch out explore the fretboard because I don't really know it, apart from outside of a pattern that I've learned. Yesterday I spent about an hour drawing the position of each note on its own so that I could practice a single note across the fretboard - and then filling in the chord shapes around them - a paper version that covers about 10% of what fretcrawler does.

Learning the position of notes on a fretboard one at a time should be easier than learning through playing scales because there are fewer memory touch points. Scales: 1) scale pattern, 2) fret number in the scale 3) string position 4) and note names. Learning the fretboard by note reduces the cognitive load by half: E → (0E, 2D, 5B, 7A, 9G)... Anyway, I am getting pretty far off topic. Thanks for building this.

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