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Post by googlryas »

feiss wrote: post #202
googlryas wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The odds seem higher for that if using a computer like OP describes rather than a traditional ipad loaded with games

haha :D

Sorry, I'm not sure if that came off as an insult("the kid won't use that computer"), but just that the kid will probably use the computer to the extent that it is useful or interesting to her, and have an easier time putting it aside, which is different from traditional computing these days where everything is designed to suck you in regardless of what your interests are.

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Post by josephg »

networkimprov wrote: post #172
josephg wrote: post #102

I'm sick of having to decide between using cloud software and using local software. Cloud software so often needs subscriptions, and if the company dies I lose access to my data. Local software isn't collaborative. I don't want to email files around to myself, or think about versions. So I'm building a software platform for local first applications on top of CRDTs. Its called Replica, though we haven't talked much ab…

What's your opinion of Etherpad? Does their roadmap overlap with your vision?

Unless I’m missing something, Etherpad is just for text editing. Not arbitrary application data like we’re working on. And each etherpad document lives on a centralised server. At least, that was true when I worked with the original etherpad devs in 2011. I can’t find a roadmap for 2023.

Replica will work with native apps first. Data will be local to your devices. Servers are necessary for peer discovery, sync and delivery. But you can still make changes offline and sync later. Or ideally, sync directly between your devices over a local network.

Think about it like GitHub. You can use their website, but the data itself (in git) is cloned onto your local computer - and you can replicate it to other devices however you like. The model for replica will be similar: We’ll run an official website to use for replication, backup and discovery. But your data is, and always will be your own.

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Post by ababaian »

I'm a developer for the OSS Serratus project, https://www.serrartus.io where we have a web-portal used to explore where RNA viruses show up in public sequencing datasets (we've analyzed ~21 petabytes of sequencing data to make this dataset). There's lots of rich meta-data associated with these RNA sequencing datasets, so what I'm trying to do is create meaningful meta-data aggregation and associate them with different types of viruses to make a sort of procedural generated encyclopedia of RNA viruses. Be less biased by what scientists expect to see, and focus more on what is actually observed for virus biology and epidemiology. I've built a little proof of concept called `palmID` (www.serratus.io/palmid) but I think there's lots more to be done to make this really shine.

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Post by scoofy »

Same as last year: http://golfcourse.wiki

Launched last year to a really supportive subreddit. Currently working on a very light weight way to use the existing data in the wiki to operate tournaments for clubs on the very cheap (the entire point of the site is to support blue-collar/municipal clubs), which should incentivize adoption with the exact audience I'm targeting.

Have recently created some instructional videos for golfers unfamiliar with .svg graphics, to be able to map their own course in an editable way, with an extremely light weight filetype: https://www.youtube.com/@golfcoursewiki2140

Do need to work on differentiating image blobs vs svg and improve blob storage, but I'm quite happy with where I'm at.

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Post by jongjong »

I'll be working on refining my pitch about how bad everything is and why the system needs to change... And posting that into the void where nobody will ever read it due to big tech algorithm censorship... While working a day job which allows me to profit from the root of all system flaws which I keep complaining about because it's the only one I could find which pays the bills... A kind of forced hypocrisy.

Happy new year.

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Post by paulclinger »

AlexErrant wrote: post #246
paulclinger wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My goal is similar to Joseph's (a platform for local first applications using CRDTs), but the approach is slightly different, as I'm building it based on SQLite synchronization using its session extension ( https://www.sqlite.org/sessionintro.html ) as the encoding mechanism. I plan to incorporate this sync functionality into my web framework ( https://github.com/pkulchenko/fullmoon ) to allow any application built w…

cr-sqlite is a similar project on SQLite, but it's a standalone extension without a web framework. https://github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite/

Indeed. Matt (the author of cr-sqlite) and I have discussed the differences and similarities in our approaches. cr-sqlite is based on triggers, which allows all the code to be encapsulated in the DB (although the network layer is still needed to send/receive patches); my approach provides tight integration with the rest of the fullmoon framework relying on its network support and message processing.

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Post by johnohara »

mylons wrote: post #232
johnohara wrote: post #82

Python, Rich, and Textual. The current state of development is very interesting, especially with embedded projects (bbone, rpi, jetson nano, odroid, etc.).

what does rich and textual mean ?

Both are python libraries written by Will McGugan, designed to bring stylized text formatting to terminals and consoles.

https://github.com/Textualize/rich

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Post by cameron_b »

user_named wrote: post #21

I'm hosting one dinner party per month at my place

I'm going to piggyback on this, as my wife and I were just talking about making Fridays "Pizza Night" at our house. We love cooking together, and we've got a long-running-but-stale love of making sourdough pizza from scratch and doing it all up with the kids. It's intense, but scales reasonably as long as you get a head-count a few days out. We're so looking forward to sitting down with friends around our table again.
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