I remember doing my own backups with rsync a super long time ago! It worked pretty well, but it didn't have compression, encryption, desktop integration, or deduplication, and adding anything would be one more script to maintain.

Now I use Kopia, no real complaints there. I used to use Borg but until recently it needed some fussy extra community package to work on Synology.

I'd love to see a new battery standard.

Something future proof for new chemistries, consumer friendly and self protected, able to be series-es and paralleled if needed, etc.

Maybe even designed to be an external part of the case like 2 way radio and tool batteries, with the option of a retaining screw for toys and tamper resistance.

A few different sizes, from keychain up to power tool, and paralleling adapters to go bigger.

The electronics would probably cost pennies in volume, just like the tech that goes into those lithium AAs with built-in chargers and buck converters that are almost really awesome.

I've been using one folder per client, one folder per project for years, with no issues, although I don't tend to work on small pieces very often, I rarely do anything that seems too small to make its own project folder.

I used to do the FHS style organizing things by category, but now I'm pretty strongly against non-isolated project environments.

Sodium ion showed up a year or two ago and you can buy them on Amazon as 12v lead acid replacements, 18650s are also available but the voltage range is different from normal lithium.

Debugging rarely works correctly between languages, and features like "find all references" usually break too. Maybe that's not an issue with Prolog because a C logic solver would also be hard to debug, but it's a problem with many template languages.

Is there an online demo? How does it compare to Opus?

I posted this last night, and completely forgot to get the web demo from the repo onto GitHub Pages. Here you go: https://flo-audio.github.io/demo/

Opus is, obviously, currently more optimized, offers better lossy compression, and has really low latency (great for streaming)

It does have some problems though :P Metadata editing is one of the hardest out of most formats, You would need two separate formats (FLAC + ogg) to keep lossless + lossy

flo can be lossless as well as lossy, metadata editing is extremely easy, much richer metadata, simpler but subjectively better file organization/format, and I tried to optimize it for the web!

Tests freeze behavior in place, and manual end to end testing can confirm that the most common paths are at least kind of correct ish.

Obviously that's not good enough, but I'd much rather have AI tests than poor test coverage.

I'm surprised there's not a lot more work on "backend free" systems.

A lot of apps seem like they could literally all use the same exact backend, if there was a service that just gave you the 20 or so features these kinds of things need.

Pocketbase is pretty close, but not all the way there yet, you still have to handle billing and security yourself, you're not just creating a client that has access to whatever resources the end user paid for and assigned to the app via the host's UI.

Yes. Most Saas are a tiny bit of business logic with a substantial helping of design and code framework bloat.

Mostly still just working on my KaithemAutomation project, that I maintain for creating interactive props and puzzles, plus a few trivial not yet released projects.

Right now, I'm experimenting with adding the ability to create DMX lighting effects plugins in WebAssembly, which I'm excited about.

https://github.com/EternityForest/KaithemAutomation/tree/mas...

cool

I did a similar thing a few years back, but rather than simplifying, I focused on getting rid of hacky DIY things that needed maintenance.

I got rid of almost all the customized software in my life, and the few projects I decided to keep, I aggressively modernized, getting rid of thousands of lines of original code and adding many times more tests than I'd ever had before.

It very significantly improved my life and career to not have a second part time job maintaining a note taking app.

How did you replace the customized software you had before?

With off the shelf options, preferring FOSS if possible, I still enjoy using and contributing to open source.

Some of the substitutions wound up being a step down in features, or required rethinking parts of workflows, but the time savings is such a benefit.

Custom notetaking tool with p2p sync-> Google keep

Custom batteries included Linux distro for SD protection, Kiosk browsers, offline docs, creative commons content packs -> a few scripts built into my control server on vanilla RasPi OS

Rsync-> Borg -> Kopia(to avoid fussing with Borg's community NAS package)