An automatic time tracker. I've tried it a few times over the years but it's always been too complicated... I think I've finally found a way to make it simple enough to get a few people to use regularly.
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#82To create a Swiss-German language school in Zurich: http://www.learn-swiss-german.ch/ (EN version) and http://schweizerdeutsch-lernen.ch/ (DE version)
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#83BUBBLE TEA on DEMAND http://baobao.ch/ <3
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#84"Auto Table of Content" userscript/addons[0].
I believe any article longer than 3 pages should have a table of contents. If readers feel bored, they can look into the TOC, jump to other section to find something fun. But most of they don't have one. So I make it my self. This's inspired by this Firefox addon[1] (no longer maintained).
[0]: https://github.com/letientai299/userscript-auto-toc
[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/table-of-cont...
Edit: Add newline between links.
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#85Continuing to work on http://asoftmurmur.com I've been working on an iOS app for a while that is due to launch in the next couple of weeks, after a long period of having no time to work on the project
Just wanted to say I love 'A Soft Murmur' and have been using it at work for years. Programming music is good, but still has track changes, whereas ASM gets me in the zone quicker.
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#86I believe that people want help finding "smart home" devices that will work well with the existing equipment in their home, and that they would pay good money for that because buying the wrong equipment is a frustrating (and expensive) mistake. I'm building a way to help you pick the connected equipment that will work best for your home, based on what you want to control, how you want to control it, and the equipment…
Just one suggestion, can you offer information on device security also? A collection of devices may work well together, but if I was buying a smart home device I'd want to be informed of any security issues as they're discovered. The escalations in DDoS size that we saw in 2016 were supposedly driven by a high number of insecure smart home/IoT devices, I'd like to do what I can to stop this becoming a trend.
>The escalations in DDoS size that we saw in 2016 were supposedly driven by a high number of insecure smart home/IoT devices, I'd like to do what I can to stop this becoming a trend.
Primarily driven by home routers, not IoT devices.
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#87What I hope to do :
build a ESP8266 opened door detector (or try it with rust with a RTL8710 https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5lfpnk/rust_on_rtl871... )
build a ROS robot with SLAM using a 3D cam : http://www.ros.org/
build a multicopter : https://www.reddit.com/r/Multicopter
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#88http://laptophits.com - it had great response here on HN, unfortunately few days later I got an email from Amazon, that they reject my associates application, as my site lacks unique content :(. Now I'm working on more specification based filtering options, then will try to add keyword filters (to quickly find for example most recommended'linux laptops') and figure out what should I add to pass Amazon Associates review.
I also started my personal blog today at http://mdoliwa.com with 30 days blogging challange :).
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#89Current toy: Voice input for personal statistics. "Alexa, set pullups to 20." Then Alexa or Siri or Google update the named statistic with a time stamp and optionally trigger a webhook.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
well please make it so that it's truly easy to install. And I mean REALLY easy. I have tried at least 10 cloud solutions and I havent managed to successfully install any of them. The best one yet was tectonic but their error messages were too non-existent or vague at the end and the emphasis here is on non-existent.
Yes! I've been thinking of ways to do this, and the idea on top of my list is a live usb image that asks for stuff like network parameters, then configures the live image as a 90% functional node from which the first real host can be pxe booted. After the first host(s) have been installed the admin should be able to reboot the live host and add it to the cluster for real. Right now i have a running Openstack cluster…
Yes I think your idea sounds very convenient, I basically just want to type the IPs of my machines in somewhere and the rest should be explained to me on screen. If SSH cant be established, tell me why. If i didnt set up ipxbe properly or at all, tell me why (heck, even tell me how you got that information ala 'we tried establishing an ssh connection with ssh@184.4882.1 -v but it resulted in this error log: '. Any other connection problems, tell me why. Generate all the SSL certs automatically, I dont want to type in any commands myself. I dont care if it's a test SSL setup but frankly I dont understand why these tutorials always give me test SSL certs. Just generate something that makes sense for production or tell me what I need and why for production.
If you think that my nodes should have DNS names, go start some internal DNS server for me and set it up in the background for me. I dont get why I should have to do any of that stuff myself.
At the end there should be a screen where all the configs were saved down to in a textual format, so I can have a look at what was done, which processes were started and which ports are now open, what the firewall looks like. For example CoreOS I believe has some cloudconfig stuff and I dont want to figure that file format out myself but I still want to see it after it's been generated.
I like magic but I also like to see what it actually did / is doing.