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Spleeter Web, a self-hostable web app for music source separation. It lets you isolate the vocal, accompaniment, bass, and/or drums of any piece of music using deep learning-based source separation models. It's like moises.ai/ezstems.com but open-source.

I learned lots about building a full-stack web app ground-up as well as how to containerize the whole thing with Docker.

GitHub: https://github.com/JeffreyCA/spleeter-web

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A browser extension called Curb Your Consumerism that detects when you are on a checkout page and shows you how long it took you to earn enough money to complete that purchase. The idea is about increasing the mindfulness of your purchases and reducing unnecessary environmental waste driven by impulse buying. Here's what I'm planning next: - Detecting the checkouts and extracting the checkout total generally across w…

For a number of bay area devs I suspect this might have the opposite psychological effect. A $50 price tag might put some people off until they realize it's only 15-20 minutes of work.

Yeah this is exactly what I was thinking. I am certainly more put off by $50 than N minutes.

On the other hand I often base my purchases based on "Will this $50 spend save more than N minutes of my time"

For example a top-filling humidifer may cost $50 more than a bottom-filling one but I spend an extra 1 minute fighting with the bottom-filling one and cleaning up water spills so after 15 uses it makes up its price difference.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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I just finished hacking some "smart" behaviour into my old doorbell chime.

The sound of the chime ringing is picked up by a microphone connected to an arduino-like device. A small script is executed which results in my Alexa devices announcing that someone is at the door.

All the modifications / additional hardware fit inside the existing chime housing. It's been quite fun learning about electronics (For example, the chime is powered by 16v AC, but the microprocessor requires 5V DC) and writing the software for it (while admittedly is very simple) was challenging as I'm not familiar with C++.

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I just finished hacking some "smart" behaviour into my old doorbell chime. The sound of the chime ringing is picked up by a microphone connected to an arduino-like device. A small script is executed which results in my Alexa devices announcing that someone is at the door. All the modifications / additional hardware fit inside the existing chime housing. It's been quite fun learning about electronics (For example, the…

My next project will be a "Cat poo detector" - this will live in the cat's litter tray and detect whatever gasses are released when it is used. This will be used so I can know if I can have a lazy weekend morning in bed or if I need to go downstairs and clean up.

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A No-Code Tool to build & publish your place like a 3D Video-Game https://free-visit.net

I like it but I wish that I could "run"... Also, I got something very similar to this done to my home when I sold it last year with Redfin (basically for free because the commission was lower then with anyone else).

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#458
I made a Git Tattoo with a friend. You can design a "tattoo" for your GitHub contribution calendar, including my personal favorite - "H I R E M E".

https://gittattoo.com

To test, use the Stripe test card:

- 4242 4242 4242 4242

- CMV: 424

- Date: 02/24

- Zip: 42424

Would appreciate any feedback :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#459
I'm finally getting things down on paper (writing code) to flesh out my ideas of visual programming. I'm currently using Racket to prototype things, learning its Graphical Interface Toolkit. There's a long road ahead though, with a lot of technical challenges to appropriately realize the virtues of the paradigm, which I feel has a much higher ceiling than text-based languages. What is frustrating is that I have had the ideas for the past 4-8 years, but I am finally just getting things going.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Born out of personal need for it, A system for automatic creation of on-demand/listen again episodes for radio stations.

Basically just takes the url of an existing stream and then segments it up into 10 seconds audio clips, then a second process stitches the clips together between two time stamps to give us a complete episode, the benefit being that if we forget to schedule an episode we can just post a job for it to be generated at any time.

Hippynet.com/AutoPod

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