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Re: Ask HN: Side project you're working on?

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Developing low-cost wireless soil moisture sensors for agriculture. It's old technology but the proven benefit is huge, and adoption has been really poor (mostly) because of the cost.

Wow! Great idea! So, how are you panning to overcome the problem of adaption?

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I’ve just started selling art-piece wordclocks: https://www.finewordclocks.com Making wordclocks has been a hobby of mine. For a few years I’ve been developing various designs, fabricating them at a local hacker space, and giving them as gifts. People keep asking if I would sell them. So I finally made a high end design and put together a simple web store. My first production design is a limited run of 100. I recentl…

Wow. :)

Thanks! I really enjoy the process of figuring out how to fabricate them.

Any critique, comments or suggestions are welcome.

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https://theaccidentalengineer.com/ Interviewing my friends (and strangers) about their jobs in software engineering

Great one! What tools you're using to make that cartoon image of interviewees?

I’m using an iPad Pro, using the ProCreate app—-I use ImageMagick for the animations

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https://theaccidentalengineer.com/ Interviewing my friends (and strangers) about their jobs in software engineering

Great project, subscribed. How do you create those catroonified images of your interviewees?

I’m using an iPad Pro, using the ProCreate app-—the animations are created using ImageMagick/ffmpeg

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https://github.com/ioddly/meditations - Daily organizer based on habit formation. It actually needs a little bit of TLC which I'm hoping to give it once I finish up my current gig. I'm still the only user, as far as I know, but I use it daily so it's fun to work on.

Great idea! But I am unable to access the demo.

Sorry about that! I broke the deployment a few weeks ago and forgot to fix it. It should work now: https://meditations.upvalue.io/

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great project, subscribed. How do you create those catroonified images of your interviewees?

I’m using an iPad Pro, using the ProCreate app-—the animations are created using ImageMagick/ffmpeg

Cool thanks

Re: Ask HN: Side project you're working on?

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Everything should be on git.captnemo.in (on phone, can't give links) - Writing code to manage my home server using Docker, Terraform and some glue (nebula) - reviving the Hindustan Time hatetracker, which was a newspaper project tracking hate crimes, but was shut down after some government pressure. - zomato tracker that keeps track of restaurants that open or close in Bangalore every week. Plan is to make a twitter…

> Hindustan Time hatetracker Why they shut it down? And when you expect to launch this? > hn classics ebook Really excited about this!

Hate Tracker: Want to check with a few folks and get confirmation from my lawyer friends.

It was shut down after the editor handling it left the publication: https://thewire.in/190869/hindustan-times-hate-tracker/

Help is welcome for HN Classics EBook (there are 2k articles and I don't want to publish something that doesn't look/print well): https://git.captnemo.in/nemo/hn-classics

Re: Ask HN: Side project you're working on?

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iPerf but for Ethernet/MPLS/layer 2. This is at the more serious end of the scale and something I've been working on for a while now. I use it to test a link or device speed at different frame sizes, check that different Ether-types are parsed correctly, CoS values match into the correct QoS queue etc:

https://github.com/jwbensley/Etherate

At the less serious end of the scale an Arduino powered, life sized cardboard cut out of me with an SD-CARD full of my daily sayings, and a GPS battery backed clock. Like most people here, I like to tinker with hardware/electronics as a change from coding. My friend on the other side of the world is turning 30 soon, I can't be there, so I'm making and posting him a life size me which plays recordings of me (that are time of day relevant!) when you walk past. Not much on the GH page yet, I'll try and get some more up-to-date code and designs uploaded at the weekend:

https://github.com/jwbensley/Life-Sized-James

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