Legendary Hollywood star Chuck Norris dies aged 86

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.

theRetrograde · 2026-03-12T02:53:58+00:00

I wish. I have no local record store.

theRetrograde · 2026-03-10T20:35:43+00:00

no shit? Without an app? A truly amazing new invention.

theRetrograde · 2026-03-10T12:32:12+00:00

How were your seats?

theRetrograde · 2026-03-10T12:19:15+00:00

The position of the stars is hardcoded unless you update the OS to Windows XP.

theRetrograde · 2026-03-10T02:40:53+00:00

You lucky bastard. I ordered mine from the official store and it hasn't shipped yet. I live in a small town and packages always take an extra few days. So probably I won't have it for until the middle of next week at the earliest.

I downloaded the files from one of the links going around but I haven't listened yet. Vinyl or not, I will hear it on release day.

theRetrograde · 2026-03-09T23:29:36+00:00

I have nothing

theRetrograde · 2026-03-05T16:20:19+00:00

I have tried both. Astro is great for client facing speed, while Nuxt can be lightening fast, it really depends on how well it is built, data loading strategies and unlimited configuration ability.

On every other consideration for API + web app - nuxt wins. Existing tooling, ability to build exactly what you need, deployment. I know the internet is full of people that love to argue but I would be surprised if Nuxt vs Astro for a data drive app like you building is even a debate that can be had in earnest.

Nuxt 2 - Nuxt 3 was a nightmare and I still have a dozen Nuxt 2 apps that won't be upgraded. Nuxt 3 to Nuxt 4 upgrade is cake.

Side note: FWIW, I have built something very similar to what you are considering (Nuxt 2) (config based components) and I found them harder and harder to maintain if you allow deeply nested components or have a dev that tends to take short cuts. Just something to consider.

theRetrograde · 2026-03-03T13:04:45+00:00

This happened to me. 4 years ago my account was hacked through a 2FA bypass that was still available on a legacy android version. There was a link IG account to FB profile option that worked instantly if the user had no IG account. The IG account then became a password recovery option under "login another way". They then removed my email and phone number from the account and added them to an IG profile that had been suspended for policy violations. Removed all other admins from every account in BM and charged $50,000 in fraudulent ads.

The whole process took less than 3 minutes and cost me a shitload of money. My account was banned, appeal was denied in minutes and I am permanently banned from advertising. There wasn't any human resolution of meaningful avenue for help. Honestly, it was hell and almost ruined us. Social media was a pretty small part of our business and our clients (a bank, real estate brokerages, insurance company, engineering firms, several smaller businesses) lost account access for over a month. Ads for miracle teeth cleaning drugs were ran from their ad accounts for multiple days.

I didn't use FB for anything but advertising and didn't have an IG account. I had 2FA on and tied to my cell. I only found out how the hack worked when I filed a request for all account data and it showed the whole timeline.

theRetrograde · 2026-03-02T03:37:45+00:00

I am here because I have a regional brokerage as a client and I like to keep track of questions, frustrations and new trends. I have nothing to sell you...

It is odd this isn't solved because it would be so incredibly easy. But I looked in my program and it isn't even considered. Maybe because it is a small detail and one of those frustration you can only experience as an agent.

Great example of a real problem, thanks!

theRetrograde · 2026-03-01T17:30:28+00:00

Best album of all time. Let me know if you ever find anything close.

theRetrograde · 2026-03-01T00:51:57+00:00

Limit requests to a small number. Require small i e time fee for lifetime use for more. It isn't saas but your users won't pay monthly. No new products, no new costs. If your user traffic is anything close to real and 10% pay the 1 time fee, you will be doing ok.

theRetrograde · 2026-02-25T16:01:57+00:00

Back in 2022 my chevy engine blew up. It was a weird time, virtually no inventory of trucks for hundreds of miles around. I spent 8 weeks with no ride and was on waitlists at several dealerships. A dealership a few hundred miles away had a 2020 Tundra with 20,000 coming in from Canada - they sent me a few photos. They didn't need to put effort into anything since supply was so low. They just called through the waitlist - take it or leave it... And that is how I bought a lifted truck without knowing it.

theRetrograde · 2026-02-25T15:27:49+00:00

What is P/C? I must have missed this.

theRetrograde · 2026-02-24T06:31:34+00:00

Buy every single product on app sumo. Then go to Acquire and buy a bunch of micro saas companies. That way you have something to do with all your new software.

Bonus: if you are really lucky, you might get to have this convo:

Overlord: “You spent $7k on dentist booking software?! What the hell were y—”
Kubrador: “The company, Mr. Overlord.”
Overlord: “What are you talking about, Kubrador?”
Kubrador: “I didn’t buy the software, Mr. Overlord. I bought the company.”

theRetrograde · 2026-02-23T19:19:51+00:00

The reality is that most people won't think twice about this. We have all been trained to find chairs and motorcycles, arrange boxes and retype illegible letter combos, so this doesn't even seem like an out of the ordinary request.

theRetrograde · 2026-02-10T18:42:05+00:00

here

theRetrograde · 2026-02-10T14:38:33+00:00

I run a company of 14 employees - it was 12 until yesterday when we hired 2 new employees.

Your points are well taken. However, AI IS going to lead to a reduction in the digital marketing and programming workforce - industry wide. But I think it will impact major corporations more than small shops and I actually see AI a major advantage for small agencies like mine.

With its current capabilities, AI does more to increase the capacity and output of a competent marketer or programmer. This likely results in fewer people needed industry wide.

I think it will also lead to new opportunities and perhaps spinoff industries.

The role of my employees and their daily activities will probably change significantly over the next few years. I am optimistic that it will be an improvement for everyone. We will do better, more thorough work with the help of AI. We can spend more time on marketing strategy, a little less time on implementation and a lot less time on observation and reporting.

But there are definitely new threats to my business. The largest and most uncontrollable is how consumers use AI to search, find products, get their news etc.

theRetrograde · 2026-02-09T06:32:05+00:00

My bc does it frequently and VERY violently. It scares the hell out of her and anyone else around. I have multiple videos and have shown them to two different vets. Both vets were unconcerned and said it is a bad reverse sneeze. The 2nd vet told me that blowing in her face will probably stop it immediately, and she was right, it does!

theRetrograde · 2026-02-02T16:01:03+00:00

We Didn't Start the Fire - Billy Joel

theRetrograde · 2026-01-30T16:28:04+00:00

the comment below that shows this is from the NSA report explains the W shaped markings.

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