It’s the minimum effort that translates to minimum time that translates to minimum cost for the business. Why hire another developer for a mobile app (or another platform) when you could just have the same web dev write it. Or without hiring another dev, why have the same dev need to build up tooling in another language when you can just reuse from the existing platform

That is a great way to look at it!

It’s always hard to get through the mental block of comparing oneself to others (or your own art to another’s), but I really really like how you said the process of discovering the beauty in anything. I need to internalize that and push away the perfectionism that says I could (should) do better. That doesn’t matter, anything can be beautiful, and there’s no good reason to discredit something just because you’re still in the process of learning (or self improving)

Thank you, I’ll definitely be stealing this way of explaining what I’ve been trying to put into words

Even though I agree that external validation shouldn’t be relied on, and your own opinion of yourself is the most important, that’s still really hard to do when you don’t like how you look.

A different comic that connected to me a little more was this one:

Where just because I don’t like the way I look, doesn’t mean I’m ugly. Someone else may like just as I am, so the important thing for me is to be healthy and happy with myself, even if I don’t like how I look

… I’m realizing I’m mostly just rewording what you said, but I wanted to share the comic in case it helps someone else see another perspective :D

Relevant Technology Connections video: https://youtu.be/0f9GpMWdvWI

I would be very interested in this if you ever post it 👀

Here’s the story of how anthropic spent $20,000 writing a C compiler that can’t compile hello world on it’s own:

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler

Omori is fantastic

It’s one of those games that’s best to go in blind (while knowing of the content warning)

The actual wording is “Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp.”

So no, 99% AI is also not allowed

Highly recommend this game, was a ton of fun to play through. If you’re looking for another game like this, check out manifold garden, which also happens to be 75% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/473950/Manifold_Garden/

Advent Of Code, daily programming challenges for the holiday season. You can submit solutions for any language you like, including inchomprehensible esoteric ones like in the screenshot

https://adventofcode.com/

!advent_of_code@programming.dev

Mr Robot’s soundtrack is awesome, I remember the agonizing years waiting for the final volume to come out through all the red tape

Absolutely worth it

Aurora on my work machine, Bazzite on my home machine haha

Check if your local library has any resources. Mine let me claim a free rocket languages premium account, which supports Spanish, German, Japanese, Chinese, French, Italian, Arabic, Hindi, Korean, ASL, Portuguese, and Russian up to (I think, don’t remember) CEFR level B2

There is this: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

Beets is one solution, and I also recommend taking a look at Musicbrainz Picard. It’s a more graphical and user friendly way (though more manual) to identify, organize, tag, and sort music into a preferred format. It’s what I use on all my Bandcamp purchases to clean up metadata and add things like lyrics before it automatically throws it into the right folder

You just bounced so high it took a little time to fall back down

In addition to autorenaming Picard can also auto organize into folders. So any time I buy new music, I run it through Picard to ensure metadata is correct, grab lyrics, and put it in the right folder that is then picked up by my self hosted navidrome

Just one?

Portal - Self Esteem Fund by Kelly Bailey

The volumes this song speaks through it’s atmosphere is incredible. The raw emotions and feelings of isolation are better conveyed through this song than words ever can in my opinion

My scrobbles say I’ve listened to this single song for more than 9 hours over the years… I have so many emotions bottled up in this song lol

This is the album that introduced me to this genre and I love it. I also bought his self titled album

That’s fair. And in the case of Immich, the photos are automatically backed up to my computer so if I lose my phone I don’t lose the images, but I totally understand wanting something exclusively on the phone (Immich can let you browse photos local on your phone, but I don’t think it indexes them for searching by person/object). Unfortunately I’m not sure something like that exists, especially since the machine learning for identifying people/objects in pictures is pretty computationally intensive.

I wish you luck in your search! I agree that would be a great app to have