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Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/magazine/bill-gates-foundation-closing-2045.html

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Hey HN, Dexter is a day planner I built for Mac (and web).

This was a grief project. Some people make art when they're soul searching, and making apps has always been a bit of an artistic outlet for me. Earlier this year my mother committed suicide and two weeks later the company I worked for laid off my entire division. After taking some time to grieve and process I started building something just for me, just for fun, just because I wanted to.

Dexter has been a slow project that started as paper sketches at my kitchen table and slowly morphed into a codebase. It allowed me to play with tools I wanted to get better at like Postgres and Typescript while also letting me try (and in some cases fail) experimenting with new-to-me tools like Tailwind, Supabase, Tauri, Electron, and Vite.

Small portions of the app and site were "vibe coded", but 99% is hand-crafted code (not necessarily good code), graphics, and data models. This was meant to be a fun project where I learned things just because I wanted to learn something, not a race to see how fast I could grind out a product.

For an example of "unnecessary but fun", I made each SVG on the marketing site twice with Figma - once in a light theme and again in a dark theme - so if you toggle your OS's dark mode, everything should change, even the images.

A few things about the app:

- Yeah, I know, it's an Electron app. I tried using Tauri and other tools but hit a few snags. The Electron ecosystem was incredibly mature and easy to use in comparison - The app is open source [0] and so is the marketing site [1] - Some friends and I have been using it daily for a few months and really enjoy it compared to our old multi-tool workflows - Dexter is the name of my 12(?) year old husky, hence the dog branding - There is a pricing widget on the marketing site but the app is currently totally free. I might integrate Stripe soon if (and only if) that feels like a fun project, but the goal isn't to get rich or even turn a profit, it's to have fun and build something genuinely useful that I use every day

There are a bunch of features I would love to add and enhancements I would like to make, and eventually I will. Currently, I pick up a feature just because it sounds fun that day and I put it down when it is no longer fun. It might not be a good business model, but it has been a wonderful antidote to an industry rife with burnout and a personal life that's been a little out of control.

I hope you enjoy it and maybe build something for yourself, just because it sounds fun.

If anyone gives it a try I will be in the comments today and happy to answer any questions!

[0] https://github.com/cvburgess/dexter-app [1] https://github.com/cvburgess/dexter-www

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Article URL: https://pksunkara.com/thoughts/3-types-of-coding-in-the-ai-era/

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Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/04/hitchhiking-american-experience/682603/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43925701

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Article URL: https://lurkhub.com

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Article URL: https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/discussions/13580

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A kitchen expert, a meal kit newbie and a novice cook set out to verify if HelloFresh is truly the best meal kit delivery service. After trying various recipes (including vegan), here’s what we found.

Article URL: https://www.varonis.com/blog/aznfs-root-privilege-escalation-on-azure

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Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/662719/android-material-3-gen-z-iphone

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Article URL: https://trmm.net/chainload/

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Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/musi-faked-umg-email-to-stay-on-app-store-apple-claims-in-sanctions-motion-250506/

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Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/bill-gates-philanthropy-donations-1c72941a

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Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/bdd9bb89-ac3c-4043-9ca4-bc7efbd41fed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43925645

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Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/07/apple-working-on-ai-search-in-safari/

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SonicWall patches three SMA 100 vulnerabilities, including a potential zero-day, that could be chained to execute arbitrary code remotely.

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Small language models could be more cost-effective to deploy than LLMs, offering greater privacy and performing specific tasks better. But is it too early for SLMs?

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Article URL: https://sandel.scholars.harvard.edu/publications/what-money-cant-buy-moral-limits-markets

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Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02170-w

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Article URL: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025/4/23/pittsburghs-low-cost-traffic-calming-is-a-model-for-every-city

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