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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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A browser extension called Curb Your Consumerism that detects when you are on a checkout page and shows you how long it took you to earn enough money to complete that purchase. The idea is about increasing the mindfulness of your purchases and reducing unnecessary environmental waste driven by impulse buying. Here's what I'm planning next: - Detecting the checkouts and extracting the checkout total generally across w…

Maybe you can charge companies to be hidden from the service :D

Surely you're joking, Mr ambivalents!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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post #264

A browser extension called Curb Your Consumerism that detects when you are on a checkout page and shows you how long it took you to earn enough money to complete that purchase. The idea is about increasing the mindfulness of your purchases and reducing unnecessary environmental waste driven by impulse buying. Here's what I'm planning next: - Detecting the checkouts and extracting the checkout total generally across w…

Super into the CO2 estimate part. I think incorporating shipping is a easy first place. While much harder, future iterations could consider the composition of the product. Is it plastics? Etc

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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I've been working on a sailing navigation simulator, using real-world geographical and real-time weather/ocean data: https://8bitbyte.ca/sailnavsim/

Both the core simulator [0] and geographical/weather/ocean data handling library [1] I wrote are free and open source, in case it might benefit anyone else, or if they're interested and would like to contribute. :)

[0] https://github.com/ls4096/sailnavsim-core

[1] https://github.com/ls4096/libproteus

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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I'm building a product suite around the data integration process. The first product I released more than a month ago is WRGL Repos: https://www.wrgl.co - it deals with data versioning.

The final suite will not just be entirely commercial but has a number of open source products in it as well.

BTW if anyone is banging their head trying to benchmark JavaScript, don't be. I recently built jest-bench to address this need: https://github.com/pckhoi/jest-bench

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