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Thank you - it's encouraging to get this feedback! Please let me know if you've got feedback or something you'd like to see.

A small thing I've been building as an antidote to doomscrolling. Open a new tab and see a public domain artwork from a real museum: https://toregard.art Mostly I wanted more art a…

Neon, the Vercel recommended database storage integration, doesn't use the sensitive option for the environment variables it manages including the database connection string/passwo…

I built a cooking timer that solves the mental arithmetic of roasting multiple things at once. Pick chicken legs, sweet potato, green beans, etc and it'll give you a simple plan te…

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Self plug but I used WebGL and the texture technique to build: https://www.doorsofdelirium.com/ Click on Random a few times to get a flavour. Uses the GOL concept as a brush to spa…

I like Carlin. I like the joke. The problem is we're taking a huge number of species with us. That is after all what makes Earth special compared to any other barren rock.

Adding to this: > By the time I'm down in the weeds I've forgotten what I'm doing, what the purpose of the actual API call is. If I can craft tests up front in terms of the higher …

My ode to Game of Life as an interactive Spotify music visualisation app. Started out with pixel putting on canvas, ended with learning WebGL GLSL.

A Confederacy of Dunces is amazing. It’s in my top 5. Not in the same vein but I read Flowers for Algernon for the first time as an adult and it really touched my soul.

This new wave of social investment platforms is really exciting. Stocktwits is just noise. I'm still shocked Twitter hasn't capitalized on cashtags by at least showing market data.…

If you're in to the space race, don't miss Public Service Broadcasting - Race for Space album. They have an epic track for Gagarin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY-kAnvOY80 The …

Surely you're joking, Mr ambivalents!

I just submitted a Twitter support request to figure that out myself :)

Thanks for trying it! So unfortunately I can't launch an extension popup over top of the checkout, it's just not in the browser extension APIs AFAIK. One alternative was to inject …

I hear hardware startups are hard.

The extension also shows you a random but helpful prompt to reflect on the nature of consumerism and happiness. Maybe it won't help everyone, but I hope that it reaches some.

Thanks for your response. The extension itself won't solve global overconsumption, poverty or climate change in the same way that any one individual won't. I do believe that by bei…

That is actually where I was going to start. Tracking the CO2 output for the production of millions of individual items across the internet is hard but I believe there are some ser…

It does not except in a single case. All the data is stored locally in the browser extension storage otherwise. As part of the onboarding flow you can choose to anonymously submit …

This is an interesting idea. If people know they should not buy a trashy set of knives that they'll throw away in a year that would indeed reduce consumption. I'll think more on th…

I'm stoked you connect with the idea. Feel free to reach out with any feedback.

It also shows you a random but helpful prompt to reflect on the nature of consumerism and happiness. Maybe they'll decide to not buy all 3. Not guaranteed to save everyone or anyon…

Haha, I love this - yeah there's lots of incentives available so maybe I allow the user to select which types of metrics are most meaningful to them. This is going on the list for …