Sun Chawn

[Gabriel @gabriell_lab]

Design Engineering Tip

Consider letting textareas grow with the content instead of introducing nested scrolling. It often creates a smoother writing experience and keeps forms easier to scan.

CSS:
textarea {
field-sizing: content;
}

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

The cleaner the incentive, the less management the system needs.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Building something is a brutal way to discover which parts of your intelligence were only verbal.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

If a system cannot tell the difference between effort and improvement, it will eventually reward theater.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Your habits are the vote by which you elect the person you become.

[Sun Chawn @ChawnSun]

AI时代最根本的机会在市场协议。

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

A smaller loop with real feedback beats a grand plan with no contact.

[Mario Zechner @badlogicgames]

recommended reading. also read part II. also read naur's original article.

https://t.co/O6pe3lTxix

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Transcribing notes feels productive because your hand is moving, but it's ineffective because your brain sits still.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Immersion works when it forces output, not when it becomes another form of passive exposure.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Do the small things in a way that makes people comfortable giving you bigger things.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

If the task feels impossible, shrink the first step until action becomes embarrassing to avoid.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Many people chase freedom by avoiding discipline, which is insane because discipline is the infrastructure that freedom runs on.

[Sun Chawn @ChawnSun]

人民市场（用户所有制的互联网平台）

[@levelsio @levelsio]

So @loaibassam asked me my stack recently, I replied:

FREE:
Nginx web server on Ubuntu (free)
Auto upgrade with unattended-upgrade (free)
Scheduled workers with Cron (free)
Vanilla PHP for site backend (free)
Vanilla CSS (free)
Vanilla JS for code (free)
Game servers I do in vanilla Node JS (free)
SQLite for DB (free)
Python for tool scripts (free)
Cloudflare with Cloudflare tunnel for DNS/SSL (free)
Tailscale for security (free)
OpenFreeMap for maps (free)

CHEAP:
xAI for AI API (cheap)
Stripe for payments (cheap)
Cloudflare R2 for image storage (cheap)

Hetzner VPS ($4/mo)
Cloudflare domain reg (~$10/year)

So about ~$5/mo total costs with about ~5M unique visitors per month per site (these are site averages)