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Is it NYC [0] is a tiny project that interrelates global neighborhoods by their latent-space proximity to the lingua franca of urban vibes: NYC neighborhoods. "Nob Hill is Upper Ea…

i made something like this as a hackathon project years ago, but it's _slightly_ more usable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ1KNP_R76c https://github.com/shrugs/asdfghjkl

we're (re-)building a platform for virtual art fairs in the wake of coronavirus — most fairs and galleries are cancelling or postponing events that will work super well online. We'…

this is great! i never used calendly et al because it felt like a little too much, you know? i want a super fast way to grab text for the next 3 days, maybe an alfred shortcut or a…

very awesome tech + privacy combo Since fraud detection is done on-device, is there any clever encryption or security features that stop me from issuing a direct API request to the…

I second the references to "Mastering Bitcoin", and also add my blog post "Getting up to Speed on Ethereum" [1] that takes you from "I kinda understand bitcoin" to "I understand et…

1000 uniques/month on average, not including when I post the site on hacker news. The clickthrough/conversion rate is pretty solid. 35% of users buy something after clicking throug…

I have, but the API differs in availability/completeness across regions and writing the code to handle each region probably isn't worth the time. The Product Advertising API is als…

I made http://fivestar.io/ a year or two ago; it's a better Amazon search. It shines when you search for something that you want the best version of, without caring about the detai…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW1U93sXXz4

I'd also back dokku for small side projects. I have 4 small slack bots installed on my reserved t2micro instance and I'm pretty happy with it.

There's also Comedy Hack Day [1], my personal favorite hackathon(s) of all time. I've been to 4 so far and have flown across the country just to participate over and over again. [1…

Jazz Hands[1] has been a staple for my iOS app onboarding flows, super happy to see I can start doing the same on Android. [1] https://github.com/IFTTT/JazzHands

I went to Slidell High; the other Google intern went to Northshore. And now one more from Slidell. I love how the internet brought us all together even though we were previously so…

Slidell. I went to school at LaTech for a year and a half. I I recently found a fellow Google intern who's from Slidell as well, but we'd never met previously because we went to ri…

I interned at Grooveshark two summers ago; Josh incredibly changed my life for the better. The Summer with the Sharks program was transformative and catapulted me out of Louisiana …

Looks like a classic Stack Snowverflow error to me.