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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by denvrede »

domh wrote: post #341

I just bought my first house, so I am hoping to sink my teeth into some home improvement tasks (drilling, basic plumbing, changing light fixtures etc) - definitely a challenge for someone who's only lived in rentals before. Also interested in making the home as energy efficient as possible (LED bulbs, better insulation, smart thermostatic valves on the radiators etc). If anyone has any resources to read on this pleas…

Make sure to give Home Assistant a try. It's local first (option to add a "Cloud" connection). It has, by far, the biggest community around home automation. It's easy to extend yourself. It just ticks all the boxes. I've never heard someone talking bad about it.

https://www.home-assistant.io/

Tip: don't bother running it as a container or "standalone", just use their HAOS distribution.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by akkartik »

philsnow wrote: post #332
akkartik wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Coming from a similar use case, I'm all in on LÖVE ( https://love2d.org ) You can see some of the things I built with it at http://akkartik.name/post/roundup22

Are you talking about helping your kid(s) learn to program / learn to work with graphics-y things using LOVE? Last I looked at LOVE, the community was really into using immature names for everything like SECS, LUBE, COCK, AnAl, HUMP, Polygamy, Swingers, Quickie, etc, which makes vanilla, Prude-y McPuritan me look elsewhere for such things.

When was this? And which community? I haven't noticed this either in the Discord or https://love2d.org/forums. Then again I haven't spent a whole lot of time in either, I'm mostly just building my own stuff. My kids are still too young.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by denvrede »

I want to build a digital / smart foosball table with features like

* automated goal detection

* trigger things like lighten up the field on specific events (e.g. a goal)

* build a league backend / frontend and player management

* allow players to "login" via NFC on the table itself

There are a lot of ideas and questions right now. I pitched the idea to my employer to make it a continous "hackathon" for the employees. If that gets rejected I have at least one colleague that wants to build it in private.

Of course the idea is to make at least the software stack open-source (and give instructions on the integrated / used HW) but before that there is a lot to think about regarding the architecture ("offline" only? connect to a "cloud" component for league management outside of the office?).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by domh »

denvrede wrote: post #361
domh wrote: post #341

I just bought my first house, so I am hoping to sink my teeth into some home improvement tasks (drilling, basic plumbing, changing light fixtures etc) - definitely a challenge for someone who's only lived in rentals before. Also interested in making the home as energy efficient as possible (LED bulbs, better insulation, smart thermostatic valves on the radiators etc). If anyone has any resources to read on this pleas…

Make sure to give Home Assistant a try. It's local first (option to add a "Cloud" connection). It has, by far, the biggest community around home automation. It's easy to extend yourself. It just ticks all the boxes. I've never heard someone talking bad about it. https://www.home-assistant.io/ Tip: don't bother running it as a container or "standalone", just use their HAOS distribution.

Thanks! Been eyeing up Home Assistant a lot over the last few days. Also tempted to attach a touchscreen to my raspberry pi, put it in a nice case and use that as a UI for it, though adding a web browser to the installation rules out using HAOS directly I guess? What are the reasons to prefer HAOS over installing via docker on a host system?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by tinco »

jashkenas wrote: post #65

Working at a still-feels-new-to-me job as Graphics Director for Opinion at The New York Times. Our small team publishes arguments and guest essays supported by visual evidence, like these: - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/scien... - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/08/opinion/urban... - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/20/opinion/ancie... But I'm a believer in asking for…

Thank you for making JavaScript a somewhat palatable language. Countless millions of us have to write JavaScript to accomplish the daily drudgery and it's in part to your contributions and impeccable sense of style that it's at least somewhat enjoyable.

People probably think my praise is overblown, but if it wasn't for you I'd probably be using wasm to escape JS and the fight against flash would have been for naught.

Just a feather in your cap for the new year!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by feiss »

password4321 wrote: post #304
feiss wrote: post #117

My oldest daughter will turn 8 this year. These days I'm planning which would be best computer/software/OS for her (if any), but nothing in the market fits my requirements as a father. There is so much noise, distraction and overall bullshit in today's computers that I don't think it is healthy or appropriate for her. So I'm planning to make a custom (software) solution. A small set of focused, minimal, productive an…

There might be a good idea here, though the post certainly triggered several responses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34186349#34188011 > a Raspberry Pi last Christmas and loaded one thing; a python shell "PlayOS" that I wrote to make everything a three or four letter command

oh, thanks! somewhat aligned, and a very interesting conversation! good find, thanks
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