I've got super hc into media.
Built a netflix party for torrents this year https://jarvisplayer.com
and now I am building a bitorrent live. It streams your own built tv-channels (media streams) with a couple of min delay on any supported client.
Besides that got a girlfriend and getting used to living together
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#392Working on Acadar(https://acadar.com) and Neviwi(https://neviwi.com) in Africa
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#393Don’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?
I wouldn't mind hearing about their approach to handling weather also as it kind of looks like SoCal which closely matches the climate I live in.
If that is the case then black may not have been ideal! It should help during winter though. If your peak heat is only 30c or something you could probably get away with it.
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#394I 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…
If from the Coinbase IPO, you just got out of lockout and you're new to that amount of money. You're probably still near 100% invested in Coinbase and need to divest into something more diversified and less volatile than Coinbase before you can sit on your hands and look at the number in your brokerage account as if it was real retirement grade money. Plus you'll need to pay a ton of taxes on the capital gain. So don…
There's a Ask HN thread, maybe a few, of people who hit it rich and later lost it. The common theme is it's easier to make lots of money than it is to keep it, which is a little unintuitive.
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#395Half a year back or so I built a mini SaaS product that failed, now I'm in the process of open sourcing it so that everybody can freely host it for themselves. Here's the project homepage https://magiclogin.net , it was/is transactional e-mails and e-mail authentication as a service. Getting it ready for open sourcing is a lot more work than I anticipated, I don't want to just dump it in a Github repo and have nobody…
This is pretty useful as a product, and magic.link has been a hit and miss experience for me. Where will you post/announce the open source version? I’ll definitely check it out!
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#396My son's mom died of cancer last February, and two days later they found tumors in my then girlfriend/now late fiancee. She passed away last month. I stopped working several months ago and have no immediate desire or need to go back to work. I'm not sure if it's a blessing or curse to have so much free time to grieve. Enjoying the downtime with occasional spontaneous bursts of tears. Edit: thank everyone for the kind…
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#397I'm designing the passive house of my dreams and starting to look for land to do a homestead out west.
Interested in finding other people with similar goals.
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#398Don’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?
With proper insulation, and framing techniques you can get a away with a dark metal surface in most any climate. Not saying they actually did that but it's not impossible.
For a deeper breakdown on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o-yN8N-mXM
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#3992D web-based MUD. Like an idiot I'm using a bunch of stuff I've never used before so its slow going.
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#400I’m slowly developing a note-taking ecosystem that’s kind of duct-tapey but works well for me. Nothing is hosted anywhere yet, but the main thing is the ideas. I find I want to _accrete_ information, not mutate it (in most cases), so the main organisation is chronological. But tags are important to find related information and see the chronological development of one “thing”, be it a work task, a personal hobby, etc.…
This is the area I've been eyeing for a while. I strongly agree with your "accrete, don't mutate" approach. Reduction via highlighting / summarizing is also important, but the default copy-paste and overwrite workflow of many systems means you lose so much context via destruction and mutation. Yes, restate and re-express ideas, but that should add to or shadow previous ideas, not destroy them.
I want to make something similar for myself. Starting from basically a log of everything: webpages visited and how I arrived, comments & posts written and related articles, emails, PRs, notes, transactions, messages, photos, books, podcasts, heart rate (lol), meetings and appointments, etc etc, then snapshot any relevant links with ArchiveBox. This forms the base of the "accrete" step. There'll be a lot of junk in that, so the next step is summarization: some of which will always be manual, and some sources I hope to gradually summarize in a declarative query language with a flexible output formats. In all cases the goal is to always be able to "reverse query" and see how any summarization ties back to the original source(s). E.g. maybe heart rate should be summarized into a chart that I review once a week, which itself is a new 'feed' that 'shadows' the minute-by-minute details in the usual chronological view. But if I notice a blip in the chart I can dive in and see what else I was doing at the time -- "ah, I knew reading the news was bad for my health" or whatever.
Of course this is gonna need some kind of categorization-like aspect as well, like tags or something. I've been looking into information organization methodologies, and I found PARA [0] -- which stands for Projects, Areas, Resources, Archive -- to be a pretty nice general starting point, if a bit loosely defined. In this terminology I think an audit log is the most basic "resource" for an "area", and my goal is to construct this basic audit log resource for the broadest area: "My Life" and spawn other more interesting areas out of that. I don't really like the formulation of "Archive" which I think is better conceptualized as a more general "Time" dimension. So maybe my version would be PART instead.
I really need to "just start" already.
Good luck on your note-taking journey, even "fits and starts" is much better than not started at all. :)