working on a few things focused on africa. i have a fundamental belief that much, if not all, of africa’s problems stem from the people not knowing better. you could say i’m firmly in the school of ‘reasonable people act reasonably’ and you don’t be so wrong. not completely right, but not completely wrong either. i’m african myself (ghanaian to be precise) with all my family still residing in my country, and i worry a lot that they will never enjoy a higher quality of life. that’s why i’m dedicating myself to building systems for producing and sharing knowledge. i started a community for developers almost 10 years ago (https://devcongress.org) which, while ~5k members strong, has failed on the most important metric: put ghana on the map of global software engineering. there’s been a few wins here and there but nothing to write home about. so, I’ve started https://toprank.devcongress.org to be a little bit more hands-on in the nurturing of the next generation of software engineers. in my private endeavor, i’m working on a finance product focused mainly on making the average african financially intelligent. we’d like them to invest more, spend less, perceive their financial history in novel and informative ways. it’s exciting work, and we’ll be applying to yc later this year. talking about africa gets me rambling (because they’re a large-ish surface area) so i’ll stop here. if africa or the developing world is on your mind too, feel free to hit me up at wheresyaw@gmail
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#402I 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…
That would be awesome. I once developed an PWA called the FoosTracker. It's still up (not sure if it's fully functional): https://myfoostracker.firebaseapp.com. It allowed combination of players to form teams and challenge other teams. It used a kahoot-like system for setting up matches. It did a bunch of statistics. About building your table: Remember that playability is king. Consider buying a great table and modifying it (as little as possible) instead of building it yourself from scratch.
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#403Teaching my 7 year old Japanese. Wish me luck.
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#404I started working on a open source cocktail management application. Had a lot of fun (re)learning api design, docker and application testing.
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#405Starting a startup doing AI CEO as a Service. It'll begin as a personal assistant to everyone inside slack and expand out from there. We're building the first AI run company. It's called UpMortem. Watch out for us. Our first product will be free, giving you access to GPT-3 inside slack. Ping me if you want to be kept up to date about it at raj@upmortem.com.
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#406Starting a startup doing AI CEO as a Service. It'll begin as a personal assistant to everyone inside slack and expand out from there. We're building the first AI run company. It's called UpMortem. Watch out for us. Our first product will be free, giving you access to GPT-3 inside slack. Ping me if you want to be kept up to date about it at raj@upmortem.com.
Super interesting idea, curious to see how it translates to the real world. Emailed.
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#407Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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? I don't get that part? HAOS is a Linux distribution with a pre-configured / installed version of Home Assistant. It behaves (almost - see below) like a "normal" Home Assistant installation. > What are the reasons to prefer…
> I don't get that part? HAOS is a Linux distribution with a pre-configured / installed version of Home Assistant. It behaves (almost - see below) like a "normal" Home Assistant installation. I would like to have a Raspberry Pi running HA, whilst also having a web browser running on the pi with a small touch screen, showing the HA dashboard on display somewhere in the house. This is in no way a deal breaker though, I…
Ahh got it. No, HAOS features a full HA installation including the UI which is then of course also accessible via the Raspberry Pi and an attached display :)
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#408I 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…
That would be awesome. I once developed an PWA called the FoosTracker. It's still up (not sure if it's fully functional): https://myfoostracker.firebaseapp.com . It allowed combination of players to form teams and challenge other teams. It used a kahoot-like system for setting up matches. It did a bunch of statistics. About building your table: Remember that playability is king. Consider buying a great table and modi…
Unfortunately the linked UI is in an endless loop on my side and won't open :/ Yup the plan was to buy a (used) table which can also be disassembled to take a look inside and place the sensors where they need to be :) Fortunately they are not that pricey.
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#409I want to disrupt the toaster industry.
For way too long I've been getting inconsistently toasted toast out of my toaster. My idea is to introduce cameras into the toaster that are used to recognize when the perfect amount of toasting has been applied. It is a way better approach than just using a timer. I have a few problems to solve...
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#410I'm working on changing careers. After 10 years of struggling to find the right role/company/environment in software dev or product management, I realized that I just don't like making software. Period. Made some good friends, enjoyed some of the work, learned a lot, got pretty decent at the whole SaaS thing, but I just don't like it. That realization over the last couple weeks has been a huge relief. I'd like to exp…
Do anything too long it can become dull and sap life from you. You should wake up feeling invigorated, not drained.
Golden handcuffs enslave us and true freedom is being able to have the confidence to side-step into new adventures. Good luck on your journey