Hah I just had to chime in here, blast from the past for me as well! Dan Cederholm was my guiding light when I was learning CSS and semantic HTML. I used to View Source and study the code behind SimpleBits :)
Agree with the mass adoption part. Back then I was so hopeful for what the web might become... The days before social media blowing up.
Thank you for the response here. Not being able to upgrade the machine without completely re-indexing has actually become a huge issue for me. My use case is that I need to upgrade the machine to perform a big indexing operation that happens all at once and then after that reduce the machine resources. Typesense has future plans to persist the index to disk but it's not on the road map yet. And with the indexing improvements, Meilisearch may be a viable option for my use case now. I'll be checking this out!
I haven't tried those features but I did try Meilisearch awhile back and I found Typesense to index much faster (which was a bottleneck for my particular use case) and also have many more features to control search/ranking. Although just to say, my use case was not typical for search and I'm sure Meilisearch has come a long way since then, so this is not to speak poorly of Meilisearch, just that Typesense is another great option.
On one hand you have a potentially infinite variety of people and on the other you have a practice that works for just some of those people. And every practice that works for just some people, there are others taking advantage of that fact by saying, "Hey this works for everyone", being generally scammy to get people to sign up for something and make money. After all, capitalism justifies and awards that. But outside of economic motivation, on a much more personal level, the practice might actually work REALLY well for SOME people. And this applies to a lot of things.
When it comes to mindfulness, in my experience, for SOME people, their mind is so far overthinking things. About themselves, about the people around them, every possible factor in life is fair game really. This can end up causing anxiety and impulses to take control of actions. It's possible to have so much physical tension built up all around the body all the time that it feels shut down. In these cases, learning how to just close your eyes and let go of all those thoughts and all that tension... in your face, in your shoulders, around your hips... bringing your mind away from those thoughts and that tension by focusing on your slowwww breath, might just bring you to a place of comfort that you didn't realize was possible. In the end what all of this represents is stress. For someone who has stress and benefits from this practice, it's an actual battle to let go of the thoughts and tension. But if you get there, you have a whole new level of growth you can do from there. In that case, this practice feels like a super power. So you might want to let everyone know. But if none of this applies to you, it will probably look like a scam.
This is a great idea. I can imagine lots of parents finding this site through Google and making good use of it. Some SEO work may be worth it to make this easier for people to find. The one page dynamic nature might deter this but some simple workarounds would fix that.
Thought I'd note, however, that when I changed the district to Los Angeles and hit See Results. It remained in an endless loading screen and would not return results.
Even if you know where Pliny the Younger is being served, there's still no easy way to do this. They release a limited amount and it usually sells out in the first hour or so. If you go to the Russian River brewery it's a 5 hour+ wait. Crazy stuff.
If you took that introduction so deeply personally that you stopped reading out of offense, I think you have deeper issues to deal with than the fact that you're not taking advantage of this open source library. This is very much your issue, not the author who has just built a library and then organized documentation just to offer it all for free. I believe he should include whatever sense of humor he wishes.
I really hope that open source authors continue to include their character in their projects. It makes the world a more interesting place.
I don't make music but I love music. This is a way to potentially help every indie artist/label in the world.
I have an entire database of music industry listings. These types of databases usually cost lots of money and therefore independent artists have been excluded from using them. We're talking 50,000 listings spanning across the united states and canada. Lots of independent labels and artists I've spoken to are excited by the prospect of having the most comprehensive music industry contact database available for free, to anyone, any age, anywhere in the world.
The database is legit and put together by myself and a friend who is music industry major.
THE PROBLEM:
The programming behind it sucks. It should be re-built from the ground up, using the database as the starting point. The search is horrible and doesn't pull the results that users expect (even though the results exist!). There should be more community features. The best way for this type of database to stay up to date and accurate is for users to contribute. Users can also talk to each other about what works and begin to talk about their experiences with different contacts.
Business prospects:
- advertising
- premium accounts
There's always advertising, in this case the ads are to a very niche crowd, so that always helps. There's also reasons why a business with money, like an indie label, might want a premium account.
To be honest, this probably doesn't have a big chance of making a lot of money. My hope has always been to make it simply sustainable. The upside is that you are literally helping out every independent musician and label in the united states and canada that wants to be heard. You're helping the underdog expose their music to the world.
If community participation grows, it's easy to start allowing people to post listings from countries other than US/Canada. And that would be awesome.
There's quite a few interesting technical challenges this site is facing and currently no one is stepping up to face them. The code, project, and database is yours if you want it. Maybe we put it all under an open license? I'll even continue to help with design/front-end development (photoshop/html/css/js) as that is my strong point. Programming is my weak point.
Someone who understands normal flow and positioning, how elements interact with each other, and minimizes the amount of code for each part of the design will be much more effective than someone who knows all the short cut css hacks.
Also, a bunch of these questions were far more relevant during the IE6 era which is now finally at a decline. I would care that someone knows how to code for IE6, but that requires one question since all IE6 bugs are very well documented, just make sure the person is aware.
Agree with the mass adoption part. Back then I was so hopeful for what the web might become... The days before social media blowing up.