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bertwagner

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About bertwagner

I blog about data and programming at https://bertwagner.com .

I also run a YouTube channel on the same topics: https://youtube.com/DataWithBert

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    Show HN: I made a pulsing conductor's baton

    Hey HN. I've spent the last few months building this vibrating metronome that fits in the handle of a music conductor's baton. While I'm proud of this first version, I have lots of…

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    At first I thought this was only a list of night time objects to view, but then I saw the site has an extensive tools section. One of those tools is a Bahtinov Mask, which I’ve nev…

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    I'm interested to see which companies and industries are willing to put ChatGPT between them and their customers, and how many will strongly push back against this feature.

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    Some context around what this is might be helpful.

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    Thank you and I'm glad you enjoy the project. I'll have to look more into UDP for this type of solution.

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    Thanks for letting me know, I will have to fix this soon. This was the first post as part of a new blogging setup I'm using and clearly I'm missing some of my old processes (like i…

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    D'oh. Thank you for letting me know. All fixed now. Hopefully "exploded button" wasn't too misleading (more of an exploded view of the design).

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    Author here. Thanks for reading. This was a massive learning project for me, I'm happy to answer questions or feedback.

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    Thanks for sharing, I will give this a try today. What is the rationale for requiring the app to be open and leaving the screen on (draining battery)? Was this a technical limitati…

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    Fun game, reminds me of the numbers round of Countdown. I would love to be able to use keyboard shortcuts instead of having to click.

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    I get the desire for menu personalization to get customers to buy more, but many of these other solutions seem to be jamming AI into non-AI problems: Other tech initiatives Dine Br…

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    I've never thought of using a smart plug button as a switch to run a script - pretty neat idea I might use for some other projects. I hope you have more luck than me with sticking …

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