Thank you for the write up! Question: do you notice that you’re getting spam from unrelated companies after signing up for an alias? (Like, you sign up for a grocery store loyalty program and somehow end up getting pharmacy spam?)

I’m building a tool that lets me organize sheet music, rehearsals, and share with groups I play with.

Also building a Golang middleware to record analytics (saved into a local duckdb)

This is awesome! I’ve been excited about the new bundle feature for months.

I use typst to format sheet music. Given a folder of PDFs, I currently have a script that generates a booklet of music for each person in the ensemble. Hopefully now I can just run a single typst file which outputs multiple PDFs.

Also using it to generate printable programs for concerts: https://concert-programs.projects.jaygoel.com/

Curious as to why typst over something like Lilypond, which is built around music

For composition I use musescore.

In my case, I’m not actually arranging or writing music - I’m just taking existing music PDFs, separating pages, and creating new PDFs along with page numbers and table of contents. The use case is to have a nice booklet of music for an upcoming performance.

Cool project. I made something similar to programmatically generate my CV, but using LaTeX with a LuaLaTeX backend. It works, but it is really slow and has a lot of dependencies.

I’m seriously considering rewriting it in Typst at some point. It probably would not be that hard, and I’d likely get much faster builds with far fewer dependencies.

Everything for typst was generated via LLM. The template itself takes json as input and then uses the typst template language to render. It works very very well.

I’m building a little tool to organize my sheet music, let me share it, organize rehearsals, and manage performances.

Oh hey, I'm building something loosely related to this too. Can I ask what need isn't being met by say, Forscore?

This is really cool! I built something very similar only I replicated the AWS sqs protocol instead.

https://github.com/poundifdef/smoothmq

oh, that's seems very nice project! I just wonder what it uses as storage/where it saves the tasks?

Side project to generate good-looking programs for recitals and concerts: https://concert-programs.projects.jaygoel.com

For people who use Fora for travel, a tool that uses AI to create google calendar events from travel itineraries: https://itinerary.projects.jaygoel.com

Is there a feasible way to run this in a different language? (Go, in my case?)

It's in wasm so should be possible to code up the next language

I just built a little tool that takes a Fora itinerary as input and creates a google calendar (.ics) feed as output.

https://itinerary.projects.jaygoel.com/

What have you done for email?

I ended up at Soverin. Luckily I was already using Gmail with my own domain, so I could switch without having to change addresses.

https://soverin.com/

For me, Fastmail has been incredible.

I concur on Fastmail. I only keep a "legacy" Gmail account for parental tech support.

In the early 2000s, we had a camera that saved to an internal hard drive. The only way to watch videos was to either copy them to the computer or hook an RCA cable from the camera to the TV. You could also go from VGA to RCA with the right set of cables.

However, everyone did have a DVD player! So I, similar to the author, wrote scripts to take videos, generate DVD isos, and then burn to DVDs.

I learned about message queues (rabbitmq) with that project and had connected a bunch of old laptops with Linux VMs installed.

I never finished the project and nowadays there are a hundred ways to share and stream digital video. I hadn’t anticipated, at the time, that casting videos wirelessly to our TVs would become the norm.