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Post by cobertos »

mNovak wrote: post #170

https://bytebucket.co I'm the kind of person that always buys electronics used on eBay, where you can get really powerful but 2-3 years old devices for a few hundred $. And, I find shopping for used electronics elsewhere is still terrible (how good is a 1yo i5 vs a 3yo i7?). So, I made this site to help me in that -- I started scraping eBay listings for laptops, picked out the specs and cross-referenced them to bench…

Very similar, but for servers, https://labgopher.com/. It originated from the Reddit r/homelab sub

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Post by thenanyu »

jondcallahan wrote: post #125

I built a fun project to help build a morning journal habit. It works for me because I stay on top of my email inbox. The service emails me a journal prompt every morning and I save my entries by replying to the message, filling out the questions in line. If this sounds interesting there's a free trial available at https://mymomentjournal.com . I had a lot of fun building this and thinking through the user-flows whil…

I use it!

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Post by rdm_blackhole »

I have been working on a browser extension that calculates your mortgage repayments while browsing home listings on https://trulia.com or https://zillow.com or https://domain.com.au or https://realestate.com.au

The expectation was to learn how to create a browser extension. Since its been released, I have had a few hundred users consistently using the extension for the last 3 months, so I am planning to add more features in the near future.

The extension is available on Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/real-estate-b...

And the on the Chrome store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/real-estate-buddy/...

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Post by efrecon »

augustusseizure wrote: post #307

I just started working on a cli tool to easily create, manage, and spin up dev environments in docker containers. The initial impetus for starting the project was to try out Doom Emacs without messing with my current Emacs setup, so an example session could be: dv new emacs dev-img-emacs:latest dv start emacs dv conn emacs The first line creates a new "development environment" named emacs, based on the docker image d…

I have done something in a similar vein. DEW. https://github.com/efrecon/dew.

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Post by minhmeoke »

superfamicom wrote: post #325

I made a website to listen to Super Nintendo / Super Famicom music emulated in the browser. It was a great way to learn about Emscripten. Not sure what it would succeed at other than being popular, and I can assure you it is not. https://sfc.fm/

This is great!

Some fans of Super Mario World also created a playlist of remastered soundtracks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxKTbcs1t7M&list=PLD-vbw8Jmu...

More info here: https://twitter.com/lebrickster/status/1356013269513863171

Super Guitar Bros. also have some excellent covers of classic console music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE89o33fqz4&list=OLAK5uy_nL7...

I discovered these while creating visualizations of music transformed into the frequency domain using Fourier transform which you can watch here:

Frequency Visualization: Super Guitar Bros. cover of Athletic (Super Mario World theme song) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJUxzOP2fzs&list=PLn67ccdhCs...

Frequency Visualization: Super Guitar Bros. cover of the Gerudo Valley song (from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXVbDfj4lzY&list=PLn67ccdhCs...

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Post by thenanyu »

Delphiki wrote: post #300

I work at a consulting firm with 20k people and get a lot of restaurant recommendations while traveling. I don't like any of the existing methods of managing these recommendations and associated data, so I'm building an app that makes it easier for me. I envision the focus to be on the users writing the reviews/recommendations (rather than on a restaurant's star rating), where users and restaurants are suggested base…

That sounds awesome. I would really love to use something like that. If you ever open source it I might be able to contribute

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jacobriis wrote: post #367
byecancer21 wrote: post #236

I am taking down the corrupt top judge of a leading Western nation, for fun. A first instance judge had committed a serious criminal offense. Her husband, a wealthy and influential lawyer then bribed the presiding appeals court judge. So I made the assumption he would also influence the ensuing constitutional court case. The case had been accepted by the court and assigned a case number. I waited for a month then cau…

If your strategy makes as much sense as your writing, you're definitely going to prison.

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Post by sundarurfriend »

rsync wrote: post #84

"Oh By"[1] It's a "universal shortener" which means it doesn't just shorten URLs - it shortens anything and turns it into a short, recognizable code. Or, what would be a recognizable code if anyone used it :) Here's an example: https://0x.co/examples.html ... and for some reason I am still enamored with the " send a text to someone in the future " use-case. [1] https://0x.co

Sorry, maybe I don't understand: from the comparison with QR codes I thought this was encoding the information in some way (like tio.run and many other places do), but it looks like the code is just a handle for your internal lookup? How is this different from the many pastebins out there? One could as well write on the shoe paste.ee/p/t7lCK and put the information there - or just the p/t7lCK part if paste.ee was seen as a universally recognised data store the way you seem to think of 0x becoming.

Maybe the difference is on the social side, not at a technical level: having the code be recognised with the 0x, and encouraging people to converge on this as a standard. That would be perfectly legitimate, I'm just trying to make sure I've understood this correctly.

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Post by sizzle »

byecancer21 wrote: post #236

I am taking down the corrupt top judge of a leading Western nation, for fun. A first instance judge had committed a serious criminal offense. Her husband, a wealthy and influential lawyer then bribed the presiding appeals court judge. So I made the assumption he would also influence the ensuing constitutional court case. The case had been accepted by the court and assigned a case number. I waited for a month then cau…

Have you checked the carbon monoxide levels in your home lately for a leak? Genuinely concerned…
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