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Hey all - I recently finished my mini PC build which uses custom SD card based cartridges. It's all open-source[1] and should be relatively used to recreate if you're interested! […

Hey all - this is the software part of my cyberdeck, called the Slimedeck Zero. The Slimedeck Zero is based around this somewhat esoteric device called the PicoVision which is a su…

Great write up, will be curious to see if Astro sticks around. It seems like all the static site gens last a few years then fade away - Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, etc.

This feels right, I can’t think of any consumer product where AI is providing value today. I assume, like me, most consumers have been saturated with AI, tried it a few times, and …

It actually never jammed I was just afraid that it would! It's just a generic micro servo, I think from Adafruit probably.

Haha yes, I'm still not used to people knowing so much about my projects, thank you for watching!

It was the AMOLEN Color Change PLA. Sadly I just took a quick look and don’t see it available anymore, but I might be missing it.

Oh hey that’s my Floppy8! Never woken up to find my stuff on HN before! So cool! I actually just released a video earlier this week about the progression of my SD card based cartri…

Bit of self promotion, but I do a lot of these types of tinkery projects (slightly less technical, but adjacent) on my channel "abe's projects"[1] [1] https://youtube.com/@abetoday…

Fun fact about Hanafuda - you can still buy Hanafuda cards from a specific Japanese manufacturer who has been printing them for over 100 years and the more fun part is that that ma…

There definitely are but, perhaps by definition, items soft enough to dampen sound are often easily damaged so they aren’t great fits for most commercial locations. They are also o…

This is a really good discussion of density in different forms. I’ve always thought mobile UIs could have a density renaissance, would love to see folks questioning some assumption…

This is the unspoken secret of all these mods. They’re built to be built, not played, so if there are subtle instabilities introduced which may impact practical gameplay they will …

To the same end, when you hire human beings anticipate them standing up for what they believe in and occasionally inconveniencing your immoral business practices. Humans on both si…

The thing with masterpieces is that they don’t hold that status because they can’t be replicated, they hold it because they were novel, innovative, and unrivaled at the time of the…

I never understand why people consume content like this accelerated. For me, I feel like if I felt the need to rush through something then it’s not worth consuming at all.

Firebase does that, the problem is "warning them" isn't as simple as it sounds. Developers ignore automated emails and they rarely if ever open the dashboard. Figuring out how to c…

Writing directly to Firebase is rarely done past the MVP stage. Normally it's the reading which is done directly from the client. Generally writes are bounced through Cloud Functio…

Generally agreed on improved audit logs of some formed helping. Re training materials, this is one of the mitigations we launched to attempt to pull security to front of mind. I do…

One of the things we fought for, for years after acquisition was to maintain a qualified staff of fulltime, highly paid support people who are capable of identifying and escalating…

I worked at Firebase for many years and the concerns with security rules have always plagued the product. We tried a lot of approaches (self expiring default rules, more education,…