I'll be honest, I read "Google de-indexed my Bear Blog" and was looking forward to discovering an interesting blog about bears.

You may find rather unexpected results if you look for blogs with an interest in bears.

Same. I still don’t know why the word “Bear” was used in the title.

I guess they use this blogging platform: https://bearblog.dev/

Makes sense. Hadn't heard of that platform before but looks really nice.

Coming from a quietfox, it is OK. It is important to preserve oneself ^^.

That's interesting. I think besides the hard facts (like numnber of possible tokens before throtteling happens) the perceived quality differs from use case to use case. In that sense, ChatGPT is my daily driver, in terms of helping with coding problems or debugging Claude feels far superior to me. And when it comes to ideation and creativity (product idea validation, etc.) Gemini surpasses both of the other in my opinion.

I really need to get back to that mindset. I keep catching myself unconsciously checking my hobbies and abilities for marketability. I've been playing guitar for almost three decades, one of them spent in a touring metal band. When I started, I used to enjoy making music so much that I played and composed so often an album would just come together naturally. And then another one and another one, I just couldn't stop. These days, I no longer sit down to play just for myself and the moment — instead, I catch myself thinking, “Can I sell sample packs from this? Record a course? Should I code a VST plugin for it and sell that?” And after weeks of moments like this, all I have are three random riffs and frustration.

I try to look at my music as something that I do because I enjoy it. I play in a casual/amateur band and I regularly have to remind the guys that I do it for no other reason than because I enjoy it; I'm not interested in playing gigs. Not everyone sees it the same way.

I know a few musicians that tried to make a living out of music similar to your story. Most have now stopped making music and are both frustrated with the music industry, and angry at listeners for not valuing their work.

Which band, may I ask?

"The text disappears..." And my eyesight with it

Let's revisit this assessment in a few years.

we've been using discord for years, it's great. Its model for making money is different, its primary market is gamers. Servers are content for their users to consume and they charge the users directly.

I'm a Discord user myself, in private as well in job context. But we all have been here long enough to know that the only reliable constant is change.

Wow, that was stressful, good job!

It worked for me in Safari for a while, but then the entire browser stopped working.

It seems to try to check if you are using the Burp Suite on their web application.

Congratulations on launching your first product. Which stock markets does it cover? I wasn't able to look up BMW or adidas for example.

Scalability and ease of use are the scary factors here. The barriers to getting involved with geoguessing were certainly a threshold for some people with bad intentions. These have now been removed or are considerably lower.