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Hey HN, I built a PWA to help you brew a great coffee. It's setup for v60 pourovers, AeroPress, drip, and James Hoffman's Iced Coffee recipe. It's got wakelock support and a 'mocha…

If you'd like to do something similar, but for your blog (or any website really) -- I wrote an app that produces segmented videos in both Instagram Story / square aspect ratios. It…

Tangentially related => I used ffmpeg + puppeteer to build StoryScroll https://neal.rs/app , which turns blog posts into scrolling videos for social media. I also used to build a d…

Nothing other than anecdata. My audience has reacted positively to StoryScrolls. I've made a some app sales. People have asked me to share the app with them. IMO, it's a lot easier…

I built this because i wanted to make my career advice blog https://nealshyam.com/advice more engaging on social and realized, why even both with clicks? You can't post links on In…

I believe we've known about plastic bags at the bottom of the Mariana Trench since [1998]( http://www.godac.jamstec.go.jp/catalog/dsdebris/metadataDisp... )

There are lot of threads on HN & other resources to help the best work environments for developers , but what about Product Managers? How do you identify companies which support & …

Ignoring the actual shape/design - they went from 11 colors to 4 (+1 if you consider the text itself). This isn't much of an improvement because printing any swag/tshirts will requ…

SpokenLayer | Software Engineers | Full Time | New York City | ONSITE | US $120k-$150k | https://angel.co/spokenlayer/jobs SpokenLayer is hiring full-time software engineers in New…

SpokenLayer | New York, NY | Software Engineer | Full-time, permanent | https://angel.co/spokenlayer/jobs/445274-senior-back-end-dev... SpokenLayer works with premier content partn…

Oh wow. I feel like I just asked the reverse of this question 3 min after you posted this. I was a mechE at Caterpillar for 4 years before I decided that my position was a local ma…

Context: I'm a former mechE (engine component design / test / mfg) who went to b-school and got into marketing (ad-tech and later developer marketing) who wants to switch to Produc…

Hey yall - I built an Alexa Skill that says your wifi network ssid & password when you invoke it "Alexa, open Home WiFi" - It uses account linking & Login with Amazon, so no need t…