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  • Alternatively, download Organic Maps and contribute to OpenStreeMaps and help make the best alternative even better.

    From their page:

    • Detailed offline maps with places that don’t exist on other maps, thanks to OpenStreetMap
    • Cycling routes, hiking trails, and walking paths
    • Contour lines, elevation profiles, peaks, and slopes
    • Turn-by-turn walking, cycling, and car navigation with voice guidance and Android Auto
    • Fast offline search on the map
    • Export/import bookmarks in KML/KMZ, import GPX
    • Dark Mode to protect your eyes
    • Countries and regions don’t take a lot of space
    • Free and open-source





  • Sure, but it’s worth asking why the management is so poor

    Could just be incompetence.

    Working in a bigger corp and seeing people continuously fail upwards or get hired into positions where they run around like headless chickens - sometimes the reason is leadership putting people in the wrong role and not holding them accountable because its easy to “fudge metrics” and believe things are going well.

    The strategy I’ve seen far too often:

    • Deliver a half-working project that is bursting at the seams and requires more work and resources (or introduces a technical debt that most people can’t even begin to comprehend).
    • Leadership declares it a success because a long enough train wreck takes time to be noticed when you’re near the end of the tracks and the people at the front lines are doing everything they can to avoid it.
    • Find a new job before the shit hits the fan (typically hold off until your RSU’s fully vest) and talk about how you implemented X while saving company Y and how successful it was.
    • Leave the place worse off than before.
    • The project/implementation starts showing signs of failure and leadership blames others (because the guy who implemented things is now gone and he did things so well how could it possibly be their fault?)

    Too often I’ve seen meetings between management not even understanding what their “core issues” are. How do you even make a business better if you don’t even understand your pain points?

    It’s both fascinating and scary.




  • that’s interesting. I had found it fast initially when it was first released. I didn’t use it often but when I finally stared using Matrix more often I was bouncing between both and Element X was significantly slower than normal Element so I decided to uninstall just a few weeks ago. I had even tried un/reinstalling to see if it would fix it, but it didn’t. Much happier with it now.



  • I had just uninstalled Element X like two weeks ago because I found it to under perform compared to the normal Element client on Android, in addition to lacking some features. I guess I’ll give it another shot.

    Update: WOW this thing feels lightning fast compared to just a few weeks ago. This is great. Not sure about feature completeness, but based on speed I think I’ll migrate Element > Element X again. Great job to the team!





  • Notesnook.

    I was previously using Obsidian, which is great! but didn’t like that it was closed source. I then went on to try various options [0] but none of them felt “right”. I eventually found notesnook and it hit everything I was looking for [1]. It’s only gotten better in the last year I started using it and just recently they introduced the ability to host your own sync server, which is one of the requirements it didn’t initially make, but was on their roadmap.

    [0] Obsidian, Standard Notes, OneDrive, VSCode with addons, Joplin, Google Keep, Simple Notes, Crypt.ee, CryptPad (more of a collabroation suite, which I actually really like, but it did not fit the bill of a notes app), vim with addons, Logseq, Zettlr, etc.

    [1] Requirements in no particular order:

    • Open source client and server.
    • Cross-platform availability as I use Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android.
    • Cross-platform feature parity.
    • Doesn’t fight me over how notes should be taken - looking at Logseq’s lack of organization.
    • Easy notes syncing.
    • End-to-end encryption (E2EE). It’s about to be 2025, if the tools you’re picking up aren’t E2EE, you’re letting unknown strangers access your data and resell it. It doesn’t matter what their privacy policy says as that can always change and/or they can get compromised/compelled to expose your data.
    • Ability to publish notes.
    • Decent UX.























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