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I'm working on promnesia, a browser extension to enhance web browser history. It allows you to answer different questions about the current web page: - have I been here before? When? - why have I bookmarked it? - how did I get on it? Which page has led to it? - who sent me this link? Can I just jump to the message? - which links on this page have I already explored? - which posts from this blog page have I already re…

A timeline?

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I am giving Portable-VirtualBox some love. It is an open source software tool that lets you run any operating system from a USB stick without separate installation. A lot of issues with Windows 10 is unresolved: https://github.com/vboxme/Portable-VirtualBox/issues (Any help would be greatly appreciated). Website: https://www.vbox.me/

what is the use case for this tool? how does it work? which OS does it run atop? am intrigued but cannot find answers on website or github

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Man, I should be working on something I can actually put somewhere, but I just don't have the energy for it after work these days.

Instead, I assembled a modest new desktop and put Arch Linux on it. It's been _years_ since I used Linux (even more since I assembled a computer instead of just buying one from Apple) and it's really been a lot of fun. I've gone totally all-in-crazy with it to. I use this obscure tiling window manager called Sway, and built the whole machine into a tiny little small-form-factor case. It's been a LOT of fun and I've learned a hell of a lot.

My only issue is cooling this little bugger. I've got a fan in there now that _just_ fits, but it creates a crazy amount of turbulence noise if I put the side panel on. I've given up on air cooling and ordered a water all-in-one cooler instead. We'll see how that goes. But either way, it's a blast to try all this stuff out.

Once I get everything perfect with this new rig... I'll go back to trying to get comfortable with Rust. :D

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I've just finished off (within the last hour) my version of Asteroids, which I started with enthusiasm two or three years back, then did very little after getting the basics of the game working: https://arcade.ly/games/asteroids/ Now I've finally added all the stuff I wanted to (black holes, satellites, power-ups) so it's time to pick up another project I started a long time ago and haven't really done much on: my ve…

nice work!

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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A fully local, tag-based system for annotating/searching a number of different "data sources" (i.e. browser bookmarks, local files, twitter bookmarks) that all get unified under one interface.

You set it up to monitor some data source and then it keeps track of when items are added/removed to/from it.

The items from all data sources can be tagged, have notes attached to them, etc.—then quickly re-discovered through the search interface.

Still early, but it's functional for Chrome bookmarks atm (should get local files handled in the next day or so): https://github.com/westoncb/mymex (scroll down for screenshots)

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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I’m working on a reader app for newsletters (kind of like what Google Reader was). The idea is to remove these things from the mail box and keep it organized in the app.

I’m also planning to add email address obfuscation, similar to what sign-in with Apple provides. That should make it easy to forever unsubscribe from newsletters.

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