A 2D slippy map that shows sun and shadow around the world. Today’s sunset around Puget Sound: https://shademap.app/#47.89056,-122.66785,7z,1635813675213t
This is so cool, brightened my day - thanks for sharing :)
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#262Since I work in a large enterprise, and I got tired of our dog-slow Jira instance, I’m building an offline client for Jira that syncs up every so often. More importantly, it responds to everything you do locally instantly (still kind of figuring out how large you can make the local database before that isn’t true any more). I’ll release it at some point, but it’s still missing a bunch of (probably not quite essential…
It's been a blessedly long time since I used Jira, but I vaguely think a lot of slowness came from just the front end - a local client hitting the API, even synchronously, was actually okay even when the web UI was molasses. Probably varies by instance, YMMV.
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#263Reading a textbook on abstract algebra so I can ground myself to the stability of mathematics. The country, the world, it all changes too quickly but at least this is forever.
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#264I'm archiving every video from my favorite Chaturbate streamer by uploading it to Backblaze, IPFS and providing an index.
(NSFW) https://futureporn.neocities.org/ (NSFW)
I'm also automating as much of it as possible. Currently writing an extensive test suite for my node library which handles transcoding, thumbnail generation, and uploading.
(NSFW) https://github.com/insanity54/futureporn (NSFW)
My home internet sucks, so I also have an ansible playbook which handles spin-up of a VPS which is better suited for capturing full HD livestreams and uploading them to web3.storage and B2.
It's a passion project that doesn't make me any money, so during the day I sell anime trading cards on eBay. I make enough to pay rent so I'm living large.
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#265I reached platinum playing Valorant quite casually (5-10 games a week) ( platinum is a rank only top 10% of all players ever reach, according to official stats).
More importantly (to me), I've turned a corner with getting tilted by braindead teammates. Voice comms over time revealed to me that they are mostly children half my age, the worst offenders usually being female. I don't expect children to not be braindead, given that I was braindead and completely in my own feelings until I was 30 or so, so I've been liberated from having expectations, which's great but also made me largely lose interest in playing - maybe getting tilted by idiots and wanting to overcome it was the puzzle I was largely interested in solving all along? Don't know :)
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#266Running my own software biz. Team of 40. We own the infosec space we’re in. Was nowhere in 2007 when I joined HN. Grew much. Still growing. Started actually having fun in 2015 after 12 years of hard work with zero to show for it. Best part is the caliber of people I get to work with every day.
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#267Don’t think this is novel, but I’ve mentioned on an HN thread before that my friend and I were building (and have now built) a tiny house. We’d been complaining for years that housing was too expensive and so after doing a house flip and stops and starts on trying to build a spec house we decided to try a tiny house to see if we could build something move-in ready that looks (somewhat) nice and also is inexpensive. J…
That looks really cool, but can I ask why you chose that colour? Do you live somewhere really cold?
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#268Making a video game about symbiosis, metamorphosis, and mutation, all wrapped up in a tower-defense/strategy-like package, called Chrysalis. https://metamorph.games
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#269I won the IPO lottery and I’m in the middle ground between rich enough to never work again but not quite rich enough for the yachts/mansions/private jets lifestyle. I haven’t worked in 6 months and I’m struggling to find a larger meaning to my life beyond getting yet another tech job. I’ve considered going to college for a math degree, moving to my parents home country, and joining the military (among many other opti…
I was in a similar circumstance. I drove a city bus in Las Vegas for a year. The experience opened my eyes to many things and changed my life in good ways.
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#270Researching ultralight aircraft.
Trying to pick out a phone and carrier that I like that will also work with VoLTE on LineageOS. This is not fun at all. There's very little info about a lot of it and the ones I do find that work are pricey or have some undesirable characteristic (do they all have to be huge?). Low SAR would also be nice but seems out of the question.
Looks like I will end up getting a cheap low SAR phone with stock Android. Maybe in another 3-5 years the marketplace will be more stable (no more VoLTE compatibility hoopla) and I can switch to a more secure/private OS.