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ed_

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About ed_

Director at https://hypericon.co.uk

Current project: https://kitted.site

Email: ed [at] hypericon.co.uk

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48644279

    I had the same idea as well! https://puzzleparlour.co.uk/ There are still a couple of bugs to iron out, but people seem to like the original Gravity Words game.

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    Comment #47774338

    I agree about Obsidian Sync, I'm a happy user. A distinction worth making is between "self-hosting" (running docker-compose, Proxmox, etc.) and "local-first software" (applications…

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    Comment #47749287

    Thank you! Kitted doesn't actually try to tackle syncing, it just allows users to connect over the local network, serving the same web client as the electron app. All the data's st…

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    Comment #47744611

    I'm working on a local desktop app for inventory and production management: https://kitted.site It includes bill of materials, purchase/production orders, "can I make n?", stock ta…

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    Show HN: Kitted: Local inventory and production management for small businesses

    I started building this for my dad to help track stock for his small manufacturing business, including reorder levels and answering "can I make x of this?". It's grown to include b…

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    Comment #37132507

    Mithril.js, for both work and personal projects. There hasn't been a major release since I started using it ~4 years ago, which is lovely in the otherwise churning sea of frontend …

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    Comment #36612928

    That sounds really interesting. I'm afraid we're not looking for interns immediately, but the next phase of the project will require more people and square-footage. My email's in m…

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    Comment #36612907

    We did look at the idea of letting people arbitrarily arrange a string of LEDs then somehow map the sub-models to the new positions (which LEDs are "left eye open", which are "mout…

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    Comment #36604105

    We're working on "life support systems" for algae photobioreactors. This includes monitoring the health of the algae, monitoring and controlling the environment to optimise algae g…

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    Comment #35999420

    I wanted a simple chat history and rudimentary web searches in the terminal, so I wrote my own [0] (bring your own OpenAI API key). It was a very novel experience writing the API f…

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    Comment #33864810

    We're not out to compete directly with WLED, we think it's great. We wanted more control over the subsections of the connected LED string than WLED provides with its "segments" fea…

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    Comment #33863984

    Thank you! We are working on adding E1.31, using ethernet over USB (CDC NCM). We don't have it finished yet, but we hope it will just be a firmware update once it is. Dmxsun ( http…

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    Show HN: Mini Christmas Trees with addressable LEDs and RP2040-based controller

    Hello HN, these Mini Trees have a custom circuit board with WS2812 addressable LEDs on one side and a controller using an RP2040 microcontroller on the other, all inside a CNC'd Fo…

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    Comment #5596766

    Very interesting, guys. The peer-reviewing's a great idea.