I really like the simplicity of the ui. I’m curious what makes it immature vs mature in your opinion?

There are options missing from the admin panel or the dashboards that intuitively seem basic. Some examples: - excluding certain data from your report (such as localhost visits) - setting a default time range - on the 'overview' of all your domains, setting a time range that applies to all and not just one domain individually (this particularly felt really counterintuitive)

There is more I'd come up with if I actually pulled it up, but the overall throughline is that it just feels 'too basic' at this moment. Especially for something that goes beyond tracking visits on your personal blog and/or hobby website.

You can exclude your own visits (like localhost visits) by manually setting a localStorage entry on the browser you don't want to report statistics.

https://umami.is/docs/exclude-my-own-visits

>This setting applies per website, so you will need to do this for each website you want to be excluded from.

Would it not be better to just have a blacklist it could ignore localhost and whatnot?

Thank you excluding localhost is a feature I didn’t know I needed till your comment. Makes total sense.

One benefit for me was that a vps with 2vcors and 2-4gig of ram is about the same price as one of these app engine services. So I can run 3 or 4 dokku apps including Postgres, redis, memcache connected to them on my own vps and still have margin when inspiration strikes. I moved a production app from heroku to dokku and saved hundreds a month and still got tons and tons more compute.

I picked up a used 7 inch “dslr monitor” with hdmi input for about $99 I keep it in a cheap harbor freight pelican style case.

There’s a lot of great answers here. See a doctor. But here’s a tip for memory. Accept you can’t remember stuff and stop trying.

Externalize your memory and put it on other people. Here’s what I mean.

My wife calls and asks me to stop at the store and starts telling me a list of a few things she needs me to pickup. I say “Sure I’m happy to help. Can you txt me the list so I don’t forget? I’ll leave it unread to remember to look at it.”

I then read it and mark it unread. Over the next hours before I go to the store the little notification icon will bug me and I’ll go to read it only to realize it’s the grocery list. And then mark it unread. When I leave I’ll go to the store and look at the list while I get things. Then I double check the list and my cart before I checkout. Same with people I work with. “Sure I can send you that report and you shoot me an email so I don’t forget?” I’ll leave that unread or pinned till I do it.

When someone asks me to remind them of something I say “I’d love to but there’s no way I’ll remember to do that.”

I use kanban / trello to organize my work tasks and make notes immediately because I just accept I won’t remember tomorrow.

Once I started doing these things I have way less anxiety about forgetting. I think people rely on remembering stuff way too much. It’s like keeping your money in a pocket with holes in the bottom.

Bonus: remember names by making a big deal about it. “What’s your name?” I then use it several times. And when I forget then I just ask them “What was your name again?” I say the name that comes to mind when I see them “Your name was John right?” If they say “No it’s Steve” then I say “Ah Steve. I was so close!” And we laugh. Honestly they probably don’t remember my name so this whole schtick helps them too.

Seeing a doctor for a referral to see a psych should be step one here.

But man… time blindness? I’ve recently started using an Apple Watch to set reminders, timers, calendar events, and alarms. Game changer!

Some days I can make over 30 reminders for that day alone, and the cool thing about this is that I can’t forget any items because it’s all externalised.

In contrast, keeping your TODO list internalised is like walking to a room for a specific purpose, not remembering what you needed to do when you got there, or worse do something ELSE in that room but because you’ve achieved something you go back to what you were doing before and only a few hours later when you’re in bed you realise you forgot to do something critical

I think one solution is to help them have your idea and take credit for it. If it’s their idea then they are already convinced it’s a good one. Persistent people can get a lot done when they don’t care about who gets the credit.

That's a very good idea, something that can be tried with some attempts. Thank you very much for sharing.

The killer feature I need is heartbeat so I can make some device send a request every 5 min and if it’s not sent then it is down. Currently using UptimeRobot for this.

Hey mate, I'm using https://healthchecks.io/ for heartbeat monitoring my crons. It's been working flawlessly for quite some time now. The UI is super clean and easy to navigate. It's also free up to 20 monitored jobs. Note - I'm not in any way related to that project.

Thanks for sharing this.

I haven’t used the product but I remember reading about if here on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31488910

Thank you!

You can use also the open-source Uptime Kuma for this (actually for almost everything else what UptimeRobot knows)

https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

I’ve considered using this. Just haven’t got around to it.

+1 for Uptime Kuma

I have been using healthchecks.io for over 4 years and I can vouch for it. Super reliable, I think it might do the job :)

Thanks for sharing!

I think that could also be helpful for ensuring scheduled jobs are running fine. I can see myself wanting this at some point.

It helps for internal servers that don’t have a public ip.

DeadManSnitch works pretty well for that

Apple can want to lock in users and also want to protect users. These are not mutually exclusive incentives.

Eaton is what I use and it is one of the only ones that provide pure sine wave. It’s good stuff.

Well you’re not wrong about Sheetz. Ha

I think it will be a lot of fun to build it and then because you built it you will be highly motivated to use it for a season. Maybe a few weeks. Maybe 6 months, but eventually it will will be boring too.

I find pomodo style gorilla warfare works best for me. I tell myself I will work on the implementation for 15 minutes. If after 15 minutes I am still repelled by this task to the point I am unproductive, then I accept that, make necessary notes and do something else.

I will try again tomorrow. Eventually I hit a point where I have done enough that I am motivated to continue to see it completed.

I will do gorilla attacks on cleaning my office, writing marketing email, inbox zero, implementing some new feature. It works for me for a lot of things.

When I am just unable to do what I’m “supposed” to do then I give myself grace and go do the thing that is consuming my attention at the moment.

This “unproductive” stuff often becomes new ideas, new features, new friends, and brings meaning to my life.