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Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by adavid17 »

greenie_beans wrote: post #216
adavid17 wrote: post #199

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Do you mind sharing a link? Wrote a python script to do the same thing for myself

there's not much to see except a google form for signups and gumroad link for payment. it only has glacier national park configured right now. the notification system is a github action that runs constantly, scraping the api that makes the reservation.gov permits, and then checking if any of the subscription notifications have changed. the sign up is a google form that triggers a zapier and adds the new notification…

Nice! Wish I could use it - but I'm checking for available wilderness permits not campground permits (in Yosemite to hopefully hike the John Muir Trail this summer)

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by webspinner »

imadj wrote: post #82

I made HNRelevant, a web extension for HN ( https://github.com/imdj/HNRelevant ). It shows related discussions for each submission page. Many times, I found myself intrigued by interesting discussions which left me hungry for more and I'd go down a rabbit hole, or maybe it was promising but didn't get enough attention and I'd need to check if there were any related discussions in the past about the same subject. I fo…

I just installed HN relevant. It works pretty well!

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Post by KiranRao0 »

jraph wrote: post #83
KiranRao0 wrote: post #70

My grandmother's primary method of communication is a cheap Android tablet. It unfortunately includes a preinstalled SMS app that upsells a VoIP SMS service. My grandmother gets extremely frustrated by accidently clicking the message icon and opening an upsell page. There's no way to uninstall the VoIP app. So instead of giving up and buying a new tablet or paying for an unnecessary service, I hacked together a way t…

Deactivating the app was impossible too? You can often do that with preinstalled Android junk which is installed on the system partition. Another often possible solution is installing Lineage.

Unfortunately, deactivating wasn't allowed (or at least wasn't easy) by the OEM's ROM. There may be an adb command, but it wasn't worth the effort.

I considered a custom ROM, but:

* My grandmother is averse to all change

* Transferring stuff (apps, settings, pictures) over would have been a pain

* It's a lot easier to support a single utility app than support an entire OS

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Post by bob88jg »

dagw wrote: post #228
Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #227

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In the UK they're called Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. It's what's at the very heart of the 15 minute city controversy. Why would people complain about being able to walk to where they need to go? It's obviously being cut off from the places that they aren't able to walk to that people have a problem with. Deflecting from one by pretending it's about the other is a clear sign of bad faith.

Low traffic neighbourhoods and 15 minute cities are entirely different concepts, trying to solve different problems and that have very little to do with each other. You can easily have one without the other. Deflecting from one by pretending it's about the other is a clear sign of bad faith You know I kind of agree with you about this.

Exactly this! It all boils down to people being pissed that their car journey in London takes longer than it used to - nobody is actually being blocked from getting anywhere just their route is being changed - somehow this has been wrapped up in the 15 minute conspiracy...

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by bob88jg »

Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #227
dagw wrote: post #225

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license plate readers or physical barricades as a band-aid What does any of that have to do with 15 minute cities?

In the UK they're called Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. It's what's at the very heart of the 15 minute city controversy. Why would people complain about being able to walk to where they need to go? It's obviously being cut off from the places that they aren't able to walk to that people have a problem with. Deflecting from one by pretending it's about the other is a clear sign of bad faith.

Nobody is being cut off from anywhere - their route is being made longer in order to avoid residential areas - their journeys would be quicker if they walked they just don't want to...and that is the point highly polluting journeys are being disincentivised...if you absolutely must drive then you need to set off earlier this isn't an attack on people's civil liberties you have no right to drive somewhere..

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Post by jawns »

geofffox wrote: post #205
jawns wrote: post #16

It was called "Take Me Warmer." Basically, you entered in your ZIP code and a desired temperature, and it told you the closest ZIP whose forecasted high for the day was at least that temperature. So, if you were in NYC in January and wanted to find out the closest location that was at least 72 degrees, it would spit out locations that met that criteria. (There was also a companion app, "Take Me Cooler," that did the…

I'm a meteorologist. Feel like sharing?

The sands of time have not been good to my poor Facebook app.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by digitalmaster »

We have a WhatsApp group where we share music recommendations with each other. It's grown quite a bit now and it's gotten hard to keep up. Also new members missed everything that came before. So I set out to solve this problem and have some fun last week.

I decided to write a shell script that does the following: - Parses chat export file and extracts all the Spotify URLs. - Removes duplicates - Authenticates w/ Spotify API - Fetches Ids of tracks already in playlist - Creates a difference list of missing tracks - Adds those to the playlist

And that's that.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by digitalmaster »

digitalmaster wrote: post #237

We have a WhatsApp group where we share music recommendations with each other. It's grown quite a bit now and it's gotten hard to keep up. Also new members missed everything that came before. So I set out to solve this problem and have some fun last week. I decided to write a shell script that does the following: - Parses chat export file and extracts all the Spotify URLs. - Removes duplicates - Authenticates w/ Spot…

Script is here bdw: https://github.com/digitalmaster/WhatsApp-Group-Playlist-Gen...

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by _daver »

remipch wrote: post #44

A minimalist MP3 player for my grandmother. The whole user interface is a single physical button on her desk : - ON : indefinitely play all MP3 files randomly - OFF : stop playing The longest task was to find her favourite pieces of music from my aunts and uncles. https://github.com/remipch/radio_colette

What did you do for the enclosure/button?
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