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Re: Ask HN: What is your weekend project?

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Elixir library, named Ashliah, to parse the IEX-TP protocol[0]. IEX-TP is the protocol that the Investor's Exchange uses. I plan to utilize that to create a service to sell real time stock data. My other is an Amazon affiliate site that has lists of 4+ star amazon programming books[1]. I'm constantly adding more books and languages to it. Finally, I'm working on my Elixir library that generates Ecto models from an ex…

http://www.topbooks.site

link is not working.

Re: Ask HN: What is your weekend project?

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Elodie - An EXIF-based photo, video and audio workflow automation tool https://github.com/jmathai/elodie I've been working on Elodie for over a year. It's organized over 15,000 of my personal photos and videos for me. It's also helped me craft a hands-free backup system. I've written pretty extensively about it so I'll just link to those posts. [0] (motivation) https://medium.com/vantage/understanding-my-need-for-an-…

Neat! I was meaning to write a FUSE filesystem for my personal use that exactly accomplished this with EXIF data. I don't feel as motivated to do that now, will give elodie a spin instead.

I think this GitHub issue [0] refers to what you're saying. I've sort of accomplished it with scheduled tasks but something a bit more native is a great idea.

I wrote about it a bit here [1] under "the file system as a real time reflection of its contents"

[0] https://github.com/jmathai/elodie/issues/35

[1] https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal...

Re: Ask HN: What is your weekend project?

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Elixir library, named Ashliah, to parse the IEX-TP protocol[0]. IEX-TP is the protocol that the Investor's Exchange uses. I plan to utilize that to create a service to sell real time stock data. My other is an Amazon affiliate site that has lists of 4+ star amazon programming books[1]. I'm constantly adding more books and languages to it. Finally, I'm working on my Elixir library that generates Ecto models from an ex…

http://www.topbooks.site link is not working.

Yea I'm playing the config. Trying to reverse proxy with nginx and it is causing issues. I'm just going to change it back to straight Cowboy

Re: Ask HN: What is your weekend project?

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https://www.findlectures.com Right now it has an index of ~70k conference talks / lectures / speeches. I'm working on improving it to get slide text and audio quality (for ranking), and getting more historical content.

I didn't know i wanted this. How do you scrap all that data?

I started out scraping sites manually, and started automating more pieces (a lot of sites use wordpress, so they are pretty structured). I'm working on a talk on the subject, so I'll have an article soon that explains better :)

Re: Ask HN: What is your weekend project?

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I've been working on Otter, which is an Operational Transformation Engine(think google docs real-time collaboration). https://github.com/TheAustinSeven/otter

The hope is that this will make it a little easier to build collaborative apps. More recently, though, I have been spending some time designing a new programming language(I know, I know, we already have so many), so I haven't spent as much time on otter.

Re: Ask HN: What is your weekend project?

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Elixir library, named Ashliah, to parse the IEX-TP protocol[0]. IEX-TP is the protocol that the Investor's Exchange uses. I plan to utilize that to create a service to sell real time stock data. My other is an Amazon affiliate site that has lists of 4+ star amazon programming books[1]. I'm constantly adding more books and languages to it. Finally, I'm working on my Elixir library that generates Ecto models from an ex…

fix your .htaccess www is broken

Thanks. It was a DNS issue. I didn't have an A record for www

Re: Ask HN: What is your weekend project?

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Newman Mail - A mail-merge service for Gmail with message A/B testing http://sendNewmanMail.com I have been doing a lot of customer development lately and I needed a tool that made it easy to reach out to large-ish groups of people whilst testing the efficacy of different messages. I chose to build my own product because I could not find another tool that was simple enough to use (all the others were full-blown CRMs)…

Love the name!

Re: Ask HN: What is your weekend project?

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https://www.findlectures.com Right now it has an index of ~70k conference talks / lectures / speeches. I'm working on improving it to get slide text and audio quality (for ranking), and getting more historical content.

How do you pay for the bandwidth costs for scraping?
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