It's not a fancy dashboard, but has the most granular and up-to-date info that I've seen specifically for chips and electronics so far.

- https://old.reddit.com/r/ECE/

- https://old.reddit.com/r/AskElectronics/

- https://old.reddit.com/r/embedded/

The EE/ME equivalent of what you're talking about for SWEs is not "work on button for a car cockpit or something" -- it's hardware/software/enclosures for things like space-hardened applications and payloads, industrial and commercial applications, or medical devices. Some of these are hellishly complex systems, others are just hellishly out of date, over-budget, poorly documented, and "shitty third-party [i.e. lowest-bidding contractor] services".

If you want to tell an EE or ME to just go work on buttons for a car cockpit, you might as well go tell an SWE that they can just go write AJAX calls to update HTML elements on a page, or update Wordpress plugins for businesses.

The electrical and mechanical engineering fields have far advanced past "button for a car cockpit" into much more complex domains, just like SWE has advanced far past writing vanilla JS to update HTML elements into things like JS frameworks, containers, (P/I/S)aaS.

I'd like to offer my own anecdote, as a completely secular person whose lifestyle would probably invite condemnation, if not horror, from e.g. LDS. I won't describe exactly why they might feel that way, but let it suffice to say that I have spent non-trivial time around people who have done what some call victimless crimes, among other and more legal behaviors.

I find that I feel better emotionally and perform better professionally (and academically, when I was in school) when I refrain completely from this vice. I also find that I have much less intrusive thoughts of the sexual variety, especially at inappropriate times about inappropriate people.

I understand your concern that pseudoscientific and/or religious groups might be exerting this influence. I just wanted to give an example of the opposite.

See these videos [0] [1] where people in the gaming community (which in my experience is very often agnostic, if not atheist) have essentially a group coaching session with a psychologist for their undesired relationships to porn. Very rarely do they mention religion, but quite often do they mention emotional distress, life difficulties, social struggles, and difficulty stopping a behavior they find distressing. Whether or not it's an "addiction" (and scientific discussions related to the debate) I find irrelevant -- they personally wish they could stop and have trouble doing so.

I appreciate your efforts to, as I perceive it, point out potential sources of bias or misinformation. I just wanted to offer a totally secular view of the benefit of and reason why an app like this might have funding and a market.

[0] https://youtu.be/e1ndqAkiQZo

[1] https://youtu.be/lUVeUSIlQiI

Edit: here's the description from their repo

"ArchiveBox is a powerful, self-hosted internet archiving solution to collect, save, and view sites you want to preserve offline.

You can set it up as a command-line tool, web app, and desktop app (alpha), on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

You can feed it URLs one at a time, or schedule regular imports from browser bookmarks or history, feeds like RSS, bookmark services like Pocket/Pinboard, and more. See input formats for a full list.

It saves snapshots of the URLs you feed it in several formats: HTML, PDF, PNG screenshots, WARC, and more out-of-the-box, with a wide variety of content extracted and preserved automatically (article text, audio/video, git repos, etc.). See output formats for a full list."

As a sibling comment noted, a BOM might be $X compared to buying premade packages from Adafruit/Sparkfun at $X0. But paying $X0 means skipping over $X00 worth (or even $X,000) of schematic capture, board layout, design review, PCB fab, assembly, bringup, and fixing bugs.

*I have a plugin called Markdown Paste[0] to use a keystroke combo to save an image from the clipboard into a designated subfolder and insert the corresponding Markdown underneath my cursor. But it's nothing that can't be done by manually saving an image into a folder and typing the corresponding Markdown by hand

[0]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=telesoho...

[0]: https://privnote.com [1]: https://privnote.com/info/privacy

I feel confident that I could look up a few articles and self-host Bitwarden on either my raspberry pi at home. If not at home, then I might pay for a DO droplet or something, and at $5/mo that's back to $60/yr already, might as well just pay and have the whole thing taken care of for me, besides downloading an app and logging in. That's assuming I have the technical familiarity. If I don't even have that, I'm probably not likely to care or even know if my tool is proprietary or open source.

SFTP access, file upload, very cheap pay-as-you-go (traffic spikes will hit the $0 floor and stop incurring charges), email/password login.

They do not provide a static IP but do attempt to cover the seemingly most-common case where clients request it: "The most common reason people request a static IP address is to point external DNS at a site hosted with us. As part of our hosting service, we provide our own special DNS records for each site that you can link to external DNS using the CNAME capability that work even better than static IPs. These records preserve full fault tolerance and load balancing."