Just wait until you find out the benefits of taking them away from kids altogether! Phones are a mental health hazard for children, there is no benefit for them having a phone. The only downside is they feel left out when their friends only want to sit around and scroll TikTok, and can't manage to have any in person interactions without their face in a screen.
None of my children have phones, and when they do get one, it will be when they are driving and will be a dumb phone for sending text messages and making calls.
Every parent when the kids are 0-3 says "I won't give them sugar/chocolate", "absolutely not having an iPad/iPhone before 14/15/16 years old", " no TV in their bedroom" etc.
I really wish Graphite had just gone down the path of better Git hosting and reviewing, instead of trying to charge me $40 a month for an AI reviewer. It would be nice to have a real first class alternative to Github
Just Text to speech seems like its largely solved on pretty much every compute platform. However I have found a huge gap going from independent words being transcribed, to formatted text ready for an editor, or further processing.
If you look at how authors dictate they works ( which they have done for millennia), just getting the words written down is only the first step, and its by far the easiest. I have been helping build a tool https://bookscribe.ai that not only does the transcription, but then can post process it to make it actually usable for longer form content.
I noticed the astro docs has lot of mention of Cloudflare worker as well, is there any reason why you didnt go with Cloudflare pages instead? I’d have guessed pages would be the perfect fit for hosting a rendered astro website
D1 is fine when it fits the use case, but most of the time I just want Postgres that I will use for absolutely everything. It has happened often enough that I have tried to make systems work with other storage systems, and eventually just give up and revert to Postgres. Every time I just start with Postgres I don't have issues until it turns out my laziness has caused a performance problem, and those I can fix.
When I recently switched jobs, one of my requirements was I had to remain remote, for at least the next few years, so I could remain at home and help with my children's education. I don't think there is enough money in the world to convince me to change back to public education. Aside from the benefits everyone mentions like a much better education, having so much extra time with my children is a priceless gift that I wish we as a society could give everyone.
Also its given me the chance to learn things that I missed during my primary and secondary educations. Going through each proof in Euclid's Elements again has been a lot of fun, and its been long enough that I have forgotten most of them, so the thrill of discovery is real for me too.
If you can make it work, you should make it work, even if that means moving to a lower CoL area, there are a lot of small towns in the US that have excellent amenities, and are great places to raise a family.
How do you make up for the resulting drop in interaction with other kids? I had a boss who did this with his children as well - it seemed as though his solution was to use PE credits to have his kids attend sports with other kids.
My kids are part of a co-op where they meet once a week and in this co-op they share some elements of their curriculum with everyone else, they spend one day going over the weeks assignments along with 8-10 classmates, and then during the week they are at home doing their work. As they have aged their school work now has a lot of collaborative elements, so my oldest is actually meeting with kids from his co-op almost daily to go over group projects and assignments.
Additionally they have a lot of extra curricular activities they participate in ( sports, music, church youth group), that also gives them a lot of socialization time with others.
Sounds like a wonderful setup. Have the kids ever shown a desire for public school? My brother is homeschooling his kids to start, but the oldest just asked to start going to public, so he sent her.
No, my wife and I discussed putting them into traditional school as they got older, but now that they are older, they have all strongly requested to remain in their homeschool co-op. I think the biggest reason is they have a good group of friends that they connect with, and have been their class mates for multiple years. So there is a strong desire to continue in the program with people they know.
Depending on where you live there are many options. In my school district home school kids can join any club or team offered by the public school system where you reside. Additionally there are numerous non-school related clubs and activities all over the place. My kids could play music with the local school district, with a musical education non-profit that is prolific in our area, or ( where they do play music ) with private lessons that have group classes, bands, and performance opportunities.
This is long term the right choice. Tesla has the best software competency of any manufacture and if you want to compete with them you can't offload major bits of functionality to a third party. At this point in our software journey in cars, user experience is everything. If I can't have a car that I walk up to with my phone in my pocket and get in and drive, with automatic doors unlocking, and all my settings automatically set to me, then its a net loss.
I can barely get my phone to reliably pair with my Ford, but my Tesla always picks up me as the driver and just does everything correctly. Rivian needs to offer me that same level of polish to be competitive.
I tried to go the litestream route on Fly.io, but there is too much that needs to be done to get it working. Specifically I was hoping scaling would be a lot easier, but master election kept breaking for me causing the whole app to not be able to come online. I just moved to Fly's managed postgres and called it a day.
Their managed postgres has gotten better, but its still a little sparse, so after about 6 months using it I am going to just take my DB to either Supabase or Planetscale.
Yeah, something that’s messed up that they don’t think is messed up is running `fly console` fires up another instance, which isn’t attached to the same volume, so you have to run `fly ssh console —pty`
It’s certainly not intuitive. It would be awesome if they sweat these details, but their deal is “here’s a bag of sharp knives”, which is good for some use cases.
I would just point out that its Hosted Postgres. If your looking for a how I think you have the wrong mental model. Its hosted Postgres, there are some nuance there as to why it would perform differently from RDS on Amazon, or CloudSQL on GCP, but its not some novel new technology that needs a long description.
If you are interested in their new technology that extends on hosted postgres check out Neki https://www.neki.dev/
You're being entirely unfair to Supabase here. Research is important, but there is a reason why the USPTO has developed substantial case law around Reduction to Practice, everything is built on prior work, so to say there is nothing novel about actually building displayed working system from parts is factually inaccurate.
Yeah, huge props here. There's a contingent on HN that seems to assume that almost any action by a company is done in bad faith. I dislike all of the shady stuff that happens, but that's why we should celebrate when companies are doing awesome things.
This is all positive. Super appreciate what you folks have done. It's clearly hard, well intentioned, and thoughtfully executed.
People might say that the company is doing it for good will, but that is the point, it is better to get the good will of the users by actually helping them instead of being like thousands of other companies which don't even do that.
It is a nuanced topic but I feel like we should encourage companies which do good period. (like silksong / team cherry in gaming) etc.
None of my children have phones, and when they do get one, it will be when they are driving and will be a dumb phone for sending text messages and making calls.