You might be thinking what is ULID? or Why not use UUID? This is why I don't use UUID for identity.

ULID is essentially a sortable version of UUID4 with timestamp. It having a sortable property works out really well for indexes that rely on sortability like a B-Tree Index in MySQL or less so a Skiplist index in RocksDB. I use RocksDB a lot these days, still use MySQL. I'm using both of these databases for Project Starflash, in fact. Anyway, ULID is an absolute improvement over UUID4 for database indexes, but...

Project Starflash is an, in development, social network for romantic and platonic connections. The twist is that connections are done between people of the opposite gender.

The application is has less emphasis on dating and more on forming a connection between pairs of people by multiple means of connecting. It can be used for "dating" like Tinder/Bumble, but can be used to just find activities to do with people of the other gender. Doing things with another person is the best way to form connections romant...

There's nothing lost in their so called update where women don't have to message first anymore. The premise was just marketing babble. Women message first was a total shit show. Let's be honest, women on dating apps tend to have no rizz. Some tend to just be there for emotional validation, bored and flaky or just looking for their next bang. It all contributes to a shit atmosphere where learned behaviors propagate.

Bumble has no moat. It attracted an audience that thought it could empower itself with some va...

How do you seek profit in a non profit seeking sector. Saving Human Lives and decreasing suffering is not inherently profit generating. It is a sector that mitigates and decreases losses in other industries. It cannot drive profit without causing losses elsewhere.

People wonder why some other countries have a better healthcare system. It's pretty darn apparent why. Their healthcare industries are motivated to seek stability rather than profit profit profit. Government based insurance only helps to put stabil...

Article: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/austin-texas-tech-bust-oracle-tesla/

Yup, it pretty much sums up what happened. I'd disagree with when the boom peaked. It always takes a while before major pullbacks. The blizzard of 2021 made people start rethinking Austin, TX as the destination to go to and to stay in. I certainly questioned why I moved there after that (I always wanted to after the first visit) and saw less hyping after that. Moved out of TX 2 years later. Honestly should've seen that b...

Project Starflash is an, in development, social network for romantic and platonic connections. The twist is that connections are done between people of the opposite gender.

I wholeheartedly believe that people of the opposite gender can meet up and do things without feeling the need to check your back. The focus always turns towards a woman needing to feel safe totally forgetting about a man's experience with dating apps. Men have been beaten, robbed and even killed by females and their accomplices on dati...

Mmmmhmmmm, so I've been thinking about how many popular dating apps are currently owned by Match Group. Sure there is Bumble, but what's the difference? People's mindset about the apps I guess like Tinder is stereotyped as the hookup app. Anyway making my own singles/connections/dating app has been a long time in the making. I still own the domain for what I had originally called it 8 years now. Done nothing with it, until NOW with PROJECT STARFLASH!

The project is all about returning to basics. Men pursue, ...

Its stock continues to do badly. Just horribly. They said they were going to do bad, but this under performs every other chip maker. How do you get free money (government subsidies) and do so horribly. Literally supposed to be a hedge against the upcoming China-Taiwan war to stave off chip choke off. Patrick Gelsinger maybe able to turn it around, but INTC probably will be kicked off before then.

It's like Boeing, the business people r*aped the company with constant buybacks and dividends while making bad ba...

Not much to update on this game here.

I got to the point where I deleted the Defold project and successfully ran the Flutter Flame project on desktop and the phone. It works way better than Defold and Godot's process. Flame is just easy, Flutter is easy. Build UI using Flutter components, build game components with Flame and other libraries integrated with it. It's all around a better experience than Defold for sure.

Things are just easier with Flutter and Dart.

Yes, you can do more physics things in Flutter's...

Peer pressure or not, going digital helps deter crime. Accepting cash makes you a target to be robbed by people looking to take advantage of your weak points.

If getting robbed is cheaper than just accepting credit cards, apple pay and what not then stop complaining about it looking for sympathy.

Stop feeding the bears!