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For a next project I'm exploring building something that let's you quickly embed charts. Similar to what Google Charts was, but I still haven't found a good alternative.
I've been reading the Wall Street Journal every morning this year but I'm too cheap to pay for the hefty $39/mo. subscription. My routine was: open article → hit paywall → copy URL → paste into Archive. After a few dozen times that got old.
So I built Big 5 Archive: a tiny Chrome extension that automatically redirects any link from WSJ, NYT, Washington Post, L.A. Times, or USA Today to its archived, paywall‑free copy.
I had fun making this and I hope it is helpful to the news-readers out there. Feedback welcome, happy reading!
Trying to replace everything I use daily, outside money/banking, with my own fully customizable software. I had enough depending on others.
probably too far for me, but very interesting to follow someone on this journey
I recently quit my salary job after 16 years and am consulting in nuclear engineering now. I have a few passion projects that I'm working on (between the somewhat substantial consulting work that came out of the woodwork): - Nuclear Reactor Starter Kit --- an open source set of procedures, processes, templates, and maybe even some IT advice that should help newcomers start companies with nuclear quality assurance pro…
I'd guess all the information would already be available on the internet, but is there competitive advantage here?
In the past few months, I've learned that (a) writing a bulleted outline is a cheat code for producing decent work quickly, (b) every newsletter is a reminder that people could unsubscribe, so skip publishing issues that you're not proud of, (c) people really like stories, and (d) it's okay to have a mix of formats.
An open-source, self-hostable app for sending out newsletter to your friends and families. I'm mostly making it for myself because I want to share what I've been up to and family photos, without uploading it to Facebook or whatnot. At the moment, the flow goes like this: 1. During the week, write posts for things that have happened. 2. Posts can be assigned to groups. (family, friends etc). 3. At the end of the week…
While the tourney isn't going year-round, it has a demo mode where you can play through prior years (with friends! Or with yourself on another browser/device). The chat feature is admittedly half-baked and is mostly there to get my wife to quit asking about it. Will try to get that fully done for next year.
I'm also working on another side project in Gleam just to check it out. That seems to be taking shape and once I get something decent I'll post it.
All of these are self-hosted via Coolify on a VPS, which has almost been a project to itself (I've had it with cloud providers). I've learned a lot and it was cool to see some other self-hosting solutions in the thread here.
Trying to replace everything I use daily, outside money/banking, with my own fully customizable software. I had enough depending on others.
A free DocuSign/e-sign alternative https://useinkless.com/ Andrew Wilkinson tweeted the other day "I just found out how much we pay for DocuSign and my jaw dropped." https://x.com/awilkinson/status/1892638803505868824 So I thought "how hard could this be?" and decided to build a free alternative that's UETA and ESIGN act compliant!