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Re: Ask HN: What are you building this weekend?

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Post by mindcrime »

tailspin2019 wrote: post #14
mindcrime wrote: post #7

At least part of what I'll be doing is migrating a bunch of infrastructure from Linode to OVH. Depending on how that goes, I may spend some time on other stuff. One thing I am hoping to find some time to work on is a tool for helping me manage my huge collection of e-books. The basic idea is a sort of combination file-indexer / search engine, and a note-taking app. But with some very specific functionality designed a…

I’ve never used Linode or OVH (I’m mainly using DigitalOcean) - interested to hear why you’re moving from Linode and why you chose OVH?

Price, mainly. At the point when I decided to switch, OVH simply offered more "bang for the buck" than Linode.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building this weekend?

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Post by andrewstuart »

I spent about a year and a half building a SAAS project - very sophisticated, lots of moving parts.

About 18 months ago I realised I was building a solution without a problem - I was building something technically cool that I could not work out a business model for. So I dropped it.

Recently I think I've worked out the business model. So now I'm trying to get the damn thing running again - it's got many interacting servers and bits and pieces so trying to get it all to work again is a challenge.

Fortunately I tend to write reasonably good notes that would be unintelligible to anyone else but make alot of sense to me, and these are helping me get it going.

Also I wrote ALOT of build and config scripts, without which the task would be impossible.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building this weekend?

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Post by jjice »

akeck wrote: post #22

A handwritten condolence letter.

People (including myself) really liking getting hand written letters these days. For birthdays, I've been exclusively mailing letter to family and friends. I've never heard that many positive things about a card before.

I wrote one for father's day for my dad and it took me a while to get though because I started to cry with tears of appreciation. Writing that kind of stuff out really makes you feel it.

I'm sure condolence letters are the same. I'm sure they'll appreciate it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building this weekend?

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Post by rssoconnor »

mrfusion wrote: post #25
rssoconnor wrote: post #24

My https://frame.work/ laptop arrived today, so I will be doing the final assembly and installing nixos on it.

That looks so cool. What’s the thought process in buying one?

My personal laptop has been an Acer-C710 Chromebook for some time now. I bought it because it was inexpensive, upgradable, clearly could run linux, had an Intel (specifically non-ARM) CPU which meant that I could use nixos's binary cache for programs (non-ARM is probably somewhat less problematic today than it was in 2013). I went through several layers of rooting my Chromebook, eventually replacing the BIOS. I upgraded the RAM and (this year) replaced the HD with an SSD.

But my laptop is getting old. The bezel is cracked and the screen cable seems ... ungrounded? Black isn't quite black. Still, I have been hesitant to upgrade to modern, non-upgradable laptops. But a few months ago Graham Christensen posted about running nixos on the frame.work https://grahamc.com/blog/nixos-on-framework>. And then this guy also seems pretty excited https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rkTgPt3M4k>.

Unlike the Acer Chromebook, the frame.work laptop is not cheap. However, I'm no longer a post-doc and I am in a fortunate position that I can afford to splurge a little. So, ignoring the sunken cost of my recent SDD purchase, I decided to go ahead an place an order back at the beginning of August. The cheaper processor I ordered was shipping in October, and here we are in October.

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