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Just built a last-mile logistics management solution to replace a SaaS solution for a delivery company I used to be involved with. Handles everything from real-time driver tracking, public order tracking links, finding suitable drivers for orders, batch push notifications for automatic order assignment, etc. Backend: Feathers.JS, Postgres + TimescaleDB & PostGIS, BullMQ, Valhalla (for multi-stop route optimization al…
I'm working on a new app for creating technical diagrams - https://vexlio.com . It's an area with some heavyweight incumbents (e.g. Visio, Lucid) but I think there's good opportunity here to differentiate in simplicity and overall experience. I'm still in the fairly early phase, and I suspect I haven't quite found the best match of features to customers yet. From a dev perspective this area has a ton of super interes…
I'm cleaning up a 25-30 year old bicycle. First time I've stripped one almost right back to the frame. Strongly recommend the rust remover described by Backyard Ballistics[0] on his second channel[1]; 1 liter water, 100g citric acid, 40g washing soda, generous squirt of dish soap. He claims the acid and alkali cancel out so there's nothing to attack the normal metal surface, but they leave citrate ions which dissolve…
After 10 years in defense tech, watching missile attacks in Ukraine and the Middle East made it clear how little most people really get about air defense. So I'm builiding this simulator which drops you into the operator’s seat. You can test out different scenarios and build an air defense network against various types of threats (stats from real world). Also have Ukraine, Israel-Iran scenarios. https://airdefense.de…
An HP Deskjet 5850. Typical small home/office printer.
Thanks to a brilliant owner years ago who figured out you can use the drivers from the model 9800. A larger-format printer whose drivers seem to cover a lot of ground for printers of certain vintages, easily including ones like this one having more limited paper size options. The printer works quite well on the latest Windows 11 now, it's just not a one-click affair to install like it was with Windows XP.
By this late date, the driver download has been slightly hosed. Files are basically from Windows Vista x64 but are not prepared to install like you would want them to, there is actual uncorrected damage to the structure. Once you unzip the drivers into a C:\drivers\ folder for instance, then after you manually install the .INF file found in C:\drivers\ it's supposed to allow you to later manually select a driver from among a number of similar vintage HP Deskjets. All the driver files for that variety of different printers are right there in the C:\drivers\ folder, right next to that one INF that covers them all. But the install routine can't find any of them because it looks for them in a "hard-coded" C:\drivers\amd64\ subfolder which somebody forgot to spawn.
Then if you manually make a new C:\drivers\amd64\ folder, place an extra copy of the unzipped fileset into C:\drivers\amd64, then install the INF from there, it proceeds to search for the drivers in C:\drivers\amd64\amd64\ and fails to find them again :\
Try it again, pointing at the INF in C:\drivers\, and with the extra copy of the fileset (less the INF) already present in C:\drivers\amd64, then it works.
And that was before "Print Nightmare" a few years ago.
Since then the "normal" steps that follow have gotten worse every year, maybe more often, additional hurdles and barricades keep popping up.
Plus you can only imagine the fun, sharing the printer with Windows XP like nobody knows the difference.
It's almost like Windows is a challenging videogame which keeps coming out with new versions where it gets more difficult to make it through all the levels, and when you do, you reach pretty much the same final goal you had before you got the new version :\
A dynamic runtime on top of the eBPF virtual machine / SQL workbench that lets you create real time visualizations of system performance data.
Right now I'm making an Anki-style flashcard system in Rust (https://github.com/jmahmood/Cardbrick/). It's amazing that all of the annoying stoppers I've had with build systems were blown away by Gemini. It's also nice to actually build something that is not another web application.
(I say this knowing there is zero value in me posting this in a thread with 1134 comments already)
Been working on this for a while, with the aim of making something simple and immediately usable. Components are JS functions, containing UI that is (mostly) HTML, with reactivity only done through proxied objects.
To test it out I built a distributed social media/microblog site called Redraft: https://redraft.social (https://github.com/andrewjk/redraft)
Self-hostable or hosted for a fee, all your posts stored in an SQLite file, comment/like/react on other people's Redraft posts via a Web extension (pending approval, but you can use the unpacked version from source).
Both are in a pretty rough state, but usable for the intrepid.
Still on my sabbatical and continuing to build on things I enjoy rather than things that pay (for now). Main focus is https://wheretodrink.beer , collecting and cataloging craft beer venues from around the world. No ambition of being exhaustive, but aiming for a curated and substantial list. After the last thread, a bunch of people added their suggestions, thanks! It helped add interesting new venues from cities I ha…