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I've not put a ton of thought into a plan to open source it, but we've got comments from friends who also have a lot of genealogical info that it would be super helpful for their i…

My family has historically been very into genealogy research, so we've got lots of family tree info. I've been working with my aunt to put together a webapp to create/edit info, se…

"Vexing" feels like the wrong adjective here. IMO, terrorism is not a "harumph" situation.

Apps like QRBot [1] have the ability to scan ISBNs (and barcodes generally), and have a "history" feature that keeps track of what you've scanned and lets you export (to CSV, among…

I build a cli music player that can handle both local mp3s and Spotify tracks in the same playlist, because I wanted that. I also recently built a tool to help me keep track of my …

Very interesting. Which client has the book review feature? I haven't yet dipped my toes into Secure Scuttlebutt -- I joined a Mastodon instance once upon a time, but it didn't hol…

Great read! I also hadn't heard of TheStoryGraph before, so double points. I'm also very interested in owning my own data (particularly when it comes to things like book lists) and…

i wouldn't say it's as low as country living, but it's not quite 2k/mo for a 1 bedroom

i mean, it was purposefully acquiring money that didn't exactly belong to me. the Right Thing To Do would have been to report the error and get it corrected, instead of leaving it …

vending machine hacks, although both illegal and immoral, provide an immense source of joy in knowing that you _beat the system_, regardless of what treat may come out. here's my b…

i am very much like you :) "learning" something, i'm finding, is very hard to do outside of a school setting, so i've been trying to think of why that is. what i've found is this: …

nice read! I wonder how much of it is still relevant today (i.e. gc speed in Java, relative superiority of its library, etc.). OCaml is one of those languages that interests me, bu…

i understand your frustration. however, like you said, they're on vacation ; one of the great things about that is you can relax and be yourself, and if you enjoy hollering at foot…

love it. gives me faith that the archaic machines i have serving can still hold their own!

success is not just the sum of the features. offering something that other players have won't bring success, unless you can convince people it is significantly better, and _prove_ …

quite honestly, any of them. all the "big ones" i.e. debian/*buntu, fedora/redhat, etc. will have (nearly) any language's compiler/toolset in their package manager, and therefore j…

i found your article to mean a lot to me, personally, as i saw a lot of the reasons for my past projects abandoned in your analysis. best of luck for the future!

i think this is great. not that he was 13 (though it is impressive), but that he thought enough to challange the typical panel array that we've gotten solar power from in the past.…

Under 5gb, over 2gb. comes from streaming subsonic/pandora at work and on the road. without that, I'd be well below 2gb

i ssh into a server, but i learned about using a local VIM instance to edit remote files yesterday (on HN, of all places) and will be doing it that way from now on. no more need to…

this just proves how fast things can change in our industry. don't be afraid of the criticism, because you never know what will happen in 5 years.