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I built a tool to check if an email exists without sending any email. I also created a SaaS out of it: [link redacted]. The tool connects to the target email's SMTP server, and parses the response of the "RCPT TO" command. To avoid IP blacklisting, I use Tor. The code is in Rust, 100% open-source. The core library is here: [link redacted]
Any feedback is welcome :)
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Missed the edit window formatted: Thanks!! No official roadmap (such is Open Source), but: * Rust Conversion (got a proof of concept, need to productionise it) - Anki Desktop has moved to Rust. We can unify all of the platform, and remove most of our backend code and maintenance burden. * Android 11 has made significant changes to how applications store files on the device (Scoped Storage). I expect this will be a ni…
Awesome, thank you for the info. Anki is a tool I use and love but I know very little about the behind the scenes work. >* User onboarding & UX - We get tons of bad reviews: "All my cards have been deleted" - this is because we fail to explain how Anki/Spaced Repetition works and that we take control of scheduling. People download AnkiDroid expecting flashcards, and we can do much better in this area. Somewhat relate…
That's a strange one... it exists, (Create Filtered Deck - Long Press - Options - Untick Reschedule) but only works well in the V2 Scheduler. The V1 scheduler doesn't handle cards in the red (learn/relearn) well.
The problem with the V2 scheduler, which makes people hesistant about upgrading is the upgrade process will move all cards in the red queue back to the blue (new)/green (review) queues. https://anki.tenderapp.com/kb/anki-ecosystem/the-anki-21-sch...
> Switching the scheduler will empty all filtered decks, and reset any cards that are in learning. It will also force the next sync to be a full sync.
Manual Entry: https://docs.ankiweb.net/#/filtered-decks
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No. Damien's opinions on funding: https://faqs.ankiweb.net/why-does-ankimobile-cost-more-than-... . The iOS app is paid ($24.99) and funds AnkiWeb, so offer to buy it for a friend if you can.
Personally, I'm taking donations (caveat: AnkiDroid is a port, I'm one of a few contributors, and the money would go to me, rather than Damien, who runs the rest of the ecosystem (AnkiWeb/AnkiDesktop/AnkiMobile)): https://github.com/sponsors/david-allison-1/
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AnkiApp isn't part of the ecosystem. It's frustrating telling people that they were mislead, and data extraction isn't easy for non-technical users: https://anki.tenderapp.com/kb/anki-ecosystem/ankiapp-is-not-...
We feel like building backend takes a lot of unnecessary work that really isn't coding. It's usually all those different things like setting up your environment, running multiple containers on your machine, figuring out how all different services should communicate together, fetching your production data. So we wanted to simplify that. Ideally, one would love to develop in an environment that is basically a copy of your production environment. The same goes for data.
Our CLI tool gives you an out-of-the-box cloud environment for developing your Firebase apps. You start Foundry on your local machine, we watch your code and every time you save your files we trigger your functions in the cloud environment. We give you feedback right away. So it's kind of like REPL in a sense that you always get feedback on whether your code will work once you deploy it or not.
We also emulate both Firestore and Auth Users and make it really easy to access your production data. In our YAML you specify what you want to have available in your environment and we fetch the data for you.
We don't save any data.
Here are the docs - https://docs.foundryapp.co
GitHub Repo - https://github.com/FoundryApp/foundry-cli
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Tig welding is great way to essentially meditate, similar to painting, once you figure it out that is. Start with lines on 1/4" steel flat bars.
I find oxy/acetylene welding super meditative. The sound blocks everything out, putting you in a pink noise cocoon.
I don't have a particular need for a TIG welder, but I bought it so I suppose I should find something useful to do with it. Problem is, I'm more of a woodworker.
I went from knowing nothing of French to reading 20 thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne in French (the original language) It's not that big of an achievement since I'm Brazilian and I already speak Italian, the romance languages are somewhat similar. But I'm happy and I want to keep learning new languages because that proved to be a rewarding experience all steps of the way. I've used Lingq and Memrise, if…
Covid tracker for my home state + an API to get data for other states. https://mississippicovid.com Cranked it out in a couple weeks and the code made me sad so I haven’t touched it since...ugly UI, bugs, etc Also started back on an IoT soil sensor project. Need to finish editing a book but tech provides an excusable distraction !
WOOF! Sometimes it doesn’t load the MS data because the website I’m scraping changes their tables. I get the data per request...never got around to scraping it and saving it from a DB, which would be more reliable even if they changed their HTML markup
Then the guys doing the data moved their table and broke my app. Lucky I found a more reliable source. The app still works, I check it every morning. Anyway I found an international api here: https://github.com/ExpDev07/coronavirus-tracker-api - even started making a world map but moved on to other things. Code is on my site - https://www.circusscientist.com/parsing-online-corona-virus-...
Also made my first CV in 20 years because I need a second job to pay back all the money I'm losing - I previously made my living mainly from entertainment at large events...
An online version of the dominoes-based game, Mexican Train. It's a big hit with retirees (and our family). We're up to 100 games/day and daily I get emails from older people in quarantine thanking me for it. It's been really rewarding.