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Post by nunie123 »

A book for setting up data engineering infrastructure on GCP: https://github.com/Nunie123/data_engineering_on_gcp_book

It's almost done, and I do plan to spend a little effort promoting it when it's complete, but it's been a great focus for me even if no one ever reads it.

I use a fair bit of infrastructure at my job that was set up by others. It was nice to go through the practice of setting it up myself.

I learned a good bit, but also it's nice to have all this knowledge written down in a place not owned by the company I work for. If I use GCP at future jobs I'm sure I'll reference this book myself.

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Post by tomtomistaken »

thinkingemote wrote: post #259
tomtomistaken wrote: post #109

https://decarbnow.space It's an open source map to expose fossil fuel polluters. Add custom points to the map by pasting the URL to your Tweet. It can even do longer map stories through continuous Twitter threats. We started development during the NASA SpaceApps hackathon, we're still going without much attention because we like the idea. Making money is not intended. edit: spelling.

Unfortunately the map at https://map.decarbnow.space/ wouldn't load using an adblocker (ublock). Once loaded the map mostly works with an adblocker, but I couldn't get the popups or left hand panel working.

Your feedback is very welcome! These things need to be improved ..

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Post by galfarragem »

nelsonmandela wrote: post #29
firedating wrote: post #18

I develop https://firedating.me - my hobby project and a place for FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early) enthusiasts to find friends and a partner. My goal is to help FIRE people build meaningful connections and decrease the amount of loneliness in the community. I don't make any money, instead I've spent around $130 and 400 hours so far. It is actually a lot of fun to learn web development and encounter vario…

What made you decide to show the ratio of male:female?

It's a really smart move regarding sustainable growth. Males will refrain of signing up without an "healthy" ratio. Not doing it would just cause early abandonments and decrease goodwill. Everybody wins.

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Post by acutesoftware »

Well I made https://www.lifepim.com which is a place where you can keep your notes and tasks online with a focus on privacy.

I love it - it works for me. I am the only frequent user, but I absolutely understand why others wouldn't trust an external website with personal notes, especially these days.

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Post by DataCrayon »

austinjp wrote: post #131
DataCrayon wrote: post #91

My books on https://datacrayon.com/shop/ fit that description. Although they’re no where near breaking even if I account for even 20% of my time, I’ll continue to work on them because I want to see them finished. I’ve priced them as “early access books” where the price grows as the content does as a way to gain some kind of interest and support the work!

Thanks for posting, these look great.

Thank you! I'm glad they've inspired some interest :)

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Post by mbel »

Cathedral 3-D (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1091590/Cathedral_3D/). It's a retro-ish FPS, basically an arena shooter where you have to survive incoming waves of enemies.

It's using my custom game engine, that was developed from scratch in C, the only dependencies are SDL2 and OpenGL. The engine and game were developed for the last 6 or so years (with breaks) in the evenings/weekends as my evergreen side project. The game was released last Halloween. I still support the game with patches after the release (both new features and fixes), one of them is expected to come out very soon. And to be honest I plan to do so in coming years. I was fun to develop and still is.

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Post by deallocator »

mbel wrote: post #308

Cathedral 3-D ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/1091590/Cathedral_3D/ ). It's a retro-ish FPS, basically an arena shooter where you have to survive incoming waves of enemies. It's using my custom game engine, that was developed from scratch in C, the only dependencies are SDL2 and OpenGL. The engine and game were developed for the last 6 or so years (with breaks) in the evenings/weekends as my evergreen side proje…

Looks like a fun game, definitely gonna check this out after work
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