Raphael Lullis @raphael@communick.com

Communick has been more interesting to its users as a Matrix provider than for its connection to the Fediverse, but I still think that we need to have something like it: an instance that does not cater to any specific community and lets its users make their own networks as they wish.

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Another day at HN, another torrent of downvotes for anyone challenging the collective hard-on for "government regulation" that is becoming so prevalent there.

And when you ask "what kind of policy do you see being mandated that could get us rid of Big Tech?" Only crickets.

What if we approached job satisfaction and professional connections as we do our romantic ones?

Like OkCupid, can we emulate the matching algorithm to present us better jobs?

Can recruiters eliminate screening interviews with few simple questions? Find out if a company has a broken hiring process, pushing good people away?

Enter https://cupid.careers! Answer questions, say what matters to you and it will give you a match percentage between you x companies, jobs and even future co-workers

Almost 9 years living in Germany and I still don't understand their "recreational sport club" system. I want to go back to swimming, there is a website with information about the associations in Berlin, but all point to some "office" contact. You can never find out where they practice, what times. You have to call/email and pray someone will ever answer. German bureaucracy extends even to the leisure activities.

2022, and we still don't have a mobile music *library manager* to keep an offline cache of your collection.

Bonus points if it includes other types of constraints: e.g, time it takes to make dinner, propose different recipes to avoid trips to the market.

LOTS of bonus points if it *suggests* events to get the family out of the routine: Thu is looking free? Go hike with the neighbors.

2) A *family* calendar that can generate day/week schedules based on the constraints it is given.

E.g: Mom has meetings at this and that time. Dad on other days. Kids need to be picked at school between 3 and 3:30pm. Jr has karate at Weds.

Now, who-takes-who-when?

1) Syncthing "middleware": don't just sync files between devices, but specify logic of what should happen when a device "sends" or "receives" the file.

E.g: NAS stores music files in high-res MP3 or FLAC, but you want (part of?) them in your phone as lower-res format.

It would be a good project for me to use and learn more of Go, and it would work well with what I had in mind when writing https://raphael.lullis.net/thinking-heads-are-not-in-the-clouds/

Just too big of a project for me to do it now.

I think I need to start posting about Ideas for products (or maybe features?) that I don't have the time/skills to work on:

It started as some incoherent rambling about the lack of music players that could manage remote music collections decently. It ended up as a incoherent rambling against the silo-ing of our data into apps. https://raphael.lullis.net/thinking-heads-are-not-in-the-clouds/

The more I learn what CSS3 and SVG can do with any reasonably modern browser, the less I tolerate frontend frameworks that do not separate behavior from presentation.

Every HTML5 framework wants to reinvent their own little precious wheel, when they could make *one* single UI toolkit and have completely decoupled CSS themes/skins.