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I created a site as a poetry project that generates random poems from sentences in Craigslist Missed Connections. Some of the poems are actually really poignant and funny. https://craigslistpoetry.com https://twitter.com/craigslistpoems
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Thanks, that was the intent :) Kids say a lot of great stuff, and it's often just forgotten. I'll add a json export so users can save off at some point.
A week after my son found out Michael Jackson had died. He loves Michael Jackson. - Dad. Is Michael Jackson dead? - Yes... (Unsure if this will cause a meltdown) - That's OK. - It is? - Yep. There's two. Which one is dead? - How do you mean? - The white or the brown one?
100 Million Books -- mission is to promote intellectual diversity. It's a Chrome extension/homepage that shows you a new book every time you open a new tab, plus a special hand-picked idea that teaches you a new perspective/fact/concept. I'm evaluating a couple different paths to make it profitable, but it's not currently making anything since Amazon cut me off its affiliate program. http://www.100millionbooks.org
I was surprised how many different types of prime numbers exist. So I am building - https://prime-numbers.info - to find out which one belongs to most of them. Current winner is 5 - https://prime-numbers.info/number/5 - but still lot of types is missing.
https://gigalixir.com After falling in love with Elixir, Phoenix, Ecto, etc I built this to help increase Elixir adoption by solving the biggest pain point I saw: deploying.
We have developed our own modular solar electric grid...that powers the whole camp...trying to prototype carbon neutral living...it's a lot of work...and a lot of fun :)
The reason I'm asking this question is because I realized something recently. I've been a programmer all my life. I used to love programming in Delphi, VB :P, Perl, PHP, Javascript, etc since school. I created all sorts of stupid things like Winamp plugins[1], Graphics software[2], Games, etc. It was programming just because i liked making the computer do things for me. But then somewhere along the line my projects s…
Every month I save enough for living at least 3 months (4.5k USD ) without working which is quite good, but on the other hand, I don't like what I do. It's tough to quit when you know other people are struggling to pay for basic needs in other areas.
I guess my plan is to keep saving and at some point next year ( when I get around 2-3 years worth of expenses) do something about it.
Anyways, at the moment my hobbies keep me going. That's my advice, a hobbie.