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eg312

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About eg312

contact: alex at eg312 dot com

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    Comment #49233947

    An interactive compound-interest explainer, based on The Compound Effect book https://github.com/alexadam/compound-effect Added more widgets to Printable Mockups https://github.com…

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    Comment #48889851

    With the help of AI & LLMs I restarted working on some of my older side projects. I updated the code and did a landing page for Printable Mockups (a free, open-source drag-and-drop…

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    Comment #48767365

    Nice work! I’ve built something… similar: https://github.com/alexadam/printable-mockups & https://www.printablemockups.com It’s free, open source, no backend needed and you can use…

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    Comment #40882875

    Yes, it's inspired by it but I didn't like the fact that all the available options are hidden and I had to search every time I wanted to add something. With my app, you can organiz…

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    Comment #32304791

    I just needed a quick way to write in MD and have 'templates' with parameters to avoid copy/paste/replace, especially when documenting shell commands.

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    Comment #32304538

    That's why I made https://reactivedoc.com/ . You can use it to write interactive documentation in markdown and save it as a simple, self-contained, html+js file. Now I'm working on…

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    Comment #31205561

    I'm working on https://reactivedoc.com/ - it's markdown + some custom widgets, and you can export it as a self-contained html file. I made it to solve my own problems: document com…

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    Comment #30886545

    I needed a way to document my shell scripts (or code snippets) and to quickly replace “parameters”. For example, if you want to download a YT video as mp3, you have to remember thi…

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    Comment #30008051

    Time is money and https://reactivedoc.com/ saves me ~500 minutes/month and I also have a paying user. I made it because I needed a simple, self-hosted tool to create documentation …

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    Comment #25648758

    I'm not targeting printers and I don't want to depend on them. If a user wants to print on demand his notebook, there will be that option (if possible). Also, I'm not targeting con…

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    Great advice! The printing quality & shipping will be a problem and I was thinking to offer the print on demand just as a 'secondary' option, not a feature. Probably it would be mo…

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    Comment #25647431

    Thank you! Unfortunately that mailing list if full of random emails from people who thought they need an account to access the app.

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    Comment #25647188

    I'm working on an app to create custom notebook layouts by drag-and-drop graphical widgets with the option to print on demand the result: https://notebookeditor.com/ I have a lot o…

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    Comment #24007871

    I made an extension to save web pages as eBooks: https://github.com/alexadam/save-as-ebook . You can easily modify it to remove the images (or scale them down) and invoke it automa…

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    Comment #23768251

    Looks cool! Is there a way to export the mesh & the texture?