I'm working on a "forever project" to procedurally generate role-playing game books. It's not glamorous or profitable, but it's entertaining.
That sounds amazing. Where do I find out more?
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#612I’m building an off grid tiny cabin. Solar power, spring water.
The solar power has been a challenge. The SolarDIY subreddit has been super helpful in understanding this subject I knew nothing about.
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I live near a bunch of Amish and recently one gave me a riddle and told me if I solved it, she’d bake me a pie. I solved it!
In return, I have used a Playfair Square to provide her a riddle. I’m giving her all the instructions on how to decode it.
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I spend a lot of time thinking about passion and why people are motivated to do the things they do. Engineering, or even just harnessing, passion would be super useful. I wonder about passion as people age: does it diminish or does it just change?
So many thoughts here but if we are defined by our actions, and our passions/interests tend to guide our actions… then our interests tend to define us. And yet, we seem to have little-to-no control over what interests us.
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#613Half a year back or so I built a mini SaaS product that failed, now I'm in the process of open sourcing it so that everybody can freely host it for themselves. Here's the project homepage https://magiclogin.net , it was/is transactional e-mails and e-mail authentication as a service. Getting it ready for open sourcing is a lot more work than I anticipated, I don't want to just dump it in a Github repo and have nobody…
This is pretty useful as a product, and magic.link has been a hit and miss experience for me. Where will you post/announce the open source version? I’ll definitely check it out!
I'm not sure yet - but for sure I'll post a link up on https://magiclogin.net (or you could follow me on Github, username @gzuidhof)
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#614I'm making a smartphone OS for my personal use. Gonna opensource under GPLv2 once ready. OS kernel is Alpine Linux from https://postmarketos.org/ The entire userland is custom: graphics is on top of drm, kms, gles2, FreeType. Audio is on top of ASIO with just a few third party libraries like soxr, fdk-aac, minimp3. IPC is mostly domain sockets, input is raw input, wifi is controlled through wpa_supplicant. Most of th…
This sounds amazing. We really need more homebrew OS projects that focus on userland over the kernel.
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#615I just finished spinning up a new xmpp server/site for myself and friends, as well as anyone else (its public - https://civitaz.xyz ). Other than that, doing more stuff for FOSSphones (my Linux phone news site) and working on my side project TTS game. Fun stuff.
Do you have any experience using XMPP with Linux phones? Are there any clients which support OMEMO for one-to-one and group chats and encrypted A/V calls?
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#616Too many ideas given the time, but now I'm focused on two: 1. Building an open source bicycle computer. It's been over 20 years since they arrived at the scene, and there still isn't one that you could hack! An outrage! No published sources yet, I'm getting stuck on not having much experience building physical things. 2. Getting rid of the directory hierarchy. I have 10K photos, 30K emails, 10000km of GPS tracks, and…
Have a look at Bangle.js. It's nominally an open source smartwatch, but the difference between that and a bike GPS is just a handlebar mount. v2 has just gone on Kickstarter - I've ordered one specifically for bike mounting.
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That depends on how easily I could compile it, and how much more effective it would be than querying. At the moment I can't come up with anything better than queries. I'm willing to part with some money to have someone implement it for me if I see there's demand.
Queries kind of suck when it comes hierarchy, do they? And you sure have some folder hierarchy, even if you're not happy about it?
I identify the hierarchy as the source of my problems. I don't need hierarchy, and when I use it, it's because that's the one tool I have. There's no hierarchy between time and place, and I shouldn't be forced to establish it.
There might be some hierarchy between tags: PhD/laser experiment, PhD/dissertation, but there's rarely a need for it to be more than 1-2 levels deep, so I prefer to suffer the pains of inadequate hierarchy rather than inadequate queries. Or at least I would if I could try it out.
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#619Building a flutter dev and designer audience at medium while building some flutter apps and writing some dev and design books and playing with the livebook and other book presenting models.
Up to getting 38k view a month at medium as it doubles every 1.5 months.
It's a slower way to bootstrap a studio, but it does work
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#620I started working at Pointr some months ago, I do want to get back working with games, but for now I am finding the work at Pointr fascinating, not only my job is perfect for my skills and personality, but Pointr is doing something I didn't expect, and it is quite cool, basically doing high accuracy location and wayfinding in indoor maps.
Also a new product of Pointr made me wanted to be hired badly because of how cool it is: a software way to automatically convert floorplans and blueprints to maps that can be understood by the average person, when I was game modding I wasted a ludicrous amount of time trying to do that and figured out it was just too hard to pull it off, but Pointr did it (granted they hired a bunch of PHds to pull that off, but they did pulled it off).
https://www.pointr.tech/solutions/location-based-engagement/...
Disclose: I work at Pointr (obviously), I don't work in sales, I am making this post just because I actually liked the company :)