I agree with the point that big companies have persuaded people that only they can offer ease of publishing content. most of my friends publish on Facebook, X, Instagram etc.
I have tried to get them to publish markdown sites using GitHub pages, but the pain of having to git commit and do it via desktop was the blocker.
So I recently made them a mobile app called JekyllPress [0] with which they can publish their posts similar to WordPress mobile app. And now a bunch of them regularly publish on GitHub pages. I think with more tools to simplify the publishing process, more people will start using GitHub pages (my app still requires some painful onboarding like creating a repo, enabling GitHub pages and getting PAT, no oAuth as I don't have any server).
But it is portable. It is essentially markdown files. You can download your repo, compile the Jekyll to static pages and publish them anywhere.
When you publish to Facebook, WordPress etc you can't easily get your stuff out. You will have to process them even if they allow you to download your content as a zip folder. The images will be broken. Links between pages won't work etc.
Facebook provides a data export service which gives you a zip file with a web version of all your content. I’m not sure what the difference is then between that and a Github hosted repository of all your content as a webpage.
The main difference is the data structure and the intent of the export. Facebook's tool is built for data compliance and local offline viewing, not web portability.
If you open that Facebook zip file, the HTML version is just a massive dump of proprietary markup. To actually migrate those posts to a new blog, you'd have to write a custom scraper just to extract your own text from their messy div tags. If you use their JSON export, you still have to write a custom script to parse their specific schema and remap all the hardcoded local image paths so they work on a live server.
With a Github Pages repo, your content is already sitting there as raw, standardized Markdown. You can just take that folder of .md files, drop it into Hugo, 11ty, or any other static site generator, and it just works. No scraping or data-wrangling required.
I have tried standing desks, but not for burning calories like the article suggests. It was more for fixing my posture. But standing and working made my lean and support myself with my hands.
The best solution I like now is a knee stool. It fixes my posture without I having to try too hard.
honestly i find it confusing. it tells me to make a move, but i don't know if i'm playing black or white. sometimes when i click on a point, it puts the opposite color on a different point.
The issue is there is no incentive for the person leaving to make these handover docs and videos. They will just say the bare minimum and complete the task.
The incentive of leaving a good last impression on your employer, so you get a good recommendation, is a pretty good one, imo. It might actually be much more valuable than anything else you do in those last days/weeks, in fact.
It is true that your reputation follows you, but how are going to judge whether the knowledge gathered from that video is sufficiently thorough without actually watching it or at least going through generated notes. This will be generated and left for another llm to summarize and forgotten on a drive somewhere. No one will see any of it unless there is an actual issue.. at which point, it likely won't matter for the purpose of recommendation.
A handover happens not only when someone leaves the company but also when one moves internally. In that case the incentive to prepare the next person is definitely stronger.
In excalidraw I just have to click share session and anyone with that url can see my whiteboard and interact with it. I get tldraw has much more features etc. but how exactly is it making sharing whiteboard so easier compared to excalidraw?
I don't know maybe it was a skill issue from my side 2 -4 months ago , I felt as if I was forced to sign up back then
I am sorry I guess then for this comment , excalidraw also works great but I still just like tldraw because of how familiar I have become of this interface.
Shame that the licensing of tldraw is less permittive than excalidraw but I guess I am just a little bit okay with it considering its still open source and though I maybe wrong I had read the license , and it seems that it was focusing way more on that you had to have the name of tldraw / packaging of tldraw / copyright
here is the license restrictions
Not to disable, hide, remove, or alter the Watermark.
Not to disable, change, or interfere with the license key validation process that governs the display of the Watermark.
Not to remove any copyright or other notices from the Software.
Not to make the Software available under a license that supersedes or negates the effect of this License.
Not to distribute the Software or modifications of the Software as a standalone product, but only as part of another application.
To include a verbatim copy of this License in any distribution of the Software.
To comply with tldraw's trademark policy.
CEA (Controlled Environment Agriculture) is not bad. When over-engineered and quickly expanded without working on unit economics it might be a bad idea.
Traditional farming is not viable near the place of consumption. It needs a lot of land, and land parcels that size near a city is impossible to find. And even if you find, it would rather be used for more lucrative purposes such as commercial properties, than farming.
So to make farming viable near the place of consumption (there by reducing the distance produce has to travel, there by reducing cost of transportation and wastage during transportation, there by selecting seeds which are less hardy for transportation but more nutritious and tasty becomes a possibility), we need to improve the yield of the farm and the consistency and flexibility.
A. Yield of the farm depends on ->
1. space requirement between each plant (which depends on the ability for the plant to absorb nutrients and access to light),
2. amount of light (the bullets) and
3. the amount of carbon dioxide (targets). Photosynthesis is nothing but when the photons in the light break the carbon dioxide bonds and release the oxygen to the atmosphere and carbon combined with hydrogen from the water becomes hydrocarbons (the mass of the plant).
4. Quality (same size, no nutrient deficiency like tip burn or spotting)
5. No pest waste
6. cycles per year
In a hydroponics farm, since nutrients can be dissolved into the water uniformly the space requirement between plants is lower compared to traditional land based farming, the quality is uniform as the nutrients density in the water flowing is uniform, the light (including artificial lights can be increased), the carbon dioxide within the farm can be increased from 400 ppm to 1200 ppm (increasing the targets). More cycles in a year are possible, layers are possible.
With all the benefits, those farms near the city try to improve yield enough to make the 1-2 acre farm near the city viable (as thought it is a 20-30 acre farm 100s of km far away).
The savings is the transport cost, the wastage cost during the transport, the wastage during quality checking cost etc.
B. Consistency
Like mentioned about, good seed selection, uniform nutrient dosing and controlled environment so no pest attack means similar sized produce. This helps with inbounding for Retailers. They have to spend less time and money on quality checking or managing sell-able period.
C. Flexibility
In farming, big retailers have all the power. The contracts are one way forced. If they have a contract with you for 5 tonnes of cherry tomatoes and you aren't bale to deliver it on time, they will penalize you. But say you have 5 tonnes of spinach which you have harvested as per the contract, they can always ask you as a favor "Hey unfortunately our inventory is still not cleared, can you delay by 1 week". Now when you are running a farm at capacity, such delays are not easy to accommodate, because the next set of plants that need to be transplanted from the nursery are ready and you need these plants to be harvested out so they can be planted here. Harvesting and keeping it is also not an option due to low shelf life.
Here is where playing with light and carbon dioxide inside the CEA is super helpful. You can increase the CO2 and increase the light to speed up growth and you can decrease the CO2 and light to slow down the growth of the plants. And this flexibility means, you give more tolerance to the uncertainty in forecasting for the retailers. You take care of their headache. And this is valuable.
I run a pretty successful hydroponics farm in India and supply to online retailers and we are their preferred suppliers purely because we take care of their uncertainties. Ours is not super high tech. Labor is cheap in India. We have some essential tech, like the lights/CO2 etc. But that's about it. We didn't over-engineer.
It’s the same for all goods globally: If you are not in a hurry, the energy / co2 cost of getting it from a local warehouse to your house (optionally through a store) dwarfs the cost of shipping it via freight around the planet.
If you are in a hurry, then you need to ship via air, and then producing locally might help. (It depends on the gap between the efficiency of local production vs. the most favorable location on earth).
Correct. Which is why hydroponically grown produced focuses on low shelf life items like salad greens. And in countries like India where quick commerce is taking off (Zepto, Blinkit, BB Now etc.) it is helpful for the companies to source fresh produce locally many times a week as their dark stores are tiny and they can't have huge inventory.
For my farm and near by farms right inside the city, these quick commerce companies do milkruns and pick fresh produce twice/thrice everyday.
I wish there was a video of this in that article. The reading was very descriptive, but would have loved to see the video of the octopus playing with the bottle.
Might not really help if you are short on time and need someone quick. When I started my first startup (working on POC before even registering the startup), I was hanging on ultra niche internet pockets. Forums/reddit/niche twitter and having conversations there about where the industry was heading, what was happening, trends etc. And that is where I found my cofounder. We did some private dms, got on a call and then decided we wanted to build this thing. Started the company, scaled it, ran it for 4+ years, got acquired and exited.
Another thing you can do is go to the hackernews algolia and search of posts in your industry/domain. Find some of the smart answers with people who understand the domain deeply etc. Go to their profile see if they have some link to their twitter or something and connect with them. Again not super helpful if you are short on time. But leaving it here, for those who might like me want to find someone not in their network for some future collaboration.
I play short time controls like blitz in lichess. But for rapid I prefer chess.com as lichess has too much cheating. I find lichess UI/UX better and faster than Chess.com.
I have tried to get them to publish markdown sites using GitHub pages, but the pain of having to git commit and do it via desktop was the blocker.
So I recently made them a mobile app called JekyllPress [0] with which they can publish their posts similar to WordPress mobile app. And now a bunch of them regularly publish on GitHub pages. I think with more tools to simplify the publishing process, more people will start using GitHub pages (my app still requires some painful onboarding like creating a repo, enabling GitHub pages and getting PAT, no oAuth as I don't have any server).
[0] https://www.gapp.in/projects/jekyllpress/